Dalam segmen W_Circle kali ini, kami bertemu dengan komunitas sepeda perempuan di Jakarta Selatan, Sepedahan Centil. Berawal dari Girls Ride, mereka ingin membangun komunitas yang aman bagi perempuan untuk mengekspresikan diri sambil bersepeda.
Kemang might be an ideal neighborhood in many ways, but as far as music shops are concerned, it still has a few improvements to make. Nestled among the lively restaurants and bars is Tokove, the sole go-to place for professional musicians and hobbyists alike. Not only does it offer a specialized selection of instruments equipment, but it also beams with a friendly atmosphere.
Very exciting news for those who live in Jakarta and its surrounding areas: Rocket Rain is making its official debut! Goethe will host Film, Musik, Makan, a two day event with a plethora of events including Anggun Priambodo's debut film. Not simply a film-screening, Film, Musik, Makan will host performances by White Shoes and the Couples Company and Jirapah, snacks by Rocket Rain actress Rain Chudori, DJ Performances courtesy of Irama Nusantara, film screenings including Edwin's Postcards From the Zoo, Ladya Cheryl's Vulgar, and Fitri by Sidi Saleh - and a whole lot more. Take a look at the schedule below and do make your way to the event! Musical performances by: White Shoes and the Couples Company Jirapah Coffee, Tea and Snack Break with Rain Chudori Rocket Rain debut screening Q&A with Rocket Rain director Anggun Priambodo Postcards From the Zoo film screening Q&A with Postcards From the Zoo director Edwin Coffee, Tea and Snack Break with Ladya Cheryl Vulgar debut screening by director Ladya Cheryl Fitri debut screening by director Sidi Saleh Someone's Wife In the Boat of Someone's Husband (SWITBOSH) film screening by director Edwin Q&A Session with Ladya Cheryl, Sidi Saleh, & Edwin. Lab Laba Laba DIY 16 mm Processing Workshop with Edwin -- Film, Musik, Makan donation IDR 200,000 (for 2 day Goethe Institut events) go to www.rocketrainmovie.com for more information.
Here's our list of recommended reading material for next week's "Speaking of Tunes" We Discuss session. Listening and Collecting with Fadli Aat “For me, vinyl records are very primitive – it’s very analog. It’s like those pianos in cowboy saloons or music boxes, the player read this physical groove on the record. Also, the sound vinyl records produce… compared to CDs they sounds much better and much more honest, in my opinion. They are both mixed and mastered, but I don’t know, it just is much more honest. The physicality of the groove has a lot to do with it. CDs are digital, so CD players read them without that physicality. The artwork on records has a lot to do with it as well. There are so many things you get when you buy that one record. The music and the musical quality, then you have the large and beautiful artwork as well.” Rhythm of the Archipelago with David Tarigan “It’s difficult to put into words. I grew up in an era before music can be ripped digitally. I started buying CD, cassettes and vinyl back when I was in primary school. The physical format of music has always played a big part for me. I love old music, and I wanted to experience it the way it was first released. It is an artifact, a piece of history. That’s why until this day I have never purchased a single re-issue. No matter how bad the quality of the record is, it is a part of the experience. You don’t just listen to a song. When you get you hands on the album, you open the sleeve, read it, touch and even smell it. It is sort of a ritual, a way of worshipping your favorite band. Sometimes people buy an album based on its cover, and if the music is as good as the cover, the experience will be even more rewarding. In the end it really depends on the individual. I always tend to leave some room for the imagination when it comes to my interaction with music. I like to interpret songs and create personal images of the music. The physicality of the record and the ritual of listening is the foundation that allows me to create my personal opinion of the music.” The Lint of Material by Sven Birkerts “The shift from vinyl recordings to CDs was significant, psychologically as well as technologically. While the shiny silver disc physically echoed its predecessor in a few obvious ways – was still a flat circular disc with a hole in the center – the differences were many. They were also symbolic. Where the album had two sides, needing to be ‘flipped’ for full hearing, thereby underscoring its temporality and the fact that its contents were arranged, the silver disc compressed its material on a single side. Tracks were no longer demarcated for the eye, so that all one saw was an elegant shimmering surface. And to make it operational – to play it – the listener had to slide it into the player. It disappeared, and the process whereby the information coded onto the disc became sound was (to me) conjectural: something to do with a laser scanning digits. To change cuts – assuming one was listening to standard fare – no longer required moving the tonearm to the wanted place. A quick touch of the button sufficed. If my explanation of how a needle extracted sound from vinyl was rudimentary and approximate, at least it took into account the basic elements and the everyday physics involved. I can’t tell you how a laser translates digital information; indeed, I cannot tell you how information is rendered into digital form, beyond invoking something about binary code – sequences of ones and zeros that are ‘read.’” Beethoven and the Quality of Courage by Daniel Barenboim “Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life. It might be poetic, philosophical, sensual, or mathematical, but in any case it must, in my view, have something to do with the soul of the human being. Hence it is metaphysical; but the means of expression is purely and exclusively physical: sound. I believe it is precisely this permanent coexistence of metaphysical message through physical means that is the strength of music. It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words, all we can do is articulate our reactions to it, and not grasp music itself.” “The Grain of the Voice” in by Roland Barthes “The (if the transposition be allowed) covers all the phenomena, all the features which belong to the structure of the language being sung, the rules of the genre, the coded form of the melisma, the composer’s idiolect, the style of the interpretation: in short, everything in the performance which is in the service of communication, representation, expression, everything which it is customary to talk about, which forms the tissue of cultural values (the matter of acknowledged tastes, of fashions, of critical commentaries), which takes its bearing directly on the ideological alibis of a period (‘subjectivity,’ ‘expressivity,’ ‘dramaticism,’ ‘personality’ of the artist). The is the volume of the singing and speaking voice, the space where significations germinate ‘from within language and in its very materiality’; it forms a signifying play having nothing to do with communication, representation (of feelings), expression; it is that apex (or that depth) of production where the melody really works at the language – not at what it says, but the voluptuousness of its sound-signifiers, of its letters – where melody explores how the language works and identifies with that work. It is, in a very simple word but which must be taken seriously, the of the language.” Tuesday, February 25, 2014 7—9 pm Kinokuniya Plaza Senayan (near the language section) Jl. Asia Afrika 8 Sogo Plaza Senayan Lt. 5 Jakarta 10270 Look out for updates on our Facebook page and Twitter account! If you’d like to share your opinions, or if you have friends who’d like to share theirs, please sign up via e-mail with the subject title “We Discuss” at ! 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Abebe Tinari spends almost as much time reading about games as he does playing them. Sadly, video game criticism is lacking compared to other media. Language is an essential tool for criticism, but its effectiveness is often hindered by our inability to utilize it properly. This essay focuses on the neglected link between words and video games.
It's always a pleasure for our online team to meet you, you, and you in the offline world, so we are very happy to announce our monthly W_Music Session event! Taking place in the Goods Diner, W_Music Session features our selectors (Bergas, Ffonz, Mar Galo and Ken Jenie) spinning an exotic variety of tunes. Enjoy a relaxing and friendly atmosphere while listening to sounds that will tickle your ear drums. Don't forget to say hello and hang out with our team (we don't bite!). The Goods Diner jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav. 52-53, Kawasan SCBD, Jakarta
How do we talk about music? Some might say that there’s no need to talk about it, as music has the power to speak for itself. While it is highly possible for the essence of music to be reduced by language, it is also possible for it to be enhanced through the use of language. By exploring music via other mediums (text, visuals, etc.), we are creating alternative forms in which it can exist. In this discussion, let’s consider the many options through which we can gain a better understanding of music. - In the essay entitled “Beethoven and the Quality of Courage,” Daniel Barenboim says that though music can mean a lot of different things to different people, its core lies in its connection with “the soul of the human being.” He then goes on to say that it is “metaphysical” despite its means of expression being “purely and exclusively physical” (i.e. that it is expressed in the form of sound). In his opinion, these qualities are what make music difficult to describe with words, which is why “all we can do is articulate our reactions to it, and not grasp the music itself.” - Roland Barthes highlights another problem with musical description in his essay, “The Grain of the Voice.” He says that in music criticism, “a work (or its performance) is only ever translated into the poorest of linguistic categories: the adjective.” - Barthes brings up another point that could further complicate the act of describing music in “Music Practica.” According to him, there are two types of music: 1.) the music one listens to, and 2.) the music one plays. Do you think that there are more categories? And do you think that each category needs its own “language” in order to be effectively described? - (communication via linguistic means) vs. (communication via the volume of one’s voice/instruments – i.e. diction – and gestures) - “Concurrently, passive, receptive music, sound music, is become music (that of the concert, festival, record, radio): playing has ceased to exist; musical activity is no longer manual, muscular, kneadingly physical, but merely liquid, effusive, ‘lubrificating,’ to take up a word of Balzac,” wrote Barthes in Musica Practica. His ideas regarding the consumptive approach towards music still rings true today, even though the same approach has also empowered many to make their own music. Here, Barthes compares and contrasts the two musics mentioned in the previous section. What are your thoughts on his opinion on “passive music”? - The digital age has made music very accessible for an incredibly wide audience. We forget that long before the invasion of the mp3, there were physical “vessels” – vinyls, cassettes, CDs – that allowed us to listen to our very musicians in private. Please look out for more #WeDiscuss updates on our Facebook page and Twitter account! If you’d like to share your opinions, or if you have friends who’d like to share theirs, sign up via e-mail with the subject title “We Discuss” at ! If you have comments or questions, tweet us @wjournal.
Di episode ketiga Direktori, kami berkunjung ke Makassar untuk belajar tentang bagaimana semangat literasi menghidupkan budaya kota juga tentang kebersamaan dalam keberagaman.
These are the inspirations for "Katus" music. Please enjoy.
Lagu-lagu untuk persiapan Pestapora 2023
Lagu-lagu yang menginspirasi EP "NIAT".
Some tunes that reverberate Amerta's concave space.
Ikuti perjalanan Penjelajah Jalan Tikus yang disajikan oleh Feel Koplo.
Berdiskusi mengenai ekosistem terbitan buku foto di Indonesia bersama Aditya Pratama, Daud Sihombing, dan Prasetya Yudha.
Temukan siapa dirimu dan bagaimana karaktermu menentukan arah masa depan.
