Kai Riedl has been teaching classes on Asian religions, Buddhist ritual, and Music in Religious Culture in the religion dept at UGA for the last few years. He has received several grants to study music and religious culture in Indonesia. As a musician Kai was a founding member of the band Macha, has contributed tracks for the band Tuatara (collaborating with members of R.E.M and poet Coleman Barks), has produced and developed the Javasounds recording project and its remix counterpart Our New Silence.

Suny Lyons is a music producer / recording engineer, web / graphic designer, performer and recording artist from Athens, Georgia. He has engineered and produced music at the world-renowned Chase Park Transduction Studios for nearly a decade with bands like Macha, Lovers, The Low Lows, Tin Cup Prophette, PacificUV, Phosphorescent, and Hope For Agoldensummer. Suny was the primary recording, mixing, and mastering engineer and principle web designer for the Javasounds Indonesian Music Series. He is also currently an active member of
Hope For Agoldensummer and Our New Silence. See: www.sunylyons.com.

Our #1 Indonesian manager Rina Janiarti! Rina offers tremendous assistance on Kai and Suny’s trips to Indonesia by contacting/organizing musicians and making communication possible through her help as a translator.

Thank you<> On the Indonesian side our manager Rina Janiarti and family, Wahyudi, Nyoman Arsana, Danny,Citra, Raharjo at ISI in Yogyakarta, Ari at ARU STUDIO, and all the musicians on these recordings. Also, all those that pointed us in the right way, tolerated our sound obsessed mindsets, as individuals and as a culture we are deeply grateful.

Here in the states I must thank: John Riedl, Sharmeen Hossain, Michael Stipe, Dia Wirsing, Tim Hankins, Glenn Wallis, Pete Dugas, Sam Fogarino, Andy Lemaster, Jim Hawkins, Glenn Schick, Jean Kidula, Cristen Guest and Chris Billheimer. Also the Department of Religion at the University of Georgia and the UGA center for the arts and humanties.