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
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DeCoSEAS is awarded the European JPICH grant!
This is one news I am incredibly excited to share. The European Joint Project Initiative in Cultural Heritage awarded us a three-year grant for the transcontinental project, Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS)! When I began my first postdoctoral journey as a postmigrant Filipino-Dutch scholar working on Sonic Entanglements, I… Continue reading
CTM 2021: Manila Men (remix): Sonus and Sonic Migrations
I will be presenting a collaborative lecture-performance at the CTM Festival 2021, in collaboration with (in order of appearance): Lonneke van Heugten, Pepe Dayaw, Ariel Orah, Ram de Jesus, Jean Barcena, Julien Enzanza, Hyeisoo Kim, Thijs van den Geest, Taïca Replansky, Daphne Brunet Abstract: The arrival of modernity is often hailed in… Continue reading
Faust [Working Title] on Opera Vision
Happy New Year! 2020 may have brought to us some surprises–good and bad, I hope it also allowed you some moments of pause and reflection amidst our collective social distancing. I hope that 2021 holds some promises of possibilities of meeting face to face again! In the meantime, while the theatres… Continue reading
KVNM Musicological Expo 2020: When did the Manila musicians become Filipinos? And when did Post-migration become Post?
The Royal Society for Music History of The Netherlands invites everyone to join their Musicological Expo on 12 December 2020. I will be speaking in the first panel with the topic: When did the Manila musicians become Filipinos? And when did Post-migration become Post? Session 1 (11:00-13:00 CET): Music and… Continue reading