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…
I’m checking in to let the world know I survived the production week at Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Director of Sound Art Department, Marcus Gammel commissioned my first Hörstück/ radio sound art piece for the DLF-K. Giuseppe Maio is a radio art genius and has patiently helped me as I stumbled through…
I was excited to see our posters up on the streets again last week, in eager anticipation of the reprise of Echoing Europe – Postcolonial Reverberations in November. Today, we indefinitely postpone the restaging once more. Chancellor Angela Merkel announced, last Wednesday, the re-closure of theatres to combat the second wave…