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2017 Asialink Arts Residency

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bundengan-01 This is not a Kowangan

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Fabric shopping today and my attention was caught by this display pushing boundaries in terms of mixing and matching patterns, textures and styles... part of me laughs, part of me finds it terribly endearing because there are so many people walking around Southern Taiwan wearing outfits like this and not giving two hoots what anyone else might think. Black lace jumpsuit, blue camo neoprene shorts covered in black net, brown organza belt, and blue/yellow/red plaid shirt, probably worn with high-heel platform flip-flops. You do you girl! ✊ #textiles #dgaf
One conservator’s trash is another conservator’s treasure! So grateful to have these cast-off scraps of blue silk brocade from another department — they will help me with my own research #textileconservation #conservator #silk
When you are translating a text on the I Ching (易經 Book of Changes — a thousand year old divination text that uses trigrams, 卦, to predict your fortune) and Google Translate freaks out. My assistant and I aren’t superstitious but we still felt a bit freaked out! #iching #yijing #bookofchanges #translationglitch
Bu Mul has built up what must be the biggest collection of bundengan in terms of both variety and scale — she is constantly on the lookout for kowangan makers, experimenting with design, and maintaining the collection both in terms of materials and the living “voice” of the bundengans. Two very unusual experimental instruments were acquired from an ISBI Bandung graduate, Mas Arul, who researched bundengan and created these variations on a “kowangan-based instrument” (swipe for photos and video!). Bu Mul, Dr Indraswari and I had a very interesting discussion about how Bu manages this teaching collection at SMP N 2 Selomerto where the bundengan has become a strong element of the school’s identity. #bundengan #kowangan #wonosobo @mulyani_moelya
This visit was an opportunity to pay our respects to the elders and masters of the bundengan legacy. Top photo is our visit with Pak Buhori, his family, Pak Munir and his niece Mbak Sundiyah, in Ngabean Village where @kampung_bundengan is building momentum. As always we are joined by our @woohooart friends! The bottom photo is from our short visit to Mbah Mahrumi, the greatest kowangan maker, whose can no longer make the instruments due to his ill-health. We are so grateful for the hospitality and generosity these families have shown us, year after year, as we continue to develop our understanding of #bundengan, its impact and legacy. Photos from Dr Indraswari, who I am honoured to collaborate with and thanks to whom I am developing a much stronger research in community collaboration as conservation. #bundengan #wonosobo #makingconnections #bundenganconnections #kowangan
Visiting Pak Munir and his family in @kampung_bundengan ! Pak Munir is the maestro of #bundengan but also has many other talents, including carving and painting topeng masks, and making artworks using banana leaves — this landscape features two bundengan 😍. His son Mas Fery is an up-and-coming bundengan player who promises to continue the family legacy 👌
Visiting the WooHoo Art Space @woohooart tonight was an opportunity to relive our past #bundengan events, talk about current projects, and discuss the future shape and sound of this unique instrument. These deeply dedicated activists, @lukmanjrd @m.said.a and @wepeagus have built a space where music, art and creatives can come together to work, jam, or just drink coffee — and bundengans lurk in every corner! #woohooartspace #wonosobo #tsos #thesoundofshadows @bundengan_connections #bundenganconnections
The best pictures happen when the sun is in your eyes and your scarf is falling off your hair and you don’t know where the camera is but, by gosh, I do know one thing, I ♥️ WONOLAND! Thank you @mulyani_moelya for my mini-bundengan player, I will treasure it! #wonoland #bundengan #wonosobo #eleganceisanattitude
Start of the show at Wonoland! The stage collapsed last night but everyone adapted and improvised to put together an adorable production of Bu Mul’s school children dancing accompanied by #bundengan and the singing of @ainurismayanti14 #wonoland #wonosobo @mulyani_moelya
Early morning visit to Pasar Lawas Kumandang, an eco-friendly market selling traditional Javanese snacks. They only accept coconut-shell keping tokens which you have to purchase at the entrance. We came here looking for my favourite serabi pancakes but they aren’t here today, so I consoled myself with delicious sticky rice donuts and my other Wonosobo favourite, tempeh gamul fresh from the pan... and as a bonus, multiple #kowangan spotted in the roofs of the shelters! #wonosobo
One of my favourite moments from tonight, just hanging out before the show, singing, messing round with #wayang puppets, enjoying the vibe #wonosobo
Messing around “backstage” inside the giant #kowangan with #wayang Video by @mulyani_moelya 🙏🥰
@mulyani_moelya and @yurikameilani dance in front of #wayang shadow puppet stage made from giant #kowangan at Kuhyangan Art Space in #Wonosobo. Sound on 🔊 features #bundengan music, the voices of beautiful singers Ainu @ainurismayanti14 and Ananda @ananda.nicola8, the dahlang (puppeteer) chanting his blessings, and the crowd eating, smoking, chatting, and later laughing at the dahlang’s jokes — shows are a social event! 🎵
This evening we previewed @ngesti_laras new show directed by @mulyani_moelya and featuring new dancing talent @yurikameilani 💕💕💕💕 the dancers perform in front of a giant #kowangan wayang stage and accompanied by #bundengan music and the voices of @ainurismayanti14 and @anandanicola8 (no sound on this boomerang, sorry, but I’ll post more videos promise!) #wonosobo #ngestilaras #dance #java
Not to brag but my hotel has a big golden slide down to the lobby. You can be sure I didn’t take the lift. 📷 by Dr Ari! #artoteljogja
We have been so deeply and passionately engaged in our #bundengan research focus group meetings that ironically we have very much forgotten to document ourselves. Today and yesterday have felt almost like an indulgence rather than research — it’s hard to express how thrilling it is to share ideas, present research, bounce concepts around, debate ethics and semantics, form and function, bring together science, physics, acoustics, engineering, performance studies, ethnomusicology, materials conservation, intangible cultural heritage, anthropology and more — it’s been so productive and given all of us much more insight into how quantitative research can support the conservation of cultural heritage and the maintenance of the bundengan musical culture. Led by Dr Indraswari Kusamingtyas (pictured here) and Dr Gea O.F. Parikesit, it was sheer delight to join with Palmer Keen (@auralarchipelago) and Dr Lono Simatupang to engage with the acoustics and engineering students at UGM who are researching bundengan. More than ever I’m enchanted with the uniqueness of bundengan and the extraordinary assembly of materials and skill that almost miraculously produces these inimitable sounds. Tomorrow we travel to Wonosobo to be reunited with the other three investigators in our bundengan taskforce: Bu Mul @mulyani_moelya, Mas Sa’id @m.said.a, and Mas Luk @lukmanjrd, and of course the Masters of bundengan, Pak Buhori and Pak Munir 😍🙏🙏🙏 #multidisciplinary #intercultural
6am Yogyakarta view 😍so lush and green! #yogyakarta #artoteljogja
Just landed in Yogyakarta, and my very kind friends and colleagues Ari and Gea have booked me into the unconventional and exciting Artotel, where every surface is covered with works by young Indonesian contemporary artists. My room features art by Soni Irawan @soni_irawan_soni — I hope I get a chance to capture some the other artists’ work during my stay!
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