In the late 1920s, researchers and collectors captured Bali's ceremonies, rituals, gamelan orchestras, and everyday life. They pressed recordings into shellac and stored it all in archives abroad. For decades, this material remained largely inaccessible to the island it belonged to. Arsip Bali 1928 has spent years repatriating it from collections across Europe and the US, restoring it, and returning it home.

Starting this July at Klymax, Bali 1928: Live Score resurfaces that footage every month through the end of 2026 — rare archival film with a live score and live narration, each edition a meeting of past and present. 

The first features Putu Septa playing a live contemporary gamelan improvisation with Dea Barandana shaping sound design, and cultural archivist Marlowe Bandem narrating the journey live.