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).
