interview with Tesla Manaf

1 Tell me about your city and the noise scene in there...

Bandung is famous for Pop Culture, from fashion, design,music etc. This city always put a high standard it mostly responsible for all Country creative-pop culture goings to. In past 4 years, noise scene starting to grew and getting bigger by now, many young generation who starts to open their ear to attend noise and contemporary music event eventho in a term of Noise Music, Post Rock or Jazz Music, players and artists start to combine many genre with Noise. Sadly, many Noise artist feels like they are outcast and think "it just a noise" so there is no willing to improve a sound quality and gear also renting cheap amd bad sound system. Because it's hard to collecting money from audiences for this kind of gig, they always open for donation but not so many people who donate eventho sometimes so many people attend. But slowly we try to improve the quality in many aspect, from the artist, venue, sound system and the audiences as well.

2. What kind of gear do u use in your performances?

 I used a few different geat in my setup, while i'm travelling in another country i'm trying to find a small and travel-able synth/noise generator but the sound as good as a big synth. I change gear many times in my NoiseBox but right now i used 

- Pocket Piano from Critter and Guitari

- EGL1 from JMT Synth

- Korg Volca Bass

- Softpop from Bastl Instruments

- Micro Mixer to controled those 4 above

- Straight to the Strymon Big Sky Reverb and Strymon Timeline Delay

- Elektron Digitakt (i used this one a lot for complicated beats and voices)

- Korg KP2 mini as a main output and effects such as Looper, Break Reverb etc.

All instruments used independently, not clocked one to another. So i can play impulsively with different bpm.

3 . Favorite artists...

3. I grew up with classical music, and focused on it in my first 10 years of my music carrer. And then turned in to jazz and contemporary music/Art Music after that. Eventho my current instruments totally different than before, i still admired many Classical artist from Gyorgy Ligeti to Stockhausen. And transferred to natural voices and tweaked into Electronics sound try to combine those noises with Acoustic Drum Beats (mainly influenced from Jazz Drummer and the great Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and Venetian Snares) https://open.spotify.com/album/26thKhSZoRdsXUr6LIzv9m?si=-8Rx1nDPTWGp-Yd3jQE66w www.soundcloud.com/tesla-manaf-effendi https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr4YZM Tesla Manaf Studio Jl. Awiligar Raya 140 Bandung, Indonesia +6285659031760