On March 1st 2020 the project officially started. Actually, it was the funding from the Swedish Research Council that started. Our interest in the field started longer ago, with a first pilot study in Yogyakarta in Java in January 2018. During this trip we visited Teater Garasi, Lifepatch, Jogja Noise Bombing and Bengawan Noise Syndicate and here met many of the the artists that are now vital collaborators in our present work. The hospitality, openness and mutual curiosity among the network of people we then met is a most important cornerstone in the project.
In this report you can get an introduction to this first fieldwork and read about our first impressions. We have added many photos and videos as an attempt to reestablish an atmosphere which was new and very unique to us.
Sanne Krogh Groth: Noise in the Tropical Underground. Seismograf. 29/6 2018.
https://seismograf.org/en/artikel/noise-tropical-underground