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I Nyoman Windha is one of the leading musicians and contemporary composers of Balinese gamelan music. He was born at Banjar Kutri, Singapadu, Gianyar, Bali. A graduate of the National Institute of Arts (ISI) in Denpasar, Bali, Windha has been a member of the faculty since 1985. He has composed dozens of compositions for Balinese gamelan in many genres but primarily in kebyar style. His compositions, such as Puspanjali (1989), have been incorporated into the standard repertoire of Balinese performing groups and many have won awards at Bali's annual gamelan competition.
Windha's music is known for his beautiful melodies, incorporation of forms and styles from Javanese gamelan, and other innovations such as use of 3/4 time. He has traveled and taught extensively around the world. +
Narend was born on 14 April 2012. He has shown an interest in the art of shadow puppet from the age of two. He started performing as a puppeteer when he was only six years old. He includes environmental issues in his stories.
He has his own YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ckePCK__4GypMOw4_QzWg
During his performances the gamelan gender is played by I Nyoman Yudi Artawiguna. +
I Putu Eka Prayoga, S.Pd.H., M.Pd is a teacher at SD Negeri 26 Pemecutan who has been teaching since 2018 until now. He comes from Pakraman Ubung Village, Denpasar City and he was born on March 23, 1994. He studied and completed S1 Pendidikan Agama Hindu at IHDN Denpasar then he completed his S2 Masters in Pendidikan Agama Hindu at IHDN Denpasar Postgraduate +
I Putu Gedé Raka Prama Putra or commonly known as Tudékamatra from his works was born in Gianyar, on Tuesday, 18 December 1990. Although still young, he is one of the authors who maintains modern Balinese literature. The author, who graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Mahéndradatta University, has studied writing since he was still in school at SMAN 1 Blahbatuh. His articles have been published in ksprési Magazine, Satua Magazine, Bali Orti (Bali Post), Bali Post, Pos Bali, Médiaswari (Pos Bali), and Dénpost.
His published books are:
Padang Tuh (Poetry, 2013),
Belog (Collection of Short Stories, 2014),
Raré Bali waves (Poetry, 2015).
Now he works as a journalist at Pos Bali and is the editor of the Gema Siswa at Pos Bali. +
I Putu Karang Adi Saputra was born in Abiansemal, June 9, 1985. Since 2003 he has been active in a number of joint exhibitions, including the joint exhibition “Bali Painting Maestro” at the Bali Post, Denpasar (2007); “Group of 72” at Paros Gallery, Sukawati (2007), exhibition “With Lecturers of ISI Denpasar” at Neka Art Museum Ubud (2008), exhibition at LV 8 Hotel with Sanggar Mangu Rupa Badung (2018), “Freedom in Expression” in Taman Balinese Culture (2019). +
I Putu Sudiana alias Bonuz is an artist born in Nusa Penida, Klungkung, Bali, December 30, 1972. Since childhood he has been interested in painting. While in his village, he was often asked to paint the walls of the fishing boats (jukung). After completing junior high school in his hometown, he continued his education at the Fine Arts Middle School (SMSR) in Batubulan, Bali. In 1995, he continued his art education at ISI Denpasar, until he graduated. Apart from painting, he also makes installation art, plays music, and writes poetry. Bonuz has exhibited many of his abstract-style paintings, including:
Solo exhibitions
2018 A Land to Remember. Santrian Gallery, Sanur Bali
2017 Tetabuhan-tatabumi, Bidadari Art Space. Mas, Ubud-Bali
1015 Because Life is Delicious at Kubu Art Space. Ubud.
2014 Magic Sound at Maya Gallery. Singapore.
2013 Be Happy, water color paintings at Sand Fine Art Gallery. Sanur-Bali.
2012 Harmony, at Rumah Seni Maestro Art Space. Sanur-Bali
2011 Inside of Bonuz at Tony Raka Gallery. Mas, Ubud-Bali
2011 Breath Reflection, at Hitam-White art Space. Sangeh-Bali.
2008 Pleading Life's Tenacity at Kemang Village. Jakarta.
2006 Journey of the Soul at Relish Café and Pool. Jakarta.
2003 Abstract Essence at Art Center Denpasar. Bali.
2003 Universal Spirit at Jenggala Ceramic Jimbaran. Bali.
2000 Crossing Borders at Red-White Forum. Denpasar Bali. +
I Putu Sukreta Suranta was born in Klungkung, 11 April 1938. He was a high-ranking army officer from Bali and a government official. He is one of the figures of the Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia organization and Paguyuban Ngesti Tunggal. After graduating from high school, he continued to the National Military Academy in Magelang. After graduating, he was appointed a second lieutenant in 1961.
Throughout his career in the military, he held various strategic positions such as Deputy Commander of the Garuda VII Contingent and Operations Assistant to the Chief of Staff of Kodam Jaya. He achieved the rank of brigadier general around 1986 and became Deputy Assistant for Operations to the Army Chief of Staff. He was promoted to major general about two years later and became Operations Assistant to the Army Chief of Staff on 17 March 1988. He was then appointed Commander of the ABRI Command and Staff College on 21 October 1989. He was replaced from his position on 16 April 1993 and retired from the military some months later.
After retiring from the military, he was appointed Inspector General of the Department of Defense Security on April 24, 1993.] His appointment as the department's inspector general was unusual, as this position is usually held by active three-star military officers. Because after retiring from the military, the government decided to raise his rank to honorary lieutenant general on September 1 1997. He was replaced by Farid Zainuddin in 1998.
He was then appointed by President BJ Habibie to become a member of the Supreme Advisory Council (DPA) on 13 June 1998 and became Deputy Chair of the People's Welfare Commission at DPA.
He was elected as Daily Chair of Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia (PHDI) at the 7th PHDI Mahasabha which took place in September 1996. Previously, since 1992, he had represented PHDI in the MPR. He is also an advisor to the Indonesian Hindu Youth Association and Prajaniti Hindu Indonesia. Apart from that, he was also a member of the spiritual organization Paguyuban Ngesti Tunggal (Pangestu).
He died in South Jakarta on Friday, September 16 2022 and was buried at the Kalibata Heroes' Cemetery (TMP), South Jakarta.
Putu Sutawijaya (1970)studied art at Indonesia Institute of Fine Art (ISI) Yogyakarta. He currently lives and works in Yogyakarta and Bali. As a painter, sculptor and performance artist, he is hailed as one of the most important young artists to watch out for. His canvases are highly charged with the energy, or qi, that is suggestive of Chinese calligraphy masters. While Chinese calligraphy influences his technique, his subject matter captures the essence of Balinese religious and tribal rituals. The visual impact of his canvases is explosive yet contemplative. They reflect the mutual desire for harmony in order and chaos, a oneness with the universe. Man as the centrifugal figure in paintings is distinctively Sutawijaya and continues to be prominent in his works.
Putu Sutawijaya draws his inspirations from the various Balinese religious rituals. He is especially fascinated with the way communion takes place, where spiritual enlightenment is attained through trance, intoxication and even violence.
Movement, energy and trance are the three most powerful stimuli in his canvases. The movements and stance of the kecak dance are symbolic of the Great Gods (sanghyang). The kecak dance is an intense spiritual dance by a large group of people.
A mental and spiritual climax is reached when the soul suddenly rises to a level of experience much more profound than daily consciousness. At that moment appears a peak of self confidence and extraordinary bliss like a trance, followed by enlightenment. Out of these are born paintings of such intense expression that they reach the farthest limits of universal concepts. +
I Putu Swaryandana Ichi Oka or familiarly called Ryan grew up in Banjar Pande, Sayan Village, Ubud. Ryan is a young composer who is currently pursuing a master's degree at the Indonesian Art Institute, Denpasar. This young composer is active in the arts at the Sanggar Seni Cudamani, Pengosekan, Ubud. Most of Ryan's works reflect traditional styles such as Swasti Prapta (for dance compositions) and Sundih, but there are some more contemporary works such as Su3lim (instrumental) and Kalatalaraga (body music). Ryan's works can be seen on YouTube Channel: Ryan Swaryandana. +
Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena is an artist-scholar currently holding positions as faculty member at Metropolitan State University of Denver and the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His research interrogates discursive conceptions of “noise” in Bali and the United States as they intersect with Cosmology, Indigeneity, and Performance. He focuses on how people in places with long colonial histories reclaim Indigenous identity through popular idioms. As a music practitioner and composer, Hiranmayena continues to perform in improvisation/noise ensembles and creates contemporary works for Gamelan and Heavy Metal. He is co-founder of Balinese experimental project, ghOstMiSt and artistic director of Denver, Colorado’s non-profit organization, Gamelan Tunas Mekar. +
I Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena is an Indonesian artist and scholar. Putu’s interests are rooted in gamelan, improvisation, and metal music, while dealing primarily with high adrenaline activity, embodiment, and cosmology theories. His musical works directly highlight exigency of performance in peak physical states, which provoke praxis of micro-temporality. Putu has performed with gamelan and improvisation ensembles around the United States and Indonesia; most recently with Gamelan Pandan Arum from Los Angeles, Gamelan Tunas Mekar in Denver, and Sanggar Manik Galih in Bali. He has also acted as gamelan ensemble director at the Museum School of San Diego as well as the University of San Diego. Putu holds a B.A. from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs in Visual and Performing Arts and an M.A. from the University of California San Diego in Integrative Studies. He has recently started a Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in ethnomusicology where he plans to continue his studies in new music and gamelan. +
I Wayan Aris Sarmanta, born in Gianyar, April 8, 1995. Since 2011, he has been actively exhibiting, including at the Puri Painting Museum, Arma Museum, Allcaps Gallery, Bentara Budaya Bali, Titian Artspace Ubud, Paradiso Ubud, Griya Santrian Gallery, Bale Banjar Sangkring Jogja. In 2017 he held a solo exhibition “Rebirth” at Titian Art Space, Ubud. He won the 2017 Titian Prize Nine Finalist and 2018 Titian Prize Winner. +
I Wayan Arnata (born in 1973, Sukawati, Gianyar) is an abstract artist who grew up surrounded by Balinese art and tradition. His works are unique and employ the traditional Balinese technique of Ngodi to create textures with threads. The Ngodi technique applied to modern abstracts yields a distinctive appearance and finish. Threads are used to signify various metaphorical themes and concepts in multiple cultures. In Balinese culture, it stands for an extended period or a medium that connects one period to the next. It is here that he found a foundation to explore tradition in his contemporary creative process while staying true to his identity and roots. Arnata has received several awards, such as the Bronze award in the UOB Painting of the Year (Established Artist Category) competition in 2017 and the Philip Morris Indonesia Art Award in 1996, 1997 and 1999. +
I Wayan Arya Bisma is a young musician and composer who grew up in Pujung Kelod, Sebatu, Gianyar. Currently, Bisma is still pursuing his undergraduate education at the Indonesian Art Institute, Denpasar. Bisma is active as a musician and composer at the Sanggar Seni Çudamani, Pengosekan, Ubud. +
I Wayan Balawan (born September 9, 1972 in Bali), better known by the single name Balawan, is an Indonesian guitarist and songwriter. He is best known as a Batuan Ethnic Fusion guitarist and his ability to play double neck guitar. Balawan has developed the 8 Fingers Touch Style technique, which also known as the Touch-Tapping Style. He is often regarded as one of the fastest guitarists in Indonesia. He is also called The Magic Finger guitarist among the world's music community.
Personal life
Balawan listened to Balinese gamelan, a traditional music style from Bali, since birth. At the age of eight he taught himself to play guitar. He joined his first band when he was 14 years old. Although he grew up in a traditional Balinese culture, Balawan played more rock songs than gamelan. Some of his favorite bands were The Scorpions, Deep Purple and The Beatles.
Eventually he became bored with rock music and decided to study jazz at the Australian Institute of Music in Sydney.During his studies towards a Diploma of Music, he was awarded a three-year scholarship. He studied in Sydney for about five years, during which time he also gained popularity for his exceptional talent of playing guitar and jazz music. After he obtained his Diploma of Music in 1997, he went back to Bali and formed a band called Batuan Ethnic Fusion, which combined the traditional Balinese gamelan music with jazz / fusion style.
Career
His first professional band, Batuan Ethnic Fusion, is still active. Besides being a band member, Balawan is also working on his solo career and has released three albums. His first solo album was "Balawan", which released in 1997 by the Acoustic Music Label, a German company. Later, he worked with an Indonesian company, and with his band, he released his first band album, "GloBALIsm", under Chico&Ira production in 1999. Recently Balawan launched his second solo album, "Magic Fingers", under the Sony-BMG Music Indonesia label. Magic Fingers really showcases Balawan's abilities in arranging and composing and his ability to blend modern music with traditional Balinese gamelan.
Indra Lesmana about Balawan: "It's always exciting to find new things in art and Batuan Ethnic Fusion is a perfect example of artist who explore into the great spectrum in art with passion, love, beauty and freedom..."
As Balawan is considered as the only Indonesian guitarist who able to develop and use the "Touch Tapping" style, he often plays in Germany and Norway. In 2000, Balawan collaborated with many international guitarists at "East Meet West Gitarren Festival Edekoben Germany 2000 Tour". He also has had a tour in 20 cities in Germany in 2001. In the same year, Balawan played at "Hell Blues Festival" in Norway in September. In 2011 Balawan appeared at the 16th Other Minds festival in San Francisco.
Technique
Balawan has developed and expanded a technique called "Touch Tapping" style. The technique enables the guitarist to play two or even three different music progressions at the same time using the same instrument continuously. Another notable player of this technique is Stanley Jordan, an American jazz/fusion guitarist. Balawan developed the same progression with Stanley Jordan, that he is able to produce a piano, bass and guitar at the same time using just one instrument.
Usually Balawan uses all four fingers of his right hand to create the melody progressions and his left hand to create the bass and rhythmic sounds. Another unique thing is that there is no pattern or repetition whatsoever between the left and right hand. Thus Balawan has a very exceptional skill of playing guitar.
Balawan also plays drums, both to fill the tracks on his albums and to develop the "Touch Tapping" style.
Equipment
Since Balawan needs to play rhythmic progression and melody at the same time, he uses a special guitar with two necks made by Tommy Kaihatu that also known as Rick Hanes Guitar. Balawan's Rick Hanes Guitar has a double neck with six strings on both upper neck and lower neck, which utilises MIDI pickups to translate the notes he plays into MIDI notes played via off-board synths and samplers.
Balawan uses Rick Hanes guitars exclusively, which are Balawan Double Neck Series, Balawan Mini Guitar Series and Essel-Balawan Custom Series. He also uses Rockstone Cases and VOX amplifier.
I Wayan Bendi – 1950-2020 (Indonesia)
I Wayan Bendi was a living legend, the leading practitioner of the Batuan style of painting which developed in Bali in the 1920’s-1930’s.
He was born in 1950, in Batuan, a village near Ubud. He still remained rooted to his birthplace, where he had his studio and art gallery.
The Batuan style of painting is very intricate and detailed, crammed with many “stories”. Paintings in this style are tightly crowded with teeming crowds and scenes that depict all the traditional aspects of Bali life, like rice harvests, temple rituals, dancing girls and fantastical theater masks.
A Batuan picture usually has a sober monochrome color palette, because of the initial application of black and grey paint on the canvas surface as base. But Bendi is also an artist with a mischievous streak. For a Batuan artist, he is considered very colorful with his ‘soberly bold’ colors like brick red and light olive. Then there’s his ‘thing’ about helicopters. Bendi usually has one somewhere in his crowded agrarian scenes, and part of the fun is to hunt for it. Another favorite, the t-shirt clad, inquisitive tourist with his intrusive, long nosed camera lens, snapping away amid the water buffaloes and rickety taxis. It’s a Bendi trademark that speaks volumes about his concern for Bali’s relationship with the almighty tourist dollar.
Bendi expanded his focus to capture traumatic events that has impacted Indonesia, from the Bali bombing to the tsunami. Always, Bendi’s witty, observant paintings are like a macrocosm of modern Bali life.
The artist has exhibited in Japan, Netherlands, Belgium and New York. +
I Wayan Diana, born in Batuan, 1977. He has exhibited at the Puri Painting Museum, Arma Museum, Neka Museum, Griya Santrian Gallery, etc. He won awards as Jakarta Art Award Finalist (2008 and 2010), UOB Painting Of The Year Finalist (2012, 2013, 2014). With the Batuan style painting technique, his paintings voice a lot of social criticism. +
I Wayan Dibia was born in Singapadu, Gianyar, Bali, April 12 1948. Since 1999, he has been a professor of choreography at ISI Denpasar. He is also famous for his work in the art of Kecak dance, such as Kecak Subali and Sugriwa (1976), Kecak Dewa Ruci (1982). He once collaborated with Keith Terry to create "The famous Body Tjak" (1990).
As a dance artist, he is very famous at the international level. In the field of dance, he created the Manuk Rawa Dance with I Wayan Beratha in 1981, the Puspa Wresti Dance, the Wirauda Dance, etc. He received the "Padma Shri Award" (2021) from the Government of India for his dedication in intertwining works of art between Balinese and Indian culture. In 1969, he first performed in India with the Hanuman dance.
Apart from creating dozens of dance works, he also wrote a number of books, including "Gambuh Drama and Almost Extinct Dances in Several Regions in Bali (1979), "Kecak, the Vocal Chant of Bali" (2000), "Balinese Dance , Drama, and Music: a Guide to the Performing Arts of Bali” (2012), “Communal Dance” (2015), “Kecak: From Ritual to Theatrical” (2017), “Arja Anyar” (2017), “Barong Dance Ket: From Awakening to Glory” (2018). In 2021 he published five poetry books entitled "Dance Poetry". He also wrote a book of poetry in Balinese, including the title "Kali Sengara". He also wrote a novel about dancers entitled "Bintang Panggung" (2023).
In 2022, he received the “Bali Jani Nugraha” award from the Governor of Bali. His Balinese poetry book "Kali Sengara" won the "Rancage" award from the Rancage Cultural Foundation (2023). +
I Wayan Gunayasa was born in Ulakan, Manggis, Karangasem August 3, 1967. He is an entrepreneur and photography is one of his hobbies. He is also involved in social activities, such as children with disabilities and orphans and also participates in fighting plastic waste. His photos have been published in several magazines such as 'Emvee Magazine', 'Bali Travel' and 'Tropical Life'. He also took part in an exhibition at Mall Bali Galeria, solo exhibitions and exhibitions with other photographers. Wayan prefers to photograph culture and nature because by doing so he can travel around and get to know the culture more closely; culture in Bali in particular and Indonesian nature. He worked with Norwegian students studying in Bali in 1993-2014. +
Wayan was born in Jauary 1986. He is a graduate of the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Denpasar.
Donal wishes to revive and embody the “tradition” of painting in the history of the development of modern art through the method of painting on the spot. He returns to nature and tries to appreciate and permeate the phenomenon of form, where aspects of light play a vital role in the absorption of objects by the eye and are then transferred to the canvas plane.
The choice of objects painted by Donal on the spot is also an object in the surrounding environment that is familiar in his daily life as a Balinese. Thus, what appears visibly to Donal’s works is the painting of landscapes, trees, or parts of certain plants that are painted close-up, or a collection of natural objects.
Donal views painting as part of the culture of society. He wants to present things that might look simple, natural, and beautiful (in the eyes of ordinary people) in the hope that this will be the entrance for them to be able to respond to even deeper things, that is, the ideas in each of his paintings.
Based on Donal’s view of his creative process as serious and intense, painting on the spot with impasto techniques, we can read this as Donal’s effort to celebrate and give meaning to painting as a way of presenting beauty and peace of mind through the elements of art—especially colors, which all support light. Donal puts painting as mainstream in his creative process. His struggle and his trust in the power of painting is an inseparable part of a human being’s sense of beauty.
He joined in group exhibitions from 2005, and had solo exhibitions from 2014. +
