Bali's Living Arts #3: Composing between Baleganjur and Math Metal with I Putu Tangkas Hiranmayena

Indonesian artist scholar, Putu Hiranmayena, discusses his recent arrangement of a math- metal tune re-contextualized for gamelan baleganjur, as it pertains to his ideas of darkness and musical fusion.
This presentation with live Q&A was part of Gamelan Sekar Jaya's Bali's Living Arts series, and was premiered on August 19, 2020.
Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena is an artist-scholar currently holding positions as faculty member at Metropolitan State University of Denver and the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His research interrogates discursive conceptions of “noise” in Bali and the United States as they intersect with Cosmology, Indigeneity, and Performance. He focuses on how people in places with long Colonial histories reclaim Indigenous identity through popular idioms. As a music practitioner and composer, Hiranmayena continues to perform in improvisation/noise ensembles and creates contemporary works for Gamelan and Heavy Metal.
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