The Austronesian Echo: A Kalimantan Listening Session w/ neko.ea - 4th April 2026

This one-hour listening session is an exploration of the Austronesian Expansion, a migration that began over 4,000 years ago from the indigenous tribes of Taiwan, eventually rooting itself in the heart of Borneo. In West Kalimantan, I grew up surrounded by the sonic remnants of this history, sounds that serve as a living map of our journey across the seas. While often under-researched or overshadowed by the royal court traditions of neighboring islands, the music of the Dayak/ Kenyah people contains the raw, "proto-Austronesian" frequencies that have survived for millennia within the rainforest canopy.

This session highlights the instrument’s specific pentatonic scales and meditative drone strings, elements that were historically used ...
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