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Across the thousands of inhabited islands that make up Indonesia’s sprawling national territory, sonic practices have long defied the narrow categorizations that often separate traditional, regional, experimental, and contemporary forms of sound-making, a reality that aligns perfectly with the flexible framing of Music/Mix as a genre for the work titled Rana Duka. Unlike rigid genre labels that force works to fit within preexisting boundaries, the Music/Mix classification rejects the idea that any sound recording must be tied to a single lineage, style, or tradition, a framing that carries unique weight when rooted in the cultural and geographic context of Indonesia.
