ABOUT
Nursalim Yadi Anugerah is a composer and multi-instrumentalist, whose works focus on sonic experimentation through cultural practice, knowledge, and cosmology of indigenous people and their activism related to entanglements of social-cultural and environmental issue in Kalimantan (Borneo). His work contains echoes of various styles—Kalimantan indigenous music and symbols, the Indonesian underground noise scene, ritualistic chants, and European avant-garde compositions—all unified under his political project: a critique of ecological devastation and the question of survival. Through his works, Nursalim also offers a rich critique by highlighting the junction between ecology, technology, and decolonization; a path amidst the impasse between theoretical academic discourse and the urgency of Kalimantan’s environmental catastrophe.
His works have been staged in some concert and festival such as International Young Composers Meeting 2018 (The Netherlands), Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2018 (Utrecht), AsiaTOPA 2020 (Melbourne, Australia), November Music 2022 (Den Bosch), Holland Festival 2021 & 2025 (Amsterdam), TIME:SPANS Festival, New York (2025). In 2021-2022, he is awarded by Prince Claus Mentorship Award for Cultural and Artists Response to Environmental Change by Prince Claus Foundation and Goethe Institut. Currently he is joining the Asian Cultural Council's New York Fellowship 2025 in New York City, US.
He has been a member of the International Advisory Board of the Prince Claus Fund in Amsterdam since 2023.
“His work is very colorful, transparant and elegant in its gestural writing. It shows already a very personal language in his use of unusual musical objects , his refined instrumentation and the juxtaposition of opposite elements.”
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- Martijn Padding, Composer /
Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag
“Indonesian composer Nursalim Yadi Anugerah creates a compelling world in which the audience bear witness to the effects of the Anthropocene on Kalimantan”
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- Bachtrack
“Nursalim Yadi Anugerah is a proof of how adventurous and unpredictable experimental music can be in this vast and cultural rich country. A sharp percolative injection to the young bloods of Indonesian composers.”
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- Duto Hardono, Hasana Editions -
Artist/Musician/Educator
“...that shows how Indonesia's avant garde is alive and well..”
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- The Jakarta Post
