YOGYAKARTA, April 24, 2026 — The Ethnomusicology Study Program, Faculty of Performing Arts, Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta presents “Layar Nada — Music Documentary Film Festival” on May 11–13, 2026, at the Mini Concert Hall of the Ethnomusicology, FSP ISI Yogyakarta. This festival will showcase 12 music documentary films created by Ethnomusicology students and is open to the public free of charge.
Embracing the idea “where images find their voice and voices find their image,” Nada Screen becomes a meeting space for music, film, field research, and cultural stories. Through this festival, students not only showcase audio-visual works but also display the long academic process, from field observation, research, recording, narrative construction, to visual and sound processing into documentary works.
The presence of the Tone Screen strengthens ISI Yogyakarta's position as an art college that continuously encourages students to create creatively, critically, and based on research. The films shown are the result of students' interpretations of various musical phenomena, cultural practices, communities, and the relationship between sound and the social life of the community.
This festival also shows that art learning at ISI Yogyakarta doesn't stop in the classroom. Students are invited to go directly into the field, meet cultural practitioners, record reality, read contexts, and process them into works that are communicative to the public. Thus, Layar Nada becomes a concrete example of how higher arts education can produce works that have artistic, academic, and social value.
Over the three days of the event, the public can watch 12 music documentaries on a single screening stage. This program serves as a space for appreciating student work while also opening a broader dialogue about music as part of memory, identity, tradition, social change, and daily life.
Through the "Layar Nada" program, the Ethnomusicology Study Program at ISI Yogyakarta reaffirms its role in developing music studies and practices that are not only performance-oriented but also focus on documentation, research, cultural archives, and knowledge production. This activity aligns with the spirit of ISI Yogyakarta as an impactful art campus, adaptive to media developments, and actively presenting relevant works for the community.
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