Synthesis 2

Hulubalang feat Brandon Tay – »Bunyi Bunyi Tumbal«

22:30

ZULI - »Lambda«

21:30

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Hulubalang’s work »Bunyi Bunyi Tumbal« mourns the marginalised figures of history, echoing the shattered innocence of disrupted rituals and the pain of unacknowledged sacrifices. The solo venture of Kasimyn—producer, DJ, label owner, and one-half of Gabber Modus Operandi—the project whose title roughly translates to »Synthetic Feeling for Anonymous Sacrifice« is a reflection on the emotions born out of a deep dive into Indonesian war archives. These archives include a trove of photographs documenting the era of Dutch rule, captured through the lens of the colonizers themselves.

Hulubalang’s brutal noise scapes, ghostly samples, ferocious polyrhythms, and mutating club music tropes center on the peripheral figures populating these historical records—secondary characters devoid of individual significance, who bear no names, receive no recognition, violently forced to serve as props in the broader narrative of history. The piece is a personal act of catharsis and stands as a sorrowful tribute to the non-belligerent victims of war and oppression and their »sacrifice.« This performance features visuals by Singaporean artist Brandon Tay, who applied machine learning techniques to expand on visual artefacts found in various archives, blurring the line between the corporeal and incorporeal.

Unpredictability is ZULI’s playground. From the edges of Cairo’s underground he emerged tearing through genres like a storm, his hard-edged textures and razor-sharp experiments too writhing to pin down. The live A/V performance of his recent album »Lambda« manifests as an electrifying interplay of tension, texture, and movement, with light design by Andre Vanderwert, and
video material by Tomasz Skibicki and Sander Houtkruijer. Rooted in the precarious soundworld of the album, ZULI translates its swirling atmospheres and fractured rhythms into a multisensory experience, winding through a liminal space where sound is untethered from rhythm. Flickering unpredictably between chaos and clarity, intimacy and vastness, light and motion are mirrored in a fragmented chalice of guttural drones, ghostly falsettos, and pulverized strings as they twist and collide.

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Presented with transmediale. Hulubalang appear thanks to support from Goethe-Institut.

Zuli »Lambda« light design by Andre Vanderwert
Video material by Tomasz Skibicki and Sander Houtkruijer