Publications

“Sonic Returns: A Polyvocal Reflection” in Hicham Khalidi, Amanda Sarroff (Eds.) Eye(s) Open: New Perspectives on Film Heritage from Colonial Times. nai010 uitgevers/EYE Museum, 2026.

With Yağmur (Yago) Sağlam. “Rewiring the Sonus: Letters to Rewire Listeners” in Further Listening. Den Haag: Page Not Found/ReWire Festival, 2026.

“meLê yamomo” in Clippings 2: Sum, Parts. Rotterdam: Through Sounds, Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2026.

»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 Research Catalogue, »듣기의 미래: 도시« / Futures of Listening: City, edited by 김광래. Gwangju: Asian Culture Center, 2024.

Co-authored with Adrian Curtin and Prarthana Purkayastha. “Methodologies Dialogue: Archives and Embodiments” in The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies, edited by Tracy Davis & Paul Rae. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Co-authored with Barbara Titus. “Rehearsing Decolonial Curatorship of Southeast Asian Sound Archives in Europe” in The Future of the Dutch Colonial Past: Curating Heritage, Art and Activism, edited by Pepijn Brandon, Karwan Fatah-Black, Imara Limon, Wayne Modest & Margriet Schavemaker. Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

“La Sonoridad del Mundo en Manila del siglo XIX: A Syneasthetic Listening to Early Globalization in Manila” in The Philippines and the World: Cultural interactions and encounters in Filipino literature in Spanish, edited by Ortuño Casanova María del Rocío & Axel Gasquet. University of Michigan Press, 2024.

Co-written with Theresa Beyer. “Framing Europe” in New Music and Institutional Critique, edited by Brandon Farnsworth and Christian Grüny. Heidelberg, Metzler, 2023.

“How and why? The Post/De-colonial as method in contemporary European theatre” in Routledge Companion to European Theatre and Performance, edited by Aneta Mancewicz & Ralf Remshardt. Routledge, 2023.

“Disentangling Colonial Archives: The Combustible Affair of Ensuring/Insuring Theater Safety in Colonial Singapore.” In Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater Historiography, edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Malgorzata Sugiera, Torsten Jost, Holger Hartung & Omid Soltani. New York: Routledge, 2023.

“Dissonant Intimacies: Disentangling the Colonial Sonus in Archives and Repertoires.” in Dynamische Traditionen: Globale Perspektiven auf zeitgenössische Musik. Eine Textsammlung zu Donaueschingen Global, illustrated by Marc Cosico. Edited by Elisa Erkelenz & Katja Heldt, 126-142. Donaueschingen: SWR, 2021.

“Acoustic Epistemologies and Early Sound Recordings in the Nusantara Region.” In Made in Nusantara, edited by Adil Johan and Mayco A. Santaella. New York: Routledge, 2021.

“Making Sense of an Unfinished Business.” In Excavations, Interrogations, Krishen Jit & Contemporary Malaysian Theatre, edited by Carmen Nge, Charlene Rajendran, and Ken Takiguchi. Kuala Lumpur: Epigram Books, 2018.

Co-written with Steve Villaruz.“Manila and the World Dance Space: Nationalism and Globalization in Cold War Philippines and Southeast Asia.” In Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War, edited by Christopher B. Balme and Berenika Szymanski-Düll, 307-323. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

“Medializing Race: Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Colonial Southeast Asia.” In Uncle Tom’s Cabins: The Transnational History of America’s Most Mutable Book, edited by Tracy C. Davis & Stefka Mihaylova. Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 2018.

Titus, B., Yamomo, meLê yamomo, Aryandari, C., Clark, E. H., Dachi, D. K., Li, D. E., Fitria Ningsih, W., & Margana, S. (2026). Restituting and Re-Membering the Jaap Kunst Collection through Collective Community Curation. TMG – Journal for Media History.

Koen Gijsman, Ellie Murphy-Weise, Rocío Naval, Pheobe riley Law, David Wolfswinkel, meLê yamomo and Irene Revell. (2026) “Let Us Cook at the Concertgebouw: recipes for curating disruptive sonic atmospheres (a collective exchange)” in Journal of Live Arts Curation.

“Sonic Experiments of Postcolonial Democracy: Listening to José Maceda’s Udlot-udlot and Ugnayan.” Southeast of Now 6, no. 2 (2022): 133-146.

“Dis/Obedience Performed.” Southeast of Now 6, no. 1 (2022): 177-181.

With Barbara Titus. “The Persistent Refrain of the Colonial Archival Logic / Colonial Entanglements and Sonic Transgressions: Sounding Out the Jaap Kunst Collection” The World of Music 10, no. 1 (2021): 39-72.

“Global Currents, Musical Streams: European Opera in Colonial Southeast Asia.” Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 44, no. 1 (2017): 54-74.

“Brokering Sonic Modernities: Migrant Manila Musicians as Cultural Mediators in the Asia-Pacific, 1881-1948.” Popular Entertainment Journal 6, no. 2 (2015): 22-37.

“Panay Creation Myth as World Picture in {The Alunsina Network}: A Dramaturgical Exposition.” Musika Jornal 6 (2010): 68-83.

»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 Research Catalogue, »듣기의 미래: 도시« / Futures of Listening: City, edited by 김광래. Gwangju: Asian Culture Center, 2024.

“Manila Musicians Resounding Early Globalization: Embodiments and Sonic Performances of Modernities,” Sa kabila ng tabing lamang sa panahong ito/Waiting just behind the curtain of this age. Exhibition Catalogue Book. Philippine Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2024.

FAUST [working title] (Dutch National Opera, 2020)

“Chapter I Body as an Intermediary Object” co-written with eva susova and Amanda Elida Varhaugvik. Current Obsession Magazine #8: The Placeholder Issue, Amsterdam, 2023.

“An Evening of Mozartian Elegance and Irreverence” [Opera Review]. Bangkok Post, November 2007.

„Archive als Widerstand“ Aktuelle Überlegungen zum Dokumentieren des Zeitgenössischen. By Sophie Emilie Beha. Deutschlandfunk. January 21, 2025.

“Gedanken Überpostkoloniale Neue Musik: Wege Aus Der Dauerschleife.” By Sophie Emilie Beha. NOIES: Zeitung für neue und experimentelle Musik in NRW. April 2, 2024.

“Keine Zeit für Black History Month” by Atif Mohammed Nour Hussein. www.nachtkritik.de. February 13, 2024.

“Het Lichaam als Archief, Geluid als Erfgoed.” By Charlie Crooijmans. New Music Now. October 27, 2023.

“Archival Silences.” conversation with Prof. Dr. Doris Kolesch, Dr. Layla Zami, and Emma Lo. Sonic Interventions. Podcast audio. September 15, 2023.

“Presence, failure, and the ancestral remediation of sound.” By Anna Bowen. ArtsEverywhere. August 3, 2023.

“Irgendwas mit Medien #4: Interferences.” Graphic Short Story by Alice Socal. Museum für Kommunikation-Berlin, May 1, 2023.

“Chapter I Body as an Intermediary Object” co-written with eva susova and Amanda Elida Varhaugvik. Current Obsession Magazine #8: The Placeholder Issue, Amsterdam, 2023.

“For the Record. Part 2: meLê yamomo” By Margaret Munchheimer. The Big Playback. Podcast audio. March 29, 2022.

“Wohin des Weges? Über Dekolonisierung in der zeitgenössischen Musik.” By Sophie Emilie Beha. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, no. 3 (2022): 24-30.

“Wie klingt Kolonialismus? meLê yamomo im Interview.” By Elisa Erkelenz. Van Outernational #5. January 16, 2020.

“‘Sometimes you only have to listen…’ About the sonic entanglements of our colonial past.” By Stefan Donath. Textures – Online Platform for Interweaving Performance Cultures. December 10, 2019.

“Sound-Performance „Echoing Europe”: Der Klang des Kolonialismus.” By Christoph Möller. Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Radio interview. May 16, 2019.

“Acoustic Histories/Historiographies in the Asia Pacific. An Interview with meLê yamomo.” By TRAFO Editorial Board. Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’. Video interview. January 1, 2018.

2025

“Sonic Specters and Spectralities in the sound piece Pagtatahip,” Ringvorlesung Musikwissenschaft,  Institut für Theaterwissenschaft – Freie Universität-Berlin. 1 December 2025.

Speaker: “Online Project Presentation and Roundtable: Entangled Recordings.” Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften – Phonogrammarchiv. 13 November 2025.

Speaker: “That You May Know Us: Our Hear, Our Music”. Frankfurt Book Fair: Philippine as Guest of Honor Pavilion. 16 October 2025.

Artist Talk: “Jay Afrisando and meLê yamomo: Excuse us! May we enter the space?” DAAD Gallery, 21 June 2025.

Keynote Performance Lecture: “Tumrap susilaning gěndhing winor laguning lělagon (redux)” in EYE(s) Open: Coloniality and the (film) Archive, EYE Museum, 20 June 2025.

Round Table Speaker: “Sound Archives” in Regenerative Archives: Transforming perspectives on design and digital culture. Het Nieuwe Institut. 12 June 2025

Performance Lecture: “Tumrap susilaning gěndhing winor laguning lělagon (redux)” in Other Epistemologies? Troubling Knowledge in Research and Art. Universität Bochum, 4 June 2025.

Performance Lecture: “Tumrap susilaning gěndhing winor laguning lělagon (redux)” in Oscillation Festival, BIS Chaussee de Zellik, 2 May 2025.

Keynote Performance Lecture: “Tumrap susilaning gěndhing winor laguning lělagon (redux)” in Konferenz: Who Owns Free Knowledge? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons. Wikimedia Deutschland/ Weizenbaum-Institut – Berlin. 10 April 2025.

Keynote Performance Lecture: “Tumrap susilaning gěndhing winor laguning lělagon (redux)” in Het Archief Speculatief: verleden en heden van de theatercollectie. Allard Pierson Museum – Amsterdam. 27 Feburary 2025.

Keynote Performance Lecture: “Tumrap susilaning gěndhing winor laguning lělagon (redux)” in “Resynthesising the Traditional Lab” CTM Festival 2025- Berlin. 2 February 2025.

2024

Keynote Performance Lecture: “Tumrap susilaning gěndhing winor laguning lělagon” at the Sensitive, problematic, contested? Challenges and opportunities in dealing with cultural heritage in museums. Kunsthaus Zürich, 20 November 2024.

Member of Discussion Panel:  “Worlding Feminist Theatre & Performance Historiography” hosted by the research project Sustaining Global Connections In Feminist Theatre & Performance Historiography under the leadership of Dr. Colleen Kim Daniher (U of Toronto), featuring Frances Koncan (U of British Columbia), Amanda Reid (Yale U), and meLê yamomo (UvA) and moderated by Melissa Blanco Borelli (Northwestern U). Hosted by the York U and Wilfrd Laurier U. 9 May 2024.

Workshop: In Ex(ile) Lab. Online. 30 May 2024.

Keynote Performance-Lecture: “Trigonometries of Listening”. Musicking in Difficult Time. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. 3 May 2024

Performance Lecture: “Trigonometries of Listening.” Plot(ting) Launch – Not Another Art Book. Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 17 April 2024.

2023

»…and when I speak, my brown skin and the entire ecology vibrate«, Keynote Performance-Lecture: Beyond Music 23 – Quest for Home. Zurich University of the Arts, May 2, 2023.

Sonus and Sonic Entanglements. Sound Lab Public Lecture: »Futures of Listening: City«. Asia Culture Council-Korea, July 14, 2023.

Sonus and Sonic Entanglements. Keynote Performance-Video-Lecture: Rewire Festival 2023. April 6, 2023.

2022

»…and when I speak, my brown skin and the entire ecology vibrate«, Keynote Lecture-Big Ideas.  International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) at the University of Guelph, Musagetes, the ArtsEverywhere Festival, and CAFKA. University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, December 1, 2022.

»…and when I speak, my brown skin and the entire ecology vibrate«, Keynote Lecture. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany, November 15, 2022.

“Is decoloniality an academic drag?” Keynote lecture at Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival – Discourse Programme, Oslo, Norway, September 16, 2022.

“Throwing a Stone in the Pond.” Keynote lecture at Soundings – Assemblies of Listenings and Voices Across the Souths, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, August 25, 2022.

“Rumah Kaca: the order of ordering; the ordering of orders.” Keynote performance at Performing Intersectional Counter-Archives Symposium, DAS Theater, Amsterdam, June 30, 2022.

“When a lover says “I love you”, is it the words or is it the sayer that matters? or is decoloniality an academic drag?” Presentation at FACING_DRAG in Popular Cultures and Performing Arts, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna, June 24, 2022.

“Artist talk with meLê yamomo.” Lecture at The Factory, Bard College Berlin (and online), March 11, 2022.

2021

“Gespräch über Postmigrantische und Epische Theater” (with Fabian Larsson). Brecht Tage 2021, Literaturforum im Brecht Haus, Berlin.

“Manila Men Remixed” Critical Modes of Listening – CTM Festival Berlin 2021, Germany

2020

“Music and Migration Panel”, Musicologische Expo 2020, Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, The Netherlands

“Archives and Transcultural Composition. “Looted Music” and Accessibility”
Curating Diversity in Europe – Decolonizing Contemporary Music, Akademie der Künste-Berlin, Germany

Keynote Lecture: “Opera and the Exotic Within Us”
Mannheimer Sommer Festival 2020, National Theatre Mannheim, Germany

“Artist Talk: Image of the Giant” (with Yennu Ariendra and J. Mo’ong Santoso Pribadi)
CTM Radio Lab: “Interferences: Liminalities of Failures”

Panel: “Sonic Entanglements between South East Asia and Western Europe”
Inward/Outward, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies/
Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision, The Netherlands

2019

“Whose Sonic Technologies?” EuroSEAS 2019, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Sonic Entanglements Workshop, University of Amsterdam and Vienna Phonogrammarchiv

“Performing Epistemic Disobediences in Manila and Southeast Asia? Decolonial Possibilities in José Maceda’s Udlot-udlot and Ugnayan”, Symposium: Pathways of Performativity in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

“The Hissing Sound that we Hear…” Embodied Histories – Entangled Communities. Southeast Asian and Western Approaches to Narratives and Performance Art, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany

“Interferences” (Irgendwas mit Medien #4) Comic Book by Alice Socal. Museum for Communication-Berlin. 2023.

“Dissonant Intimacies: Disentangling the Colonial Sonus in Archives and Repertoires.” in Dynamische Traditionen: Globale Perspektiven auf zeitgenössische Musik. Eine Textsammlung zu Donaueschingen Global, illustrated by Marc Cosico. Edited by Elisa Erkelenz & Katja Heldt, 126-142. Donaueschingen: SWR, 2021.