Music For Mental Stability | Jubing Kristianto | TEDxBinusUniversity

Jubing Kristianto is four times national winner of "Yamaha Festival Gitar Indonesia" (1987, 1992, 1994, and 1995)and recipient of Distinguished Award at "Yamaha South-East Asia Guitar Festival" in 1984. After working as a journalist for 13 years, in 2003 Jubing decided to be a guitarist. He had been working together since then with prominent musicians in various genre. Jubing had released five solo guitar albums: Becak Fantasy (2007), Hujan Fantasy (2008), Delman Fantasy (2009),Kaki Langit (2009), and Pagi Putih (2015) produced by IMC Record. In this talk Jubing shared about the belief that there is a soul in music and there are emotions that we feel when we listen to it. Throughout the world music has become a universal way of communicating emotions and thoughts. He explaines how musical genres exist in the world, each with its own charisma. Music is one of the ways humans express their creativity. It is an art form that many of us take for granted without realizing its profound effect on our lives. Jubing Kristianto is four times national winner of "Yamaha Festival Gitar Indonesia" (1987, 1992, 1994, and 1995)and recipient of Distinguished Award at "Yamaha South-East Asia Guitar Festival" in 1984.

He studied classical guitar from Suhartono Lukito and Arthur Sahelangi at Yamaha Music School in Semarang and Jakarta, Indonesia. His formal education is in criminology from Universitas Indonesia.

After working as a journalist for 13 years, in 2003 Jubing decided to be a guitarist. He had been working together since then with prominent musicians in various genre.

Jubing had released five solo guitar albums: Becak Fantasy (2007), Hujan Fantasy (2008), Delman Fantasy (2009),Kaki Langit (2009), and Pagi Putih (2015) produced by IMC Record. Rolling Stone Indonesia magazine had enlisted his Becak Fantasy as one of "The Best 20 Indonesian Albums of 2008".

Jubing have wrote two books on guitar: Gitarpedia: Buku Pintar Gitaris (2007) and Membongkar Rahasia Chord Gitar (2008). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx