2021 What Stays—Archiving Care Residency
in collaboration with the JUNGE AKADEMIE of Akademie der Künste, Berlin and the Goethe-Institut Slovakia.

Aditya Surya Taruna aka Kasiym is part of the What Stays—Archiving Care Residency programme in collaboration with the JUNGE AKADEMIE of Akademie der Künste, Berlin and the Goethe-Institut Slovakia. In JOGET-X (A Speculative Archive of Alternate Histories of Indonesian Dance Music), Aditya Surya Taruna explores the diversity of Gamelan music to construct a speculative archive of Indonesian dance music. The project asks; what if colonisation did not affect how music, technology and dance has developed?

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JOGET-X (A Speculative Archive of Alternate Histories of Indonesian Dance Music)

Gamelan, made up predominantly of percussive instruments, is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia. Exploring the oral traditions and knowledge systems of indigenous culture, the work investigates how these knowledge systems can coexist with and contextualise global understandings of technology and music. The archive contains historical data from 1990 to 2030. Existing histories are hacked and deconstructed in collaborations with six musicians and dancers from Jakarta to Wamena (West Papua), through the process of Laras, an Indonesian tuning method. The artist is developing a set of open source digital instruments that are built with the methods and processes of Gamelan music. This method recreates traditional dance music free from the influences by chromatic/western scales. Kasymin speculates that this new method of music creation will affect the development of modern dance and club culture. Since beginning, the project has grown from six to over thirty musicians, intrigued by the idea of Decolonizing music using a primal Indonesian system with common contemporary tools. Joining forces with YES NO WAVE the results will be released in the compilation JOGET-X : The Anthology of Indonesian Dance Music That (Should/Never) Exist.

jury

Oulimata Gueye, Clara Herrmann, Markus Huber, Nora O Murchú, Helen Pritchard

credits

transmediale festival in cooperation with the JUNGE AKADEMIE of Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and the Goethe-Institut Slovakia