Margaret Munchheimer interviewed me for the podcast series The Big Playback. She asked me about my work as a sound artist and sound historian, and I shared my practice and philosophy on how I consider sound as a method of decolonization. I spoke about my theory of the sonus which… Continue reading
on 11 March, I will be speaking in the artist talk series at Bard College Berlin, reflecting on my artistic philosophy and research agenda on how soundings and listenings transform us towards a postmigrant society. If you are in Berlin, do come by. In the portrait photo, I’m thrilled to… Continue reading
Barbara Titus and I will be introducing our project Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (www.decoseas.org) at the Amsterdam Museum Symposium, “The Future of the Dutch Colonial Past” in the session “Activism, Academic Research and Decoloniality” on Saturday 27 November at 09.30h CET in Amsterdam. On June 18th, the exhibition The… 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
I am excited to announce that the Sonic Entanglements Podcast is now online. This series examines the history of sound in Southeast Asia, through conversations with sound experts: historians, archivists, sound engineers, artists, and scholars. In presenting postcolonial and decolonial sound scholarship through podcast, this show underscores the sonicity of… Continue reading