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
Check our latest episode of Nusasonic Radio — “Vicissitudes” produced by CTM Festival In this episode, we hear from different voices of Berlin’s Southeast Asian diaspora who are active in music, sound, and art scenes. These voices are compiled into 4 segments: Segment 1: Soydivision and Un.thai.theld collectivesfeatures discussion by… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
Decoloniality is a process–which could sometimes lead to uneasy encounters with the self. Listen to Ariel William Orah and Bilawa Respati‘s Gaung – Unpredictable Resonances tonight at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, as they confront the auditory specters of nationalism, history, and tradition in the retuning of their bodies, voices, and instruments to… Continue reading
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 –… Continue reading