[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":195},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page-about":3,"about-projects":78},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":70,"extension":71,"meta":72,"navigation":73,"path":74,"seo":75,"stem":76,"__hash__":77},"content\u002Fabout.md","About Naya",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":63},"minimark",[9,13,18,21,28,34,37,41,44,50,54,57],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Naya Arunika is an independent musician and producer based in Bandung, Indonesia. Her work moves between ambient electronics, intimate pop, field recordings, and experimental sound — usually all four at once, usually after dark.",[14,15,17],"h2",{"id":16},"how-the-records-are-made","How the records are made",[10,19,20],{},"The records begin small. A semi-modular synthesizer and a sampler live in a spare room in the Dago hills, where two microphones stay pointed at whatever the room is doing. An effects rack older than the project patches everything through a chain that hums a little out of tune. Naya keeps the hum.",[10,22,23],{},[24,25],"img",{"alt":26,"src":27},"An effects rack with a Yamaha SPX90 and a Peavey DPM Spectrum in a home studio. Photograph by Klara Kopf, CC BY 2.0.","\u002Fimages\u002Feffects-rack-yamaha-spx90-peavey-dpm-spectrum.jpg",[29,30,31],"blockquote",{},[10,32,33],{},"\"A room tone after the lights go out is the most honest recording you will ever get.\"",[10,35,36],{},"She writes, produces, and performs her own music, and collaborates with filmmakers, dancers, and visual artists on sound-led projects. The rule is the same in both cases: start from what the space already sounds like, then try not to ruin it.",[14,38,40],{"id":39},"the-small-sound-habit","The small-sound habit",[10,42,43],{},"The habit is unglamorous. A recorder rides along on the first commuter train; the rain against the studio window gets its own folder; a market's closing hour is kept the way other producers keep presets. 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Photograph by RasyaAbhirama13, CC BY-SA 4.0.",[10,96,97],{},[24,98],{"alt":48,"src":49},[10,100,101],{},"The work asks visitors to slow down and listen for the geography inside an\nordinary day.",[10,103,104],{},[24,105],{"alt":106,"src":107},"City lights seen from the hills above Bandung at night. Photograph by chrisinno, CC BY 2.0.","\u002Fimages\u002Fbandung-night-view-dago.jpg",[10,109,110],{},"For one month the theatre stayed open after dark, the speakers left running,\nso passersby on the square could hear the recordings migrate through the\nbuilding as the night cooled.",{"title":64,"searchDepth":65,"depth":65,"links":112},[],"Ruang Bunyi","\u002Fimages\u002Fbandung-city-at-night-2517163687.jpg","Bandung after dark, where the recordings were gathered. Photograph by Syed Abdul Khaliq, CC BY 2.0.","A sound installation built from recordings gathered across West Java — bus depots, night markets, the hill wind in Dago — arranged for twelve speakers in the old municipal theatre with Ruang Bunyi.",null,{},"\u002Fprojects\u002Ffield-notes","Sound installation","Composer and sound artist",{"title":81,"description":116},"projects\u002Ffield-notes",2025,"tHWe6dArH4LSvg3Pku8mMEu49S2TFenViSGrKH5Liko",{"id":127,"title":128,"body":129,"collaborator":144,"cover":145,"coverAlt":146,"description":147,"extension":71,"externalUrl":117,"featured":73,"meta":148,"navigation":73,"path":149,"projectType":150,"role":151,"seo":152,"stem":153,"year":154,"__hash__":155},"projects\u002Fprojects\u002Fnocturne.md","Nocturne",{"type":7,"value":130,"toc":142},[131,134,139],[10,132,133],{},"An original score for a short film about memory, distance, and returning home.\nThe score combines prepared piano, tape loops, and a small ensemble of found\npercussion.",[10,135,136],{},[24,137],{"alt":138,"src":107},"Dago hills overlooking the lights of Bandung at dusk. Photograph by chrisinno, CC BY 2.0.",[10,140,141],{},"The cue sheet was built backward: first the sound of every room the story\nhappens in, then the pitch each space already suggests — nothing plays over a\nclose-up that the room would not itself have answered.",{"title":64,"searchDepth":65,"depth":65,"links":143},[],"Mira Santoso","\u002Fimages\u002Frainy-lights.jpg","Rain against the studio window while the score was being written. Photograph by Defi22, CC BY-SA 4.0.","An original score for a short film about memory and returning home — four cues built from detuned piano, tape hiss, and one abandoned field recording of a rainstorm, mixed close so the watching room breathes with the story.",{},"\u002Fprojects\u002Fnocturne","Film score","Composer",{"title":128,"description":147},"projects\u002Fnocturne",2024,"pTMdMDDqcwMTrdSIW7J7Jz0NTsievU5zeckD3eTKYLk",{"id":157,"title":158,"body":159,"collaborator":182,"cover":183,"coverAlt":184,"description":185,"extension":71,"externalUrl":117,"featured":186,"meta":187,"navigation":73,"path":188,"projectType":189,"role":190,"seo":191,"stem":192,"year":193,"__hash__":194},"projects\u002Fprojects\u002Ftide-memory.md","Tide Memory",{"type":7,"value":160,"toc":180},[161,164,170,173,177],[10,162,163],{},"An audiovisual performance about coastlines that keep changing. The live set\nuses sampled voices, modular synthesis, and projected images gathered near the\nwater.",[10,165,166],{},[24,167],{"alt":168,"src":169},"A Moog DFAM and Mother-32 semi-modular synthesizer on a desk. Photograph via Wikimedia Commons, CC0.","\u002Fimages\u002Fmoog-drummer-from-another-mother-dfam-mother.jpg",[10,171,172],{},"Between takes the set runs through an effects rack that predates the project —\npatches taped down, levels set by ear.",[10,174,175],{},[24,176],{"alt":26,"src":27},[10,178,179],{},"The performance is played, not reproduced: each night's tide chart sets the\ntempo, and the projected maps are redrawn live from whatever the local weather\nand clock hand the rig.",{"title":64,"searchDepth":65,"depth":65,"links":181},[],"Studio Pasang","\u002Fimages\u002Fdark-blue-sea-dusk.jpg","A coastline resetting itself at dusk — a long exposure. Photograph by Laurent Virzi, CC BY-SA 3.0.","A live audiovisual performance about coastlines that keep changing — two synths, taped gravel and projected maps drift against each other, while the noise of the playing room quietly reshapes the picture.",false,{},"\u002Fprojects\u002Ftide-memory","Live performance","Musician and producer",{"title":158,"description":185},"projects\u002Ftide-memory",2023,"0vd8BMwGCV0B-2PswFeopfHytPHchkI_jjaNTcT8p30",1792649186115]