Filed under: Events
April 14, 2009 • 3:09 am 0
A L T E R (Teaser Image)
Currently in development, but several teaser video will soon be made.
Would be my first Directorial work in Jakarta and also the 1st major project of CINESONIQUE in collaboration with Cinematographer “Gerry Habir” and my partner in crime “Natalie Veronica”. Those who are interested to invest for this project, fell free to contact me and lets have a beer together.
Filed under: ALTER (Short Video), Film & Video Productions
• 2:51 am 0
Screenshot
A screenshot from a sound design project that I’m currently doing for Andra Fembriarto. I’m very much a Pro Tools person while I am still at Uni, but ever since I moved to Singapore and now back to Jakarta, I started to work intensively with Logic Pro and other open-sources audio software.
Filed under: Film & Video Productions, Sound Design
March 24, 2009 • 7:38 am 1
BLACKVEIL #1
Model: Natalie Veronica
© 2009 DANIF PRADANA
Filed under: Photography
March 23, 2009 • 12:45 pm 0
Photographic Concept
This is a series of a photographic concept for an upcoming feature film that i will be working for the next two years. For those who are familiar with my work might have a clue about the project. It’s basically an extension of a concept that I’ve been working from the last two years. But this time, is no longer going to be an experimental film. It’s going to be a pure drama film. Hopefully the production is going to start around the mid of 2010.
Filed under: Photography
March 12, 2009 • 11:30 am 2
Current Project
I’m currently working on a sound design project for a stop-motion film directed by Andra Fembriarto. The project is purposely made for a short film festival which is due on August 2009.
I must say that this is a really tough and challenging project. Stop Motion Film mean:
- There are no location sound reference.
- 100% of the sound in the film will be made entirely on the post-production which include ADR, Foley, SFX, Ambience, Texture, Diegetic sound, non-Diegetic sound.
As a sound designer, my job is to provide all those sound elements which is then manipulated and composed in certain way to create a unique sonic sensation that connect the visual aspect of the film with the sound.
My challenge as a sound designer for this project is to create an extremely dark, nightmarish, and haunting atmosphere without using any musical composition at all. Some of my influences are films such as The Ordeal and The Birds which are two suspense/horror films that show an interesting example on how fear can be build through sound design with the absence of music.
*Title & Synopsis TBA
Filed under: Film & Video Productions, Sound Design
March 10, 2009 • 4:23 am 0
Untitled
Chinatown, Singapore.
© 2009 DANIF PRADANA
Filed under: Photography
March 7, 2009 • 2:56 am 0
Khuruksetra: Singapore Live Report
Reported by Mirza Natadisastra.
Source: http://lensakulitinta.blogspot.com/2009/03/khuruksetra-cursed-leak.html
Khuruksetra: The Cursed Le’ak
Who would start a performance by banging a bass guitar with a hammer, and finished it with a sonic universe, and still left the audience in awe with a new audio and visual experience? Khuruksetra has successfully done all of the above in their latest performance in the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore.
“It was a fantastic performance. I can feel the battle to find the long lost love and I was amazed by the combination of the audio Khuruksetra produced, the video slideshow they put on screen, and the costume and theatrical performance by one of the members from Khuruksetra. It is simply magical,” Yayan Mulyana, the first secretary of Indonesian Embassy for Singapore, said.
In their third major city performance, after Sydney and Melbourne, Khuruksetra took on love as the theme for the performance. They took the audience to the khuruksetra battlefield to see how the Le’ak (creature from Mahabarata story) tried to find the love it could not get. It screamed, it scared, and it made the audience to stand on their feet.
Khuruksetra first heard in Singapore by one of the committees of the event who passed it on to the Head Committee, Yurika Gani. “I first saw Khuruksetra from their video performance in Melbourne, it was scary enough for me to decide to invite them come to Singapore for this event. But, seeing them live was so much different from what I’ve seen on the video, it was an amazing experience and an amazing performance.”
The Khuruksetra Singapore performance was ended uniquely, the audience left with three minutes of the visual slideshow still on play without knowing that the members of Khuruksetra has left the stage. Mikael Mirdad referred to John Cage, one the most famous sound artists of his era, for the occasion, “We left the audience seeing what’s left on the slideshow, a composition of trees, blood, and also animals. Khuruksetra is no longer part of the performance at that moment, it was the audience who has become part of the performance with their whispers and also their awkward applause. This is the statement that we wanted to delivered; Every sound in this world can be regarded as music, even silence. It was called Sonic Universe.”
The performance marked another milestone in Khuruksetra’s chapter. They have conquered Singapore, just like Sydney and Melboourne, by making the audience shivered and stood on their feet. But, they have never played in Indonesia. A performance that proudly brings Indonesian culture to its best and never played in Indonesia. Would it be caused by the audience who does not fit to Khuruksetra’s performance? But one thing for sure, they should have played in Indonesia a long time ago.
Khuruksetra
Indonesian Embassy for Singapore
Saturday, 28 February 2009
Filed under: Events, Experimental Music, Khuruksetra
February 28, 2009 • 2:58 am 0
The Dark Horror of a Fictional Soundtrack – Maujud (Review)
A review from a project that i contributed.
Source: http://audiostylites.com/2009/02/the-dark-horror-of-a-fictional-soundtrack-maujud/
Adit Bujbunen Al Buse – Maujud OST
Have you ever downloaded music from countries whose language you don’t understand? If you’re a regular on AudioStylites then be prepared for this to happen to you often. And pleasantly.
Here’s a gem from Indonesian graphic designer and sound designer Adit Bujbunen Al Buse. The EP is a 9-track, 27-minute soundtrack to a fictional horror film entitled Maujud. In it, he juxtaposes rock and swing jazz with industrial white noise, spitting sounds, musique concrete, distorted guitar riffs, spoken word, mechanical reverberations and even snippets of bossa nova guitar. On several tracks he collaborates with 4 other artists elsewhere in the world.
The overall effect, rather than being a disunified mess, is actually a united body of downtempo and sound art that would be perfect for a horror movie. Or simply a sleepless night of fevered dreams.
Track by Track
Track 3 “Gothesque and the Pond of Thousand Sad Faces” is a lazy downtempo track mixing female spoken word samples with a creepy drum track and a simple piano melody. Nightmare sequence? Poetry while under a trance? Theme music for serial killers? All of the above.
Track 6 is nothing but a male vocal chant over a drone and effects.
Track 9, “Eulogi Arsenikum,” is composed by Cholil and remixed by Adit Bujbunen Al Buse. The plucked guitar motif moves forward on a downtempo drum pattern laced with audio samples from news and TV programs.
Track 5 “Unfinished Business” is my favorite with its swing jazz feel and excellent bass guitar solo (probably by collaborator and director Danif Pradana).
Source: http://audiostylites.com/
Filed under: Experimental Music
