This episode features Rully Shabara, an experimental vocalist based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Emma Lo talks with him about Xhabarabot Voice Machines, an ongoing project in which Shabara engineers interactive instruments from his own vocal samples. They discuss issues of consent in sampling, appropriation and self-exploitation, and open source technologies.

In conversation with

Rully Shabara

Rully Shabara born in Palu, Indonesia, is interested in exploring human voice as a medium of creation, and language as a subject to experiment with. Shabara has initiated numerous concept-based projects around voice, for instance navigating vocal range, textures, and spirituality in his project Senyawa (with Wukir Suriyadi), or developing a conceptual language-driven band project Zoo. He has delivered workshops around the globe, which focus on using the human voice as a rich resource to explore primal expression and improvisations.

Shabara has collaborated with many notable international musicians and artists such as Keiji Haino, Stephen O`Malley, Otomo Yoshihide, Rabih Beaini, Damo Suzuki, Bob Ostertag, Yoshida Tatsuya, Trevor Dunn, Arrington DeDionyso, Justin Vernon, Jon Sass, DJ Sniff, Daisuke Fuwa, Greg Fox, and many more.

Website

Instagram @rshabara

Xhabarabot Voice Machines

Credits

Recording

Yusuf Alazhar

Sounds

Drone (Emma Lo playing Xhabarabot Voice Machines)

Drux (Emma Lo playing Xhabarabot Voice Machines)

Ambiex (Emma Lo playing Xhabarabot Voice Machines)

Delax (Emma Lo playing Xhabarabot Voice Machines)

Overparty (Emma Lo playing Xhabarabot Voice Machines)

Delax (Emma Lo playing Xhabarabot Voice Machines)

Ambiex (Emma Lo playing Xhabarabot Voice Machines)

Photos

Cover, Rully Shabara performing (Ravyna Jassani)

Portrait of Rully Shabara (Bartek Muracki)

Podcast Info

Concept

Dr. Layla Zami, Postdoctoral Researcher in Performance Studies

Moderator
Emma Lo, PhD researcher in Theater Studies

Producer
Freie Universität Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Intervening Arts
(SFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste, TP B05)

Funded by
German Research Society (DFG)

In Cooperation with

FU Berlin, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft

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