Java-Futurism

Experimental Music and Sonic Activism in Indonesia

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June 2, 2021 | javafuturism

What is Java-Futurism?

Java-Futurism is a term coined by Lintang Raditya, an instrument-builder and noise musician from Yogyakarta. The term plays on the political and temporal aesthetics of the …
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March 10, 2023 | javafuturism

Gamelan as Experimental Music

On the occation of the performance by Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat at the "Sixth Edition Festival for Other Music", 16-19 March 2023 in Stockholm, …
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December 10, 2022 | javafuturism

Indonesian Histories of Electronic Music

In December 2022 the project was presented at the symposium Computer Aided Composition organised by Laura Zattra and Giacomo Albert at the Fondazione Giorgio …
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November 30, 2022 | javafuturism

Sonic Activism

At the American Anthropological Association (AAA) meeting in Seattle, USA in November 2022, we presented some of the preliminary findings of our research into …
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May 5, 2021 | javafuturism

Trance Against the Machine!

Fieldwork from a distance II The catchy title "Trance Against the Machine" came to us via Instagram from Gabber Modus Operandi. The catchy phrase …
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May 3, 2021 | javafuturism

Fieldwork from a Distance

Right after we launched project - and this website - the pandemic became a reality. Global lock-down and travel restrictions meant that planned fieldwork …
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March 5, 2021 | javafuturism

Decentralizing the Music Industry

Fieldwork from a distance I In February 2021, the duo Senyawa (Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi) released their latest album Alkisah. The album tells …
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January 10, 2021 | javafuturism

Bagong Rapper: the logo of Java-Futurism

We commissioned Lintang Raditya, an experimental musician based in Yogyakarta, to design the logo for the research project "Java-Futurism". We commissioned Lintang because it …
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January 5, 2021 | javafuturism

Quiet Riot – but then again…

Fieldwork from a distance III It has been inspiring to follow the updates on the Nusasonic’s website, a long-term project developed by the Goethe-Institute …
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March 10, 2020 | javafuturism

Shifts and Drifts in Sound Art

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art (2020), edited by Sanne Krogh Groth and Holger Schulze, is now out. It is an attempt to open …
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