Interferences: Live plays one last time at Goethe Institut Amsterdam at 10AM today—yes, a concert in the morning! Have you ever chosen to start your day with a listening piece? It’s surprisingly great: your ears are fresh, your brain hasn’t started multitasking yet, and there’s something poetic about tuning in… Continue reading
Interferences: Live (Performance) is part of Fiber Festival 2025 Thu May 29 + Fri May 30 | Goethe-Institut Amsterdam Radio as an instrument of colonisation. From 1927, the colonial superpowers, including the Dutch, installed radio stations in Southeast Asia to control and dominate the ‘wild’ inhabitants. Shortly afterwards, the local… Continue reading
Out now, “Dari Akar ke Mekar” Season 2 Episode 4 of Sonic Entanglements Podcast. In this episode, Gardika Gigih speaks with Grace Buenaventura and James JD Gasmen from UPCE—two stewards of this vast collection of over 3,700 traditional and contemporary instruments from across the Philippines and beyond. More than just historical artifacts, these instruments are… Continue reading
Notes and Reflections from Archival Listening Session and Brainstorm | 2025.05.09 Counting is never innocent. So many of the archival recordings begin with numbers. Prisoners reciting digits, voices keeping time like living metronomes. What appears as a simple exercise is in fact calibration: pulling the speaker into the grid of… Continue reading
In this episode, Gardika Gigih Pradipta speaks with Verne De la Pena, ethnomusicologist, composer, and former director of the UP Center for Ethnomusicology. The conversation centers on de la Peña’s collaborative composition Si Siwan Si Siwan, a music theatre piece inspired by Filipino folklore and performed through a dynamic interplay… Continue reading