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Donaueschingen Global: The sonus in Contemporary Music

On Sunday, my video-lecture-performance will be shown at the Donaueschinger Musiktage. In this piece, I situate my reflection of the ‘sonus’ in contemporary art music’s reflexive meta-musical re-evaluation of itself as a sonic medium. I am, however, twice removed from this ‘performative’ act. I am physically not in the Donaueschingen–as…

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Publications

Books Sounding Modernities: Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Book Chapters »듣기에 대한 삼각법: 듣기의 과거, 현재, 미래에 대한 세 가지 생각« / “Trigonometry of Listening: Three Thoughts on the Past, Present, and Futures of Listening” in Asian Culture Center Sound Lab…

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Sandeep Bhagwati’s »The Sound Of Misunderstanding – Dhvanivala‘s Sonic Explorations« opens the Decolonial Frequencies Festival

This Sunday (19 September 2021) at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, we are opening the »Decolonial Frequencies« Festival with Sandeep Bhagwati‘s “The Sound Of Misunderstanding – Dhvanivala‘s Sonic Explorations”. * * * In the early 1960s a young Indian student comes to Darmstadt to do a PhD in physics. Cold War era –…

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