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Echoing Europe – Postcolonial Reverberations

A Sound Performance by meLê yamomo. Noise, din, background buzz, sound waves hit the eardrum. Sounds are physical touches. Touches of something unknown. If we knew what it was it might actually be “music”. Who decides what is “sound”? Who would classify it as “music”? Can we stand this touch?… Continue reading

Philippine Book Launch and Lecture

I will be doing a Philippine launch of my book »Sounding Modernities: Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946« on 21 February at the University of the Philippines Diliman-College of Music! As part of the Musikolokya, I will also give a lecture on the nineteenth-century theatre and… Continue reading

Permanente Beunruhigung | Beunruhigung 2

Permanente Beunruhigung | Beunruhigung 2. With: Quinsy Gario (poet & performance artist), Daniel Lima (artist, curator, editor & researcher), Lobadys Pérez (dancer & choreographer), meLê yamomo (sound and performance artist-scholar); An encounter, a venture, a festival! We’re celebrating 10 years of post-migrant theatre at Ballhaus Naunynstraße with the internationally cast… Continue reading

Permanente Beunruhigung

In December, I will be participating in the »Permanente Beunruhigung« Performance Festival at Theater Ballhaus Naunynstrasse in Berlin. It’s an unusual format! I’ll be meeting three other artists from other cities across the globe, whom I’ve never met before, and we will have 48 hours to create a performance! This is going to be exciting!

You can read more about the project (and get your tickets) here. And down below is the trailer: