A school ordered an EDM track, that represents Indonesia. This is the first time I tried using Gamelan in my track. Originally there are vocals for this track, but not properly recorded since the song functions as a backing track.

Di Senja Nusantara

My second attempt on composing a multi-genre track.

Alunan Musik untuk Indonesia

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Sisyphus (Unreleased Demo)

00:06 / Peni Candra Rini / Rajah
06:25 / PenindhenNyi Cendaniraras & Joko Purwanto / Flower : Kembang gempol (Gending bonang)
17:27 / Musicians of ISI Surakarta / Variations on Carabalen 'EMPAT NADA'
26:38 / Semar Pegulingan Binoh / Jagul
35:55 / unknown / Geguntangan Arja: Sekar Eled And Mas Kumambang
47:56 / イ・クトゥット・ムディナ / KUNCRUNG
1:02:12 / L.S. Tunjung Balebat / Puspawarna
1:17:11 / Peni Candra Rini / Sok Ada Ada
1:21:49 / Peni Candra Rini / Kombak Kombek
1:26:38 / Peni Candra Rini / Warasih
1:34:11 / Candra Rini Hopkins Clark McGraw / Maruta
1:38:43 / Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat / Yeh Akah Root Water (penetrating to the ground)
1:46:23 / Gamelan Cudamani / Legong Gering

(Disclaimer: I DO NOT own any of these works. Please support artists directly if you enjoyed their music.)

Wulansih

00:05 / TAIKUH JIKANG / Sleeping Under the Stars (Solo)
02:08 / TAIKUH JIKANG / Chaskon
08:23 / Bamboo Mystics / Pelog Baru
11:39 / Jan Kadereit & Gamelan Salukat / Besakih's Embrace
20:00 / I Nyoman Partha Gunawan / Improvisation (Thinking of Terry Riley)
28:33 / Gamelan Pesel / Segara
41:13 / Uwalmassa / Untitled 11
46:17 / Kikuo / Dance of the Frogs
51:37 / TOWA TEI / EVERYTHING WE DO IS MUSIC
1:03:48 / Enah Sukaenah / TEMBANG:TEMBANG MULANG "BUBUKA ARANG"
1:06:16 / Enah Sukaenah / TEMBANG:TEMBANG MULANG "MANGU MANGU-SINOM DEGUNG-TOROPONGAN"
1:13:52 / チルボン・ガムラン・グループ / Jipang Walik
1:22:12 / グヌン・サリ楽団 / SEKAR DJEPUN
1:30:28 / The Mickey Guitar Band, Haga Kazutaka / Jegog
1:45:00 / Makoto Kubota / Bali Dream
1:50:25 / Peni Candra Rini / I Start Live Again

金香花頌

For purchase or donation, please visit https://yesnowave.bandcamp.com/album/epitaph . Your support would help to further the development of Sandikala Ensemble and contemporary gamelan music.

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Epitaph is a continuation of an investigation into a compositional method in which the tempo progressively decelerates. This method is inspired by the concept of irama in Javanese gamelan, where as the tempo of a gending slows down, the spacing between the balungan (core melody) tones widens, while instruments like the gendèr, gambang, and peking become increasingly dense: there is a paradoxical sense of time.

In Javanese gamelan, this process is often likened to the image of a blossoming flower: a gending begins like a closed bud, and as the rhythmic level rises, as the ornamental density increases, the flower blooms. However, I am not interested in a blooming flower; I am interested in a flower that withers and wilts. This is why, in my works, including Epitaph, the tempo continuously slows down.

I have no desire to align myself with the glorification of tradition, but rather to further the critique of the adiluhung. Rather than glorification, this work pays attention to the wounds of history. In the middle section of the piece, there is an intervention of electronic sound resembling a broken radio: it is a collage of the voices of Wiji Thukul, Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian poet, and Frantz Fanon, the anti-colonial thinker and revolutionary from Martinique. Wiji Thukul sings his poem “Di Bawah Selimut Kedamaian Palsu,” Mahmoud Darwish reads a poem about his longing for the land of Palestine, and Frantz Fanon speaks on anti-racism and national liberation. But these voices appear obscurely, like traumatic memories arriving beyond the bounds of will.

These fragments are positioned between quotations from the traditional gending Laler Mengeng, a piece often associated with sorrow. Its presence, too, resembles trauma: a history that returns without control. The reference to Laler Mengeng also reframes the three voices mentioned earlier; the broken-radio-like sound is also reminiscent of a swarm of flies, hovering around a rotting memory of the past.

The piece concludes with a noise intervention, which stands in stark contrast to the rest of the composition. Poetically, noise plays the role of a Ratu Adil: a messianic figure who halts the unstoppable flow of History toward apocalypse. In an irrational world, the hope for redemption is the only rational response. But redemption can never clearly articulate itself—thus noise arrives. Noise is the future that refuses clear articulation.

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Instruments: gender barung, gender penerus, gambang, rebab, gong kemodhong, gong ageng, percussion, electronics

Produced by Dion Nataraja & Yustiawan Paradigma Umar
Composed and electronics by Dion Nataraja

Performed by:
Yustiawan Paradigma Umar, gender barung
Roni Driyastoto, gambang, gender penerus, rebab
Suseno Setyo Wibowo, kemodhong, gambang, gender barung
Mustika Garis Sejati, rebab, kemodhong, gender penerus
Muhammad Erdifadillah, percussion, kemodhong

Recorded in Sleman, D. I. Yogyakarta, 2025
Mixed and mastered by Luke Taylor
Recorded by Muhammad Khoirur Roziqin
Production crew: Muhammad Eko Sudarmanto

Illustration:
“Kerkhof in het park van Buitenzorg” by Raden Saleh
Edited by Wok The Rock
Sandikala Ensemble Logo and Cover layout by Wok The Rock


Epitaph (for gamelan sandikala)

Mit Filmmusik aus den Filmen RATU SAKTI CALON ARANG (1985) von Sisworo Gautama Putra mit Suzzanna, Barry Prima und Musik von Frankie Raden und NYI AGENG RATU PEMIKAT mit derselben Crew. Dazu Ben M. Pasaribu, I Wayan Sadr, Obeng Ungu & Jalan Buntu, Sapto Rahajo, Wayan Gde Yudane & Suzzanna

Calonarang Gamelan

A Gamelan (play) by (electrical) Hexapods...

A Gamelan by Hexapods

* I am not the author of those songs *
+This is a reupload to the SoundCloud for the sake of convenience+
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Disillusion ST - Tsk

Disillusion ST - Pillarloop

Disillusion ST - Cremare

Disillusion ST - Disappointment

Attempted to properly mix this at the end of last year after the yt was already uploaded, just sat on it for awhile tho.

Moment by Moment

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Inspired by one of my roots…The Javanese Gamelan.
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About Gamelan

Gamelan is a traditional musical ensemble from Indonesia, most commonly associated with Java and Bali. It consists mainly of percussion instruments used for rituals, ceremonies, shadow puppet theatre and dance.

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Composer. Based in Yogyakarta (Indonesia) and Berkeley (US). PhD student at UC Berkeley, California.

IG: @dionnataraja, @sandikalaensemble
Email: dion_nataraja@berkeley.edu

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