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'Alur Bunyi': Weaving visual and musical art with GURU
Musical group GURU – made up of teachers in different disciplines – headlined the latest edition of Alur Bunyi contemporary experimental concert in Jakarta, its first show in front of a crowd.
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Happy together: GURU, a Bandung-based band, takes its name from its members' shared occupation: teaching. (Courtesy of Goethe-Institut Indonesien/-)
An experimental music performance is often as much visual as it is musical.
If the crowd at the latest edition of the Alur Bunyi (Flow of Sound) concert series was expecting only music, it might have been confused at the satirical social commentary present throughout the concert.
The Bandung-based musical group GURU headlined the latest Alur Bunyi, a contemporary experimental concert coordinated by Elizabeth Soegiharto, the program coordinator of Goethe-Institut in Menteng, Central Jakarta. The show is staged four times every year.
The quartet comprises Mira Rizki, Bayu Pratama, Fahma Rosmansyah and Gazza Ryandika, all teachers in different disciplines.
The group varied its performance by playing melodic rock riffs while artfully providing social commentary by scream-reading newspaper articles or playing YouTube clips to the accompaniment of the band’s rhythm section.
The pervasiveness and clamor of social and traditional media were the subject of the band’s satire. The video clips and newspaper readings were deafening in volume, in order to portray the noise that we, as a constantly tuned-in culture, deal with on a day-to-day basis.
