Gamelan Dharma Swara

Premier NYC-based Balinese gamelan ensemble | traditional, contemporary & experimental works www.dharmaswara.org

[gamelandharmaswara]

#Repost @gamelandharmaswara ・・・ Gamelan Dharma Swara shows in December. See you there! http://www.dharmaswara.org/eventcalendar/ #gamelan #gamelanNYC #gamelandharmaswara #balinesemusic #balinesedance #gamelanmusic

[gamelandharmaswara]

We're kicking off spring at Fat Cat! Where else can you experience traditional and contemporary works for seven-tone Balinese semara dana and dance alongside beer AND ping pong? You know you want to... #gamelan #gamelanNYC #gamelandharmaswara #balinesemusic #balinesedance #gamelanmusic #fatcatmusic

[gamelandharmaswara]

Last rehearsal before our show at @lprnyc tomorrow. We're getting super excited! One more day to get remaining tickets - get to it!! http://lepoissonrouge.com #gamelan #gamelanNYC #gamelandharmaswara #balinesemusic #balinesedance #gamelanmusic #lprnyc

[gamelandharmaswara]

We are amped!! Our show at @lprnyc is this Sunday! We've been rehearsing our hearts out (some tears may have been involved too) and we're super excited to present a brand new piece along with our usual favourites and dancing. Don't miss out - you'll cry...truly. (at (le) poisson rouge)

[gamelandharmaswara]

Congratulations to Lindsay Lai and a friend, who have scored tickets to our show at (Le) Poisson Rouge this coming Sunday. Thanks also to all of you who shared this event. For those of you who haven't decided to attend this special performance, we urge you to as we're premiering brand new work along with our usual favourites as well as dancing!

[gamelandharmaswara]

Join us at (le) poisson rouge Feb 8, 7.30pm!

We are premiering a new work by Dewa Ketut Alit called, ‘Geregel’. Experience a revolution in contemporary gamelan aesthetics - radical uses of dissonance, polyrhythms and polymodality! Alongside traditional Balinese music and dance, as well as new works by living composers - this is not to be missed!

✨Share this event with the hashtag - #DSaLPR to win 2 tickets!!✨

[gamelandharmaswara]

Make your Wednesday night extra cool - get to Outpost in Queens for a special, free performance of live gamelan with I Gusti Sidarta, Balinese mask and shadow master. Also performing will be renowned experimentalist, Shahzad Ismaily. #gamelan #nycgamelan #balinesemusic #balinesemask #balineseshadowplay #sutasoma #gamelanragakusuma (at Outpost Artists Resources)

[gamelandharmaswara]

Rehearsing for our show at @fatcatnyc 23rd November, 7pm Come by and share in the joy! #gamelan #gamelanNYC #gamelandharmaswara #balinesemusic #balinesedance #gamelanmusic (at Aaron Copland School of Music)

[gamelandharmaswara]

Think gamelan's relevance is limited to ethno-music nerds and Indophiles? Think again. Music makers from Debussy to Björk were hip to it too!

[basilicahudson]

NINE DAYS UNTIL BASILICA SOUNDSCAPE!

Have you met Gamelan Dharma Swara yet? Listen to this gorgeous performance at the Brooklyn Bridge Park last summer.

Learn more about Gamelan and it’s unexpected influence in the electronic music scene on Pitchfork! 

[gamelandharmaswara]

Following their domination of the recent Basilica Soundscape festival, Gamelan Dharma Swara are picking up the mallets again for a performance at Fat Cat. The best time $3 will buy in NYC on a Sunday night! #gamelan #balinesegamelan #gamelanNYC #balinesemusic #balinesedance

[gamelandharmaswara]

"...we are not seeking either to become natives or to mimic them. Only romantics or spies would seem to find a point in that. We are seeking to converse with them." - Geer to 1973:13

[veganvampinouterspace]

“Gamelan is able to express every shade of meaning, even unmentionable shades.”

[veganvampinouterspace]

-Claude Debussy, 1895

[legoexpress]

Gamelan (by Ɲ.)

[beingindonesian]

In the making of Javanese Gamelan, Indonesia.

(by yus_yudo)