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TikTok affords the space to content makers, name it video performers or audio makers, to create any kind of replication. In this social media platform, anthropologists are trained to use their sensibilities in understanding the context, relations, and subjectivity of the users. This podcast explains and opens the auditory conversation on researching TikTok sound trends, especially which are using the same production logic as visual internet memes. Using snippets of songs or sound trends in between the ideas, I share my thoughts from doing ethnographic scrolls.

TikTok Sound Memes

Ini merupakan rekaman dari diskusi tentang Jedag Jedug (meme suara serba-cepat) yang dilaksanakan di KUNCI Study Forum & Collective berdasarkan riset selama satu tahun oleh Rugun Sirait (admin reveal). 

Bagaimana TikTok bekerja menggunakn tren jedag jedug? Bagaimana tren ini juga dapat menjadi kendaraan politik juga menjadi salah satu pembicaraan. Diskusi ini bukan untuk memecah pertanyaan mendasar definisi terhadap tren ini, melainkan eksplorasi yang lebih luas dari penemuan selama riset. 

Diskusi dimoderatori oleh Fiky Daulay.
Rekaman suara diambil dari live TikTok dari akun @rugunator menggunakan handphone, mohon maklum untuk kualitas suara.

Rekaman Diskusi Jedag Jedug (4 Maret 2024)

Imagine being in a half-done photobooth installation with two speakers above you and another set under you blasting this kind of music. These are mostly jj music from the current trend, June-July 2024 in Yogyakarta. Some sound trends are taken from the trends blooming in June 2023. 

These sounds were mostly downloaded from TikTok -- hence the sound quality and (in)stability. Nevertheless, it was exhibited in Jogja Fotografis Festival, on the third floor together with other artworks from Ruang Mes 56's Youth of Today residency project.

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Studied DigiAnth . Image cover from Paula Harper's Unmute This: Circulation, Sociality, and Sound in Viral Media (2019)

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