I Made Sidia is one of the most well-known Balinese shadow puppeteer artists and a lecturer at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Denpasar. He founded Sanggar Paripurna, which frequently performs Sidia’s “Bali Agung” work at the Bali Safari & Marine Park.

Widatama is a Balinese gamelan musician and composer, born in Blahbatuh, Gianyar. Lives in the br. Antugan Blahbatuh neighborhood, Born in Gianyar on July 8, 2001. Engaged in performing arts, especially karawitan, which was formed by a family and community environment that is involved in the arts. Active as a Balinese gamelan musician in various composition works, and presentations of works that are competed in or appreciation of art. Starting his career in composition since 2019 until now.

I Nyoman Sunarta is a renowned Balinese karawitan musician and also a famous arja dancer. Born into an artistic family, he has become one of the most respected artists in Gianyar Regency. One of the gamelan groups he founded is Sanggar Alit Sundari, which has produced many young artists and has participated several times in the Bali Arts Festival.

I Gusti Nengah Hari Mahardika (Gung Ngah) was born in Tabanan, Bali, Indonesia, on August 17, 1983 and completed his Bachelor of Arts in Karawitan at ISI Denpasar. From a young age, he loved music and literature. Since 2001 until now he has been active in creating musical compositions, karawitan and dance accompaniment. In addition to participating in regional art performances, he also performs his musical compositions at the national and international levels, including in Indonesia, Chile, Peru, France, and America (New York).

Winning several competitions in the Bali Baleganjur Festival held by the Badung Regency made Putu Tiodore Adi Bawa‘s name to be taken into account in Bali today. Born into a family of artists, his talent was seen from a young age and he decided to study karawitan at the ISI Denpasar, which in 2009 made a work entitled Gelar Saet using the gamelan Semarandhana as a final project. Apart from making compositions for the gamelan Baleganjur and Semaradhana, Tiodore is also active in developing the sekehe Gong Kebyar. He has been trusted to be a coach in Tabanan Regency from 2009 to the present, and one of his Tabuh Kreasi compositions entitled Blabur Gunung was performed by Sekehe Gong Eka Dharma Duta, Pujungan Village, Tabanan at the Gong Kebyar Festival at the Bali Arts Festival in 2017.

Adit’s interest in gamelan started around the age of 9, where he and his relatives and friends started participating in the gamelan community. In addition, the elderly in the neighborhood where they live are also very supportive of the younger generation to learn gamelan because most of them work as gamelan makers.

Born in Richmond, VA, lives in Philadelphia. 30-year-old musician with a focus on Noise.

Andys Skordis is a Cypriot composer born in 1983. He studied composition at Berklee College of Music and at the Conservatorium Van Amsterdam, with additional studies in Karnatic music with Dr. Rafael Reina and in Balinese Gamelan at ISI Denpasar in Bali. His work list includes operas, orchestral and chamber pieces, gamelan music, vocal works, and music for dance, theatre and short films. As a composer he finds inspiration in the primordial human nature, which is expressed as a representation of a contemporary ritual characterized by tension and mysticism in his music. These incentives have been expressed through various music theatre performances in site specific locations like quarries, temples, abandoned buildings, and so on. He has received international recognition through various prizes including the BUMA Toonzetters Prize, one of the highest composition prizes in The Netherlands, the 1st prize in composition by the ministry of culture in Cyprus, The Black Pencil Prize 2020, as well as awards from ISCM, Third Coast Percussion Group, Listhus and more. Besides composing he is the founder of PATSIAOURA ensemble and Athens Gamelan Orchestra, plays guitar with Monsieur Doumani and he is an artistic collaborator with the Greek National Opera. At the moment he lives in Amsterdam where he teaches at the Conservatorium Van Amsterdam and composes music.

Agents of Rush: A cat that makes Drum and Bass. Based in the UK.

I Made Arnawa initially did not intend to make gamelan his career choice. Started learning gamelan at the age of seven, but decided to continue his secondary school in agriculture and work as an agricultural extension worker. But at a turning point when hearing Adi Merdangga directed by ASTI Denpasar made his passion for gamelan re-emerge and continued his education at STSI until finally completing his formal education in the Karawitan department at STSI Denpasar and ISI Surakarta. Since then Arnawa has become a well-known gamelan composer and teacher and is often invited to teach and create works in various places in the world including Taiwan, Germany, the United States and others.

Arya was born in Denpasar on December 17th 1996. His passion for gamelan blossomed when he had the opportunity to play kendang in preparation for a kendang tunggal (solo drumming) competition. He graduated from the high school of performing arts SMK 3 Sukawati (KOKAR) in 2011 and enrolled at ISI Denpsasar in 2014. At ISI he has participated in various events and competitions at the provincial and national level, including the National Students Art Competition and the yearly Bali Arts Festival (PKB). In addition to performing, he is frequently invited to create new compositions. He is a diligent and dedicated student with an insatiable thirst for new musical experiences.

I Wayan Angga Mahardika, or just Angga to those who know him well, was born in Denpasar on December 29th 1995. His interest in gamelan emerged in elementary school when he started playing rindik. A few years later he joined a baleganjur group at his local banjar. In 2007 he participated in his first baleganjur competition at the Bali Arts Festival (PKB).

Arik is the eldest son of I Ketut Arka and Ni Nyoman Wiriyatini. He was born in Denpasar on the 11th of April 1991. He became interested in gamelan at age 6, when he began playing kendang at karnaval events. His interest in gamelan was strongly supported by his family and the local community and as a result eventually blossomed into more than a mere hobby. Both his curiosity for the arts and a desire to contribute more to the community triggered a deeper and more focused study at ISI Denpasar, from which he holds an S1 and S2. Arik is also the creator of a unique diatonic iron gamelan called Gamelan Pesel.

Arik’s primary focus may be gamelan, but his interest in music goes far beyond it. He is a graduate of the high school of performing arts SMK 3 Sukawati (KOKAR) and ISI Denpasar. People often ask him what is gained from pursuing a musical life, and although he thinks this is an irrelevant question, to those that ask he would like to answer:

I Made Aristanaya (Aris) is the second child of I Made Sudarpa and Ni Made Sweti. He began studying gamelan in class 4 SD at the age of 9. In order to keep learning you must open yourself up and do it.

Everything is everything. The proof is in the source.

Cordey Lopez is a sound artist, musician, and audio engineer residing in Los Angeles, CA. A short list of Cordey’s various projects includes Baby Aspirin DVD (solo electronics), Gong Gaada (hybrid Balinese gamelan and electronics group), and Lansanese (mixed English/Indonesian noise rock).

Bagas was interested in Balinese gamelan when he was 10 years old, he accidentally watched it and tried to play gamelan, especially the Jegog, typical of the Jembrana region. From there he learned to play gamelan until now.

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.

I Wayan Situbanda (Banda), born on February 24th 1996, is the first child of I Wayan Sugin and Ni Wayan Artawati. He began studying gamelan with his father at age 5 and when he was old enough enrolled at the high school of performing arts SMK 3 Sukawati (KOKAR). While at KOKAR he studied with I Made Subandi (Subandi) and met I Putu Gede Sukaryana (Balot), the people he credits with making the most significant contributions to his knowledge of music. They also introduced him to many friends and collaborators from abroad and this sparked a desire to begin studying Western music.

Sean Stellfox is an experimental musician originally from the United States, but has since moved to Indonesia in 2014. Shortly after moving to Jogja, he found himself involved with the Jogja Noise Bombing community.

I Putu Suwarsa, better known as Bayem, was born on the 7th of November 1994. He began playing gamelan at an early age and holds an S1 from ISI Denpasar. He remains hopeful that Balinese society will continue to care for the arts and believes they will remain sustainable only through a combination of reconstruction, preservation, and development.

Nick Jarosz, known by the stage name Boom Djibouti, is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. Nick began his musical career playing guitar and bass in multiple groups and bands from 2002-2014, and even served a musical residency at Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2007. Since then his focus is on thematic instrumental music, film scoring, neoclassical, and experimental domains. His most recent project releases include an ambient album, Electric Garden Music vol. I&II, that was released August of 2019 and an electronic thematic album (Summer) which was released January 2020.

Yudi Iskandar (a.k.a. Buyung Mentari) was born in Jakarta on the 14th of June 1977. He is an actor and performer currently based in Bali, Indonesia.

Christian Schwanz aka Cee is a multifaceted individual known for his work as a music producer, crafting and performing his own brand of raw bass heavy music. As an educator he conducted music production workshops looking into activities in the Asia-Pacific region for Ableton and recently moved back to Germany.

CompStomp is Caleb Flood and Daniel Flood: two brothers from VA. Both have a background in drums and percussion, with an upbringing in Southern U.S. high school drum line. Daniel is a computer programmer/engineer who specializes in sample based music, and Caleb is an artist and performer mostly active on the east coast of the U.S. Daniel lives in Pittsburgh, PA, and Caleb lives in Blacksburg, VA.

Daniel Smither is a digital nomad, content writer, and SEO specialist with a long-term interest in gamelan. He is a former recipient of the Indonesian Darmasiswa scholarship at ISI Denpasar and holds an MA in Ethnomusicology from SOAS University in London.

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.

Deadi‘s interest in getting into music, especially traditional Balinese music (gamelan) at the age of 9 years. He joined a gamelan group where the group made him acquainted and loved playing gamelan. In addition, another influence is because of his house where almost all of the residents are gamelan makers.

Pande Kadek Ega Sasdicka, better known as Dega Pande. The history of kindergarten education at Kumara Jaya Celuk Kindergarten, Sukawati, Gianyar (2004-2005) continued elementary school at SD Negeri 6 Kawan, Bangli (2005-2011) and junior high school at SMP Negeri 2 Bangli (2011-2014). After that, Dega continued his education at SMK Negeri 3 Sukawati (2014-2017) and studied at the Indonesian Arts Institute Denpasar (2017-2021). Dega has been involved in gamelan since he was in the 5th grade of elementary school who was recruited by the community in Tegallalang Village, Kawan, Bangli. From there, Dega first became interested in gamelan, until in 2013 he was invited to participate as a Bangli Regency Children’s Gong Kebyar player. In 2016 he was invited as a Balaganjur player in Bangli Regency, in 2019 as an accompaniment to Taman Penasar Bangli Regency and was trusted to arrange gamelan in Balinese Pop Songs representing Bangli Regency. In 2021 as a gamelan player accompanying Barong Duta, Bangli Regency, and in 2022, he is entrusted with working on Fragmentary and Collaboration of Adult Gong Kebyar with Children representing Bangli Regency and working on the accompaniment of Taman Penasar, Bangli Regency. In the same year, Dega also worked on Balaganjur in the Pakuan Heritage Carnival event in Subang, West Java.

Dek Endra‘s interest in music has been around since he was 5 years old. He began to pursue the world of music / Balinese gamelan since sitting in 5th grade. Dek Endra joined the gamelan community in his own village, and even continued his studies in the field of music/gamelan art. Currently he is still pursuing music/gamelan, because this is his life.

Made Pande Gangga Sentana is interested in music, especially Balinese gamelan, because it has unique, melodious, and harmonious characteristics. These three reasons made him interested in Balinese music and gamelan.

In the beginning, Dek Wahyu was interested in Balinese gamelan because of his family, from grandfather, father, brother and close relatives who were already proficient in playing the gamelan. In addition, in the house where he lives there is a gamelan community owned by the family. Since childhood he was educated by his father until he continued his talent to art school and is now studying Karawitan at ISI Denpasar.

I Kadek Anggara Dwianta‘s interest in music, especially Balinese gamelan, is because Balinese gamelan has its own unique characteristics. He wanted to try to make more musical works in the field of karawitan, both Balinese gamelan and outside Bali.

Curiosity on tone, rhythm, dynamics that I haven’t mastered all of them yet.

Diva‘s journey in the gamelan began when her father bought a drum instrument at the age of 7 years. He then joined a group called Sanggar Pangus, which happened to be near his house in Tihingan Village, Klungkung. In 2012 to 2021 he had the opportunity to participate in the Bali Arts Festival (PKB) to represent children’s gong kebyar, children’s baleganjur competitions, adult gong kebyar, and several other activities. These activities provide a very valuable experience for him. In 2018 he continued his education at SMK N 3 Sukawati or KOKAR to find out more about art, especially Balinese karawitan. Now he is continuing his studies at ISI Denpasar.

doon quail is a platform for electronic sound experimentation. The artists, based between California and Indonesia, create work inspired by natural environments and biological structures. Techniques used to generate raw audio include the manipulation of found recordings, signal processing on acoustic instruments, and digital and analog synthesis. These sounds are then structured according to combinations of algorithmic concepts and gut feelings to thwart perceptual boundaries between musical structure and ecological chaos.

Mas Edan is Danny Martin: an electronic musician, gamelan player, and drummer, from Virginia. He began studying Balinese music with Gamelan Raga Kusuma in 2008, while at Virginia Commonwealth University, and went to Institut Seni Indonesia in Surakarta, Central Java, through the Indonesian Darmasiswa scholarship, from 2012-13. He has since lived in Surakarta, Denpasar, San Francisco, and Virginia, which has allowed him to continue studying gamelan, primarily Balinese, while developing his own music.

I Kadek Tunas Sanjaya, or Emon, was born on December 9, 1998. He is a talented musician and composer. He attended SMK 3 Sukawati (KOKAR) and recently received his bachelor’s degree at ISI Denpasar.

Erie Setiawan lahir di Solo, 11 Januari 1984. Menamatkan pendidikan S1 Musikologi di Insititut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta (2007). Pada 2008 ia bersama rekan-rekannya mendirikan “Art Music Today”, sebuah jejaring musik yang berfokus pada dokumentasi, informasi, edukasi, dan pengembangan audiens.

Evan O’Donnell is a musician, composer, writer, and sound artist from New York City, with a background in pop/rock, R&B, DIY and indie, lo-fi, garage punk, noise, and experimental music. O’Donnell has also been studying gamelan on and off for over a decade, including a yearlong Darmasiswa scholarship in Bali from 2015-16, and participation in American groups such as Gamelan Dharma Swara and Gamelan Sekar Jaya. Current projects include Ground Demons—an ongoing exploration of the subconscious borders of sound production, and the impacts of an animistic worldview on contemporary culture. Sekar DMN is an offshoot of this project, applying these ideas to the merging of metal, gamelan, field recordings, and noise.

Fahmi Mursyid is a contemporary musician, composer, sound designer and producer based in Bandung, Indonesia. He began releasing recordings under various monikers and labels in 2011. He uses found objects (acoustic and electronic instruments) and computers to create glitchy, sample-based, granular synthesized, shimmering, swirling electronic sounds expressing an enormous range of complex and simple musicalities. He is also interested in using environmental / foley sounds to express his musical ideas. Imagine acoustic instrumenst severed from cliché and the physical limitations of playing, shaping a bold new-alternative musical language.

I Komang Galang Widnyana‘s interest in music is very high because from a young age he lived in an artistic environment which made it difficult for him to be separated from music, especially gamelan. By playing gamelan or listening to music, he gets a stimulation that causes thoughts, emotions, and feelings of calm and pleasure. Another thing that makes him interested in gamelan or music is because there are many mysteries or unexpected things in it.

A native of Payson, Utah, Gavin Ryan has performed throughout the United States, as well as Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Haiti and China. He founded and directs Gamelan Madu Kencana, a community Balinese gamelan based in Provo. He performs and records regularly with groups as diverse as Utah Symphony, Book On Tape Worm, MT Pit, House of Lewis, NOVA Chamber Music, Salt Lake City 7, and Bones Jugs. From 2016-2017, Ryan was a Fulbright Fellow researching gamelan selonding in Bali, Indonesia. He currently teaches percussion at Utah Valley University. He is one of four fellows for the inaugural year of the Utah Performing Arts Fellowship.

George Rahi (b 1987, Philadelphia) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish territories. His work spans installation, instrument making, composition, solo + ensemble performance, and works for radio, theatre + public spaces. Recent presentations have included Artificial Sonification (Matera), SPEKTRUM (Berlin), Kunst-Station Sankt Peter (Cologne), Fusebox Festival (Austin), Vancouver New Music, and Regenerative Feedback Festival (Rotterdam), among others. He has been an artist in residence at EMS in Stockholm (2019), Locus Sonus Research Group in Marseille (2021), and hcma architecture in Vancouver (2022). He is a co-founder and instrument builder for Gamelan Bike Bike and holds an MFA from Simon Fraser University.

I Gede Putu Putra Gita Kumara, A.K.A. Gestok, began playing gamelan in elementary school. The instrument, a bamboo tingklik. His first experience composing involved creating accompaniment for the Barong Bangkung children’s dance, and by the age of 15 he had started composing for the baleganjur ensemble. As a student at Hindu University of Indonesia, he has chosen to focus his studies on music. His compositions include BaliCongJava and Prawira Jayaning Mangupraja.

Glibly Ninja is a solo electronic music project of Billy Anjing, a collage artist and the guitarist of d-beat punk band Kontrasosial. His roaring attack fuses the hammering industrial-techno assault, cut-ups sound collage, and rhythmic pattern of noise; as he dissects and reorients frequencies of whatever sounds that intrigue him. Out of love for ferocious punk music and boisterous dance floor, this experimental project is a rendezvous of harsh mosh madness meets bleak, confounding beats. Born and raised in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia; Billy is now living in Bali and part of noise experimental collective Chaos Non Musica.

Glochids is James Roemer, currently based in Oakland, California, USA, originally from the Sonoran desert of Arizona.

Simply put, Goh Lee Kwang has spent nearly 20 years making music that defies description. His works have covered a wide variety of avant-garde, electronic and field recording.

Graham Dunning [b. 1981] is self-taught as an artist and musician having studied neither discipline academically. His live work explores sound as texture, timbre and something tactile, drawing on bedroom production, tinkering and recycling found objects. He also creates visual work, video and installations drawing on these themes. Much of the work evolves through experimentation with different processes: considering the methods by which sounds become music; process as a continuum encompassing both improvisational and procedural methods; and testing analogous processes across different media. Graham has performed solo and in ensembles across the UK, Europe and Canada, and exhibited in the UK, Europe, New Zealand and USA. He teaches Experimental Sound Art at the Mary Ward Centre in London and also gives various independent workshops. He has released through Entr’acte, Seagrave, Tombed Visions and more.

Greg Samek enjoys drinking too much espresso, listening to white noise, and riding his bike really fast downhill.

Gunk Ade is a Balinese performing artist who specializes in gamelan and shadow puppetry. As a shadow puppeteer he often composes and performs his own works. He has created many shadow plays in which he single-handedly wrote the story, musical accompaniment, and vocals.

Ida Bagus Hery Yoga Permadi, A.K.A Gus Hery, started playing Balinese gamelan at the age of 10 when he joined a baleganjur ensemble at school. After more than 9 years wrestling with the arts he decided to study music formally at Hindu University of Indonesia. There his curiosity for the arts grew significantly as did his passion for gamelan. His works for gamelan include Water Way, Pranajiwa, as well as various works for baleganjur.

Ida Bagus Pradnyananta Arimbawa‘s interest in getting into music started with his grandfather. He is an artist who becomes a role model in pursuing art, especially gamelan. Over time, Gustu has gone through various processes so that behind the process he gains a very valuable experience, which can be concluded that music is not just about music.

Ida Bagus Putu Pradnyana Putra (Gustu) is the first child of Ida Bagus Suaryadana and Agung Ayu utu Suwartini and was born in Negara on August 20, 1993. Hi interest in the gamelan world began at age 4, and by 8 he was already participating in performing arts events in the surrounding area. His parents did not give him permission to pursue a music career, so he enrolled at ISI Denpasar in secret with his own money. He continues to be active in the performing arts.

JAGAJAGA was born in 2017, fueled by Chaos Non Musica’s collective spirit which emerged a year before. The desire to get to know people within the same scene and the passion to organize gigs by and for friends in the experimental music realm became the main inspiration for JAGAJAGA’s character formation in music. This collective pulsation guards his exploration doors in music to remain open and encourages him to create without any genre limitations.

Janu’s interest in gamelan emerged at age 3 when he began teaching himself traditional songs. By 17 he was already composing for the Bali Arts Festival (PKB) and at 20 he took his interest in gamelan to ISI Denpsasar. At ISI he had the opportunity to represent Bali at the Pekan Komponis Indonesia in 2013. His composition for the event, titled Simpang Siur was performed by a string quartet (rebab, mandolin, penting, and violin). In 2014 one of his works, which combined semaradhana and a large choir, was performed at the Christmas Charity Concert in collaboration with the IMUTA (Indonesia Music Talent) Orchestra. Later that same year he created a work of minimalism for gong gede saih pitu and in 2015 a composition for several gamelan utilizing different tuning systems, called Camouflage.

Jared Knight is a composer and performer of progressive acoustic and electroacoustic music. His music is characterized by disjunct, interlocking rhythms; extended harmonies and angular melodies; glitch and soundscape textures; and gradual, additive development. Jared is a vigorous advocate for musical pluralism and draws inspiration from a wide variety of musical influences, including indie and alternative rock, funk, jazz, minimalism and post-minimalism, progressive metal, hip-hop, and EDM. An avid performer of contemporary music, Jared composes for and plays keyboard in the brain-funk band Emergency Stopping Only. The band also features saxophonist Leonardo Escobar, violinist KeAndra Harris, bassist Joe Warnecke, and drummer Collin McFadden. The ensemble plans to release its debut album in 2020. Jared currently pursues dual Master of Music degrees in Composition and Intermedia Music Technology at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance, where he studies with composers David Crumb, Robert Kyr, and Jeffery Stolet. Jared received the Bachelor of Music in Composition from Boise State University in August 2018, where his primary teachers included composers David Biedenbender, Sam L. Richards, Eric Alexander, J. Wallis Bratt; and pianist Del Parkinson.

Jaya Nyomane is a composer that has contributed compositions to arts events all over Bali. His pieces in the gamelan world have already become well-known. Other than composing, he has also began to invent new instruments.

I Putu Suta Muliartawan, A.K.A Jo was born in the village of Kerambitan, Kab. Tabanan on March 10th 1993. He began to play gamelan at the age of 5 when he joined Sekaa Gong Putra Jaya. He participated in the children’s gong kebyar competition at the Bali Arts Festival (PKB) in 2011 and the adult competitions of 2013 and 2014. He recently completed his S1 at ISI Denpasar. His composition for the final exam was realized by transforming a Rubik’s cube into a form of contemporary music using polyrhythms. The piece was performed on iron gender wayang with clothespins attached to each key in order to transform their timbre.

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 Juni Suta Widnyana (Junik) was born in Pancardawa on June 9, 1997, and is the first child of I Gede Arsa and Ni Ketut Artini. His interest in gamelan jegog began at age 7, and by age 14 he was already participating in gong kebyar events at the Bali Arts Festival. Since then he has participated in jegog, baleganjur, and gong kebyar competitions at festivals in Jembrana and the Bali Arts Festival. Initially just a hobby, encouragement from his parents has allowed him to continue to develop his knowledge of gamelan, especially about styles from his own area.

Justin Devries is a musician living in the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (otherwise known as Vancouver, Canada). He is currently working on a masters degree in history exploring the intersection of cultural and economic flows around the Pacific Rim to Vancouver from the 1960s-1980s by focusing on the work of the composer Martin Bartlett. He has also spent over a decade performing as a percussionist both locally and internationally for a number of different groups and continues to create new music for small ensembles inspired in part by his experiences with and studies in Balinese music.

Kadek‘s interest in music started from seeing someone playing music where that person played it using taste. From that observation came the desire to dive into the world of music and wanted to try it. Finally until now he still likes music.

Kawamura Koheisai (Kohey) is a shadow puppet performer, composer, musician, and painter from Japan. He began studying Balinese performing arts in 1999, and is currently the director of the Japanese gamelan group Taikuh Jikang that has performed in many venues including the Museum Topeng Bali in 2012. He has collaborated with many esteemed Indonesian artists, such as Sanggar Cudamani, Sanggar Ceraken, Didik Nini Towok, and others. In 2016, he was awarded an arts grant from Japan’s Gotoh Memorial Foundation.

I Komang Kosil is a talented musician who was born in Munduk Village, Buleleng. He is very active in the arts and is often involved in art festivals. As the son of a well-known Balinese artist, I Made Terip, he currently leads the Sanggar Tripittaka which is active in preserving and developing Balinese arts, especially in gamelan.

Lai Tsung-Yun, curator of Lacking Sound Festival, presenting a sampling of audiovisual interactive praxis, piecing together largely formless images and field recordings of eccentricity and frenzy. Chaining altogether mixed noises and oversampling test tones, his sound experiment provides listener a profound dip into the enigmatic soundscape. Lai Tsung-Yun has curated the Lacking Sound Festival since 2013, which is Taiwan’s most renowned sound art performance festival. Now in its tenth year, the Lacking Sound Festival has organized over a hundred different sound art performances since 2007. The Festival promotes sound art events in Taiwan and actively works with sound artist groups from abroad.

Laurent Bellemare is a music enthusiast and musician from Montreal, Canada. He recently completed a master’s degree in Musicology at the University of Montreal, following a bachelor’s degree in that field and a two-year jazz drumming program at Cégep de Saint-Laurent. Outside of the academic milieu, he has primarily been active in extreme metal, experimental and non-western music as a drummer, percussionist and/or vocalist. Some of the projects he is involved with include Growlers Choir, Kumpa’nia, Chthe’ilist and Gamelan Giri Kedaton. Besides music, Laurent has interests in language, cinema, cooking and science fiction.

Ldgu (1985, Italy). Ldguʼs opuses span from experimental music to field recordings. Self-taught musician, he has been initially involved in Bolognaʼs underground scene (2004/2013). His first record label, Lil Pitch Records, focused on UKʼs and USAʼs sound-system cultures like hip- hop, dubstep and footwork: DJ Earl, The Host, Clap! Clap!, and DJ Pinch are among those released by Lil Pitch. In 2013/2015 he moved to Surakarta, where he studied karawitan, jaranan, and the drone musics of Borneoʼs Kayon and Kenyah people. While living in Central Java, he has also had the opportunity to develop his improvisation techniques thanks to the studies carried on with Prapto Suryodarmo and Mugiyono Kasido, masters of contemporary Javanese dance. Lately, heʼs been releasing albums through his new label, Tresno Records. His works have been broadcast by BBC, Rinse FM, Boiler Room, NTS Radio, Rai Radio 3, and discussed by critics such as Simon Reynolds.

Tolas (a.k.a Lightbender) is an artist currently based in Athens, Greece. He studied Computer Engineering & Informatics (University of Patras), Karawitan Music & Performing Arts (ISI Solo) and achieved a Master degree in Digital Arts & Virtual reality (Athens School of Fine Arts / ATI Paris 8).

I Nyoman Resa Angga Nurbawa (Mang Anga) was born May 31st 1996 in Desa Pujungan, Kec. Pupuan, Kab. Tabanan. His family has a long history with music and by age 5 he had joined a gong kebyar ensemble. Formal study of music began at the high school of performing arts SMK 3 Sukawati (KOKAR), where he made new friends, had new experiences, and became familiar with many kinds of Balinese gamelan. After graduating from SMK 3 Sukawati (KOKAR) he continued his education at ISI Denpasar, where he created works for baleganjur. Between 2015 and 2016 he created 7 new works for the ensemble, one of which is entitled Karna Antaka.

I Nyoman Putra Triana, A.K.A Komang, was born in Denpasar on the 21st of September 1996. In the fifth grade of elementary school he became interested in both dance and gamelan.

Micheal Tenzer is a composer, performer, and professor of music at the University of British Columbia. He is author of Balinese Gamelan Music and Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music, editor of Analytical Studies in World Music, and co-editor of Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music.

Mon was born in Kabupaten Badung on December 16, 1996. From a young age he began studying Balinese gamelan, which has gradually become an activity integral to his life. Mon often participates in the regency-wide Festival Gong Kebyar, at the Bali Arts Festival, and has even participated at national and provincial arts competitions, as well as many other events.

Mang Win is a young composer of Balinese gamelan. His career began with many pieces written for gamelan baleganjur. His is often commissioned to write pieces for baleganjur compositions all over Bali. Other than that he often composes dance accompaniments at the arts school in Bali.

I Nengah Jati is a young man who prefers a quiet atmosphere, free from crowds. Lives alone in a house far from the highway, near rice fields, and a river in Jehem Village, Tembuku, Bangli.

Everything started when I met my wife just looking back in 2010 as 60 version of a resumes in my fold. Now gone back in time several years back I was living in Tokyo at the time. I was trying get inspired by building websites and blogs.

Putu Nova Handiyana or Nova was born in Negara on November 12, 1996 and is the first child of I Ketut Arsada and Ni Luh Budi Astri. His interest in gamelan began at age 7 when he joined the children’s jegog group in his village. By middle school he had already begun to participate in events at the Bali Arts Festival. He did not expect to pursue a career in the arts, but as time went on, he continued to play and was eventually encouraged by his parents, teachers, and friends to enroll in the karawitan program at ISI Denpasar.

I Wayan Pande Widiana (b. 1993) is a Balinese musician, composer and gamelan researcher. His interest in gamelan was inspired by traditions in Banjar Adat Pande Tunggak. He began to deepen his interest in gamelan while attending SMK N 3 Sukawati (2011) and seriously explore gamelan culture and composition while studying at ISI Denpasar (2015). The latter was supported by a Beasiswa Bidik Misi from the Ministry of Education and Culture. After graduation, he moved to Surakarta (Central Java) to continue his education and pursue a Masters of Arts degree at ISI Surakarta (2019) with assistance from a Beasiswa Unggulan from the Ministry of Education and Culture. There he broadened his perspective on Indonesian music culture and prepared a thesis titled Analysis of Wayan Darya’s Lelambatan Tabuh Dua “Taru Kencana.” After almost three years in Java he returned to Bali and continued his work as a composer, actively contributing to the Bali Arts Festival, while also collaborating and participating in other events. Today, he focuses on Selonding Bali Aga, a research program and forum for learning and publishing texts. He also established a selonding production center, called Prapen Balung Wesi. His passion for selunding music was inherited from his relative, Pande Wayan Tusan (after his consecration Sira Mpu Sri Dharmapala Vajrapani) of Bebandem, who passed away in 2021, and, together with his father, Wayan Widia, he now works to restore broken or lost selunding orchestras, mainly in Karangasem. He has performed with various gamelan gong (kebyar) and selunding ensembles, in a wide range of occasions, including the 2003 and 2011 Bali Arts Festivals. In 2021 he organized the Bali Aga Selunding Festival and a seminar and workshop on selunding music in Amlapura. He has also published several videos of selunding music in Tenganan and Bebandem.

Pasex was born June 19th 1996 in the the village of Timuhum, Kab. Klungkung. At the age of 12 he developed an interest in gamelan and this eventually brought him to the high school of performing arts SMK 3 Sukawati (KOKAR) and ISI Denpasar.

Taylor Burton is a multi-instrumentalist from Richmond, VA. A former student of Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier, he has spent the greater part of the past twelve years developing alternative methods of composition and creating experimental musics and performing with various Balinese and Javanese gamelan ensembles in the US and Indonesia. More recently he has lived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where he has worked with several local musicians and delved into Khmer traditional musics, with particular interest in the one-stringed lute, kse diev.

Peat Bogs is the solo improvisational ambient electronic sound project of Miles Washington (Zone Lord, Church). The moniker “Peat Bogs” is partially inspired by the West Virginia boreal peat bogs, Cranberry Glades, where his grandparents would often take him in the summers of his youth. The soundscapes created by PB are inspired by sounds of nature in both the literal and impressionistic sense.

Peter Barnard is an interdisciplinary artist, who predominately works in sound, moving image, sculpture and installation. Much of his output ranges from interactive sound-based installations to sculptural assemblages while engaging with recurring themes concerning dualism, memory and representation. Born in London, UK (1987), Peter Barnard received his BA Hons in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, 2012. Since graduating, Barnard has exhibited at various art-spaces, galleries and has had his work presented in many screenings and radio broadcasts. He has shown in the United Kingdom, United States, New Zealand, Brussels, Germany and India. Peter Barnard currently lives and works in Buckinghamshire, UK.

Phonophani is the solo project of Espen Sommer Eide, a composer and artist based in Bergen, Norway.

Putu Eman Sabudi Subandi, better known as Emon Subandi, was born and raised in a family deeply immersed in Balinese arts and culture. Encouraged by his father, I Made Subandi, a maestro in gamelan composition and music, Emon showed a talent for music from an early age. His involvement in gamelan grew significantly at SMK Negeri 3 Sukawati and deepened further when he pursued his studies in ethnomusicology at ISI Yogyakarta. In this inspiring academic environment, Emon formed close relationships with various musicians and artists, actively participating in diverse and exciting music projects, including his contribution to the “Gamelan Cage” album in 2012 and his original works like “Mekale” and “Megilak” in 2017. One of his remarkable achievements was an extraordinary artistic collaboration between Japanese Noh theater and Balinese-Indonesian traditional arts, held in Tokyo in 2018. His talent gained even more recognition when he was entrusted as the mentor and composer for the Children’s Gong Kebyar Ensemble representing Gianyar Regency at this year’s (2024) Bali Arts Festival. Through his dedication and contributions to the arts, Emon Subandi has become a prominent figure who strongly represents the cultural richness of Bali and Indonesia more broadly, continuing the artistic legacy founded by his father at Sanggar Ceraken.

Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena is an Indonesian artist and scholar currently residing in the United States. He is an Assistant Professor of Performance and Creativity at Grinnell College in Iowa. His research and artistic interests interrogate discursive conceptions of noise through the lenses of Indigeneity, performativity, cosmology, and politics. Hiranmayena’s sonicity resides primarily in Baleganjur, Heavy Metal, and Free improvisation. His current ensembles include Gamelan Tunas Mekar (Denver, CO); Improvisatory noise/metal trio, TATWD (Urbana, IL); Improvisatory trio, PAK Yeh (Denver CO); and Balinese experimental duo, ghOstMiSt with his partner, Dewa Ayu Eka Putri. He has composed, performed, held workshops, and given lectures internationally, but most notably in the United States. You can also find him skateboarding, playing tennis, and enjoying a nice pint of microbrew.

Rosemainy is a gamelan musician, composer and educator. Traditionally trained in gamelan for the past 10 years, Rose looks forward to creating and collaborating with other art forms and practitioners. Fueled by the philosophy of gamelan, in which establishing a relationship between the musician and the music requires more than hitting the right notes, Rose aspires to ascend towards rasa – the highest form of aesthetics in karawitan.

Rudy Putu Artana (Rudy) was born in Denpasar on October 29th 1995. He has studied at SMK 3 Sukawati (KOKAR) and ISI Denpasar. He began learning gamelan in the 3rd grade. His parents had been encouraged to bring him to the local banjar to study gamelan. After practicing for some time he became a fan. In his second year at junior high school he represented Denpasar in a competition of traditional music, and after winning the competition, went to Surabaya to represent the province of Bali at FLS2N (National Students Art Competition Festival). Later, with other students at SMK 3 Sukawati (KOKAR) he represented the province of Bali at the same event (FLS2N), this time held in Medan. After returning from the trip he began to follow the traditional music contest carried out by KEMENPORA in Jakarta. Today he continues to concentrate his energy on gamelan music, both practically and theoretically.

Many know I Wayan Sinti as a classical artist, but he is also a top innovator, composer, teacher and artist in Bali. Sinti was born in 1943 in Ubung Village and started studying vocals and gamelan in 1957. His interest in art led him to continue his studies at KOKAR. Because he was the best graduate at that time, the school where he studied hired him as a teacher. Apart from teaching in Bali, Sinti has also been invited to the Center for World Music in Berkeley, America and continued his ethnomusicology education at San Diego State University and graduated with an MA in music. Besides being active in teaching, Sinti also makes innovations in Balinese gamelan, such as making several new gamelans, Manikasanti and Shiwa Nada. As for some of I Wayan Sinti’s works, Lokarya, Ajnyaswari, Wilet Mayura, are still favored by the gamelan community because they are innovative but still have strong roots in Balinese artistic traditions.

Sarah LeCompte-Bergeron is a Montreal (Canada) based artist. They started playing the drum kit at the age of 6 and graduated from Cégep du Vieux-Montréal in classical percussion in 2014, under Jean-Guy Plante, timpanist in Orchestre Métropolitain. They are pursuing studies in musicology (ethno) at University of Montreal where they were introduced to electroacoustic composition and where they joined Giri Kedaton gamelan. They studied gamelan in Montreal under Eric Vandal and Pierre-Emmanuel Lévesque as well as in Bali at ISI Denpasar (2016-2017) and with I Gusti Nyoman Darta (Komin). Experience and studies in classical and Latin percussion, Japanese taiko drumming, pipe band drumming, Javanese gamelan and metal drum kit influence their creations. They played notably with l’Orchestre de jeux video, The Black Watch of Canada and have created for their own projects like Madmanmind. Other than music, they have also pursued professional activities and studies in visual arts and acting.

Sattle is the moniker of Satria A. Anggapradja, a Jakarta based electronic music artist. Hailing from a humble origin from West Java, raised on a healthy diet of all types of music that was strongly influenced by his surroundings, he began DJing and shortly thereafter began organizing some local dance parties with his fellows to discover the scene first hand. His enthusiasm with music has taken him to be a part of Javabass Soundsystem, Jam Malam, and Bandung’s own party pusher Push/Pull. Responsible for a weekly show on Norrm Radio, Sattle’s tweaked out tunes issued by some local imprints. The past release was Centipede, a leftfield track for Seamless Pattern compilation under the Bandung-based imprint, Capslock Tunes in December 2018. The track is what Sattle explains as an everyday music, exploring the moments of casual vibe and self acceptance under a more focused, downtempo sound. His next edits release was Banana Walk on Scrubs’ edits series in 2019. In the same year, Sattle got signed by Pepaya Records to work on an debut EP. His restless forward momentum and pursuit of new sounds make every Sattle’s tracks distinct from its predecessor. In this EP, namely Heuristic EP he extracted plucked strings, substances, fallacy, eastern classical music, introspective journey, love of dub, and raga melodies to present a brand new feeling of gravity free electronic music.

Ni Made Ayu Dwi Sattvitri is a Balinese gamelan musician born in 2000 who is currently learning to compose Balinese karawitan music. Sattvitri able to play Balinese gamelan instruments such as Gender Wayang, Balinese Kendang, Selonding, and others. However, the gamelan she likes the most is Gender Wayang. Sattvitri became interested in Balinese gamelan when he was 7 years old, started by seeing people learning to play the gamelan at her house. Apart from being a musician, she also teaches Balinese gamelan to children in her area. Sattvitri started studying composition at the age of 17 and still learning until now.

Scott Burton is a guitarist and composer living in Richmond, Virginia. For over a decade Scott has been creating music in a wide variety of settings combining composed and free improvised sounds and practices. Burton has worked with everyone from artist/saxophonist Matana Roberts, to expat hip hop producer Jneiro Jarel (JJ DOOM) and his music has been featured on NPR and BBC Radio. In addition Scott has shared the stage with artists as diverse as MacArthur Grant winner Ken Vandermark to songwriter Julien Baker.

Sekar DMN is an ongoing exploration of the borders between metal, gamelan, ambient, and noise, based in the United States and Indonesia. It is the current recording and performance project of NYC-born composer and sound artist Evan O’Donnell, and an offshoot of the larger Ground Demons project.

Shug Monkey: Illustrator and Noise maker from the UK.

With first live appearances in 2017, Smaely P is a side project by Germany-based live electronics musician Ypsmael. Crafting textural sound washes and live loops with different instrumentation than under the Ypsmael moniker, Smaely P uses freeware, turntables and pre-recorded sounds in a plunderphonics-like technique to combine sonic artifacts and sources in an approach that is both compositional and improvisational.

John Bowman is a multimedia artist currently living in Harrisonburg, Virginia. His musical work under the name of Snack Master covers such genres as ambient, acid house, drum and bass, techno, and IDM. In addition to his work as a musician, John also spends time working on digital art, drawings, and paintings.

Gabe Churray is a musician and sonic experimenter who has collaborated with many artists including S. Carey (Bon Iver), Califone, Matthew E. White, and No B.S. Brass. His works have been recognized with awards from pioneering American composer Steve Reich, James Madison University, the University of Minnesota, and Indaba Music. He lives in Alexandria, VA, USA.

Sebastián Tapia is an experimental musician, noisemaker and sound artist, from Valparaíso, Chile. His work circulates between: free improvisation, electroacoustic music, soundscape, noise, incidental music. in parallel, it is dedicated to recording, editing and audio post-production. He has also curated and produced experimental music and noise events since 2013. Now he directs the project Rata Sorda Rec, production, broadcast and archive platform, based on sound expressions, noise and experimental music.

I Wayan Srutha Wiguna is the only child of I Ketut Suandita and Ni Wayan Widari. His interest in music emerged at age 7 when he began studying kecek. In 2010 he performed ugal in the Sekaa Gong Anak-Anak Competition at the Bali Arts Festival (PKB).

Stephen Vitiello is an electronic musician and media artist. CD releases have been published by New Albion Records, Sub Rosa, 12k and Room 40. His sound installations and multi-channel works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon. Over the last 25 years, Vitiello has collaborated with such artists and musicians as Pauline Oliveros, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Taylor Deupree, Joan Jonas, and Steve Roden. Originally from New York, Vitiello is now based in Richmond, VA where he is a professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University.

I Made Subandi is an internationally renowned musician and composer. He was born in the village of Batuyang on February 23rd 1966 and is the second child of Made Dig (RIP) and Ni Wayan Saba (RIP). He started learning gamelan at an early age. After studying geguntangan to accompany janger for a competition he became interested in gender wayang. This led to lessons with his father, a renowned gender wayang master. Formal training began at the high school of performing arts SMKI (KOKAR) in 1984 and continued at STSI Denpasar (now ISI) in 1988. He is an active composer, frequently collaborating with local and international artists, and is currently director of the music department at SMK 3 Sukawati (KOKAR).

Syafiq Halid is a self-taught sound designer, electronic artist and the first Ableton Certified Trainer based in Singapore. His personal works revolved on his own imagined style and niche from percussions, samples, sounds and electronic music. He believes in developing his internal boundaries constantly by exploring and experimenting with various elements of sound to produce deep sonic material and listening experience. In the beginning of 2020, Syafiq collaborated with Bhumi Collective as a sound designer for Mak Mak Menari under M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020. Syafiq also collaborated with -wright Assembly to showcase a poetry-and-sound performance titled Al-Qamar under Moongazers by the ArtScience Museum. In the year of 2019, Syafiq played the role as a sound designer and performer in NGOPI by P7:1SMA Ltd.. He has also performed in Kaizen X Sound Lab presented by The Kaizen M.D. In SERENTAK 2: ‘Not Much Of Us Left’, an annual program presented by Nadi Singapura Limited in 2017, Syafiq led the production as a show director with the pioneer members of Nadi Singapura Ltd.

I Made Terip is a musician and gamelan composer from Munduk Village, Buleleng, Bali. Since he was young, he has been practicing his talent by joining the gamelan dance group, Joged Bumbung. Apart from teaching local musicians in his village, Made also active in performing abroad, and has even been a guest lecturer at several campuses and groups in Europe and America.

Thomas Hunter recently retired from lecturing in Sanskrit and South and Southeast Asian studies the University of British Columbia.

Transient Fields are sonic experiments produced by Jonathan Adams.

People say that Ukisangan’s interest in music, especially Balinese gamelan, began when he was 5 years old. He then start to pursue music/gamelan since he was in 6th grade by joining several gamelan groups and even continuing his studies in the field of music. Until now, he is still actively participating in musical activities at various events. For him, music is everything.

Victorhugo Hidalgo is a music composer and performing arts producer. He works mainly with Southeast Asian music and puppet theater techniques. He is the main director of the puppet company Gnayaw Puppets Company which is currently based in Mexico. He is the founder of the World Music Collective SriMara currently based in Indonesia, and he is an electronic music producer under the name of Ra Otomi. You can find Gnayaw Puppets Company on YouTube as Gnayaw Wayang.

Komang Wahyu Yastawan Putra or Wahyu, born May 9, 1997, is the third child of I Nyoman Narden and Ni Kadek Sunardi. He started to engage in the arts around age 7. At age 14 he began to participate in baleganjur and gong kebyar competitions at regional and island-wide levels. His interest in gamelan motivated him to enroll at ISI Denpasar so that he can become a leader in the arts for his community.

Wayne Vitale is a composer and educator who has long been inspired by the music of Bali, Indonesia. He has studied and collaborated with many of Bali’s finest musicians and ensembles, extensively documenting their work, and leading myriad projects bringing them together with diverse artists and audiences. His particular interests focus on the intersection of the two cultural streams that have shaped his life as a composer—Balinese music (in its multitude forms) and new music created in the US, especially music that has a direct or indirect historical relationship with gamelan. His response has been expressed in works spanning a stylistic range from traditional to experimental/multimedia. Several have been performed by noted gamelan orchestras in Bali, including the renowned village ensemble Abdi Budaya (“Servants of Culture”) in Banjar Anyar, Perean. He is a founding member and composer in the Lightbulb Ensemble, a group of twelve percussionists working at the interface of Balinese and Western music traditions and innovations. He is also a founding member and past director (1992 – 2009) of Gamelan Sekar Jaya, an ensemble of sixty musicians and dancers with an unparalleled international reputation for its cross-cultural programs. His recording label, Vital Records, releases high-quality recordings of new and traditional Balinese music. He has also devoted himself to the metallic art of gamelan tuning and restoration, grinding and filing his way throughout the US and Europe to restore Balinese instruments. His work has been supported by the Center for Cultural Innovation, the Creative Work Fund (a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund), the Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals, the Gerbode-Hewlett Music Commissioning Award (for Mikrokosma), the National Endowment for the Arts, and other funders.

Arsa Wijaya or Wawan was born in Tegalcangkring on June 15, 1992 to his parents, I Nyoman Gede Suarsa and Ni Made Widiani. His interest in gamelan began at age 5 and continued throughout his childhood, having the opportunity to participate in baleganjur competitions by age 9 and the Bali Arts Festival by middle school. His parents and teachers encouraged his hobby, enabling him to fulfill one of his dreams by studying gamelan in greater depth at ISI Denpasar.

I Putu Purwwangsa Nagara, better known among friends as Wawan Bracuk, was born on August 14th 1998 in Banjar Tunjuk Kelod of Desa Tunjuk, Kab. Tabanan. He has been playing gender wayang since the age of 7 and was trained by his grandfather I Nyoman Sumandi, a versatile artist in Sanggar Seni Kembang Bali. In addition to informal study at home he also pursued his interest in gamelan at SMK 3 Sukawati (KOKAR) and ISI Denpsasar.

I Wayan Adi Darmawan (Yan Adi) is the first child of two brothers. He was born in Denpasar on November 14th in 1995. Gamelan entered his life early because his family has a strong background in the arts. This means its role as a hobby, a source of inspiration, as well as additional income is not new to him.

I Wayan Agus Budiarta Yasa (Yan Genyol) was born in Gianyar on May 29th in 1996. He studied at SMK 3 Sukawati (KOKAR), graduating in 2014. In grade 10 he joined the percussion and dance studio Studio Gita Mahardika in Banjar Dauh Labak, Desa Singakerta, Kec. Ubud. Soon after he also joined Sanggar Semeton Suling Nikamanu in Banjar Pengosekan, Desa Mas, Kec. Ubud, Gianyar. There he learned not only how to play the suling (flute), but also how to make one. Most of this knowledge was passed down from an artist and craftsmen by the name of I Wayan Karta (A.K.A. Cover), who is also the principle overseer of Sanggar Semeton Suling Nikamanu.

I Made Yogi Antara, A.K.A. Ogik, was born in Denpasar on October 31st 1989. His introduction to the arts came in grade 2 of elementary school when he began to study dance. Later, in grade 4 he was introduced to gamelan music in his local banjar, where he studied with I Ketut Jika and I Made Sudarsana. After graduating from elementary school he began to study music formally. His contribution to the Insitu Recordings project is his first creative work for gamelan.

I Gede Yudi Dananjaya, A.K.A Yudik Belega, was born on the 6th of May 1993. He began playing music in his local banjar’s Sekaa Gamelan Gong. His passion for music has only intensified since then. It is now the primary focus of his life. He is an active contributor to the Pesta Kesenian Bali (annual arts festival), including both the children’s and adult competitions. He studied at SMK 3 Sukawati (KOKAR) and ISI Denpasar. His compositions for gamelan include Tabuh Lelambatan Jala Dara (GKA PKB 2014); Tabuh Kreasi Kembang Kumara (GKA PKB 2014); and Komposisi Kendang Krumpungan Rotasi (A Tribute to Kebyar 2014).

Yuko Araki is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Tokyo, Japan. She started playing piano when she was a small child and in her teenage years became inspired by the hardcore and metal music she heard in her hometown’s rehearsal studios. Soon after that experience led her to join a band. In 2013, she joined an Acid House duo YobKiss, produced by Dutch artist Paul Borchers, as a singer and an electronic musician. In 2016 she formed a neo classical noise duo Concierto de la Familia inspired by the playing style of Yngwie Malmsteen, and began playing drums in the Oriental dream psych band KUUNATIC. In 2017 she began a solo improvised experimental/noise project.

As a general statement, Zachary (b.1990) loves to make things. For his day job, he runs a graphic design studio in Singapore with two other collaborators. He loves gamelan music and has been participating in various gamelan activities on an amateur level for the past 6 years, this includes noodling around with writing music on occasion. He has various interests that completely takes over his attention from time to time, the most recent being Riichi Mahjong.

Zachary Hejny is a California-born composer and performer of experimental music residing in Indonesia. His work explores polytemporality, incidental tuning systems, ecological sound structures, and philosophies of noise. Current projects include electro-acoustic instrument building using recycled materials, an environmental sound map, a metronome app practice aid for Balinese kendang tunggal, and various music for visual media. He received a DMA in composition from UC Santa Cruz (2021) and currently works as a foreign researcher at IKIP Saraswati Tabanan.