What makes Balinese gamelan so interesting is its diversity of instruments—metallophones, gongs, flutes, and drums. Each ...

Filipino-American composer and percussionist Susie Ibarra has been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her ...

From the Birdsville Big Bash's record-breaking tribute to Tina Turner to FANGZ's Joshua Cottreau eating the most hard-boiled ...

When a gamelan gong is streamed on Spotify, its resonance reaches the world, but its soul stays trapped in a digital ...

Bridging ancestral tradition with environmental urgency, Filipino-American composer and percussionist Susie Ibarra has recently claimed the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Music ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — With guzhengs plucked, pipas strummed and erhus soaring in harmony, the student-led Bamboo Rhyme Chinese Music Ensemble brought the ... play a variety of ...

Featuring an eight-piece ensemble, including Ibarra ... the performance utilized traditional Philippine instruments such as the gangsa (gong), kolitong (bamboo zither) and tongatong (bamboo ...

Drawing from native instruments like bamboo percussion, flutes and the kulintang – a traditional gong ensemble from southern Philippines – she created a layered sonic tapestry that invites ...

Musical Spotlight: Clarinet This member of the woodwind family makes its sound with help from a thin piece of bamboo called a reed. Like the saxophone, the clarinet is a single-reed instrument.

Drawing from native instruments like bamboo percussion, flutes and the kulintang—a traditional gong ensemble from southern Philippines—she created a layered sonic tapestry that invites ...