Ancient life was all silence. In the 19th century, with the invention of the machine, noise was born. Today, noise is winning and taking absolute control of human sensibilities. Luigi Russolo, 1913.
The originator of The Art of Noises manifesto assembled a sound machine called intonarumori. From the hands of this strange creator, who came from among Italian painters, came the art of noise that intersected with the tradition of modern (fine) art at that time. Since then, experiments in the artistic exploration of sound and its instruments have flourished.
The development of noise art in Yogya was initially not directly related to Luigi Russolo's kind of noise art. However, the influence of the 'art school', which in the 1990s was still located in Gampingan, was quite significant. On the ISI campus at first, the music in the center of campus was dominated by sampakan and dangdutan music, which led to the release of fatigue from college activities. However, the sampakan and dangdutan of the fine arts students were considered different because of the comedic element and the creativity of the performances on stages. The emergence of the Soekar Madjoe group was recorded, which transformed from generation to generation starting in the 1970s until the 2000s. At that time, the students' dressing style was influenced by the popular culture movement of the hippies, with their cut bray pants and long hair.
In the 90s, music and visual arts increasingly converged in a fun way, including in the visual image carried by art students. On the ISI campus, there was an event that began to marry the style of performance with the world of fine arts, namely the Recycle Music event in 1995. The color of the music was different from the previous music that was very local (sampak-dangdut-rock). This event marked the emergence of a new spirit among the students, an alternative spirit that was oriented towards a different look that was "other than the others". This was shown in the concept of the performance, where the musicians were locked up under a big tree, while the audience who watched the performance dressed up strangely like a Hellowen party which was very unusual at that time (the costume trend of art students at that time was generally oriented towards cowboy and Indian styles).
In 1996, some fine arts students from ISI Yogyakarta initiated a big music event called "Twenty Something, Twenty Nothing" (TSTN). The event featured a lot of alternative bands at that time, bands that had a certain fan base and were not or had not been distributed through major labels. Some of the bands included Rumah Sakit, Naif, Fable from Jakarta, snail, pop up pet, from Jogjakarta, and from Bandung, Turtle Jr. For Ade Darmawan, one of the initiators of this event, the purpose of the event was to reflect the times. At that time, music events and youth culture activities were usually never in direct contact with fine arts activities.
Some fine arts students were also close friends with musicians 'from the north', including for example SKM fronted by Ari Wulu and Jompet, and with Marjuki et al (through the series "Mencari Harmoni" and "Parkinsound"). From among the ISI students, Seek Six Sick continues to this day the exploration of noise and is considered the forefather of 'noise rock' in Indonesia. Before that there was also the phenomenal purely experimental band Steak Daging Kacang Ijo, who broke all the musical molds. During 1990-2000, there were many bands that went 'beyond the band', in the sense that they also explored sound, visuals and stage action, including Black Boot and Techno Shit.
Art exhibitions are also filled with creative musical performances, including the exploration of sound: noise art and sound art. In 2003, Eko Nugroho created an exhibition at Gelaran Budaya called "Sound Garden" that combined sound with visuals. Groups such as House of Natural Fiber, which operates on the path of new media art, are also among those who to this day are active close to the world of such music. In the younger generation, there are odd names that dominate such performances, such as Black Ribbon, Sangkakala, and Roll Ringtone. Then there was Belajar Membunuh, The Tailor, Mural Trewelu, Hengky Strawberry. During Black Ribbon's hiatus, there were Punkasila, Hengky Strawberry, Anus Apatis, Liwoth, The Spectacular, and El Jm Bt.
In the heyday of the internet, there was another phenomenon that was driven by actors who were more adept at utilizing the magical network. Wok The Rock ran his happy business with the net label Yes No Wave, which gave space to music productions that were not absorbed by major labels. Nowadays, several sound bearers utilize the global network to spread their noise teachings including Sodadosa, Wolf Shell, Control-Z, Palasik, Goose Carcass, To Die, Asangata, Gemati, and the phenomenal 'black metal': Bvrtan. In the context of movement, Jogja Noise Bombing gives a different color by bringing noise action by utilizing free space.
The event Bukan Musik Bukan Seni Rupa (BMBSR) was to look at the current phenomenon of the slices of creative 'history' recorded in this paper. BMBSR was packaged in two sessions, the first session was a live action session, followed by sound actors: Adit Arpapel, Black Enemy, Bvrtan, BBDKK, Cangkang Srigala, Control-Z, Chika x Pistol Air, Nikola Maunoud, Palasik, Sodadosa, and S.A.O.K.
The second session was an attempt to showcase the idea of a meeting between sound and visuals, namely: Ahmad Idham, Akbar Hidayat, Agni Saraswati, Bertulang, Bongkar Pasang, Chika x Pistol Air & Friends, Faizal Rahman, Muis Sambas, Kelompok Belajar 345, Kandang Sapi, PMR, Sekilas, Sculpcrut, Tangan Reget, Titik Api, Reni Lampir & Jamal Abdul, Cahyo "peyok" Nugroho, Stevan Sixcio, Yudha Sasmito, and Bambang Nurdiansyah. This second session was more or less an attempt to venture into 'other' territory that was deliberately not named, namely the territory of 'not music not fine art'. This experiment still needs to be examined further, so that it is not only the form that sounds or the sound that is forgotten, but explores the arena of creative and exciting 'evil' alliances.
(not) curators: Rain Rosidi, Krisna Widiathama, Ahmad Oka, Koskow Widyatmoko.
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