At the Sonic Shaman 2024 event, Kadapat will perform several tracks from the first album. Kadapat’s music is a sonification effort of magical elements that are crossed with social issues in Bali through mixed media gamelan jègog, gamelan gènder, and electronic. The dualism between jegog (bamboo) and gender (bronze) is united by a dark, intimidating electronic sound with an unstable and unpredictable rhythm. The music presented will be played live by presenting the results of the digital exploration of the gamelan sound archive via digital audio workstations, analog gears, and also using reconstructed jègog and gènder instruments with a functional approach that will continue to evolve following the relevance of the current situation and conditions. Kadapat is very inspired by “kerauhan” (trance), so the form of Kadapat performance will performatively invite the audience to join the “trance” in the context of freeing the body to move and find its own aesthetics through the cracks of the beat of Kadapat’s music. Visually, Kadapat wants to display dark nuances using the artwork of the first album.
Kadapat is a music project founded by Barga and Yogi based in Bali. This musical endeavor incorporates Balinese gamelan (jègog and gènder) alongside electronic elements as a means of exploring sonic expressions. Aspects of mysticism such as black magic, legends, and mythology are both interpreted and deconstructed within the realm of imaginative play and satire concerning issues surrounding their lives.
Getting to know Kadapat means meeting millennial youth from the suburbs of Bali who were taught gamelan and its traditions from their young age. They already performed gamelan for traditional and religious ceremonies in Banjar, a neighborhood authorized to regulate and manage the community, based on local tradition and manners. They’re intensely dealing with the conservative norms and its transcendental cosmology. As millennial entities, they are also embedded in urban culture, technology, and Balinese cosmopolitanism. These hybrid identities become increasingly complex when they experience the dimensions of formal art education with a Western pedagogical system.