Noise is Serious Shit

Noise music in Indonesia is now starting to gain its own place. Starting from social media-based networks, the noise scene can be found in almost all corners of Indonesia. Today's local noise scene can stand on equal footing with other underground music that has received the spotlight earlier.

Yogyakarta, which is known as a music laboratory, is able to provide a vehicle for its musicians to explore boundaries. As one of the collectives that introduces noise to the general public with its noise bombing movement and annual festival, Jogja Noise Bombing provides a platform for many noise acts to do networking with each other at the global level.

The spread of noise in Yogyakarta is what is interesting to make a documentary film about. Hilman Fathoni is a noise artist with quite a number of stage names, from DJ MO)))dara to Palasick and also a music archivist that took this interest.

Considering the long distance since the appearance of Bising, a documentary movie about people who play noise music in Indonesia, Hilman started thinking about making a follow-up documentary film. Yogyakarta was chosen as the city area where the documentation would be made.

Monika Badly x Spare Flesh (Music Video Launch)

Unspeakable levels of gunk, goop, and grime. Gender dysphoria given the Cronenberg treatment. Moderate Threat. Twisted minds collide for an exercise in the deranged in the music video launch for Monika Badly’s ‘Ritual of Purification’ - with Spare Flesh as puppeteers, nothing was ever going to work out OK. The tape from the ring wishes it could be this scary. The Blair Witch Project has actually gone home crying. You might laugh, you might cry, and if you’re lucky you might even get to throw up.

Lifeisfeedback

The Godmother of Modular has been granting wishes left, right, and centre. Exhausted by the wheedling cries of euro rack addicts, a cauldron of revenge is boiling, bubbling, overflowing - “Oh you want bleep bloops do you? You want cable management? You want a custom rack delivered to Chipping Norton by Midday? Well here’s something for you… something that will make you wish you’d never even seen a synth… for once you’ve witnessed my Darke Magickes, the realisation that you will only ever wield a fraction of my power shall crush you like an ant beneath my heel…..”

TIRTA

Unsatisfied with their life as a Water Nymph, TIRTA made their way to the big city, leaving leafy forest glens and dappled light on the surface of the water for a new start. On entering the city they took one look at the UoB students exchanging signet rings on Turbo Island and decided something had to change. Their mission now is to escape back to their realm, and take as many of us away from this hellhole as they possibly can. Weaving enchantment through the medium of *experimental dance music*, they will take us away from this horrible town. We only hope we can be so lucky.

Romxn

Be warned all ye who may think sitting in the front row is a good idea - you’re in the splash zone. Born when a whirlwind tore through a scrapheap of discarded electrical equipment, Romxn cannot be contained. Not to a stage, a set length, or any of the traditional hallmarks one might use to describe music. I genuinely fear their set will be the opposite of any description I attempt to give them, purely out of spite.

*All funds raised from this show will be put towards our dear friend and Queen of Noise Distraxi's FFS surgery - even if you can't make the show I would suggest donating here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/alina-needs-a-new-face?utm_campaign=unknown&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=linktr.ee