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Jonas Baes (born 1961 in Los Baños, Laguna) is a
Filipino composer. He enrolled in the University of
the Philippines' College of Music in 1977 as a
student of Ramon P. Santos, and encountered the
musical compositions of Jose Maceda, attended
several seminar-workshops of visiting lecturers,
and did research on the music of the Iraya-
Mangyan people of Mindoro, which became the
inspiration for his compositions. From 1992 to
1994, he studied with Mathias Spahlinger in
Freiburg, Germany. Baes is known for writing
music utilizing "unorthodox" musical instruments
like bean-pod rattles, leaves, iron-nail chimes, as
well as various Asian instruments such as bamboo
scrapers, bamboo flutes, and vocal music using
Asian vocal techniques. His early works in the
1980s were influenced by Maceda in the use of
large numbers of performers, while in the 1990s
he experimented with various methods by which
the audience becomes integral in the
performance. At the beginning of the new century,
Baes experiments with notions of structure-
agency integration [after Anthony Giddens] and
simulacrum [after Jean Baudrillard]. It is typical for
social theory to influence the work of Baes who
has made a mark on contemporary music and
cultural politics in the Asian region. Baes is also
active as an ethnomusicologist and writer.

Jonas Baes

Born 1961 (age 62–63)

Los Baños, Laguna

Genres Experimental

Occupation(s) Composer

Compositions

Some of Jonas Baes' musical compositions

include:

BANWA [imagined community, after Benedict

Anderson] for four bamboo scrapers, "bamui" trail
caller, "sarunai" oboe, "khaen" mouth organ, and
about a hundred iron nail chimes distributed
among the audience [1997/2001]

WALA [nothingness] for seven or hundreds of

men's voices [1997/2001]

DALUY [flow] interval music for five animator-

percussionists and about a hundred bird whistles
distributed among the audience [1994]

IBO-IBON [birdwoman] for dancer wearing small

bells, two large wind chimes passed around the
audience, four animator-callers, and iron nail
chimes played by the audience [1996]

SALAYSAY [narratives/ inspired by Jean

Baudrillard] for solo voice, three percussionists,
and pairs of pebbles distributed among the
audience

PATANGIS-BUWAYA [and the crocodile weeps]

for four sub-contrabass recorders or any blown
instruments [2003]

PANTAWAG [music for calling people] for 15

bamboo scrapers, 15 palm leaves, and 20 muffled
"forest" voices [1981]

BASBASAN [blessing] for 20 bean-pod rattles and

20 muffled men's voices [1983]

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