I will be at two events at this year’s Rewire Festival in The Hague. See you there! Sonus and Sonic Entanglements meLê yamomo Thu 6 Apr | 19:00-20:00 | The Grey Space During this video-lecture-performance and conversation, meLê yamomo will discuss his research on “sonus,” the sound that is archived…
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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…
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…
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…
Mulat sa Musika ng Kultura 2
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…