I will be presenting a collaborative lecture-performance at the CTM Festival 2021, in collaboration with (in order of appearance): Lonneke van Heugten, Pepe Dayaw, Ariel Orah, Ram de Jesus, Jean Barcena, Julien Enzanza, Hyeisoo Kim, Thijs van den Geest, Taïca Replansky, Daphne Brunet Abstract: The arrival of modernity is often hailed in… Continue reading
Happy New Year! 2020 may have brought to us some surprises–good and bad, I hope it also allowed you some moments of pause and reflection amidst our collective social distancing. I hope that 2021 holds some promises of possibilities of meeting face to face again! In the meantime, while the theatres… Continue reading
The Royal Society for Music History of The Netherlands invites everyone to join their Musicological Expo on 12 December 2020. I will be speaking in the first panel with the topic: When did the Manila musicians become Filipinos? And when did Post-migration become Post? Session 1 (11:00-13:00 CET): Music and… Continue reading
Don’t forget to tune in on December 11 at midnight (CET). My Hörstück, »Interferenzen: Koloniales Scheitern im Radio« will premiere on Deutschlandfunk Kultur. This Hörstück is about failure and colonial interferences.I spoke with radio scholars and historians Elizabeth Enriquez, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, and Teilhard Paradela. I sampled historical sounds from colonial… Continue reading
This evening, FAUST [working title] will premiere at the Dutch National Opera. In echoing the dialogical process of the creation of the work, I wrote my article for the programme booklet as an epistle to the Artistic Team. In time for tonight’s premiere, I share with you the English version… Continue reading