Three UCLA musicians clutched their string instruments and bows. In the Mojave tent, a few improvised notes echoed from their instruments during the sound check. The notes sounded different than the electronic and alternative sounds that pervaded the Coachella stages. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year violin performance student Camille Miller, alumnus Eric Lee and third-year viola performance student Julien Altman performed at Coachella Weekends 1 and Two with alternative duo Strangers You Know.

Dozens of instruments cluttered the floor of the cramped Schoenberg room, creating a carpet of wood, string and metal pieces. In the back corner, an intricate and large Japanese drum loomed over the small instruments surrounding it. Read more...

Photo: Ethnomusicology professor Helen Rees holds a Japanese sho, a mouth organ instrument, from the ensemble of Japanese instruments purchased in 1958 by the late ethnomusicology professor Mantle Hood. (Julie Hanash/Daily Bruin)

UCLA ethnomusicology students from the 1920s to the 1950s could only study foreign instruments in textbooks before the arrival of the Javanese gamelan. In 1958, American ethnomusicologist Mantle Hood purchased the Venerable Dark Cloud gamelan, a collection of 83 percussion instruments. Read more...

Photo: Otto Stuparitz is an ethnomusicology graduate student who is studying Indonesian music. Stuparitz said the World Music Center at UCLA is planning a Javanese gamelan performance scheduled tentatively for fall or winter quarter of the 2016-2017 academic year. (Marley Maron/Daily Bruin)