Hutan Plastik

Multichannel ambisonic composition · acousmatic diffusion · audiovisual version with generative image · 2025

Hutan Plastik — plastic forest — is built from field recordings and synthesis, diffused multichannel until the room itself becomes the instrument rather than a container for one. It places a listener inside an environment under slow, accumulating pressure: land and extraction in Indonesia rendered as a sonic condition instead of an argument.

One work carrying both national industry recognition and international festival presentation, in a category created the year it was nominated.

Year: 2025
Medium: Multichannel ambisonic composition — acousmatic diffusion; audiovisual version with generative image
Presented: Listening Room, Ars Electronica, Linz · BEAST FEaST, University of Birmingham · Ignite the Arts Festival, Penticton, Canada (Canadian premiere) · "Immersive Sonic Journeys," Melbourne Recital Centre × RMIT
Recognition: Nominee, Best Contemporary Production, 28th Anugerah Musik Indonesia Awards — inaugural year of the category
Credits: Field and vocal recordings: Markus Rumbino
Listen: patrickhartono.bandcamp.com — Hutan Plastik, 9:16, released 20 October 2024

Empty diffusion room, wrap-around wave-form projection on three walls.

Full audience seated for the Hutan Plastik listening session.

Wrap-around generative floral pattern across the diffusion room.

Audience viewing the forest-and-water generative visual, silhouetted.

Installation views — multichannel diffusion with wrap-around projection.

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