Thank you for your birthday wishes! I could not ask for a more humbling way to look back on what my 43 years of life have amounted to than with the gift of a touching and poignantly written jury report for the Open Ear Prize bestowed on me—a prize that… Continue reading
I am exhilarated to share the stupefying news that I won the Dutch composer prize, OPEN OOR (Open Ear)! I am beholden to the voices in the colonial sound archives that I had the privilege of hearing and meeting in my sonic disentanglement expeditions. Through them, I realize that the… Continue reading
From 30 November, I am joining the Amsterdam Young Academic (AYA) as a new member. AYA is a network of young scientists and scholars in Amsterdam who take research beyond the boundaries of their own field. AYA was founded in 2018 by Amsterdam members of De Jonge Akademie and is… Continue reading
Our project, Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS), invites up to four Visiting fellows from Southeast Asia for a three-month stay to work with one or more Southeast Asian collections within audio-visual archives located in Europe. For more information, visit the Current Call Page for DeCoSEAS Fellowship 2023. 1. Eligibility… 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