Dangerous Singing: An Interview with "Cheb," Nabil Elamouri 

Biography:
Daniel Smither is an American ethnomusicology student at SOAS focusing on Balinese gamelan music, in particular the music for the shadow play, gamelan gendér wayang. He obtained a B.A. in Music from Virginia Commonwealth University and received a Darmasiswa scholarship where he spent a year studying Balinese music at the Institut Seni Indonesia in Denpasar, Bali. He has studied and played various types of gamelan music in America, Indonesia and the UK, in groups such as Gamelan Raga Kusuma in Virginia, the Narwastu Art Group in Bali and Gamelan Lila Cita in London. He recently moderated a conference on Korean music in Indonesia for Institut Kesenian Jakarta entitled “Korean Music in Indonesia Present and Development: Urbanism Relocated and Intermediate Encounter.”

BFE Student Podcast: Daniel Smither

BFE Podcast