Decoloniality is a process–which could sometimes lead to uneasy encounters with the self. Listen to Ariel William Orah and Bilawa Respati‘s Gaung – Unpredictable Resonances tonight at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, as they confront the auditory specters of nationalism, history, and tradition in the retuning of their bodies, voices, and instruments to… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
Festival Opening: In the early 1960s a young Indian student comes to Darmstadt to do a PhD in physics. Cold War era – atomic physics is popular. It’s the time of post-colonial aspirations for sovereignty. And what’s going on in Darmstadt? After the atrocities of National Socialism there is an… Continue reading