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Alur Bunyi: Partikel

Concert | Alur Bunyi in 2025 will begin with a performance that seeks to harmonize discordance, exploring the synergy between celestial bodies in motion.

  • GoetheHaus Jakarta, Jakarta

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Alur Bunyi Partikel Gardika © Goethe-Institut Indonesia - Each Other Company

Alur Bunyi Partikel Gardika © Goethe-Institut Indonesia - Each Other Company

Alur Bunyi will be kicked off in 2025 with PARTIKEL, a collaboration between Gardika Gigih, Tomy Herseta, and Nanang Bayu Aji. The concert will also mark Gardika Gigih’s first performance after a year of hiatus.

Taking cues from the convoluted phenomena surrounding compositions and interactions, PARTIKEL presents melodies shaped by disturbances, waves, and the interplay of obstructions between modern and classical musical instruments. This cutting-edge concert fuses the resonant sounds of piano and gamelan with contemporary electronic music, inviting audiences into a soundscape where tradition meets the avant-garde.

Central to PARTIKEL is an embrace of dissonance—between tonal systems, sound characters, and cultural paradigms. The collaboration explores the tension and harmony that emerge from merging distinct musical traditions, navigating between the scales and tunings of the East and the West. Conventional boundaries and rules are challenged, which in turn, are expressed to create dialogue between these contrasting civilizations.

In PARTIKEL, Gardika Gigih, Tomy Herseta, and Nanang Bayu Aji reimagine their respective practices, exploring and redefining the possibilities of their instruments and styles. Each of them embodies their unique standpoint, creating a dynamic and evolving compromises that underscores the beauty of divergence. The result is an unparalleled auricular experience, an exploration of sound as an omnipresent yet deeply personal language.
 

Artist Biographies

Gardika Gigih is an Indonesian composer, pianist, and soundscape researcher. His works, which have been performed internationally, span numerous genres, from concerts to contemporary improvisation, film scoring, and sound ethnography. His debut album, Nyala (2017), released by Sorge Records, received widespread acclaim and was named a top album of the year by The Jakarta Post.

Tomy Herseta is a designer, creative director, electronic musician and lecturer. His method in working, teaching and directing is always in the realm of interdisciplinarity by using spatial approach as his core foundation. He earned his bachelor’s in interior design from Institut Teknologi Bandung and master in Scenography from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht.

Nanang Bayu Aji is a gamelan musician, pengrawit of Kasunanan Surakarta Hadiningrat Palace with his specialty in rebab instruments, Nanang is also a gamelan lecturer at the Indonesian Institute of Arts in Surakarta. As a pengrawit, he has performed internationally, including at Europalia 2017 in Brussels, Belgium, Sofia, Bulgaria and Macedonia in 2019, and at the Central Conservatory of Music (CCM) in Beijing, China in 2014.