I am excited to announce that the Sonic Entanglements Podcast is now online. This series examines the history of sound in Southeast Asia, through conversations with sound experts: historians, archivists, sound engineers, artists, and scholars. In presenting postcolonial and decolonial sound scholarship through podcast, this show underscores the sonicity of…
Manila Men (Remix): Sonus and Sonic Migration will reprise at the Mindanao State University – Center for Culture and Arts Studies’s webinar series Mulat sa Musika ng Kultura 2: Perspectives of Music in the Philippines. Save the date: 7 May at 3 PM Philippine Time. From MSU’s website: Continuing from…
This is one news I am incredibly excited to share. The European Joint Project Initiative in Cultural Heritage awarded us a three-year grant for the transcontinental project, Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS)! When I began my first postdoctoral journey as a postmigrant Filipino-Dutch scholar working on Sonic Entanglements, I…
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…
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…