Abstract:
The project is designed to show the life of a sinden siter in Yogyakarta who apparently only known as the traditional street music player meanwhile sinden siter in Indonesia is closely related to the Javanese gamelan traditional music. As the time goes by, this traditional music has gradually dissapeared affected by many factors which are internals or externals. The subject of this research was a sinden siter in Yogyakarta who has been survived in modern era aligned with another freshly new modern music. By applying descriptive qualitative approach, this research was employing observation and indepth interviews in order to dig accurate information about the life of sinden siter in struggling to be stand out among those fresh and new modern musicians also the factors which influenced the shift of traditional musical art in the current era. These results suggest that the traditional music instrument siter actually have both functions to the culture as medium for conveying messages and as the leader of the groove tracks from an orchestration. On the other side, being a sinden siter actually gives privilege to the player itself as source of income. A part from this, the development of another musical arts slowly replace the position of traditional music with proofs of decreasing the number of sinden siter as well as the interests of the community due to the social process.
