MAKASSAR
Videos
Makassar Rumble
The expedition in Makasar also covers Makasar Rumble, They blend in modern western instruments such as keyboard, electric guitar, bass with traditional folk music The expedition in Makasar also covers Makasar Rumble, a contemporary music group that has similar take on the Makasar tradition as UrbanEgg. They blend in modern western instruments such as keyboard, electric guitar, bass, etc. with traditional folk music. The number of people in the ensemble of Makasar Rumble makes it often difficult to keep them active in the scene.
Mandalian - Bapa Mimi
The expedition went to visit traditional musicians such as Bapak Mimi who plays the coastal music of Mandaliong in Jeneponto, and Daeng Mile who is a renowned traditional gandrang player The expedition also went to visit some of traditional musicians such as Bapak Mimi who plays the coastal music of Mandaliong in Jeneponto, and Daeng Mile who is a renowned traditional gandrang player and maker in his home studio in Gowa, where he performed with his grandson.
Urban Eggs
Urban Eggs Makassar is an independent music group started in 2007 that aims to explore traditional music and potential to transform it to other musical style Urban Eggs Makassar is an independent music group started in 2007 that aims to explore traditional music and potential to transform it to other musical style. UrbanEggs explores musical instrument outside traditional music instrument of South Sulawesi. This way the composers of Urban Eggs can write their music without having to be burdened by certain values. In their shows, Urban Eggs combine modern and traditional instruments such as violin, guitar, bass, kecapi, gandrang, cak guitar, rebana, and ukulele. Each instrument has different role to create unique musical pattern. Their music also thematically created by taking inspirations from local melodies or songs such as the lament of Al Barzanji which then transformed into violin and guitar. Interlocking rhythms of gandrang were also played by cak and ukulele in order to add other melodious harmony from bass and kecapi.
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Tesaran and Jundana are two young musicians in Makasar with completely different characters and musical styles, one is expereimental and the other is traditional. Tesaran explores electronic sounds by utilizing simple musical equipments like small melodica toy and creates intensity. Ahmad Jundana came from a family with Makasar traditional music background. His father is Hasan Daeng Ramma, a “gandrang” maker specialist and also a musician for traditional Bugis-Makassar. Both Tesar and Junda are active in their own scene, and during this expedition were put together in a process of creating a musical collaboration; two different characters in one stage making musical dialogues in order to find a new style and expression. It is important to do this event and document it since as a multicultural city,Makasar needs to have an open collaborative process. In Makasar, there is not enough space that focuses on creating collaborative styles from different genres of contemporary era. Noise music which is mainly inaccessible by public collaborates with traditional gandrangMakasar has opened a new possibility tobe bolder in experimenting with aesthetics that are more representing contemporary music.
KAILI
Videos
Culture Project
Culture Project is a musical project of Central Sulawesi Hasan Bahasyuan into a popular music, by integrating traditional notations and melodies into pop music. Culture Project is a musical project that interprets the works by an art maestro from Central Sulawesi Hasan Bahasyuan into a popular music, by integrating traditional notations and melodies into pop music. After the interview in Zhul Usman`s house, we then went on documenting Umariyadi Tangkilisan and Zhul Usman perform acoustically by the Gulf of Palu.
Lalove
Lalove is a bamboo flute used in Balia ceremony, a ritual for healing. #palu #kaili LALOVE Lalove is a bamboo flute used in Balia ceremony, a ritual for healing. We came to see Ojo, a Bule (official lalove player) and asked him to explain the whole procession, from the making of lalove to the order of its notations played during the ceremony
Ojo Safrin : Lalove Ensemble
Safrin or commonly known as Ojo is a Bule (official lalove flute player) in Palu City. Lalove is a traditional bamboo flute typically played during ritual ceremonies of Balia Safrin or commonly known as Ojo is a Bule (official lalove flute player) in Palu City. Lalove is a traditional bamboo flute typically played during ritual ceremonies of Balia. The decreasing interest in the instrument by younger generations has slowed the pace for Lalove`s potential as an explorative instrument. As a solution to the potential loss of this instrument, Ojohas been passing his knowledge onto his 9 his nephews. In this video Ojo plays lalove together with his 9 students in front yard of a house where Ojo was raised in a traditional tribal upbringing as a Kaili man.
Sakaya
Sakaya is a solo project of JuliIdin Lanja, his music is a blend of elements from traditional Kaili music and modern electronic-based music Sakaya is a solo project of JuliIdin Lanja, a young Kaili artist who has learned and taught many kinds of traditional Kaili instruments and music. His music is a blend of elements from traditional Kaili music and modern electronic-based music, while also exploring Kaili ancient mantra as his inspiration, especially in how Kaili people position women in their local mythology and oral stories. We chatted with Juki ad Khusnuk Khatimah in between their performance. They played a song Manuru with an electric guitar, lalove, mbasi-mbasi, and vocals. The lyrics explore the myth of To Manuru, a leader who descend from the sky.
Sakaya Interview
Sakaya is a solo project of JuliIdin Lanja, a young Kaili artist who has learned and taught many kinds of traditional Kaili instruments and music Sakaya is a solo project of JuliIdin Lanja, a young Kaili artist who has learned and taught many kinds of traditional Kaili instruments and music. His music is a blend of elements from traditional Kaili music and modern electronic-based music, while also exploring Kaili ancient mantra as his inspiration, especially in how Kaili people position women in their local mythology and oral stories. We chatted with Juki ad Khusnuk Khatimah in between their performance. They played a song Manuru with an electric guitar, lalove, mbasi-mbasi, and vocals. The lyrics explore the myth of To Manuru, a leader who descend from the sky.
Raego
Raego in Porelea, Pipikoro is a form of dance and singing to worship ancestors, but after Christianity arrived, this form of art was banned by the church #kaili #palu #gugusgema Raego Raego in Porelea, Pipikoro is a form of dance and singing to worship ancestors, but after Christianity arrived, this form of art was banned by the church. Isolated location with little access makes it harder for this form of art to regenerate.
Raego Interview
Raego in Porelea, Pipikoro is a form of dance and singing to worship ancestors, but after Christianity arrived, this form of art was banned by the church #kaili #palu #gugusgema Raego interview Raego in Porelea, Pipikoro is a form of dance and singing to worship ancestors, but after Christianity arrived, this form of art was banned by the church. Isolated location with little access makes it harder for this form of art to regenerate.
Taluart
Taluart is a collective of 11 different groups based in Sigi, Central Sulawesi. Sigi is one of the areas where conflict between villages happens quite often. Taluart is a collective of 11 different groups based in Sigi, Central Sulawesi. Sigi is one of the areas where conflict between villages happens quite often. Taluart is a regular event organized in turn by each village with different concepts and themesand based on issues faced by each village. We exclusively documented a performance that presented a metal workshop. This workshop is often accused by local people or by the government of supplying weapons during conflicts. In order to protest these accusations, Taluart organized a show in this workshop, inviting people from around the neighborhood, using the workshop as the stage, with smoke and flames as lighting effects, and tools in the workshop as instruments. They used procession rituals and melodies from traditional music as their foundation and then transformed them into a complete contemporary music arrangement. This piece illustrates musically the issues that this area is facing. It also opens up the possibilities of discussion through the use of the materials found in the workshops, the site of this contested space and how the music is being created.
Taluart Interview
#kaili #palu #gugusgema Taluart is a collective of 11 different groups based in Sigi, Central Sulawesi. Sigi is one of the areas where conflict between villages happens quite often. Taluart is a regular event organized in turn by each village with different concepts and themesand based on issues faced by each village. We exclusively documented a performance that presented a metal workshop. This workshop is often accused by local people or by the government of supplying weapons during conflicts. In order to protest these accusations, Taluart organized a show in this workshop, inviting people from around the neighborhood, using the workshop as the stage, with smoke and flames as lighting effects, and tools in the workshop as instruments. They used procession rituals and melodies from traditional music as their foundation and then transformed them into a complete contemporary music arrangement. This piece illustrates musically the issues that this area is facing. It also opens up the possibilities of discussion through the use of the materials found in the workshops, the site of this contested space and how the music is being created.