Sam's Rumahnations

Official BVG web site

About the Boston Village Gamelan

  
In concert at the Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota

Some of the Musicians Who Inspire Us All

  

A selected gallery of photographs

Some Interesting Gamelans

    
An Archive of Gamelan in New England   (If you'd like your picture removed, just let me know)

The Raffles Gamelan at Claydon House
An article which first appeared in the 1996
Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society

  
The gong gayur at Claydon House
Gong Smithing in Twentieth-Century Surakarta
An article which first appeared in the Fall 1995 issue of
Asian Arts and Culture		  
An 86 cm gong being made in mbeslén
Tentrem Sarwanto, Surakarta, 1988
Copper, Tin & Fire: Gongsmithing in Java
A documentary video produced in 1989		  
Javanese Gamelan Notation   A website of Javanese notation assembled by Barry Drummond. Based on Bp Mloyodipura's 3-volume published collection, it also includes other pieces that he collected and versions of gendhing as he observed them performed.

Pencu Proportion Project
A proposal for distributed research

  

Gamelans in North America
The directory of like-minded musicians

  

American Gamelan Institute
Publisher of Balungan and resource for all sorts of gamelan-related materials

  
Other links