{"id":556,"date":"2017-07-17T16:29:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T16:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mataniari.id\/?p=556"},"modified":"2025-07-10T16:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:58:17","slug":"tellus-molestie-nunc-non-blandit-massa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mataniari.id\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Mataniari: Profile Music Europalia Festival 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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MATANIARI is one the SUARASAMA music divisions which focuses on the Toba Batak traditional dance and music performance: gondangsabangunan, gondanghasapi, anduning-uningan Opera Batak.<\/p>\n

MATANIARI involves maestros from Batak Toba musicians, some of them are Marsius Sitohang and Sarikawan Sitohang; two brothers who were born and raised in Batak music culture in particular Opera Batak tradition. Because of their virtuosic music playing,
Marsius Sitohang is well-known by a popular name, \u201cThe King of Sulim,\u201d while Sarikawan Sitohang is well-known by \u201cThe King of Hasapi\u201d among di Batak peoples. They had produced more than 10 traditional music albums in Indonesia. Marsius Sitohang and Sarikawan Sitohang has been involved in many music performance exhibitions in Indonesia and abroad since 1987, some of them were in Holland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Japan, USA, Australia and others.<\/p>\n

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With other Batak musicians-maestros, they had produced \u201cBatak\u201d music album by New Albion Records, Inc USA in 1992. They also appeared in \u201cMusic of Indonesia vol. IV, \u201cMusic from Nias and North Sumatra: Hoho, Gendang Karo and Gendang Toba,\u201d published by Smithsonian Folkways USA in 1998. As a music group, MATANIARI is functionally keeping Toba Batak traditional music roots in the form of stage performances. However, more than the tradition, MATANIARI sometimes also involves in the form of experimental works. For instance, they involved in the ethnographic movie project \u201cRangsa Ni Tonun: A Film about the Sacred Batak Textiles\u201d (by Sandra Niessen-MJA Nashir 2013), where in this film they revitalized a type of weaving song that has long gone. In 2013, the group that led by Irwansyah dan Rithaony had been involved in colossal choral drama project titled \u201cThe Story of Buku Ende: Hyms from the Batakland,\u201d which taken from the traditional choral book of Batak Christians, \u201cBuku Ende.\u201d \u201cThe Story of Buku Ende\u201d had been performed in Medan (2013), Bandung (2014) and Jakarta (2015).<\/p>\n

MATANIARI had performed in several places in Indonesia and abroad, such as \u201cAsian Composers League,\u201d Yogyakarta 1999, \u201c\u201cMillenia Art\u201d Tirtagangga, Bali 1999; Sharq Taronalari Festival, Samarkh and Uzbekistan 2001, North Sumatra Traditional Music an Dance in Guangzhou, China 2001, North Sumatra Traditional Music and Dance in Singapore 2002, dan Asian Composer League and International Puppet Festival, New Zealand, 2007; Pasar Hamburg 2015 and Schriftsprache Indonesiche Handschriften, Berlin 2015 (Frankfurt Bookfair 2015).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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