Loading...Nursalim Yadi Anugerah - The Other Tiger 6 min 27 sec, Pontianak, 2022
The tiger is not known to exist in Kalimantan (Borneo) today, but plays a significant role in the historical traditions, oral literature, myths, beliefs, rituals and the area’s musical heritage. Negotiating that inspiration in relation to Jorge Louis Borges's poem entitled El Otro Tigre and a work by Bernard Sellato - The Other Tiger: History, Belief, and Rituals in Borneo, this work is exploring the entanglement of those ideas with the beliefs and knowledge about the tiger among Kalimantan people, and locates the image of the tiger as a source of collective and personal memories.
The work is developed by drones coming from Kaldii’ (mouth-organ instrument), close-miking and processing the signals, and beat-frequencies produced by those instruments. Kaldii’ becomes the endangered instrument that is coming into extinction, where the materials are from the forest and determined as bio-indicator for sustainable ecosystem. Although there is a strong connection between the forest and cultural heritage like oral tradition(s) and music takes the place of the tiger and the memories about the tiger are still alive, they are now fading away through the forest devastation in Kalimantan.
Accompanied by three samples in A*-U-M keys (Indonesian onomatopoeia of ‘roar’), each sample contains either a collective or personal symbol of tiger.
Credits:
Music recorded, composed, mixed, and mastered by Nursalim Yadi Anugerah.
* Kayaan Medalam community recorded by Yayasan Lontar for the Festival Sastra Lisan (Oral-Literature Festival), 1993.
Nursalim Yadi Anugerah is a composer and multi-instrumentalist, whose works focus on sonic experimentation through cultural practice, knowledge, and cosmology of indigenous people and their activism related to entanglements of social-cultural and environmental issues in Kalimantan (Borneo).
His works have been staged in concerts and festivals such as International Young Composers Meeting 2018 (The Netherlands), Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2018 (The Netherlands), AsiaTOPA 2020 (Melbourne, Australia), Holland Festival 2021, Amsterdam (The Netherlands). In 2021-2022, he was awarded the Prince Claus Mentorship Award for Cultural and Artists Response to Environmental Change by Prince Claus Foundation and Goethe Institut.
