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Ipank’s sonic practice, rooted in the rich, multifaceted creative landscape of Indonesia, produces work that pushes against the limits of standardized genre classification, a tension that defines the placement of Mutiara within the Music/Other category, a designation that speaks to both the limitations of global cataloging frameworks and the unique specificity of Indonesian creative output. For decades, the genre tags used to organize sound recordings across most mainstream digital and physical platforms were built to categorize the output of the global music industry’s dominant Western markets, a narrow set of frameworks that fails to account for the vast diversity of sonic practice that emerges from regions like Indonesia, home to hundreds of distinct ethnic groups, each with their own longstanding traditions of sound making, alongside a thriving community of contemporary experimental creators who blend traditional and modern approaches to craft work that cannot be sorted into any pre-existing genre box.
