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Juan Reza, Mendy, and Niken Soge join forces for BADANSA, a sound rooted in the creative ecosystem of Indonesia, classified within the Music/Other genre bracket to reflect its position outside of more commonly codified musical categories that frame most mainstream and even many independent creative works from the region and beyond. The choice to classify this work as Music/Other is far from a vague administrative afterthought; it is a recognition that some creative sound works resist the narrow boxes that digital and physical archives often rely on to organize their collections, boxes that are frequently built around Western musical frameworks that fail to account for the full breadth of creative expression that emerges from communities across Indonesia, and from Global South creative hubs more broadly.
