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The archipelagic stretch of Indonesia, a string of more than 17,000 islands strung between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, holds more distinct sonic traditions than almost any other nation on the planet, each weaving together oral history, ritual practice, and everyday community expression into layered works that resist the western music industry’s longstanding obsession with centering individual, named creators as the primary anchor of any piece of music. It is within this rich, sprawling landscape of cultural production that Biduan takes root, a sound that falls under the expansive umbrella of world music, a category that evolved over decades to push back against the marginalization of regional, non-mainstream sounds from across the global south, creating space for works that might otherwise remain confined to local community spaces, shared only between neighbors or passed down through intergenerational village gatherings rather than reaching audiences across continents and cultures.
