Danker Schaareman was born in Delft, Netherlands in 1948. He began studies in musicology, composition, and piano at the University of Utrecht in 1968, but a growing interest in anything non-European led him to Switzerland to study ethnomusicology at the University of Basel in 1970. Shortly later, he had the opportunity to join a research team documenting seven-tone ritual music in Bali. His participation involved collecting materials for his M.A thesis and recording music with the team’s musicologist. While preparing his M.A. thesis (1977) and PhD (1982), he frequently travelled between Basel and Bali, and after several additional research trips in the nineteen-eighties and early nineties, he settled in Indonesia, first in Karangasem, Bali, and then Bekasi, West Java, where he has lived since 2010. He is currently deepening his knowledge of Balinese seven-tone ritual music and writing a book about Bali.
Jatibening Baru, Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia
