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Field Notes

Sound installation · 2025 · Composer and sound artist

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.

Bandung after dark, where the recordings were gathered. Photograph by Syed Abdul Khaliq, CC BY 2.0.
Bandung after dark, where the recordings were gathered. Photograph by Syed Abdul Khaliq, CC BY 2.0.

Field Notes is a sound installation built from recordings gathered across West Java: a market opening before sunrise, rain on a tin roof, and the soft rhythm of a train crossing a bridge.

Night market lights on Asia-Afrika street, Bandung. Photograph by RasyaAbhirama13, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Night market lights on Asia-Afrika street, Bandung. Photograph by RasyaAbhirama13, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bandung's station platforms late in the evening, lights on and mostly empty. Photograph by Midori, CC BY 3.0.
Bandung's station platforms late in the evening, lights on and mostly empty. Photograph by Midori, CC BY 3.0.

The work asks visitors to slow down and listen for the geography inside an ordinary day.

City lights seen from the hills above Bandung at night. Photograph by chrisinno, CC BY 2.0.
City lights seen from the hills above Bandung at night. Photograph by chrisinno, CC BY 2.0.

For one month the theatre stayed open after dark, the speakers left running, so passersby on the square could hear the recordings migrate through the building as the night cooled.

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Composer and sound artist · Sound installation, 2025

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