gamelan
noun
gam·elan
ˈga-mə-ˌlan 
-ˌlän
: an Indonesian orchestra made up especially of percussion instruments (such as gongs, xylophones, and drums)
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The classical dance involved exquisite hand gestures and halting body movements set to a gamelan orchestra.
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Scott Mowbray Amrita Chandradas, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
The title track starts off sounding like gamelan music, then turns into a busy-grooved evocation on finding catharsis by going for a swim at a busy beach, creating her own ecstatic iteration of traditional baptismal blues imagery.
—Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
Beat communicated with advanced and exotic languages, its wide-ranging vocabulary including experimental, art-rock,pop, jazz, funk, new-wave and gamelan elements.
—Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2024
Debussy hovers around the enclosure of the Javanese village at the International Exposition of 1889 in Paris, his mind expanded by the gamelan ensemble.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Scott Mowbray Amrita Chandradas, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
The title track starts off sounding like gamelan music, then turns into a busy-grooved evocation on finding catharsis by going for a swim at a busy beach, creating her own ecstatic iteration of traditional baptismal blues imagery.
—Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
Beat communicated with advanced and exotic languages, its wide-ranging vocabulary including experimental, art-rock,pop, jazz, funk, new-wave and gamelan elements.
—Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2024
Debussy hovers around the enclosure of the Javanese village at the International Exposition of 1889 in Paris, his mind expanded by the gamelan ensemble.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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“Gamelan.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gamelan. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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