The Sonic Entanglements Podcast is back! The second season is hosted and produced by Gardika Gigih, a music composer and researcher from Indonesia. Entitled “Dari Akar ke Mekar,” Indonesian for “From roots to blossoms,” the series traces how field recordings of Philippine traditional music cultures inspire new works by Filipino…
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…
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…
The NWO Veni-Project Sonic Entanglements and the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology co-organize the “Untangling Philippine Sound, Archive, And Knowledge” on 5-6 August 2022. The workshop brings together archivists, scientists, and scholars from different disciplines working on/in the issues of post/de-colonial Philippine sound histories and sound cultures. The event…
The DFG Project “Akustische Störungen. Postkoloniale und queere Potentiale sonischer Interventionen” at Freie Universität Berlin headed by Prof. Dr. Doris Kolesch is looking for Ph.D. candidates and postdoctoral researchers. The project takes my work on sound as a method of decoloniality as its theoretical starting point. „Wenn wir an Kolonialismus…