SUPERSONIK #27

Randombrothers x Dalilektra x Ravin Kalindra x Armonia Quartett x Marina Tasha x Emirpasha Kisyanto

SUPERSONIK #27
To what extent can “noise” be considered as music? What if, as if rolling a dice or flipping a coin, elements of a music composition are left to chance – letting only a limited number of possibilities determine its outcome?
Electronic duo Random Brothers by Blood (Randy Danistha and Nara Anindyaguna) explore indeterminacy in music through experimental modular projects, this time in collaboration with vocalist Dalilektra (Dea Dalila), Ravin Kalindra and Armonia Quartet.
Upholding the idea that the use of random patterns may lead to extended techniques in music – hence new forms of creation, an out-of-the-radar show was put together for the 27th Supersonik concert at IFI (Institut Francais d’Indonesie).
The constant juxtaposition of sounds produced by modular, synthesizer, piano and strings combined with human voice, seems to suggest that creation is a continuous work-in-progress and that an exact result to it is inexistent.
Consciously yet unconsciously, attentively yet spontaneously, the musicians are to follow a definite protocol, while also being given the liberty to improvise, resulting Aleatoric music, or what they prefer to call “organized chaos”.
“Chance is the only way to avoid the control of the rational,” stated Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968).
One of the many attempts to achieve a meditative state is to escape rationality through imagination. The frequency difference between two distinct waves that are heard at the same time generates binaural beats (infrasound), which affect the brain waves. With this technique, the musicians aim to trigger the Theta qualities; imaginativeness, creativity, surrealism…
It is perhaps when the sonorous air facilitates deep emotional and psychological experiences that the perception of noise alters?

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Equipped with ultrasonic sensor, a device capable of measuring distance using frequency that exceeds human hearing, Coune’s Number Six: Machine (2018) invites visitors to have their body movement scanned into music.
As the ultrasonic waves project and reflect back from the target – in this case the audience – the time between the emission and reception is used to measure the distance in between, translated into sound within human hearing range, encrypting even the tiniest gestures into codes – eventually works of art – as an inventive way of archiving.

As human beings we are taught to read – just how far do we perceive the act of reading?
In a contemporary time where information is omnipresent and rapidly produced, copied, pasted, uploaded and transferred, Coune defends how vital it is to be conscious of the data produced naturally through acts, and to “read” them as potentials – more overly as super abilities.
A "plug-in-and-play" zone meant to provoke individuals to be conscious and in control of capacities; theirs and of the technology.
In a parallel manner, Dalilektra composes out of drawings and paintings, a sculptural form Fragments of the Mind (2018), which evokes the theory that the birth of creativity lies nowhere but within.
The simplest act of closing the eyes lets us sense the void; a borderless context that allows the growth of multiple identities and self-evolution, which are unstoppable.
As John Cage (1912-1922), pioneer of chance and electronic music proposed, "There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot".
Besides the installation, a happening act takes place in collaboration with body painter Marina Tasha, challenging once more the development of one’s sensibilities by the use of experience.

Live Sound Credits:
Mixing Engineer : Gilang & Ricky Sophian

Video Credits:
Audio Mixing Engineer : Heston Prasetyo
Video 1: Sancoyo Purnomo
Video 2 : Ican
Video Editing : Max

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