Mantra Rays is an electronic acoustic setup that enchants ancient mantrams and poems with a new flavour of electronic ambient.
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MantraRay Sir Hyang

MantraRay Sik Sik Sibatumanikam

MantraRay At Music In Transition

What happened when you let two machine talk to each others, tweak and speak, creating all the weird conversations between humans.

AI Conversation

A sound created after memorial walking in Rotterdam. Live set at Prinsekerk

Solo Set At Prinsekerk

What if sound could enable you to travel to distant places through your mind, may they be real or surreal?

Swara Musafir, literally translated as “The Sound of the Traveler” is an ambient musical solo project of Bintang Manira Manik to share his passion about music, cultural diversity and traveling. Living in different countries and travelling for the last decade, Bintang has gathered audio material of various places, cultures and their unique soundscapes. Engaging with local musicians he has explored diverse musical techniques and collected a variety of ethnic instruments. 

By weaving all of those elements into a single moment you are invited to dive into an inner state and elevate your own journey.

Waves

Green Ocean

Chaser

A call of shamanic prayer at the river around France brought by faraway friend

River Call

Tabla and the way of learning it, Guru Shishya Parampara, has been documenting compositions from 500 years back by oral traditions, this way of documentations created an internet like web from generations to generations to reveal unique traditional compositions from each states in India. This special excerpt of composition that i bring up is coming from one of the oldest tabla style, Delhi Gharana. 

Preserving tradition also means expanding it. This brings me to the journey of exploring the technology of electronic music merging with traditional tabla compositions. Each tabla parts, the big drum (Bayan) and the small (Dayan) creating an audio signal that triggers some electronic sound(bass, snare drum, and bass drum) in the compositions, this creating a more dynamic rhythm and lively electronic sound for the base of the composition.

Besides focusing on tabla parts, I also recorded some traditional instruments such as setar and morchang and tweak the sound to create another layer of electro acoustic sound in the composition. The least, I looped my free vocal style and collaborate with an amazing Iranian singer, Yazdan Dadbeh, to put the poetry about connections from the past.

Dha Ghe TiTe ft Yazdan Dadbeh

Bintang Manira Manik is an Indonesian versatile musician, improviser, and sonic artist that is currently based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His choice of sound is a teleport portal between the past, present and future combining chants music with acoustic traditional instruments and electronic sound. Besides playing in various bands as a multi percussionist and creating solo projects, he is also actively creating and collaborating at the intersection of theater, film, dance, performance and visual art.

Bintang Manira Manik

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