Jazz, experimental, and contemporary music
Held in concert format, this third 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 playing jazz.
A model of our planet and the universe corresponds to the mechanistic world view of a machine controlled by an operating system. The search for the entity behind the machine and the question of where exactly this entity is located is pushed into the background. Spiritual, mystical, ancient, and sacred beliefs are the antithesis of modern reasoning.
A music project, NGAREP E imagines the convergence of the spiritual, mystical, ancient, and sacred with the modern school of thought. What if an ancient drummer had the revelation to use Ableton automation? What if
gamelan maestros and Greek philosophers had convened in a WhatsApp group? What if the knowledge of rain shamans could be translated using midi notes?
NGAREP E, pronounced “ngarepe”, refers to being at the forefront—the artist’s vision of always being on the move and never static. NGAREP E may also mean the expectation (
ngarep) of E(lectronic music), or rephrased as “Is this really electronic music?”.
Biography of artists
is an electronic music producer and composer. He started with an interest in jazz and piano at the age of 7, and then he began to find his love for electronic music during his college years, which later became his way of life and still is. He seeks to learn from various gurus and then develops his own playing technique and composing method from what he has learned. Being an electronic songwriter, jazz enthusiast, and expressive performer all in one has led to a style of his own which attempts to defy music categorization.
In 2005, Aryo met his musical collaborator, Jonathan (Ojon) Kusuma, and formed Space System. The two began their recording careers together on Space System’s first self-titled release, an EP that immediately established the group’s unique style among the local and global electronic dance music scene. In the following years Aryo was actively involved in a number of different music clinics initiated by Sacred Bridge Foundation (e.g. Rhythm Salad: a Bowl of Roots Music, 2008; GAUNG: the 21st Century Global Music Education, 2009; and INTRASIA: the Cross-cultural Performing Arts Clinic, 2013), where he learned, worked and closely collaborated with world renowned composers and musicians such as Japanese composer/Zen Music originator Stomu Yamash’ta, French composer Jean-Luc Eloy, Acehnese Arts Maestro Marzuki Hassan, the prominent Balinese composer I Wayan Sadra, and ethnomusicologist/composer Irwansyah Harahap.
Classically trained in piano from the early age of 6, Sandy Winarta’s talents were discovered at the age of 17 when he became acquainted with the drums.
Defying his young age, Sandy has accumulated a long list of legendary stage collaborators and extensive performance experiences abroad at festivals and clubs. Notable performances include a Singapore set where he played alongside multiple Grammy Award winner Charlie Haden and his Liberation Music Orchestra, regional festivals such as the Ambon Jazz Festival and Kuala Lumpur International Jazz Festival, the stage of Tokyo’s prestigious Blue Note with his trio LLW, and being the only Asian drummer at the 2013 MasterJam festival in Ukraine.
Sandy pursued his studies at the Australian Institute of Music, Sydney, in 2000 and later at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in Manhattan, New York, from 2014-2015 where he studied on a scholarship under the tutelage of jazz legends such as Reggie Workman (John Coltrane) and David Gibson (Count Basie Orchestra).
Sandy’s exploration in electronic music began in late 2018. Shortly after, he found the core idea for Sandrums, a new musical adventure with a wide spectrum of electronic sounds utilized in improvisations that are harmonically and rhythmically rooted in the jazz mindset.
In 2019, he started performing his electronic music at events held by Chaos Non Musica and participated in the collective album launching by Senyawa in 2020.
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