DION NATARAJA
Writings
Writings by Dion Nataraja
"Introduction: ‘Newness' Reconsidered: Reflections on New Music from Indonesia"
by dion nataraja, erie setiawan, and septian dwi cahyo
Published in Contemporary Music Review as a part of the issue of New Music in Indonesia
2025
“Tradition in Suspension: Timbre in Contemporary Gamelan Compositions”
Published in Contemporary Music Review as a part of the issue of New Music in Indonesia
2025
“At the Limits of the Gong: Composition as Critique”
Presented as a panel member for De-Centering Centers: The Persistent Quest for Epistemological Symmetry in the Arts, a part of AAS-in-Asia Conference alongside Ken Ueno, Frederick Lau, Jocelyn Clark, and Michael Hurt.
2024
“New Humanism: Between Fanon, Hegel, and Filep Karma”
Presented at the Decolonization and Afterlives of Fanon Conference
2024
“Sandikala Ensemble: Negative Cosmopolitanism, Anticolonial Paradigm, and the Aesthetics of Failure”
Unpublished
2024
“Nursalim Yadi Anugerah’s Music and the Question of Survival”
Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Conference
2022
“Encounter with the Other: The Serialists and the Spectralists”
Published in Gadjah Mada University’s Jurnal Kajian Seni (Journal for Artistic Research)
2020
Writings about Dion Nataraja
"Spasial & Spesial: Melihat Intelektual Bunyi di Pekan Komponis Indonesia 2026" (Eng: Spatial and Special: Observing Intellectual Aspects of Sound in Indonesian Composers' Week 2026)
by HERY BUDIAWAN
“Sandikala Ensemble dan Upaya Melampaui Kolonialitas” (Eng: Sandikala Ensemble and The Effort to Move Beyond Coloniality) (2023)
by Amos Ursia
“Gamelan in transition. When experimental music is a living-with” (2023)
by Sanne Kroth Groth
“The Role of New Instruments in the Musical Works of Composers/Sound Artists in Indonesia” (2023) published in Contemporary Music Review as a part of the issue New Music in Indonesia
by Septian Dwi Cahyo
“New Music Activity in Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2000 - 2020 (History, Genealogy, and Network)” (2023) published in Contemporary Music Review as a part of the issue New Music in Indonesia
by Erie Setiawan
“Jazz Lintas Batas” (Eng: Jazz Without Boundaries) (2023)
press review in Gatra magazine
“Dari Cerita Klasik ‘The Judgement,’ Sandikala Ensemble Rilis Musik Eksperimental!” (Eng: “From the Classic Fiction ‘The Judgment,’ Sandikala Ensemble Released Experimental Music!”) (2022)
press review in Hai magazine
“Colorful sounds: New Indonesian music, from improvised gamelan to punk rock” published in The Jakarta Post (2021)
by Yudhistira Agato