An evening of new compositions for gamelan presented by Peni Candra Rini, Andy McGraw, Srayamurtikanti, and Arya Deva Suryanegara. The concert will explore multifarious ways of approaching the gamelan by way of improvisation, electronic augmentation, as well as expansion of traditional concepts in gamelan.

Peni Candra Rini composes and performs traditional, neotraditional, and experimental music from Java. Faculty at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, she has received awards and support from the Aga Khan Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council (NYC), the Asia Society (NYC), the

US State Department, the Fulbright Program (Washington DC), the Indonesian government, and many other programs. She has composed and performed with renowned musicians and ensembles around the world: from traditional performances in small Javanese villages, to performing with the Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall, to touring the world as part of Robert Wilson’s I La Galigo project.

Andy McGraw received his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in 2005. Dr. McGraw has published extensively on Southeast Asian music, music and ethics, and rhythmic analysis. He has written two monographs for Oxford University Press and has co-edited monographs on Cornell University Press and Smithsonian. He is an active performer and directs a gamelan orchestra for the Richmond community.

I Putu Arya Deva Suryanegara, is a musician and composer from Kerobokan, Bali, Indonesia. His most recent work integrates computer music systems and experimentation within frameworks rooted in Balinese gamelan. This is informed by his expertise in several longstanding Balinese gamelan music and his interest in acoustics, music programming, electroacoustics, psychoacoustic, and audiovisual. Arya graduated from the Indonesian Institute for the Arts Denpasar, Bali (2018). His final composition for the degree of Performing Arts, “O”, was a massive study involving nearly forty musicians, mixed gamelan tunings, sound spatialization, and amplified sympathetic resonance. He is currently a student and lecturer at the faculty of music, Université de Montréal, guest artistic director for Gamelan Giri Kedaton, assistant director at Insitu Recordings, and founder of the art collective Naradha Gita (Nagi).

Srayamurtikanti is a stage name of Ni Nyoman Srayamurtikanti (Bali, 3rd October 1996). She is a musician and a composer based on Balinese traditional music (Balinese Gamelan). Sraya’s

works often concern gamelan experiments. Sraya’s arts are developed by exploring the possibilities of composing and playing gamelan, musician’s movement, and space responses. She currently performed her compositions “Empowerment” at the SouthEast Asian Music Symposium (Bangkok, Thailand), “Nuutsih” at Pekan Komponis Indonesia (Jakarta, Indonesia), “Speech Delay” at Music Gamelan Creative Competition (Bali) and The Northern California Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NCCSEM), “Himpit” at Rocky Mountain Gamelan Bali Festival (Denver, Colorado-USA), “To Reckon through Complexities” Collaboration with Gabi Motuba (South Africa) at Mutual Mentorship of Musicians (New York, USA), “Just Us” Collaboration with Aine Nakamura at Center for New Music (San Francisco, California-USA), etc. Sraya is a Gamelan Guest Artist Bali Teacher at Gamelan Sekar Jaya based in Berkeley, California (2022-2024) and a Guest Artist Teacher/Instructor at Gamelan Bali Class at the University of California, Berkeley.

Admission Information:

This event is free and open to the public.