Rohan Iyer
PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of the Arts & Media
Email: rohan.iyer@unsw.edu.au
Supervisors: John Napier, Manolete Mora
Rohan specialises in the study of music from Indonesia. He holds an MMus in ethnomusicology from SOAS, University of London and a MusB (Hons) in music from The University of Manchester. His PhD is focused on the hybrid, brass band musical genre Tanjidor practiced by the Betawi people of Jakarta and its environs. Aside from the thesis, Rohan is experienced in performing several forms of Indonesian music including Central Javanese Gamelan, Sundanese (West Javanese) Kacapi-Suling and Gamelan Degung, and Talo Balak from Lampung (southern Sumatra).
- Research area
- Research outputs
- Ethnomusicology
- Indonesian Music
- Betawi Music
- Musical Hybridity
- Tanjidor
- Iyer, Rohan. 2022. "Interpretations of Melodic Framework and Instrumental Idiom in a Metrically Fluid Piece of Central Javanese Music Performed on a Busking Zither." Analytical Approaches to World Music Journal.
- Iyer, Rohan. 2020. "Street-Style Siter Playing and Regional Urban Identity." Ethnomüzikoloji Dergisi 3 (2): 244-61.