frustrationPlate 133 · Jakarta, Indonesia

Kota Tua Jakarta

A colonial square a megacity almost forgot, then listed as itself.

17th–19th c. · Dutch East India Company · Asia

The chamber score

Tabuh Telu

Balinese gamelan · Bali

A temple that must be heard in pairs of hammers.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The historic Dutch quarter of Batavia, the origin fabric of Jakarta.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Kota Tua Jakarta through frustration — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Kota Tua Jakarta was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.