Live at the NFSA: Hulubalang x Brandon Tay + Jessika Jamal Khazrik

International audiovisual creatives Hulubalang x Brandon Tay and Jessika Jamal Khazrik blend artificial intelligence, generative technologies and experimental performance in a unique and thought-provoking live arts experience. 

With influences ranging from industrial techno to ancestral chanting, these genre-bending performances explore and challenge archival materials and social histories, inviting audiences into an immersive experience of technical mastery and emotional depth.  

HULUBALANG x BRANDON TAY PRESENT BUNYI BUNYI TUMBAL 

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With an expansive knowledge of global club music, a keen interest in local sound traditions and an ongoing desire to experiment, Hulubalang (Indonesia) defies categorisation. In BUNYI BUNYI TUMBAL, Hulubalang and collaborator Brandon Tay (Singapore) train a generative AI visualiser on archival imagery to create a ‘postcolonial hauntology’ of past violence. A tribute to the unnamed victims of conflict, this unique audiovisual performance offers a sincere contemplation of the emotional experience of traversing Indonesia’s war archives, expressed in relentless soundscapes, ghostly samples and ferocious polyrhythms. 

‘Ambitious in every sense; technically masterful, conceptually complex, and emotionally potent’ – The Quietus 

JESSIKA JAMAL KHAZRIK PRESENTS GEBERA 

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Artist, technologist and educatress, Jessika Jamal Khazrik (Lebanon) nurtures a plural, anti-militaristic practice informed by the techno-politics of voice, media and code. Born in the year 7291 of her grandmother’s enduring calendar and raised on the outskirts of Beirut – near a quarry secretly contaminated by toxic waste – Khazrik has been creating and performing since early adolescence while advocating for environmental justice and public science. With influences ranging from jazz to Taarab, her live-hybrid sets and sound installations are deeply informed by ancestral chanting traditions in conversation with quaint techno and incomputable, entrancing rhythm.  

‘As the world tumbles towards dystopia, multi-disciplinary artist Jessika Khazrik believes in the power of music to tackle global oppression’ – Mixmag 

Please note: This event contains low light levels; intermittent bright, flashing and strobing lights; and sudden and sustained loud noises. The content also includes references to violence; viewer discretion is advised. 

Main image: Jessika Jamal Khazrik, ATAMANA, seven channel sound A/V installation, photograph by Thor Brødreskift, courtesy of the artist

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