=====Experimental Gamelan=====


====American Gamelan====

===Barbara Benary===
==Gamelan Son of Lion==
Built by Barbara Benary along with with Philip Corner and Daniel Goode

Here is a short video with Barbara Benary explaining the history of Son of Lion and the connection with other American Gamelan.\\
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===Gamelan Sekar Jaya===

===Dennis Murphy===
Built the first American Gamelan at Wesleyan University in the 1960s \\
He published his Ph.D. dissertation "The Autochthonous American Gamelan" in 1975 that goes into detail into the construction of his instruments \\ 

==Sir Honorable Voice of Thoom==

==The Autochthonous American Gamelan==


===Lou Harrison===

==Old Granddad==

==Si Betty==
Harvard and now Bucknell University

== Si Darius/Si Madeleine==
Mills College 



===Daniel Schmidt===
==The Berkeley Gamelan==

==Gamelan Pacifica==



===William Colvig===

===Brian Baumbusch===
==Lightbulb Ensemble==

====Gamelan Adjacent Ensembles====

===Aaron Taylor Kuffner===
==The Gamelatron==


===Terry Dame===

==Electric Junkyard Gamelan== 
The [[Terry Dame|Electric Junkyard Gamelan]] is an experimental ensemble built out of instruments made by [[Terry Dame]]. The ensemble plays Balinese Gamelan inspired music.

====Relationship makers have to one another====

 "We were playing on what Lou called the "American Gamelan," and when Barbara [Benary] and I pointed out to him that, "yeah, but it's not the only American gamelan," because Barbara had already built some, and Dennis Murphy before her, and Paul [Dresher] and I were working on instruments, and it turned out that David Doty and Harry Rosenthal were also building their own set... It was wonderful! And that's where it started. That was the beginning of American gamelan." ((Daniel Schmidt, interview with Jay Arms the author of "Gamelan as World Citizen: American Experimental Music and the Internationalization of Gamelan" (linked below in notes), February 17, 2017)) 

Brian Baumbusch was a student of Daniel Schmidt. \\ 

===American Gamelan institute===
==Balungan==
[[journals#balungan|Balungan]] is a periodical published by the American Gamelan institute. 

====NOTES====
A dissertation "Gamelan as World Citizen: American Experimental Music and the Internationalization of Gamelan" by Jay Arms on the subject of American Gamelan can be found in full here ((https://escholarship.org/uc/item/80b632bd)) \\
Here is a link to the digital back issues of the Balungan, which is a periodical about experimental and American Gamelan. ((http://www.gamelan.org/balungan/back_issues/)) \\
Link to all back issues of Balungan- ((http://www.gamelan.org/balungan/issues/index.htm)) \\ 