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Gaung – Unpredictable Resonances opens

Decoloniality is a process–which could sometimes lead to uneasy encounters with the self. Listen to Ariel William Orah and Bilawa Respati‘s Gaung – Unpredictable Resonances tonight at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, as they confront the auditory specters of nationalism, history, and tradition in the retuning of their bodies, voices, and instruments to…

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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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Publications

Books Sounding Modernities: Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Book Chapters »듣기에 대한 삼각법: 듣기의 과거, 현재, 미래에 대한 세 가지 생각« / “Trigonometry of Listening: Three Thoughts on the Past, Present, and Futures of Listening” in Asian Culture Center Sound Lab…

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