Jazz, experimental, and contemporary music
Held in a concert format, this opening edition of Alur Bunyi 2021 will take place on the GoetheHaus Jakarta stage without a live audience due to the pandemic.
Alur Bunyi will focus on educational topics regarding alternative practices in sonic creation when interacting with jazz.
In this year’s inaugural collaboration for Alur Bunyi, musicians Nikita Dompas and Randy MP are on a mission to translate
latah into their performance.
Latah is a startle-response syndrome of echopraxia and echolalia considered unique in the Indonesian culture.
Their musical performance will include combinations of sound samples they have processed and manipulated to gradually become the rhythmic patterns and harmonic foundation of their exploration and improvisation.
Biography
Nikita Dompas is a guitarist, bandleader, producer, and arranger based in Jakarta. He has performed at prestigious festivals around the world and in his native country, playing with famous names in the worlds of pop, jazz, and rock music.
Studying guitar under the tutelage of renowned jazz guitarist Oele Patiselano, Dompas began developing his talents while he was just a teenager. As he continued to grow as a guitarist, he began to deepen his knowledge and broaden his skill set, studying arrangement, composition, pedagogy and eventually earning a bachelor’s degree at IMDI.
In 2009 Dompas had a major breakthrough when he was hired as a bandleader for Andien Aisyah, one of Indonesia’s finest jazz/pop singers. Having built a reputation in Indonesia as a go-to musician, he joined prominent pop/rockers POTRET in 2012. He took on yet another role in 2015 when he entered the world of film music, composing an award-winning score for the film
Cahaya Dari Timur.
Continuing his prolific pace, Dompas produced a track for Musikimia that climbed to number one on the Indonesian pop charts in 2015. In 2017 he was hired as Program Coordinator & Curator for the Java Jazz Festival. In 2018 he went on to win the AMI award for Best Jazz Album (Andien – Metamorfosa) as well as the 2018 Best Pop Album and Best Album award (Candra Darusman – Detik Waktu).
Dompas’ newest venture is The Shoemaker Studio, which he founded with Harmoko Aguswan and Prajna Murdaya. Equally passionate about music, creativity, and giving back to their community, Shoemaker Studio is a place to help artists make their craziest dreams come true, providing a safe space and the tools needed to follow their musical passion, the same way Dompas has always followed his.
Randy MP is a music producer, director, arranger, songwriter, and mixing engineer based in Jakarta. He is an initiator of Divisi 62 (Jakarta’s left-field/experimental label), member and writer of Uwalmassa, and also the man behind the much sought-after soul-psychedelic project Parlemen Pop.
Since his major breakthrough project which was the first album of Teza Sumendra in 2015 and which he wrote, arranged and produced, he has been working with major well-known names in the industry, both locally and internationally. These include prolific singers and musicians such as Raisa, Afgan, Teddy Adhitya, Gerald Situmorang, Neida Aleida, Tompi and many more.
Aside from writing and producing various local talents, he is mainly working on his newest project Parlemen Pop and the ongoing Divisi 62 endeavor.
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