Wednesday, March 28 (Pre-Conference)

Johnson Museum of Art, Wing Lecture Room

Johnson Museum of Art, 5th floor

Thursday, March 29

Panel 1: Present-Day Pangrawit

Roundtable with members of Ngudi Raras:
Wakidi Dwidjomartono, Mulyani Soepono, Darsono Hadiraharjo, Paimin, Sularno Martowiyono, Sri Mulyana

Facilitated by Christopher J. Miller (Cornell University)
(Note: this panel will be held in Indonesian)

Lincoln Hall, 124

Indonight: Klenèngan and Night Market

Featuring Ngudi Raras, led by Wakidi Dwidjomartono,
with the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble and conference participants

Thursday, March 29, 7:00pm
Willard Straight Hall, Memorial Room
Free admission, food for sale (purchase advance food tickets)

In partnership with Cornell Indonesian Association
Funded in part by Cornell Council for the Arts

Friday, March 30

Panel 2: Musical Communities

Paper presentations by:
Julia Byl, University of Alberta, “Playing by the Numbers: Harmonic Egalitarianism in Toba Liquor Stands and Studios”
I Nyoman Catra, College of the Holy Cross, “Current State of Sanggar in Bali” 
Elizabeth Clendinning, Wake Forest University, “Beyond the Banjar: Academia, Community, and Gamelans in America“ 

Chair: Marina Welker (Cornell University, Department of Anthropology)

Lincoln Hall, B20

Panel 3: Music, Religion, and Civil Society

Paper presentations by:
Jennifer Fraser, Oberlin College and Conservatory, “Singing Naked Verses: Interactive Intimacies and Islamic Moralities in Saluang Performances in West Sumatra” 
Anne Rasmussen, College of William and Mary, “The Politicization of Melody: Religious Musical Performance and the Indonesian Culture Wars of 2017″ 
Sumarsam, Wesleyan University, “Traditional Performing Arts in the North Coast of Java From Texts to Invocation” 

Chair: Chiara Formichi (Cornell University, Department of Asian Studies)

Lincoln Hall, B20

Johnson Museum of Art, Wing Lecture Room

Panel 4: Sound Beyond/As Music

Roundtable with:

Christopher J. Miller, Cornell University, “Exceptional/Unexceptional: Sound Exploration and the Ingrained in Indonesian Musik Kontemporer“                                                                                 

Dimitri della Faille, l’Université du Québec en Outaouais, “Noise Music, Experimental Music and Sound Art in Indonesia: an anti-colonial and feminist approach”                                                   

Jompet Kuswidananto, Independent Artist, “After Voices”  
Respondent: Emily Cruz Nowell (Cornell University)

Johnson Museum of Art, Wing Lecture Room

A Tribute to Pak Saguh

Performance by Jessika Kenney with Darsono Hadiraharjo, Maho Ishiguro, and Sri Mulyana

Johnson Museum of Art, 6th Floor

Panel 5: Popular Musics

Jeremy Wallach, Bowling Green State University, “Twenty Years of Popular Music in the Era of Reformasi: Reflections of an Anti-Anti-Essentialist” 
Danis Sugiyanto, ISI Surakarta, “Keroncong Takes Root in The United States” 
Rebekah Moore, Northeastern University, “Bunga Liar (Wildflowers): Rock Music and Eco Activism in Bali” 

Chair: Maxwell Williams (Cornell University, Department of Music)

Johnson Museum of Art, Wing Lecture Room

Physical Sciences Building, Baker Portico

Kroncong and Kontemporer

Performances by Rumput, Andrew Timar, CAGE, and Szkieve

Lincoln Hall, B20

Saturday, March 31

Panel 6: Music, Gender, and Sexuality

Bethany Collier, Bucknell University, “Even Stronger Yet!”: Gender and Influence in Balinese Youth Arja“
Christina Sunardi, University of Washington, “Approaching the Magnetic Power of Femaleness through Cross-Gender Dance Performance in Malang, East Java” 
Henry Spiller, University of California at Davis, “A Prolegomenon to Female Rampak Kendang (choreographed group drumming) in West Java, Indonesia” 
Jessika Kenney, California Institute of the Arts, “Singing as Transcultural Islamic Feminist Exegesis” 

Chair: Nicole Reisnour (Cornell University, Department of Music)

Kahin Center

Panel 7: Priorities in Practice

Roundtable with:
 Andrew Timar, Independent Musician, “North of Java: My 35-Year Gamelan Career in Toronto, Canada”

Jody Diamond, Bucknell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Close Encounters: creating the first gamelan experience”                                                                                                      

I Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), ““Fix Your Face”: Performing Attitudes Between Heavy Metal and Baleganjur”                                                             

Matt Dunning, Independent Musician, “There’s a gamelan in…. Buffalo??” 

Respondents: Andrew C. McGraw (University of Richmond) and 
Martin F. Hatch (Cornell University)

Kahin Center

Lunch

Keynote Lecture by Philip Yampolsky

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Founding Director (retired), Robert E. Brown Center for World Music, University of Illinois

“Indonesian Regional Music in Commercial Media: Inclusion, Exclusion, Fusion”

Kahin Center