The activity of creating musical works based on Community Service activities with the  title  “Exploration  of  Harmonious  Composition  Techniques  and  Interlocking Vocal Techniques in Metal Musical Works of the Djiwoastra Group” seeks to express musical works that show the marriage between Nusantara aesthetics and Western aesthetics through working on choir vocal compositions. The agreement to collaborate in composing music with an emphasis on the Gregorian choir composite strategy that explores Nusantara vocal forms such as Senggakan and Gerongan (Javanese), as well as the Balinese Kecak vocal interlocking technique is a problem solving point in overcoming the problem of diversity in metal music production techniques required by Djiwoastra music group as partners. The Participation Action Research method is prioritized in this activity. This activity is a vehicle for realizing mutual understanding between the team implementing the activity and the metal music group Djiwoastra, in order to strengthen each other’s potential for the challenges of musical works based on the internalization of diverse experiences. Community service activities that aim to solve problems in balancing the aesthetics of music between West and East have been achieved to some extent by strengthening the trans-medium composite technique of Javanese vocal forms such as Senggakan, Gerongan, and Balinese Kecak which are packaged in a gregorian choral style, which can become a new techniques mastered by partners to develop subsequent works

The research entitled "Adaptation of the Drum Chops Technique in the Song You Are Good in the Liturgical Serving of GBI Keluarga Allah Surakarta" was proposed by raising the assumption that this phenomenon occurs consciously and is related to many things in religious and cultural life in GBI Keluarga Allah Surakarta. There are two problem formulations, namely; 1) Why was gospel music adapted with drum chops technique in liturgical music at GBI Keluarga Allah Surakarta? 2) How was gospel music adapted and drum chops technique adapted to liturgical music at GBI Keluarga Allah Surakarta? and 3) How is the position of gospel music with drum chops technique in worship at GBI Keluarga Allah? The theory of cross-cultural adaptation is used as the basis for the analysis of this research by applying qualitative methods of field research techniques. The results of this study indicate that the GBI Keluarga Allah consciously accepts the gospel flow and uses Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) as the dominant music style because the concept of using liturgical music in GBI Keluarga Allah is a reference to the popular gospel music genre. The adaptation process that occurs in applying the linear drum chops technique is at least three things, namely simplification, mixing, and complicating the game references that are absorbed by the drummer through social media. The adjustment of the drum chops game is considered sufficient to affect the achievement of the desired atmosphere as in the part of the worship service.

This article is part of a report on the results of artistic research (works of music) in the field of music. Briefly expresses experience and some knowledge findings related to the process of creating musical works of art. "Durma" is an editorial for this artwork, which contains three works of music with a popular music creation approach. Inspired by the anxiety of observing the infertility of creativity in the area of popular music in Indonesia, through "Durma" the thought was made to model the creativity of popular music by paying attention to the clash of lyric texts with musical expressions to produce messages and impressions of songs that are not public. In the habits of popular music, the elements of lyric text and musical expression are linear and mutually reinforcing relationships. It has never been imagined before that when a popular musical creation thinks a little freely and tries to clash ideas with an established knowledge of popular music creation, it will instead create ambiguity and the complexity of a refreshing taste. The outputs of the "Durma" artistic research include (1) art work products in the form of audio recordings of three songs entitled (a) Candles, (b) Girls, and (c) Good Night, (2) research reports, and (3) scientific publications articles that unravel the knowledge behind this work process.Keywords : Music creation, popular, clash of musical expressions and lyric texts ABSTRAK Artikel ini adalah bagian dari laporan hasil penelitian artistik (karya musik) di bidang musik. Secara singkat, ini mengungkapkan pengalaman dan beberapa temuan pengetahuan terkait dengan proses penciptaan karya seni musik. "Durma" adalah editorial untuk karya seni ini, yang berisi tiga karya musik dengan pendekatan penciptaan musik populer. Terinspirasi oleh kecemasan mengamati ketidaksuburan kreativitas di bidang musik populer di Indonesia, melalui "Durma" pemikiran dibuat untuk memodelkan kreativitas musik populer dengan memperhatikan benturan teks lirik dengan ekspresi musik untuk menghasilkan pesan dan tayangan lagu yang tidak umum. Dalam kebiasaan musik populer, unsur-unsur teks lirik dan ekspresi musik adalah hubungan linier dan saling menguatkan. Belum pernah terbayangkan sebelumnya bahwa ketika sebuah ciptaan musik populer berpikir sedikit dengan bebas dan mencoba untuk bertabrakan dengan pengetahuan mapan tentang ciptaan musik populer, ia malah akan menciptakan ambiguitas dan kompleksitas rasa yang menyegarkan. Output dari penelitian artistik "Durma" meliputi (1) produk karya seni dalam bentuk rekaman audio dari tiga lagu berjudul (a) Lilin, (b) Gadis, dan (c) Selamat Malam, (2) laporan penelitian, dan (3) artikel publikasi ilmiah yang mengungkap pengetahuan di balik proses kerja ini. Kata kunci: Penciptaan musik, populer, benturan ekspresi musik dan teks lirik