.Feast, the Indonesian creative behind the sound Arteri, operates within a framework that rejects the narrow genre boundaries that often limit how audiences engage with work from creators across Southeast Asia’s expansive and diverse independent music ecosystems. Classified under Music/Other, a categorization designed to hold space for any sound that defies the rigid, often Western-centric genre labels that structure most global music catalogs, Arteri exists as part of a growing cohort of works from Indonesian artists who use that unconstrained space to create outside of the unspoken expectations placed on creators from the region, who are too often boxed into either mainstream local pop, documented traditional folk forms, or derivative iterations of Western indie, rock, or hip-hop tropes that carry more global name recognition. For .