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Noise without Noise : Art interventions in a Southeast Asian city

Groth, Sanne Krogh LU orcid and Bubandt, Nils (2024) p.1-11
Abstract
The experimental music community Jogja Noise Bombing based in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta has for more than a decade experimented with pop-up performances of harsh noise music played on DIY instruments in urban spaces. These urban spaces, however, tend themselves to be very “noisy”. Since 2018, we – a musicologist and an anthropologist - have followed these performances online and through fieldwork in Indonesia with an ongoing curiosity that stays with the trouble of noise. We are attracted to the context of these performances because they challenge us to answer a series of paradoxical questions. What is noise aestheticsin a place where everything
is “noisy” and where this noisiness, furthermore, does not seem to be experienced... (More)
The experimental music community Jogja Noise Bombing based in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta has for more than a decade experimented with pop-up performances of harsh noise music played on DIY instruments in urban spaces. These urban spaces, however, tend themselves to be very “noisy”. Since 2018, we – a musicologist and an anthropologist - have followed these performances online and through fieldwork in Indonesia with an ongoing curiosity that stays with the trouble of noise. We are attracted to the context of these performances because they challenge us to answer a series of paradoxical questions. What is noise aestheticsin a place where everything
is “noisy” and where this noisiness, furthermore, does not seem to be experienced as a problem or provocation? Can one even speak of “noise” if it is not unwanted? The social aesthetics of Indonesian harsh noise music in its specific attunement to the soundscapes of the Indonesian city challenges Western conventional ontologies of noise and ideas about the relationship between “objective” noise and aesthetic performances of noise in several ways. (Less)
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Noise, sound, Java-futurism, Noise Music, urban sound
host publication
Inter-Noise 2024 : Proceedings of the 53rd International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering Nantes, France, 25-29 August 2024 - Proceedings of the 53rd International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering Nantes, France, 25-29 August 2024
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1 - 11
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Java-Futurism: Chronotopes of Sound Activism in Indonesia
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English
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yes
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  abstract     = {{The experimental music community Jogja Noise Bombing based in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta has for more than a decade experimented with pop-up performances of harsh noise music played on DIY instruments in urban spaces. These urban spaces, however, tend themselves to be very “noisy”. Since 2018, we – a musicologist and an anthropologist - have followed these performances online and through fieldwork in Indonesia with an ongoing curiosity that stays with the trouble of noise. We are attracted to the context of these performances because they challenge us to answer a series of paradoxical questions. What is noise aestheticsin a place where everything<br/>is “noisy” and where this noisiness, furthermore, does not seem to be experienced as a problem or provocation? Can one even speak of “noise” if it is not unwanted? The social aesthetics of Indonesian harsh noise music in its specific attunement to the soundscapes of the Indonesian city challenges Western conventional ontologies of noise and ideas about the relationship between “objective” noise and aesthetic performances of noise in several ways.}},
  author       = {{Groth, Sanne Krogh and Bubandt, Nils}},
  booktitle    = {{Inter-Noise 2024 : Proceedings of the 53rd International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering Nantes, France, 25-29 August 2024}},
  keywords     = {{Noise; sound; Java-futurism; Noise Music; urban sound}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{08}},
  pages        = {{1--11}},
  title        = {{Noise without Noise : Art interventions in a Southeast Asian city}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/195761441/IN_2024_3281.pdf}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}