Lectures and Concerts

Here you will find a list of upcoming events and recent past presentations, including lectures, conferences, workshops, performances, and more. Check back often.

March 2009

Boston University: Lecture, "Kecak Conundrums: Disembodied Balinese Voices in International Cinematic Art." Boston University Center for the Study of Asia Series, Boston University* Monday, March 23, 2009, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
(*contact Michael at mbakan@fsu.edu for location details if interested in attending)

Berklee College of Music: Lecture, "From Gamelan and Global Grooves to E-WoMPs and Autism: Perspectives on World Music, Medical Ethnomsuicology, and the Facilitation of Musicultural Understanding and Empathy." David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music, 921 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Berklee College of Music: Lecture, "Speaking of Percussion... : Voice Gamelans, Talking Drums, and Other Musicultural Fascinations from the Worlds of Vocal Percussion and Drum Speech." David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music, 921 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 4:00 PM-5:30 PM

Yale University: Lecture, "Monkey Chant Madness: Balinese Kecak in Fellini’s Satyricon and the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple." Southeast Asia Seminar, Rm. 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Boston University: Lecture, "Music and Play, Autism and Society: Perspectives from Medical Ethnomusicology." Boston University Autism and Society Seminar, Boston University*
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 3:00 PM
(*contact Michael at mbakan@fsu.edu for location details if interested in attending)

Recent Presentations

March 2008

Harvard University: Lecture, "Confronting and Transcending the Boundaries of 'Gamelan': Experiential Epistemologies of Scholarship, Performance, Pedagogy, and Medical Ethnomusicology." Harvard Ethnomusicology Colloquium Series, Gamelan Room, Hilles Building, Harvard U., Wednesday, March 5, 5:15 PM

Boston University: Lecture, "Interlocking Worlds: From Individual Pattern to Integrated Collectivity in Balinese Gamelan Music and the Medical Ethnomusicology of Autism." BU Musicology/Ethnomusicology Colloquium Series, Marshall Room, BU College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Ave. (across from BU West subway stop), Thursday, March 6, 4:00 PM

University of Louisiana, Lafayette: Gamelan master class, March 14-15, 2008

Florida State University: Rainbow Concert of World Music, Ruby Diamond Auditorium, Friday, March 28, 8:00 PM


April 2008-May 2008

Florida State University: SEKAA GONG HANUMAN AGUNG Balinese Gamelan, Opperman Music Hall, Friday, April 4, 8:00 PM

Florida State University: Lecture, "Interlocking Rhythms and Interlocking Worlds: Balinese Gamelan Music and Global Perspectives on Music Teaching," Kappa Kappa Psi/Tau Beta Sigma Southeast District Convention, HCB ("New Classroom Building"), Room 213, Woodward Plaza, FSU, Saturday, April 12, 9:00-9:35 AM

Shenandoah University: Guest lecture, “Medical Ethnomusicology and the Autism Spectrum: A Forum for Music Therapists,” Saturday, April 26

The Collegiate School, Richmond, VA: Ethnomusicology/world music residency, Monday-Friday, April 28-May 2

University of Maryland (College Park): Lecture, “The Abduction of Kecak: Musical Appropriations of the Balinese ‘Monkey Chant’ in Films by Federico Fellini and the Coen Brothers,” Wednesday, April 30