Bio

Nadia Margawi is a music teacher and musician from Semarang, Indonesia, with a Bachelor of Arts in Music from LASALLE College of the Arts, majoring in Electronic Music. Music had been a part of Nadia’s life from an early age. She took up classical piano early on and is now qualified with an Associate Diploma in piano performance and grade 6 in music theory. She performed in local events and took part in several competitions in her hometown. During her years in high school, she started to develop an interest in songwriting, music production and scoring for media. Now, Nadia writes music with piano, orchestral, and electronic elements and is open to exploring different genres in her writing. Her music is profoundly inspired by nature, stories, and other forms of art, as well as her own emotions. She also started performing with fellow musicians at LASALLE, exploring a more electronic approach in her performances. Nadia is always interested in discovering different sound textures by trying new ways of playing an instrument or processing sounds on digital audio workstations. She is skilled in producing, recording, and mixing on digital audio workstations like Ableton Live, Logic Pro, and Pro Tools.

 

During her studies, Nadia developed an interest in film and game audio and music. She has had the opportunity to collaborate with LASALLE’s film students on their short films, writing original scores for “Nichol Doesn’t Eat” documentary film (2020), “Mera Bhai” film (2020), “Alighting for Lola” film (2021), and “Okusan” film (2021). Recently, she has written original music for a musical production by SMU students called Gelar Budaya in 2024. Nadia was also involved in several telematic improvisation events in 2021, taking part in online collaborations with universities from Thailand, the Philippines, Japan, and Switzerland. Besides writing music, she has done several audio-visual works, generating visuals on p5.js and processing videos on Signal Culture Apps and Adobe Premiere Pro.