Otto Sidharta is an Indonesia

Indonesia

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n Composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

. He is known for his electronic music

Electronic music

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Otto Sidharta finished his post-graduate study in composition and electronic music composition at Sweelinck Conservatorium

Conservatorium van Amsterdam

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 in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 under the guidance of Professor Ton de Leeuw

Ton De Leeuw

Antonius Wilhelmus Adrianus de Leeuw was a Dutch composer. He was known for his experiments with microtonality....

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Sidharta's interest in using environmental sounds to express his musical ideas developed when he was a student at the Jakarta Institute of Arts (Institut Kesenian Jakarta). He performed his first electronic music piece, Kemelut, based on water sounds in the First Indonesian Young Composer Festival (Pekan Komponis Indonesia) in 1979. In 1982 he collected some nature and animal sounds on Nias

Nias

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, in the Borneo (Kalimantan) jungle, and other remote places in Indonesia. These sounds were used as material for some of his works such as Ngendau, Hutan Plastik and East wind.

Beside being a composer, Sidharta is Chairman of both the Music Committee of Jakarta Art Council (Komite Musik Dewan Kesenian Jakarta) and Indonesian Composers Association (Asosiati Komponis Indonesia). He teaches at Jakarta Institute of Arts (Institut Kesenian Jakarta) and in Cantus (Music Education and Information Center, Jakarta). Furthermore, he is the Music Director for the National Symphony Orchestra (Orkes Symphony Nasional).

For Supplement/Upstream, Sidharta created Wind of trade, a soundscape based on the sounds and voices associated with Dutch and Indonesian culture, such as sounds from nature, markets, street vendors, trains, ships and children playing.

Works

• Kemelut - live electronic music (1979)
• Meta Ekologi - mix live and pre recorded electronic music (1980)
• Ngendau - soundscape (1982)
• Hutan Plastik - soundscape (1982)
• East Wind - mix soundscape & live performer (1983)
• Untitled - a piece for clarinet, cello, percussion and tape (1985)
• Gong - electronic music (1985)
• Gaung - electronic music (1986)
• Stringquartet - String quartet (1986)
• Saluang - electronic music (1986)
• Quintet for Oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and cello (1986)
• Trio for clarinet, cello and piano (1987)
• Waves - computer controlled electronic music (1988)
• Marimba - for marimba solo (1988)
• Pulses - computer music (1988)1
• Technophobia - live computer music with voice and dance (1990)
• 3 in 1 - music for percussion, clarinet and computer (1991)
• Rim's - computer music (1991)
• RamayanaKu - for voice and computer (1992)
• Matra - for percusion and computer (1992)
• Topeng Monyet - computer music (1993)
• Mitsuno Hibiki - for violin and computer (1993)
• Goro-goro - for 8 percussion player (1994)
• Soundscape I - soundscape (1995)
• Music for Clarinet and Computer (1995)
• Music for Flute and Computer (1996)
• Music for Biwa and Computer (1996)
• Music for Piano and Computer (1997)

and a few untitled short works for non musical instruments and computer, gamelan instruments and computer (1998 - 2001).

External links

• http://www.omroep.nl/nps/supplement/02/8-15-22/sidharta.html