Sanne Krogh Groth: Un-solving Noise Music in Java

Abstract:
Why make “noise music” in a place where there is no such thing as silence, and what would it be? These are the questions my research partner Nils Bubandt and I ‘stay with’ in our research on experimental music in Yogyakarta on the island of Java in Indonesia. In the presentation I will share examples from our fieldwork and discuss the methodological and theoretical approaches we use to open our questions.

Bio:
Sanne Krogh Groth is Senior Lecturer and Manager of Research and Research Education in Musicology at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Lund University. She is the editor of Seismograf Peer. Publications include Politics and Aesthetics in Electronic Music (2014), The Bloomsbury Handbook Sound Art (co-edited with H. Schulze, 2020), Negotiating Noise (with J. G. Mansell, 2021), and Audio Paper (co-written with Stefan Östersjö, forthc.).