This May, #DecolonialFrequencies Festival continues with two new unexpected encounters and premieres, and two restagings. In its second edition, non-hegemonic dialogue takes centerstage. A postmigrant artist’s life is a decolonial act. We invite musicians, sound artists, and performers who meet each other for the first time to share artistic practices, to reverberate… Continue reading
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meLê yamomo @Rewire Festival 2023
I will be at two events at this year’s Rewire Festival in The Hague. See you there! Sonus and Sonic Entanglements meLê yamomo Thu 6 Apr | 19:00-20:00 | The Grey Space During this video-lecture-performance and conversation, meLê yamomo will discuss his research on “sonus,” the sound that is archived… Continue reading
Diskurs-Salon #4: Matters of Taste: Debating Contemporary Art and Aesthetic Experience @ Museum for Communication-Berlin
Discourse-Salon #4:Matters of Taste: Debating Contemporary Art and Aesthetic Experience in collaboration with meLê yamomo Tuesday, 28 March 2023 // starting 6 pm // Museum of Communication Berlin, Kaffeehaus DallmayrAdmission: € 8, concessions € 4 at ticket desk – etickets plus € 1 booking fee etickets The event is held in English…. Continue reading
Open Ear Prize – A Lavish Birthday Gift!
Thank you for your birthday wishes! I could not ask for a more humbling way to look back on what my 43 years of life have amounted to than with the gift of a touching and poignantly written jury report for the Open Ear Prize bestowed on me—a prize that… Continue reading
I won the “Open Ear” Prize!
I am exhilarated to share the stupefying news that I won the Dutch composer prize, OPEN OOR (Open Ear)! I am beholden to the voices in the colonial sound archives that I had the privilege of hearing and meeting in my sonic disentanglement expeditions. Through them, I realize that the… Continue reading