Shorthand Phonetics
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Shorthand Phonetics is an indie rock
and film score
outfit from Bandung, Indonesia which, as of 2010, only comprises Ababil Ashari (vocals, guitars, bass and programming). The outfit was established on the 13th of April 2004, although conflicting reports claims that the band has been releasing material since 2003. The outfit has been releasing music for Yogyakarta, Indonesia
netlabel Yes No Wave Music since 2007.
Shorthand Phonetics used to be a five-piece full band comprising Ababil Ashari, Alfonsus Tanoto (bass), Daniel Sastro (guitar), Kevin Yapsir (guitar) and Alvin Lasmana (drums). This line up produced the first Shorthand Phonetics album "Fanfiction: From the Seriously Absurd to the Absurdly Serious" (2006). After the release of this album however the rest of the band members left to pursue academic degrees outside Indonesia, more specifically America
and Singapore
. This left Ababil to continue the namesake as a songwriting/recording outfit.
The Shorthand Phonetics recorded sound is a mix of staccato guitars, melodic strumming, frenetic drumming, basic bass lines with loose vocals that talk about mundane annoyances of life produced in a lo-fi manner using webcam mics and a laptop.
Recently, the outfit has topped the Jakarta Globe's
list for the "Top 5 Indonesian Albums of ’09" for the film score album "Score No. 1 (Dream:Chase) in A major, Op. 17 for Three Electric Guitars, One Bass Guitar and One Drum Kit".
The outfit's latest release, "thirty-four minutes with hide and tsubasa" was released on the 10th of August 2010.
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
and film score
Film score
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...
outfit from Bandung, Indonesia which, as of 2010, only comprises Ababil Ashari (vocals, guitars, bass and programming). The outfit was established on the 13th of April 2004, although conflicting reports claims that the band has been releasing material since 2003. The outfit has been releasing music for Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Yogyakarta (city)
Yogyakarta is a city in the Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. It is renowned as a centre of classical Javanese fine art and culture such as batik, ballet, drama, music, poetry, and puppet shows. Yogyakarta was the Indonesian capital during the Indonesian National Revolution from 1945 to...
netlabel Yes No Wave Music since 2007.
Shorthand Phonetics used to be a five-piece full band comprising Ababil Ashari, Alfonsus Tanoto (bass), Daniel Sastro (guitar), Kevin Yapsir (guitar) and Alvin Lasmana (drums). This line up produced the first Shorthand Phonetics album "Fanfiction: From the Seriously Absurd to the Absurdly Serious" (2006). After the release of this album however the rest of the band members left to pursue academic degrees outside Indonesia, more specifically America
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
. This left Ababil to continue the namesake as a songwriting/recording outfit.
The Shorthand Phonetics recorded sound is a mix of staccato guitars, melodic strumming, frenetic drumming, basic bass lines with loose vocals that talk about mundane annoyances of life produced in a lo-fi manner using webcam mics and a laptop.
Recently, the outfit has topped the Jakarta Globe's
Jakarta Globe
The Jakarta Globe is a daily English language newspaper in Indonesia, launched on November 12, 2008.The paper averages 48 pages a day, and publishes Monday to Saturday...
list for the "Top 5 Indonesian Albums of ’09" for the film score album "Score No. 1 (Dream:Chase) in A major, Op. 17 for Three Electric Guitars, One Bass Guitar and One Drum Kit".
The outfit's latest release, "thirty-four minutes with hide and tsubasa" was released on the 10th of August 2010.
Albums
| Year | Title |
| 2006: | Fanfiction: From the Seriously Absurd to the Absurdly Serious |
| 2007: | Apparently...I'm In Medicine / Love, or the Illusion of the Beginning Symptoms of It |
| 2008: | Fire! (I Could Have Died and All I Could Think About Was My Charred Diary) |
| 2009: | Errors in Calculating Odds, Errors in Calculating Value Errors in Calculating Odds, Errors in Calculating Value Errors in Calculating Odds, Errors in Calculating Value is the fourth album release by indie rock outfit Shorthand Phonetics. It is a concept album which represents the first draft of fictional character Hanabishi Hideaki's debut novel entitled "Errors in Calculating Odds, Errors in Calculating... |
| 2010: | thirty-four minutes with hide and tsubasa |
| 2011: | Cantata no. 6 (Assistants of Assistants) in Varying Keys, Op. 25 for Three Electric Guitars, One Bass Guitar, One Drum Kit, One Tenor and Additional Voices Where Appropriate |
Film Scores
| Year | Title | Film | Director | Full or Partial Score |
| 2008: | Original Soundtrack to the Semprul Production Motion Picture "Ngintip! Run, Budi, Run'" | Ngintip! Run, Budi, Run | I Wayan Andrew Handisurya | Full |
| 2009: | Score No. 1 (Dream:Chase) in A major, Op. 17 for Three Electric Guitars, One Bass Guitar and One Drum Kit | Dream:Chase | Putri Zulmiyusrini and Hesti Nurmala Rizqi | Full |
| 2010: | I Will No Longer be Afraid | At the Very Bottom Everything | Paul Agusta | Partial |