Zachary Hejny is a California-born composer and performer of experimental music currently based in Indonesia. His artwork explores polytemporality, incidental tuning systems, ecological sound structures, and philosophies of noise. Current projects include the design of an electro-acoustic percussion instrument using found materials, an environmental sound map, an album of etudes for drum set and synthesizer, a metronome practice aid for Balinese kendang tunggal and various music for visual media. He received a DMA in composition from UC Santa Cruz in 2021 and recently completed a Fulbright research grant focusing on relationships between traditional music practices in Lombok, Bali, and East Java.

Jonathan Adams is an ethnomusicologist, electronic musician, and visual artist with broad interest in Balinese music. His experience includes formal study of longstanding ritual and court musics, participation in performances of new and innovative works, as well as instrument building and tuning. To date, he has spent 5+ years living in Indonesia. This included a one-year stay (2007/2008) supported by the Indonesian Darmasiswa program; and a four-year stay (2013-2017) that involved research on seven-tone music associated with Javano-Balinese poetry, assisting the experiential education program at the School for International Training, and co-founding Insitu Recordings. He received a BA in Ethnomusicology and Comparative Religion from the University of Washington in 2007, where he also spearheaded the realization of an innovative 9-tone gamelan developed by I Wayan Sinti, called Siwa Nada. He holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of British Columbia (2021) and is currently adjunct assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research has been supported by the American Institute for Indonesian Studies (Henry Luce Fellowship 2014), a Tina and Morris Wagner Foundation Fellowship (2014-2015), and an Elsie and Audrey Jang Scholarship in Cultural Diversity and Harmony (2017-2018).

I Putu Gede Sukaryana, better known as Balot, began taking gamelan seriously when he enrolled at the high school arts conservatory SMK 3 Sukawati at the age of 15. After graduation he enrolled in the karawitan program at Institut Seni Indonesia, Denpasar, where he engaged with talented and aspiring musicians from across Bali and realized a future dedicated to music was possible. By the time he completed his arts education on Bali he was already a highly sought after performer, and since graduation he has been invited to lead several high-caliber international collaborations, including reworks of Scarlatti’s keyboard music and Bach fugues for Yantra Productions (Italy), experiments with Lithuanian electronic musician and composer Paulius Kilbauskas, and collaborative compositions with American composer Wayne Vitale. His work is recognized internationally and celebrated for its originality and emphasis on process over product. In 2016 he co-founded the record label and arts collective Insitu Recordings with Jonathan Adams and is currently the project’s artistic director. In 2017 he accepted a visiting artist residency at the University of British Columbia, where he got his Master’s degree in Ethnomusicology.