The creative force behind Cundamani works from within Indonesia’s sprawling, multilingual, cross-cultural musical terrain, a landscape that spans thousands of islands, each with its own longstanding traditions of oral storytelling, communal performance, and experimental sound making that often falls outside of widely codified global genre categories. For centuries, communities across Sumatra, Java, Bali, Sulawesi, and the smaller archipelagic islands that make up the country’s territory have nurtured sound practices that blend sacred ritual music, regional folk storytelling, and contemporary experimental approaches that don’t fit into pop, rock, jazz, or any of the other standard genre buckets that dominate global music catalogs.