Author Archive
Workshop Diary #1
Lots of activity and deafening noise already sounding in the iCAN workshop. Asep Nata has been grinding everyone into oblivion in the production of a mutant cowbell crossed with a steel drum.
Asep Nata
Asep Nata is an ethnomusicologist from Bandung, Indonesia. He has over the years studied at various institutions including ANU in Canberra with Dr. Linda Connor (Australia) dan Patsy Asch (USA)
Ardi Gunawan
Ardi Gunawan is a Jakarta-born artist who was based in Melbourne from 2003-2010. Throughout his practice, he develops projects that are process-driven.
Wibowo (research participant only)
Wibowo is a traditional Gamelan builder and tuner. He has a studio factory in Bantul Yogyakarta and has also been creating custom built Gamelans and made to order gongs.
Joel Stern
Joel Stern’s is an artist, curator and researcher based in Brisbane, Australia. Joel Stern is an artist and curator based in Melbourne, Australia. He directs the groups, OtherFilm and Disembraining.
Mbah Daliyo Gamelan Builders
A gamelan workshop is located in Bantul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is run by master builder Mbah Daliyo who has been making gamelans since the 1970s.
Dylan Martorell
Dylan Martorell is an artist and musician who’s work is influenced by the natural world, human rituals, ethnography and mythology. Music and sound, from field recordings to ritualized performances, play a major part in his multidisciplinary practice.
Krisna Widiathama
Krisna is a young noise musician from Yogyakarta, many of the sounds that he uses in his compositions are from electronics that he has hot wired himself.
Rod Cooper
Rod Cooper’s first explorations into music and instrument building started while studying sculpture between 1985-1988 at Victoria College, Prahran. The noisy environment of metal workshops with the sounds of construction was where he realized the potential of sculpture to become musical.
