‘Ngarep E’ by artist Aryo Adhianto is a study on automated rhythmic modulation and tonality shifts. Performed on digital synthesizers, these three pieces establish a sonic atmosphere that implies disjunction - as an exercise to create a conversational approach with the computer and depart from grid-based compositions.

The outcome of such an attempt is a rotation around the axes of programming and improvisation, resulting in generative sequences moving from one parameter to the next with minimal predetermined actions by the composer.

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‘Ngarep E’ oleh seniman Aryo Adhianto adalah sebuah studi mengenai otomasi modulasi ritmis dan pergeseran tonal. Diolah menggunakan synthesizer digital, tiga karya ini membentuk atmosfir sonik yang bermain dengan laras - sebuah latihan untuk pendekatan yang lebih lentur pada proses komputasi dan melepas ketergantungan pada komposisi berbasis grid.

Hasil dari percobaan tersebut adalah sebuah rotasi bebas diantara sumbu bahasa programming dan improvisasi, kian menghasilkan rangkaian bunyi generatif yang bergerak dari satu parameter ke berikutnya dengan keterlibatan yang seminim mungkin dari komponis.

Performed and produced by Aryo Adhianto.
Mixed and mastered at Studio Oposisi.

Full release - https://divisi62.bandcamp.com/album/ngarep-e

Aryo Adhianto - E03

Available on 12" vinyl via One Eye Witness:
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Full release: https://divisi62.bandcamp.com/album/sintaksis

In ‘Syntactic Structures’ (1957), Noam Chomsky argues that language is unlike behavior, but is instead closer to the physical attributes of us humans. In short, once language penetrates the constellations of our physique, then it could be theoritized as empirical. Chomsky concluded that the human consciousness (at least in the syntactic context) is rather like a pendulum between two opposite poles: structural and creative. Its nature is generative and transformative. Free in metaphysical terms, yet bound by the natural laws of physics.

Though abstract and speculative, this idea serves as the point of embarkation for the creation of ‘Sintaksis’ by artist Aryo Adhianto. Grounded by a set of rudimentary rules and minimal orchestration, each composition stretches skeletal rhythmic clauses into free-flowing pulses and timbres. Such is the process of untangling the clot of negative energy present within the artist as an individual, simultaneously governed by ‘feel’ and performative aspects.

Despite the inward, expressionistic nature of ‘Sintaksis’, its diction is a direct bi-product of external factors. The accumulated distress and volatility that have become the fabric of normalcy in Jakarta urban conditions are present here in fluctuating sonic forms. This chaotic disposition questions the battle of narratives and the paradigm of the individual’s function in society while treading the path of a broad musical heritage with agility and virtuosic qualities.

Performed and produced by Aryo Adhianto.
Mixed at Studio Oposisi - Jakarta, Indonesia.
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk.
Distributed by One Eye Witness.

Aryo Adhianto - Mike Tyson

Marsesura - Sandra Breaks

Marsesura - Barry Hats

B2. RMP - Sains Dan Teknologi

B1. RMP - Karawitan Bubar

A3. RMP - Nightshift (They All Say That)

A2. RMP - Tayamum

A1. RMP - Ugruvsteady

Wahono - ‘Prambanan / Mabad’ (D62-07)
Written and produced by Wahono. 
Mixed and mastered at Studio Oposisi - Jakarta, Indonesia.

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2. Wahono - Prambanan

1. Wahono - Mabad

Uwalmassa - Live At Mondo Jakarta - Closing Night April 2019

'Dehumanisasi'
Written, performed and produced by RMP.

'Dealienisasi'
Written, performed and produced by Wahono.

Mixed and mastered at Studio Oposisi - Jakarta, Indonesia
November 2018 - August 2019.

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Wahono - 3'20"

RMP -3'32"

'KOMPOS 7' from 'Komposisi Kompos' (D62-09)
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‘Komposisi Kompos’ is an initiative by DIVISI62 to stimulate free sonic expression determined by a set of performative instructions. The open call was publicized on Thursday, 28 April 2020 and submissions were accepted until Tuesday, 12 May 2020.

Contributors were requested to send audio recordings of them performing the following:
1 Take an object within your proximity and produce as many different sounds as possible with it. Use any means necessary.
2  Take two or more objects that you and the person closest to you (physically or virtually) recently used. Engage in a conversation by only using those objects.
3  If one of your most coveted items comes to life, what kind of sounds would it make? Express it using your voice.
4  Think of three words that illustrate your current state of mind. Repeat those words verbally while eating or showering.
5  Take a quote from your favorite books/movies and recite them with joy, misery or anger. The words and delivery don’t have to be in the same context.

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The idea behind ‘Komposisi Kompos’ is to propose a non-realtime method of collaboration with friends and colleagues who may or may not be comfortable in expressing ideas through sound-producing activities. It is an exercise to engage in redundant physical actions that would evoke creativity, trigger imagination and raise the sensibilities of our hearing. The results would then be molded into sound compositions.

The editing and compositional process were informed by the spontaneity and personal quality of the recordings sent in by the contributors. Both satirical and bleak, the content of the recordings mirror the chaotic disposition, anxiety-induced impulses, and an overall sense of disorientation that penetrates our shared consciousness. These emotional fragments form pseudo-relationships with each other, as they morph into new shapes and converge in manic collision throughout these seven pieces.

No additional instruments or sound sources were involved in the making.

'KOMPOS 7' Contributors:
Danishwara Nathaniel, Dylan Amirio, Eric Maltz, Gracia Andrea, Handoyo Purwowijoyo, Joseph Lamont and Poppie Airil.

Edited and produced by RMP and Wahono.
Creative direction by Danang Prananda and Wahono.
Mixed and mastered at Studio Oposisi.

KOMPOS 7

Improvised and recorded in one take. September 2020. 
Performed and produced by Wahono. 
Mixed and mastered at Studio Oposisi.

Wahono - 10'12

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