9 September | 10:30-17:30 | Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum
10 September | 10:00-16:00 | VOC Zaal, University of Amsterdam
This workshop gathers together scholars of history, anthropology, ethnomusicology, performance studies, media studies, and psychology working on/in the Asia Pacific sound histories, as well as archivists, programmers, and sound engineers of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, the Vienna Phonogram Archive, and the Jaap Kunst Collection. Participants will reflect on the entanglements of currently nation-framed sound historiography and transregional/translocal discourses of acoustic epistemologies from various disciplinary perspectives.
Acoustic Mobilities
What paradigmatic shifts transpired with the reconfiguration of new modes of mobilities and communication technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? In rethinking early sound historiographies of the Asia Pacific, how do we account for the social lives of human laborers, socio-cultural actors, and sound objects migrating to different regions, nations, and institutions in the Asia Pacific?
Sonic Knowledge
How did the early sound recordings constitute and construct knowledges and understandings of modernities in the Asia Pacific: i.e. ‘modern’ race epistemologies, notions of modern state (and/or urban) institutions and citizenship, and the emergence of a transnational cultural/media industry? How did the materiality of the early sound technologies mediate sonic discourses of global modernities among communities in the Asia Pacific? How do we take into account the mediality and the aesthetics generated through these media as the very epistemes of the Asia Pacific modernities?
Listening Societies/Communities.
How did listening constitute the imagined (trans)national and translocal communities in the Asia Pacific? What theoretical tools and methodologies can we employ to better understand these transregional conditions and processes? In working with nation-based sound archives: How do we engage the materials that are stored in archives of the different post-imperial centers and peripheries, and on the other hand, documents catalogued in different languages of the postcolonial societies and previous colonizers? How do we deal with the challenges in the limits of their institutional and ‘ownership’ policies?
Participants:
Bart Barendregt (University of Leiden)
Strings of Sorrow, on remembering the Dutch through Southern Sumatran classical guitar
Barbara Titus (University of Amsterdam)
Inscribing knowledge: Ethnomusicological recordings as texts and practices
Carolyn Birdsall (University of Amsterdam)
Worlding the Archives: Radio Collection, Heritage Frameworks, and Selection Principles
Citra Aryandari (Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta )
Performing vs. Recording: The Sound of Modern Bali
Gerda Lechleitner (Phonogram Archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Stimulating and encouraging performers in front of the phonograph – sound recordings as the acoustic memory of communities: source criticism, historical methods and responsibilities of archives today
Jose Buenconsejo (University of the Philippines)
Sound-Matter of Cultural Memory: the Transmediatization of Cebuano Balitao, Folk Song Alimukoy and Kinhason, and Folk Dance Kuradang
meLê yamomo (University of Amsterdam)
Whose Sonic Technologies?: Decolonizing Sound Knowledge
Sri Margana (Universitas Gadjah Mada)
The Genealogy of Dutch Colonial Knowledge of Javanese Gamelans: A Reappraisal of Post-colonial Approach
Rameses de Jesus (University of the Philippines)
Beyond Psychoacoustics: The Philippine National Anthem as a Sonus
Rasika, Ajotikar (Universität Göttingen)
Sonic epistemologies of caste and the modern sound archive of India
Vincent Kuitenbrouwer (University of Amsterdam)
The glass house revisited: radio broadcasting and the blind spots in the late colonial state in the Netherlands Indies, 1920s and 1930s
Respondents:
Henry Spiller (University of California-Davis)
Jeroen de Kloet (Univeristy of Amsterdam
Leonie Schmidt (University of Amsterdam)
Yiu Fai Chow (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Limited seats are available to observers and can be reserved by contacting the organizers at info@sonic-entanglements.com.
This workshop is convened by meLê yamomo and Barbara Titus in cooperation with Harry van Biessum, with the support of the “Sonic Entanglements” Research Project, the University of Amsterdam-Musicology Department, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies, and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis.
This project is part of the sonic-entanglements.com/workshops2019