On 5-6 August, nine scholars, scientists, engineers, historians, and musicians presented their sound archives and sonic theoretical reflections in the Untangling Philippine Sound, Archive, and Knowledge Workshop. We invited researchers and archivists who work with specific sound archives. We define a sound archive as a collection or library of sound…
The NWO Veni-Project Sonic Entanglements and the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology co-organize the “Untangling Philippine Sound, Archive, And Knowledge” on 5-6 August 2022. The workshop brings together archivists, scientists, and scholars from different disciplines working on/in the issues of post/de-colonial Philippine sound histories and sound cultures. The event…
I am grateful to Eliza Steinbock and Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca for their invitation for me to present the keynote performance at the Symposium Archival Interactions: Performing Intersectional Counter-Archives at DAS Theatre. Despite covid-related setbacks, I was happy to have performed the video-performance-electronic music piece “When a lover says “I…
Synthesized Planet. Is it possible to travel with the help of sound? To unknown places? We know, since the sound events of Sun Ra, that sound has a driving energy. It is an energy that can transport us away from all earthly borders to other planets. And when we speak…
Tuning In To Resonances. It’s a contemporary survival technique: one checks websites and articles, in order to create a picture of someone before meeting them. Especially before flying 10,000km to meet a person for the first time, with whom one will publicly perform three days later. But this common practice…