(b Bandung, Java, 1964). Indonesian composer. From a family famous in the traditional arts of Sunda, he was deeply immersed in these arts from the age of eight. After attending the High School for the Indonesian Performing Arts in Bandung, Hadianda continued to the Indonesian Dance Academy there, then studied classical Javanese and Sundanese music at the Indonesian Academy for the Performing Arts in Surakarta. He benefited from this academy's progressive approach, in which composition was placed in the context of contemporary indigenous classical music. In 1993 Hadianda formed Zithermania, an ensemble consisting of two players of the kecapi (Sundanese zither) and a Latin American percussionist. In writing the music for Zithermania he fuses the idiom of Western tonal music with the pentatonic idiom of Sunda. By using the pelog and salendro scales of Sundanese music on respective kecapi, he makes available a wide range of notes, allowing his compositions to sound variously tonal, Sundanese pentatonic or dodecaphonic. Hadianda is one of the few prominent contemporary Indonesian composers strongly rooted in traditional Sundanese musical culture.
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