Kulintang is a modern term for an ancient instrumental form of music composed on a row of small, horizontally-laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums.

As part of the larger gong-chime culture of Southeast Asia, kulintang music ensembles have been playing for many centuries in regions of the Eastern Malay Archipelago — the Southern Philippines, Eastern Indonesia, Eastern Malaysia, Brunei and Timor, although this article has a focus on the Philippine Kulintang traditions of the Maranao and Maguindanao peoples in particular.

Kulintang music generally could be found as the social entertainment at a host of different occasions.

Kulintang music also accompanies ceremonies marking significant life events, such as weddings and returnees from the Hajj.

Kulintang music also plays a significant role during state functions, used during official celebrations, entertaining of foreign dignitaries and important visitors of distant lands, court ceremonies of either the sultanate or village chieftains, enthroning / coronations of a new leader and the transferral of a sultanate from one family to another.

Kulintang music is prohibited from being played inside mosques and during Islamic rites / observances / holidays, such as the fasting month ( Ramadhan ), where playing is only allowed at night during the time when people are allowed to eat.

Kulintang music can be used for communicating long distance messages from one village or longhouse to another.

Kulintang music was also crucial in relation to courtships due to the very nature of Islamic custom, which did not allow for unmarried men and women to intermingle.

Kulintang music has no set compositions due to its concept of rhythmic modes.

Kulintang music is considered an ancient tradition that predates the influences of Islam, Christianity, and the West.

As a composer, Ibarra incorporates diverse styles and influences of Philippine Kulintang, jazz, classical, poetry, musical theater, opera and electronic music.

She has studied Philippine Kulintang music with National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Artist and USA Artists Danongan " Danny " Kalanduyan as well as the Kalanduyan family in the United States and in Cotabato, Mindanao Philippines.

Kulintang evolved from a simple native signaling tradition, and developed into its present form with the incorporation of knobbed gongs from Sunda.

Its importance stems from its association with the indigenous cultures that inhabited these islands prior to the influences of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity or the West, making Kulintang the most developed tradition of Southeast Asian archaic gong-chime ensembles.

An agung, a type of Philippines | Philippine hanging gong used as part of the Kulintang ensemble

Kulintang refers to a racked gong chime instrument played in the southern islands of the Philippines, along with its varied accompanying ensembles.

Gong chime ensembles such as Gamelan and Kulintang existed in the region before the arrival of Islam, and musical theory and method owe more to heavy Chinese influence, as well as Hindu-Buddhist principles, than to Arabic musical philosophy.

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In 2006 Ibarra released, Dialects by Electric Kulintang on Plastic Records, a duo collaboration with Roberto Juan Rodriguez with compositions featuring electronics, kulintang gongs, percussion, drums and field recordings.

Kulintang belongs to the larger unit / stratum of “ knobbed gong-chime culture ” prevalent in Southeast Asia.

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Kulintang gongs are made using the cire perdue method, a lost-wax process used for casting the individual gongs.

Kulintang instrument has uses other than public performances.

Electric Kulintang will release and premiere a new work and recording, Drum Codes, on Earth Day April 21, 2011 at The Atrium in Lincoln Center.

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