Tajen
2016. Sound art, from field recordings
Recordings made at a tajen in Bali, a bloody cockfight that is at once a religious gathering and a gambling session.
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- L2
A tajen sits between a rite and a gamble: the same event that answers a ritual need is also the one people bet on. I recorded the crowd, the announcements, the prayers, the animals, and composed from that. What a description of the practice keeps separate, a recording keeps in one voice.
