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“The Future of the Dutch Colonial Past”

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…

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Donaueschingen Global: The sonus in Contemporary Music

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…

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The Sonic Entanglements Podcast is up!

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…

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