I will be at two events at this year’s Rewire Festival in The Hague. See you there! Sonus and Sonic Entanglements meLê yamomo Thu 6 Apr | 19:00-20:00 | The Grey Space During this video-lecture-performance and conversation, meLê yamomo will discuss his research on “sonus,” the sound that is archived… Continue reading
Discourse-Salon #4:Matters of Taste: Debating Contemporary Art and Aesthetic Experience in collaboration with meLê yamomo Tuesday, 28 March 2023 // starting 6 pm // Museum of Communication Berlin, Kaffeehaus DallmayrAdmission: € 8, concessions € 4 at ticket desk – etickets plus € 1 booking fee etickets The event is held in English…. Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
Join us on Thursday, December 1st at 7PM for this video-performance-lecture titled “…and when I speak, my brown skin and the entire ecology vibrate.” Composer and theatre-maker meLê yamomo will resound their philosophy of sound and the sonus—migrating between continents, cultures, artistic practices, and academic disciplines. meLê will be in… Continue reading