The website of the Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS) is live! DeCoSEAS is a three-year research and community engagement project funded by the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) on Cultural Heritage and Global Change supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. DeCoSEAS proposes the decolonization of heritage curation with… Continue reading
Manila Men (Remix): Sonus and Sonic Migration will reprise at the Mindanao State University – Center for Culture and Arts Studies’s webinar series Mulat sa Musika ng Kultura 2: Perspectives of Music in the Philippines. Save the date: 7 May at 3 PM Philippine Time. From MSU’s website: Continuing from… Continue reading
This year’s Brecht Tage, curated by Luise Meier and Florian Thamer commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune in a four-day program entitled, Funkhaus Commune. On Day 3, at 10PM on 20 March (Saturday), Fabian Larsson and I presents a video conversation where we discuss the need for an… Continue reading
I am extremely honored to receive the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences) Early Career Award at the online awarding ceremony yesterday. And I was elated to have had the rare opportunity of retrieving my long-neglected Barong Tagalog from the attic to spice up my mostly pyjama wardrobe of the… Continue reading
This is one news I am incredibly excited to share. The European Joint Project Initiative in Cultural Heritage awarded us a three-year grant for the transcontinental project, Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS)! When I began my first postdoctoral journey as a postmigrant Filipino-Dutch scholar working on Sonic Entanglements, I… Continue reading