The composer as commentator, director, performer and researcher. Various disciplines come together in the work of the Filipino-Dutch composer meLê yamomo. Work that has a powerful current value, in which yamomo responds to personal subjects such as colonialism. meLê yamomo is the fourth winner of the biennial Open Ear composer… Continue reading
“Disentangling Colonial Archives: The Combustible Affair of Ensuring/Insuring Theater Safety in Colonial Singapore” will finally come out this month as a chapter in the collection: “Entangled Performance Histories.” In April 2020, I was lost in an exciting writing project, oblivious to the world shutting down to a global pandemic. I… 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
I am grateful to Eliza Steinbock and Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca for their invitation for me to present the keynote performance at the Symposium Archival Interactions: Performing Intersectional Counter-Archives at DAS Theatre. Despite covid-related setbacks, I was happy to have performed the video-performance-electronic music piece “When a lover says “I… Continue reading
The DFG Project “Akustische Störungen. Postkoloniale und queere Potentiale sonischer Interventionen” at Freie Universität Berlin headed by Prof. Dr. Doris Kolesch is looking for Ph.D. candidates and postdoctoral researchers. The project takes my work on sound as a method of decoloniality as its theoretical starting point. „Wenn wir an Kolonialismus… Continue reading