Hi everyone - in case you haven’t heard, me, Taïca and Jan K
@_jan_k_ have a 3-part event series coming up later this month called 𝓛𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓢𝓸𝓷𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓮𝓼.
This project is inspired by conversations with Bilawa Respati
@sastraswara and Khyam Allami
@khyamallami on gamelan tuning, cultural bias in software, ongoing conversations with researcher Emma Lo
@lo_loaf , the performance-lectures of meLê yamomo
@fahrtrichtunglinks on decolonizing southeast Asian sound knowledges and of course, the **slendro synths and 909 kicks** of Gabber Modus Operandi
@gabbermodusoperandi (big ups
@kasimyn for showing me Oddsound’s MTS-ESP 🖤).
With a deep desire to make these ideas more accessible, Taïca and I were able to apply for a Musikfonds grant (thanks
@mxm_kupi for the translation help!) to develop an open-source sample pack of Javanese instruments and tuning files, software instruments (for Ableton Live and Native Instruments), and a PDF guide to the instruments and their musicology. Additionally, we’ve been able to invite 6, fellow trans-Asian artists to interpret this material and share our research/compositions over 3 days of discourse and live-recorded concerts.
These recordings - along with the sample pack, tunings and guide - will form a (free) album release on L-KW
@l__kw and subsequent streaming program on Refuge Radio
@refuge_worldwide 🖤
SO. We warmly invite you to 𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 at our open-studio at Rumah Budaya Indonesia - Berlin, 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲 the tunings and sample packs (🔗in bio) and join us to 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 at Morphine Raum for the ✨live recording sessions✨.
I hope you can come revel in the sonorities we’ll share!
Love,
Taïca, Jan and Morgan
P.S. This project is made possible by cooperation with Rumah Budaya Indonesia - Berlin
@rbi.berlin and Morphine Raum
@morphine_records_raum + funding from Musikfonds
@musikfonds.de and the National Arts Council of Singapore. Shoutout
@thckit for the sweet illustrations, which you’ll see more of as our project develops ❤️