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Big Ideas: meLê yamomo @University of Guelph

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…

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Donaueschingen Global: The sonus in Contemporary Music

On Sunday, my video-lecture-performance will be shown at the Donaueschinger Musiktage. In this piece, I situate my reflection of the ‘sonus’ in contemporary art music’s reflexive meta-musical re-evaluation of itself as a sonic medium. I am, however, twice removed from this ‘performative’ act. I am physically not in the Donaueschingen–as…

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Academy under Trees: Europe’s Evolving Approach to Collection Items from Colonial Contexts

In 2019, the Stiftung Genshagen invited me to perform Echoing Europe at the Schloss Genshagen as part of the Academy under the Trees 2020. It would have been interesting to bring the performance within such an imperial space and within the context of this year’s theme, Europe’s Evolving Approach to…

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