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“Eigenschwinungen – Forces of Overtones” premieres next week

On Thursday, Eigenschwinungen – Forces of Overtones will conclude the Autumn 2021 edition of »Decolonial Frequencies« Festival. Come join us at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. In this piece, I worked with cellist Eurico Ferreira Mathias to listen to the social compositions of fundamental and over tones that resound in our communal lives….

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»sonus–the sound within us« returns onstage as part of »Decolonial Frequencies Festival«

Today, on the main stage of Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, we re-assemble sound, memory, performativities, and history. From Friday until Monday, we reprise DECOLONIAL FREQUENCIES: sonus – the sound within us as part of the #decolonialfrequencies festival. Pepê Dayaw, Ariel William Orah, Karlene Moreno-Hayworth, and Katherina Oliver join me as we traverse…

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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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Sandeep Bhagwati’s »The Sound Of Misunderstanding – Dhvanivala‘s Sonic Explorations« opens the Decolonial Frequencies Festival

This Sunday (19 September 2021) at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, we are opening the »Decolonial Frequencies« Festival with Sandeep Bhagwati‘s “The Sound Of Misunderstanding – Dhvanivala‘s Sonic Explorations”. * * * In the early 1960s a young Indian student comes to Darmstadt to do a PhD in physics. Cold War era –…

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