I Wayan Suweca has received many awards and commissions from foundations, galleries, and art organizations. In 1992, he was commissioned by Diffusion Système Minuit du Québec to create a "kreasi baru kontemporer" (contemporary music composition) for gamelan entitled "Cyclus Kahidupan" (The Cycle of Life). The work was created at galerie Articule and was simultaneously broadcast on CKUT radio in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He directed the Gamelan de l'Université de Montréal's special concert for the anniversary of the Paris International Exhibition in 1989, which was broadcast on Radio-Canada and Radio-France. He is also a noted composer, kendang performer, and renowned gamelan gender wayang performer. He appears on more than thirty CDs for various labels, including Bali Records and Nonesuch. In 2006, he began working on a wayang kulit project and intensely researching traditional Balinese kekawin singing.
References and sources
Still and Moving Lines in the Family of Hyperbolas, Liner Notes, LP, Lovely, USA, 1986
AMERICAN WORKS FOR BALINESE GAMELAN ORCHESTRA, New World Records 80430, Liner Notes
Gamelan: Indonesian Arts in America" Special issue of Ear Magazine, volume 8 number 4, September/October/November 1983
Létourneau, André Éric, Retour de voyage en ces lieux oubliés de l'anéantissement, Galerie Articule, Montréal, 1992
Létourneau, André Éric, Actions radiophoniques in. Inter #55, Éditions interncention, Québec, 1993