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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
This year’s Brecht Tage, curated by Luise Meier and Florian Thamer commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune in a four-day program entitled, Funkhaus Commune. On Day 3, at 10PM on 20 March (Saturday), Fabian Larsson and I presents a video conversation where we discuss the need for an… Continue reading
I am extremely honored to receive the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences) Early Career Award at the online awarding ceremony yesterday. And I was elated to have had the rare opportunity of retrieving my long-neglected Barong Tagalog from the attic to spice up my mostly pyjama wardrobe of the… Continue reading