The Influencers is web video series revolving around the creative industry. Made by the creative people from Vakansi Visual, The Influencers features known individuals from different sectors of the creative industry sharing their experiences and perspectives of their field. The Influencers will hopefully inspire, or at the very least, pique the curiosity of the viewer with the personal insights it shares.
The fourth episode of the Influencers features Satria Ramadhan, a band manager who also runs SRM, a music management that handle some of Indonesian finest independent bands like, Bangkutaman, The Experience Brothers, Barefood, to Sore. On this episode, Satria talks about his duty as a band manager, how he as his bands biggest fan given the chance to manage them and tour with them. Take a look at what he has to say in the 3-minute video, perhaps you will understand a bit more regarding this music business.
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Tonstartssbandht (pronounced tahn-starts-bandit) consists Edwin and Andy White, is a two piece eccentric psychedelic jam band. This White brothers started to make music on an empty wood-floored apartment in 2007. They explore their music through making a Beach Boys cover to making their own song, now they have thirteen releases on their bandcamp. They gain their reputation after receiving a good review from pitchfork and having their song on the soundtrack of the movie Palo Alto (together with their best friend, Mac de Marco, where they also play as DeMarco's session band).
Known for their impressive live performance, Tonstartssbandht scheduled to play in Jakarta as a part of their South East Asia tour. Read our interview with Edwin White below to get prepared to the upcoming gig:
When we play live we just try to stretch our limbs out a little bit and monitor our intake of fluids and keep our heads in good spots so that we come on stage with good peaceful vibes and optimistic mindsets. We are inspired and excited by the potential of every night and every show.
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We both love listening to oldies, classic rock, delta/piedmont blues, noise, experimental improv, free jazz, blues/boogie rock, drone, classical. The sound tendencies of our band represent all our musical loves. We listen and we react and we create. It's so wonderful.
The entire discography of Tonstartssbandht is a great growing collaboration. Both of us will have song ideas or riffs or melodies or snippets and bring the to the table. Sometimes a song is mostly one guy or, often, evenly both. TBT is 50/50.
Andy touring with Mac does mean that he is away from home more often now than before. It creates a new situation for how we continue to create and play but it's happened before when we lived in separate cities and separate countries. Every year of your life is different no matter what. This is no matter what. We still a 'bandht. Peace
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Kaama Kaama x STUDIORAMA x The Secret Agents present:
TONSTARTSSBANDHT live at Jaya Pub, Jakarta on December 7, 2014.
Vocalist/guitarist Andy White—newly-appointed guitarist for Mac DeMarco—and drummer Edwin Mathis White explores a deep love for boogie, psychedelic rock from the 60′s and choral pop. They navigate their souls and psyches on stage, embracing the sense of urgency, pain and ecstasy in the human experience.
Pitchfork once said about the Floridian brothers: “The best way to experience Tonstartssbandht isn’t by clicking around their various releases—it’s to hear what the two brothers create in a live setting.”
But then again, that certain daily Internet publication gave Tonstartssbandht’s newest album—titled ‘Overseas’, released by Arbutus Records which also represents Grimes, Braids and Majical Cloudz—a positive review; giving it the score of 8.0.
A well-known independent media named Vice even claimed that Tonstartssbandht will change the life of their audience and/or listeners.
So set aside some money, Rp 85K to be exact, in order to watch the band live and savour the deadly, dangerous, dynamic moment.
For more info:
e: info@kaamakaama.com
p: +6287881514625 (Dega)
TONSTARTSSBANDHT live at Jaya Pub
07/12/2014
The Jaya Pub
Jl.MH.Thamrin Kav.1-2, Jakarta, Indonesia
On the third episode of Vakansi Visual's The Influencers, they return with a story from Gianti Giadi, a dancer who combines modern technique and Indonesian roots, and the importance of artistic value, educational value, and entertainment value in her dance school. On this episode, she also reveals an inconvenient truth regarding the dance culture in Indonesia. Not only that traditional dance becoming obsolete due to the massive exposure of western culture, the concept of dance itself is dealing with misconception, where some people still thinks that dancing always related with exotic theme and stuffs.
Created by Vakansi Visual, The Influencers is a web video series that features people from creative industry to share their insights of the entails of their field and/or occupation. Each of them give an insider view of industry they are involved in as introductory to to curious viewers.
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The second Indonesian Netaudio Festival (#INF2) will be held in Bandung on 14 – 16 November 2014, following the first Indonesian Netaudio Festival, which was successfully held in the city of Yogyakarta on 16 – 17 November 2012 to align with the 5th anniversary of Yes No Wave Music. This festival is meant to establish online connections, as well as to instill an ‘offline’ experience to the actors, observers, and lovers of netaudio—Internet based audio activities. #INF2 is organized by Sorge Sindikasi, KKBM Unpar, IFI Bandung, and Indonesian Netlabel Union.
Internet has become an effective means to disseminate knowledge and information, and one of the ways is by using netaudio. Netaudio activities such as netlabels (Internet based record labels) and online streaming are increasingly being enjoyed by people worldwide. One of the prominent characters of Internet is the presence of free culture, a culture that enables the access for people to naturally use, develop, and distribute existing knowledge and information.
Raising people’s awareness on free culture has become pivotal in distributing and producing better, more sustainable, and independent bodies of knowledge. The information campaign and awareness raising on this free culture will be realized through the Indonesian Netaudio Festival, which also encompasses offline activities for netaudio actors and lovers, thus encourgaing them to further contribute to their environment and to the society in general.
Pre-Festival: Wikipedia Workshop (17-18 May 2014)
Venue: Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung
Participants: 15 music journalists
Output:
Increasing understanding and skills to be wikipedian
Produced Indonesian language pages on Wikipedia that covers about netlabel and netlabel artists
Friday – Sunday, 14-16 November 2014
Venue: IFI Bandung, Jalan Purnawarman 32, Bandung
13.00 – 22.00 INF Market + INF Share (IFI Bandung)
13.00 – 15.00 INF Work 1: Dub Siren (IFI Bandung)
13.00 – 15.00 INF Work 2: Radio Online by Combine, Blur Radio, Roi Radio (IFI Bandung)
15.00 – 17.00 INF Talk 1: Book discussion “Memuliakan Penyalinan – Marcus Boon” (In Praise of Copying – Marcus Boon) Speakers: Nuraini Juliastuti (KUNCI Cultural Studies Center), Budi Warsito (Kineruku) (IFI Bandung)
17.00 – 19.00 INF Screen: Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (IFI Bandung)
19.00 – 22.00 INF Gig1: Sawi Lieu, Individual Distortion, Jakesperiment, Glovvess (IFI Bandung)
10.00 – 22.00 INF Market + INF Share (IFI Bandung)
10.00 – 12.00 INF Work3: Creative Commons Music by: Creative Commons Indonesia, StoneAge Records (IFI Bandung)
13.00 – 15.00 INF Talk 2: “Music, Technology, and Society: Changes and Unchanged Matters” Panelist: Robin Malau, Arie Mindblasting, Felix Dass (IFI Bandung)
15.30 – 22.00 INF Gig 2: Silampukau, Woodcabin, Neowax, Elemental Gaze, The Kuda, Frau, Sigmun, Zoo (IFI Bandung)
08.00 – 12.00 INF Lazy with Lazy Hiking Club, Picnic & Acoustic Session: Teman Sebangku, Nada Fiksi (Dago Giri, Bandung)
A bazaar filled with quirky pieces and digital products (and culture), such as mp3, mp3 player, gif, meme, wordpress template, zines, bands’ merchandise.
A booth to share and transfer free music. Netlabels offline file sharing and other music pieces that are released at no cost on the Internet.
Dubsiren Workshop with Vascolabs
The workshop will introduce Dubsiren, beginning with a discussion of basic understanding on the fundamental and simple electronic device. The basic of Dubsiren itself is based around two 555-chips generating the sound, it has buttons for volume, modulation, waveform, phase, frequency, and waveform controller.
Registration : Sherly 0857 1002 9050
IDR 180.000 (incl. Dubsiren material & kits) limited 10 person only.
registration closed on 8 November 2014
www.vascolabs.com
Online Radio Workshop with Combine, Blur Radio & Roi Radio
Online radio remains an attractive medium due to its ease, accessibility, and varied contents. We invite Combine to share their knowledge about community radio, and then Blur Radio and Roi Radio will help us to create an independent online radio.
“In Praise of Copying – Marcus Boon” book discussion with Nuraini Juliastuti (KUNCI Cultural Studies Center) & Budi Warsito (Kineruku) Marcus Boon’s book, “In Praise of Copying” is the second translation issue from KUNCI Publication after Lawrence Lessig’s book, “Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity” (2011). These books are distributed for free. The third book that is currently in the editing stage is “The Wealth Of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (2007)”. The translation and publication of these three books is part of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center’s research project titled “Media and Technology Convergence in Indonesia: A Cultural Perspective Case Study on Mobile Culture and Creative Digital Productions.”
‘In Praise of Copying’ describes the penetration of the so-called ‘copying’ in contemporary culture. Starting from Louis Vuitton wallets to Harry Potter: you can think of anything, and most likely it has been copied somewhere. Working comparatively across cultures and times, Marcus Boon undertakes an examination of what this word means, and why it fills us with fear and fascination. He argues that the dominant legal-political structures that define copying today obscure much broader processes of imitation that have constituted human communities for ages and continue to shape various subcultures today. Boon seeks to show how and why copying works, what the sources of its power are, and the political stakes of renegotiating the way we value copying in the age of globalization.
Participants of this talk are expected to read at least two chapters: Chapter 2, “Copia, or, The abundant style”, and Chapter 7, “Copying as Appropriation”. The electronic files of this book can be downloaded from KUNCI Cultural Studies Center’s website (http://kunci.or.id/collections/memuliakan-penyalinan/). This book is also available in Kineruku (Jalan Hegarmanah 52 Bandung).
Registration: Sherly 0857 1002 9050
Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
A documentary film written, directed, and produced by Brian Knappenberger. The film premiered in the US Documentary Competition Program Category at the Sundance Film Festival 2014. The film tells us about Aaron Swartz, a US-based Internet activist who fought for open-free culture on the Internet. Tragically, Aaron Swartz committed suicide at a young age in January 2013 due to the pressure from federal investigation over illegally downloading MIT academic journals. Internet’s Own Boy is under Creative Commons license, and will be displayed with Indonesian subtitle done by C2O library & collabtive.
Music performances featuring electronic musicians who have released their music for free via the Internet.
Performers: Sawi Lieu, Individual Distortion, Jakesperiment, Glovvess, Ticket : Pay as you wish
Creative Commons Music workshop with Creative Commons Indonesia & StoneAge Records
Music with a Creative Commons license is a new thing in Indonesia. Creative Commons License provides a lucid, easily understandable description about the status of a creation, in turn facilitating distribution and ease of (re)use of existing works.
Registration: Sherly 0857 1002 9050
“Music, Technology, and Society: Changes and Unchanged Matters”
The intersection between music and technology development has become a space to form new practices in the production, storage, distribution, and consumption of music. For the musicians, the intersection also opens new ways of artistic production. Departing from the new spaces that emerge from the intersection, this discussion tries to discover and dismantle aspects that have changed and not changed; or aspects of what seemed to have changed but have actually not changed radically. Featuring Robin Malau, Arie Mindblasting, and Felix Dass, this discussion is also expected to foresee new forms of cross-linkage between music, technology, and society in the future.
Panelists: Robin Malau, Arie Mindblasting, Felix Dass Moderator: Nuraini Juliastuti
Music performances featuring musicians that have released his music on the Internet via free netlabel and/or under Creative Commons license.
Performers: Silampukau, Woodcabin, Neowax, Elemental Gaze, The Kuda, Frau, Sigmun, Zoo
Ticket: Early Bird Rp. 35.000,-
On The Spot Rp. 45.000,-
Ticket reservation: records@sorgemagz.com
After two compact days of the festival, enjoy a leisurely third day filled with activities to enjoy Bandung while having a picnic and singing along with Teman Sebangku, Nada Fiksi, and many friends. This event is held by Lazy Hiking Club.
INF Zine as an Indonesian Netaudio Festival 2’s media information and netaudio issue socialization in Indonesia.
Editor: Manan Rasudi
Indonesian Netlabel Directory
Wikipedia Netlabel
“Seroja – Rully Shabara & Soni Irawan” album review by Manan Rasudi
“Memuliakan Penyalinan – Marcus Boon” book review by Arman Dhani
Frau interview by Raka Ibrahim
Comic by Toro Elmar
Essay: “Musik, teknologi, dan masyarakat: Tentang perubahan dan hal-hal yang tidak berubah” by Nuraini Juliastuti
Organizer
Sorge Sindikasi
Sorge Syndication is a collective organization with activities including webzine, records label, books store, video production house, radio online, discussion room, as well as music performances
KKBM Unpar
Koperasi Keluarga Besar Mahasiswa Universitas Katolik Parahyangan (KKBM Unpar), in collaboration with its members, is committed to developing the entrepreneurial spirit that continues to contribute socially active and innovative in the social life of the community.
IFI Bandung
Institut Français Indonesia is an organization that conducts the entire action of the cultural cooperation between France and Indonesia.
Indonesian Netlabel Union (INU)
Indonesian Netlabel union is a collective movement by Indonesian netlabels to introduce Indonesian free, legally downloadable music to a wider public, both online and offline.
With all of its quirks, Rrrec Fest #4 definitely succeeded in making one of the most memorable festivals of the 2014. Great music performances, thought-provoking talks, fun activities, and not to mention, the beauty of the valley itself is a joy to experience. With this kind of thing in the sack, we're really looking forward to being the witness of what the future of Rrrec Fest will offer.
Legendary graffiti artist Futura, well known for rocking his Chuck Taylor has worked with Converse to present his solo show in Shanghai. Named "Kinetic Action” the exhibition not only showcased Futura’s unique art pieces but also provided the opportunity for the public to watch him work on them.
Futura officiated the launch with a live demo of Chinese calligraphy using traditional brush and black ink, followed with a meet-and-greet session with his fans. Take a look at pictorial recap on the opening day of “Kinetic Action” which runs until 6 Dec 2014 at Magda Danysz Gallery, 188 Linqing Road Shanghai China.
