My name is Sanne Krogh Groth – would you like to see my playlist?
Groth, Sanne Krogh LU
(2025)
In Seismograf
- Abstract
- »Music to me is… my work. I've landed in the best job in the world, where a core task is to discover new music, to learn its internal logic and aesthetics, who created it, and why. I'm a music researcher and have just returned from the island of Java in Indonesia with my research partner and husband Nils, where we've been visiting experimental musicians in Yogyakarta – artists we've now followed for seven years.
One recurring theme is the trance/horse dance jathilan (or jaranan), which several of the artists have introduced us to. Jathilan is on one hand an old Javanese ritual, and on the other hand a contemporary (village) culture in full development. There is no single historically 'correct' jathilan. It's a practice that follows an... (More) - »Music to me is… my work. I've landed in the best job in the world, where a core task is to discover new music, to learn its internal logic and aesthetics, who created it, and why. I'm a music researcher and have just returned from the island of Java in Indonesia with my research partner and husband Nils, where we've been visiting experimental musicians in Yogyakarta – artists we've now followed for seven years.
One recurring theme is the trance/horse dance jathilan (or jaranan), which several of the artists have introduced us to. Jathilan is on one hand an old Javanese ritual, and on the other hand a contemporary (village) culture in full development. There is no single historically 'correct' jathilan. It's a practice that follows an old spiritual ritual, but is also open to current Indonesian influences.
The playlist consists of three tracks by Senyawa, Gabber Modus Operandi, and Raja Kirik, all of whom have incorporated the ritual into their music. The fourth track was supposed to be a 'traditional' jathilan, but as far as I know, no such recording exists on Spotify. Instead, I found a related jaranan piece that includes a dangdut song – an ultra-popular genre that is often performed as part of a jathilan event. The final track is one of the most popular dangdut songs at the moment.« (Less)
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- author
- Groth, Sanne Krogh
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2025-04-24
- type
- Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- jathilan, Java, Indonesia, experimental music, sound art, music, electronic music
- categories
- Popular Science
- in
- Seismograf
- ISSN
- 2245-4705
- project
- Java-Futurism: Chronotopes of Sound Activism in Indonesia
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 231c142c-b4de-4b3e-80cf-94ac12729ea4
- alternative location
- https://seismograf.org/playliste/my-name-sanne-krogh-groth-would-you-see-my-playlist
- date added to LUP
- 2025-05-01 15:14:11
- date last changed
- 2025-05-20 14:17:11
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