Growing up in the interweaving, rich world of Balinese music, magic, mischief, and violence, the composer Yudane carves a unique path across the landscape of new music composition in both Bali and New Zealand. His controversial compositions cross genre and media, including gamelan ensembles, orchestral music, choirs, electro-acoustic music, scores for dance, theatre, film, and installation.

Yudane is seven years old when he is given his first Balinese traditional drum. Growing up in the interweaving, rich world of Balinese magic, music, mischief, and violence, he carves a unique path across the landscape of new music composition in both Bali and New Zealand.

Travelling widely, his virtuosic and perennially controversial compositions cross genre and media, including gamelan ensembles, orchestral music, choirs, electro-acoustic music, scores for dance, theatre, film, and installation. He is the recipient of many honours for his compositions.

“Balinese Arts are famous for their capacity for constant innovation and renewal, and this fact is reinforced in the music of Wayan Yudane. His works introduce new concepts of gamelan orchestration, such that I have never heard in gamelan before, as well as striking utilisation of silence and the rhythms of breathing. With composers like Yudane, Balinese gamelan remains a vibrant, living art form, speaking in a strong and confident voice to twenty-first century audiences.” - Jack Body, composer.