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Slamet A. Sjukur
Born: 30th June 1935, Surabaya, Indonesia
Died: 24th March 2015, Surabaya, Indonesia
Nationality: Indonesian
Slamet Abdul Sjukur was the founding father of contemporary Indonesian music. He studied and worked in Paris under Olivier Messiaen and Henri Dutilleux. He was a lecturer at IKJ (Institut Kesenian Jakarta) but due to his unconventional ideas, he eventually had to leave. He lives in Jakarta, and Surabaya as a freelance composer, teacher, and music critic. Sjukur developed the idea of minimax in music, with his compositions notable for their minimal constellation of sounds and numerological basis, indicating his interest in a new "ecology of music".
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slamet_Abdul_Sjukur
