Mepalu Sari, by Western Front Recordings

Mepalu Sari

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1.	I Kadek Diva Nanditya - Hujan [Rain] 01:30	info	buy track
2.	I Gede Mei Sutrisna Yasa - Siklus [Cycle] 04:02	info	buy track
3.	I Kadek Bagas Suryadinata - Faktorisasi Prima [Factorization of Prime Numbers] 04:17	info	buy track
4.	Tegan Wahlgren - As the Field Grows Grass 06:21	info	buy track
5.	Scott Gailey - Faktorisasi Prima / Hujan (Remix) 05:00	info	buy track
6.	Pande Komang Gede Triadi Ditya - Langkah Kecil [Small Step] 01:03	info	buy track
7.	Ida Bagus Pradnyananta Arimbawa - Kontemplasi [Contemplation] 03:30	info	buy track
8.	Sarah Davachi - Rose Hue 05:48	info	buy track
9.	I Putu Diva Adi Pradana - Putar Balik [Turn Around] 02:10	info	buy track
10.	I Kadek Anggara Dwianta - Tidak Selalu Segar [Not Always Fresh] 02:59	info	buy track
11.	Aysha Dulong - Red 08:29	info	buy track
12.	Ethan Lum - Precarious Cacophony (free) 02:33	info	download
13.	Dewa Gede Agung Kayonanda Parikesit Pemayun - Bunuh Diri [Suicide] 02:19	info	buy track
14.	I Kadek Wahyu Baskara Dewangga - Bedy 02:57	info	buy track
15.	Ben Berardini - Resolving Layers 09:34	info	buy track
16.	Kalyan Rath - Rythem 02:01	info	buy track
17.	Ashley Musa - Mind Clutter 04:05	info	buy track
18.	I Made Panji Pradnya Adi Kusuma - Shadow 00:37	info	buy track
19.	Dewa Gede Agung Kayonanda Parikesit Pemayun - EKG (ElektroKardioGrafi) [Electrocardiogram] 01:15	info	buy track
20.	Rohini Soedhwa - Tephra 03:48	info	buy track
21.	Bianca Greco - Looking Glass 02:43	info	buy track
22.	Denis Petrov - The Malformed Gospel 02:26	info	buy track
23.	I Putu Restu Andika - Mizu [Water] 01:45	info	buy track
24.	I Komang Galang Widnyana - Rintik [Waterdrop] 03:23	info	buy track
25.	Mela Melania & Jack J - Rintik / Hujan / Mizu (Remix) 03:59	info	buy track
26.	I Kadek Hendra Dwiantara - Ceki 02:21	info	buy track
27.	Made Pande Gangga Sentana - Bandang [Flash Flood] 01:21	info	buy track
28.	Maria Alvarez - Light to Grey 03:15	info	buy track
29.	Minimal Violence - Hujan / Ceki (Remix) 05:23	info	buy track

about

"Mepalu Sari" [Essence of a Collision], is a collection of new gamelan and electronic music compositions by students and emerging artists. In partnership with Burnaby North Secondary School and Insitu Recordings, high school students in Bali were commissioned to compose and perform new music for gamelan that would later be sampled and reinterpreted by Canadian high school students and electronic musicians.

To this end three teams of high school students were assembled in Bali, each led by an Insitu Recordings team member who would support the students as they developed their compositions. Several months later the groups convened at Antida Studio in Sanur, Bali to record their work. For many of the students, this was their first experience in a recording studio and the first time their music had been recorded professionally. The recordings from that lengthy session, which resulted in fifteen new works, were then sent to Vancouver, Canada.

Concurrently, students at Burnaby North Secondary School, led by teacher Kevin Ault, engaged with the sounds of gamelan music, attending two workshops with Insitu Recordings’ founders Jonathan Adams and I Putu Gede Sukaryana. Through these workshops the students learned about the history of Balinese gamelan and had a chance to play the instrument. After this, they began working with Vancouver-based composers Brian Topp, Yu Su, and Kiran Bhumber, learning the program Ableton Live and beginning the process of creating new works using the gamelan samples. The works were originally planned to be premiered at Western Front in 8 Channel surround sound in early June, but due to COVID-19, the concert had to be cancelled. In April it was decided to extend the scope of the project. The Balinese compositions were provided to local and internationally-based Canadian artists.

From the outset, our hope was to transcend paradigms of appropriation and create an exchange between the Balinese and Vancouver students. The students on both sides of the Pacific were enthusiastic about the project and the music within this album reflects that.

credits

released August 7, 2020

Producer & Curator:
Aram Bajakian

Insitu Recordings Coordinators:
I Putu Gede Sukaryana, Jonathan Adams

Insitu Recordings Bali Team Leaders:
I Wayan Situbanda, I Komang Pasek Wijaya, I Wayan Ari Widyantara

Burnaby North Secondary School Coordinator:
Kevin Ault

Educators:
Kiran Bhumber, Csaba Laszlo, Yu Su, Brian Topp, I Putu Gede Sukaryana, Jonathan Adams

Mixing:
Jonathan Adams, Insitu Recordings

Mastering:
Michael Fossenkemper, TurtleTone Studio

Production Assistant:
Kate Woolf, Kathy Feng

Technical Support:
Lief Hall, Ben Wilson

Produced in partnership with Burnaby North Secondary School and Insitu Recordings, and with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia, the City of Vancouver, ArtStarts in Schools and TELUS Friendly Future Foundation.

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Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver. We support a multidisciplinary program that provides opportunities to artists working across music, media art, visual art, performance, and literature to create and present work.

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