The second part of David Tarigan's interview with The Wknd is up and ready to be viewed by you and yours. As we have mentioned in a previous blogpost, The Wknd's team travelled to Indonesia for over a week to document Jakarta's independent music scene and will release the videos through out the month of November. There are interviews such as this one and there will be music performances by some of the best current acts.
Back to the subject at hand, part 1 of "Irama Nusantara, Archiving Indonesian Music with David Tarigan" had Tarigan speaking about the Irama Nusantara website and a bit about his experiences as an observer and participant in the music scene. The second part continues with his experiences, starting with the release of JKT:SKRG and his involvement in creating the seminal Aksara Record Releases.
Take a look at the video above, and watch both parts by clicking the link below.
Ohayo, bonjour, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen! We're back with another episode of Stereo Strange, this time a variety mix consisting of rock, samba, hiphop, tropicalia, pop to experimental! There are a whole lot of great music here for you to listen to, so listen to it, damn it!!! Enjoy, everybody!
01. Atlas Sound - Activation
02. High Places - The Tree with the Lights In it
03. Jorge Ben - Tim Dom Dom
04. Portishead - Chase the Tear
05. The Juggaknots - Clear Blue Skies
06. Yo La Tengo - Mr. Tough
07. Don Rendel/Ian Carr Quintet - Latin Blue
08. Herbie Hancock - Stroll On
09. Boredoms - Super Frake 009
10. Panda Bear (Live in Portugal) Excerpt
11. The Virgins - Private Affair
12. Sore - Pergi Tanpa Pesan
13. Grupo Villazu - Suavecito
14. Os Mutantes - Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour
The folks working on Rocket Rain, Anggun Priambodo's feature film, are on a roll. After recently launching their website, publishing their trailer, and releasing the first Rocket Rain-inspired music video, they are now getting ready to officially release "Original Soundtracks & Music Inspired by Rocket Rain", filled with, you probably guessed it, the film's original soundtrack and music inspired by the film. In a press release written by Harlan Boer, the A&R of Sekuntum Records and the man in charge of gathering the music for the film, it was announced that the official release for Rocket Rain's soundtrack will be released this friday at Brightspot Market (happening at Lotte Avenue).
The album will feature music in Rocket Rain by , and the film's scoring which includes a duet by. The musicians contributing their Rocket Rain-inspired songs are J (who, along with Citra from the Jonis and Ramondo Gascoro, will go under the name ). Get yourself to Brightspot Market to purchase the first copies!
Original Soundtrack and Music Inspired by Rocket Rain release: (Happening at Lotte Avenue, Kuningan).
For those who really want to hear the soundtrack, well there is good news for you! Rocket Rain is working together with RuRuShop to bring you the film's soundtrack in its entirety on thursday (Nov 7) at 21:00 o'clock. Be sure to tune in and get the first listen of "Original Soundtrack & Music Inspired by Rocket Rain"!
7 November, 2013
starting at 21:00 (WIB)
at RuRuShop Radio
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Rocket Rain Twitter
Anton Ismael is an accomplished photographer, mixed media artist, certified chef & baker. Having done numerous high-profile commercial projects for the likes of Garuda Indonesia and Coca Cola, as well as fashion photography for Bazaar and Esquire. His free morning photography class, Kelas Pagi, has consistently produced many accomplished photographers. We visited Anton Ismael at his Third Eye Studio to talk to him about his passion in photography, cooking, and his opinion & philosophies.
This one is for filmmakers out there, Chopshots Documentary Film Festival is now open for film submissions to be played in this Southeast Asian gala. This year theme being Docs Animated!, they are looking for films that have use animation. As you will notice from their statement below, the selected films will not only be screened in the festival (April 22-27 in, Jakarta), but it will also go on the Chopshots Travelling Festival, making its way to audiences in several Southeast Asian nations. Be sure to read the guidelines below, and for more information visit the Docnet website.
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(Via Docnet)
Documentary Film Festival Southeast Asia
We are seeking submissions of documentary films of any length produced after January 2012 for the 2nd ChopShots Documentary Festival Southeast Asia to be held in Jakarta April 22nd-27th 2014.
ChopShots is a documentary film festival for the Asia-Pacific region organized by DocNet Southeast Asia—a project initiated by Goethe-Institut and funded by the EU—and its partners from six Southeast Asian countries. The festival brings the Asian as well as the international documentary scene together to celebrate the art and business of documentary making. ChopShots is the ideal event for people from the documentary and digital industries to get together - to screen their work, share knowledge, do business, make new contacts and discuss innovations and challenges they are facing in the ever changing media landscape.
Many Awards of a combined 10.000 Euro up for grabs!
Winning newcomers will get an opportunity to travel with their films to Southeast Asian neighbouring countries for the CHOPSHOTS TRAVELLING FESTIVAL: Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.
Focus this year: DOCS ANIMATED! We’re looking for documentary films which use animation or are animated.
- All submissions are free.
- Eligible entries for the two competition sections (International Competition for Feature Length and SEA Best Shorts for short and medium length) are preferably documentaries on topics set in Southeast Asia
- Eligible entries should not have been made public on the web
- The online entry form must be filled out here with acknowledgment that the submission guidelines have been read and understood. When registering online the filmmaker must upload a synopsis and 2 film stills (each stills with the minimum size of 300 dpi). The name of film stills should match the film tittle. Submission deadline is December 15th, 2013.
- Eligible entries must have English subtitles.
- Duration of the entries including the credit title: Short/medium Length category: up to 60 minutes Feature Length category: 61 minutes and up
- Film makers can submit more than one film. Each film must be submitted through one registration form and on one DVD.
- Eligible entries must have been produced after 1 January 2012.
- Entry materials must arrive by December 15th, 2013 or earlier. Please either send a download link for videos in your online registration form or alternatively mail your film on DVD in PAL (Ratio aspect 4:3 or 16:9/Minumum picture resolution is 720x576 dpi) to:
Lulu Ratna
ChopShots Documentary Film Festival Goethe-Institut Indonesia
Jl. Sam Ratulangi 9-15
Jakarta Pusat 10350
Indonesia
lulu.ratna@jakarta.goethe.org
- Selected Films will be announced on the website chopshots.net beginning of February 2013. The filmmaker should send the screening copy and English transcript to the festival organizer by March 1st, 2013.
-The entrant is responsible for the cost of shipping DVDs as part of their entry, as well as all insurance and any other expenses incurred. Entry materials submitted will not be returned to the entrant. ChopShots is not responsible for late, lost, damaged, misdirected, postage due, stolen, or misappropriated entries.
- By entering ChopShots, film makers agree to accept and be bound by the decisions of the competition and its judges, which are final and binding in all matters. The entrant agrees to be bound by all terms of these official competition rules and regulations as established herein.
Over the weekend Dia.Lo.Gue Artspace hosted the opening of , an exhibition featuring the works of . The Mitha Budhyarto-curated exhibition invites the audience to consider their ways of seeing - the blink, the glance, the gaze - as the artists used these ideas to communicate their subjects.
Yaya Sung's work is centered around human rights activism - addressing the subject of individuals that have either been killed or have disappeared for dissent, and done so primarily through the activism for transparency families of the victims have and continuously demand. Her Installation has videos (1 documentary, 5 staged) of Maria Katarina Sumarsih preparing a favorite meal of her son, Br. Noma Irawan, who was killed by the military in 1998. Another of her work, a mixed media installation , has visitors pay 100 Rupiah to view photographs and products relating to Memorial Kamis Payung Hitam, famous for Kamisan, a weekly thursday protest in front of the State Palace demanding justice for their dead or missing relatives. 20 photos of missing or murdered individuals can be observed in the room with paint partly covering their faces, perhaps speaking of their fading memory in the public eye.
Angela Judiyanto addresses the subject of Blink/Gaze/Gaze through her personal observation and experiences. In , 15 being the average time a human blinks in a minute, she decides to immortalise moments that can be captured in that split-second. Bottles with words such as "uncertainty", "emotions", and "free" inscribed on them pour liquid with illustrations describing those scenes are laid out on tables. The bottle holding those moments are opened, poured and revealed to us. Her other installation, has small film slides arranged in an acrylic light table with illustrations and messages written on them, again speaking on her personal ideas and memories.
As the theme of Blink/Glance/Gaze essentially talks about the varying degrees of attention achieved through the three described ways of seeing, Yaya Sung and Angela Judiyanto art takes a look at what we can experience in those moments as well as what we can perhaps miss.
