![]() ![]() “Of course, I am aware that the word is also a technical term in the field of sound recording. ![]() What was he singing? When Grace spoke to him, in 2009, he didn’t remember nor did the composer, but he recalled the overall intent of the piece. It wouldn’t be too far-fetched to think he has said something memorable. As you can see in the photograph, some people are looking at him, one is even grinning. The guy with the cape, climbing up the stairs, is Djaelani (Jay/Jae), the vocalist for the composition. At best, you might think these are images of a rehearsal, or a crowded jam session. Since they were proposing the ‘binal’ as a concept or some sort of departing point, I responded to them with a ‘binal’ that was aural, Binaural.” Some instruments are easily recognisable, such as percussion, guitar, piano and the gamelan. “I mean, they can call it whatever they want. The artists who organised BINAL claimed the festival was a kind of protest, yet the composer of this work, Haryo ‘Yose’ Suyoto, clearly states this was not his intention. ![]() According to the composer, the helmets were to help protect the players’ hearing from other sounds and to keep their focus on what was directly in front of them, the composition along the wall. They are playing in a conventional music hall in the Akademi Musik Indonesia in Jogja-as the city of Yogyakarta is colloquially referred to-as part of an event called BINAL Experimental Arts ’92. Imagine blowing a trumpet or a flute while walking around… figs. These are scores for the wind instruments that were installed along the walls. The lengths of paper stuck onto the back wall, seen in the second image-the long, curved lines and the larger rectangles seen on the right of the photo-are also part of the composition. They are guided by a composition: there are cues and time indications that they are supposed to follow when blowing their paper balls at the gamelan. Young men are blowing small, hardened balls of paper through their pipes, aiming to hit the gamelan set on stage to generate sound. ![]()
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