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
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 –… Continue reading
I am delighted to invite everyone to the »Decolonial Frequencies Festival« that I am curating. The festival will run through the theatre season 2021-2022 at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. Familiar sounds and terrifying noises. The fleeting fragments of remembered melodies, favorite songs, the noise in our home street. We live in our sound… Continue reading
Come listen to/watch Interferences: Live at the Museum für Kommunikation Berlin on 15 September. My Hörspiel, »Interferenzen: Koloniales Scheitern im Radio«, premiered on Deutschlandfunk Kultur Radio Art last December. Marcus Gammel, who commissioned the piece also suggested the idea of performing the piece live at the Museum für Kommunikation Berlin…. Continue reading
Monday, 30 August 2021 – 19.00 hours Jakarta Time On 30 August 2001, I will be joining the Sesi Viral Biennale Jogja focusing on Decolonization and Art Practice/Politics as a responder. The session includes Pak Daud Tanudirjo presenting his collaborative exhibition of women, Art and technology in the Pacific, and… Continue reading