Gardika Gigih Pradipta
Gardika Gigih Pradipta
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- Gardika Gigih Pradipta
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Preferred pronouns:he/him
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Birth year:1990
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A composer, pianist and soundscape researcher from Indonesia. In 2023, he is staying in New York as Asian Cultural Council Fellows to study multicultural collaboration. Now, he is studying Filipino traditional music and its inspiration towards contemporary composer at UP Center for Ethnomusicology as DeCoSEAS Fellow.
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Gardika Gigih is an Indonesian composer, pianist, and soundscape researcher. After studying music composition at the Indonesian Institute of Arts, Gardika’s interest in the intersection of music, society, and culture led him to pursue a Masters Degree in Cultural Anthropology. His works, which have been performed internationally, span numerous genres, from concerts to contemporary improvisation, film scoring, multicultural collaborations and sound ethnography. His debut album, Nyala (2017), released by Sorge Records, received widespread acclaim and was named a top album of the year by The Jakarta Post.
In 2019, Gardika received a fellowship from The Japan Foundation Asia Center to conduct soundscape research as cultural narratives in Southeast Asia and Japan. This research has been published in www.lostinsound.art
In 2023, he is staying in New York as an Asian Cultural Council Fellow to study multicultural collaboration in the New York music scene.
Last May at the British Library, his composition "Mimpi Owa: A Duet with Javanese Gibbons" won the “Sound of the Year Awards” for the Composed with Sound category, initiated by the BBC Radiophonic Institute and the Museum of Sounds. He is continuing to develop new compositions and electroacoustic works inspired by his global research
Three relevant works from the last 5 years of artistic practice:
- Asian Cultural Council New York Fellowship 2023
- Southeast Asia - Japan Soundscape Research 2019.
- Music Albums on Digital Platform: Gardika Gigih
