Bali Soundscape
Field-recording album in four movements · 2012
A four-part field-recording album built from recordings made in Desa Kutri, a village in Bali, tracing a temple ceremony from arrival through to a closing gamelan procession: "Welcome to Desa Kutri," "Sacrifice," "Ceremonial Chanting," and "Entering the Temple (Gamelan Parade)."
"Welcome to Desa Kutri" was later republished in 2017 as track 5 of RE-COR (Earwitness, Spain), a twelve-track international phonography compilation exploring human interaction through field recording, curated by Juan Manuel Castrillo. The inclusion places this early work inside a wider international field-recording context, and marks the beginning of a practice — using recorded place as compositional material rather than documentation — that continues through Angkot Is the Melting Pot and Hutan Plastik.
- Year
- 2012 · released 1 January 2013
- Medium
- Field-recording album, 4 tracks (21:34 total)
- Movements
- Welcome to Desa Kutri 5:48 · Sacrifice 1:32 · Ceremonial Chanting 9:04 · Entering the Temple (Gamelan Parade) 5:10
- Also published
- "Welcome to Desa Kutri", track 5, RE-COR (Earwitness EW201666), Spain, 2017
- Listen
- patrickhartono.bandcamp.com — Bali Soundscape (2012)