Latent Sonorities: Open Studios

19:00 Playing with Latent Sonorities: On Sample Packs & more
Morgan Sully & Bilawa Respati

20:00 Tuning Analysis and Translation
Khyam Allami

20:30 Listening Session: Potentials of Tuned Percussion
Cheryl Ong & Tusa Montes

Latent Sonorities invites international and Berlin-based trans-Asian artists to create works bridging traditional Indonesian instrumentation and tuning systems with contemporary electronic music production techniques.

Thanks to cooperation with Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen – Rumah Budaya Indonesia – (RBI), select instruments from their Javanese gamelan ensemble have been sampled at Morphine Raum to create Berlin’s first publicly accessible sonic archive of Indonesian instruments and temperaments for electronic musicians. Following the creation of a gamelan sample pack and tuning files, a group of artists have been commissioned to create new improvisatory work that explores different ways of using the resource in live performance and composition. Ahead of the performances, this Open Studio session creates a space for artists and the public to learn more about the process and cultural / historical information about gamelan instruments, in discussion with artists Bilawa Respati, Khyam Allami, project initiator Morgan Sully, and more. Detailed programme information for the Open Studio will be available in September via the Latent Sonorities website.

Later in autumn, the Latent Sonorities sample pack – consisting of audio samples, tuning files, and a booklet with cultural information on the instruments and a user’s guide – will be made free and publicly accessible online via Berlin label L-KW and inaugurated into the library of RBI. Stay tuned!