Presentation from Swarapuan Fellow Workshop
A project by Nusasonic Residence Artist:
Jessica Ekomane and Nadah El Shazly.

At the end of their residency, they’ve been working with 12 Female artist, musician & electronics enthusiasts from Yogyakarta and gathered in abelton & max/msp workshop to made a composition, song & visual works.

BIO

Jessica Ekomane is a sound artist and electronic musician based in Berlin. Her musical work is influenced by diverse aspects of acoustic perception: e.g. the manifestation of sound in space, psychoacoustics or the use of complex musical structures such as polyrhythms. For the residency in Yogyakarta, she strives to deepen her engagement with the music and art scenes of Indonesia, as well as to conduct a research about the vocabulary of local music traditions.

Nadah El Shazly is a singer and composer living and working in Cairo. She released her critically acclaimed debut album AHWAR in Nov 2017. Backing up her release with extensive worldwide touring through a solo set and a four-piece band, El Shazly has been featured in local and international festivals including Le Guess Who?, CTM Festival, REWIRE, Best Kept Secret, Supersonic and many more. She continues to compose for film and visual art.

Nusasonic – Crossing Aural Geographies: an initiative of Goethe-Institut Southeast Asia, collaboratively created between Yes No Klub, CTM Festival for Adventurous Music and Art, WSK Festival of the Recently Possible, Playfreely/BlackKaji.