After having been selected for the Festival du Film de Voyage et d’Aventures Vecues and the Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival and being commended for the Richard Werbner Award for Visual Anthropology, project partner, Dana…
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The DeCoSEAS website is now live!
The website of the Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS) has been launched! Meet the DeCoSEAS collaborators and institutional partners, and know more about the different initiatives of the project. Coming soon, the website will…
DeCoSEAS in Folia Magazine
The University of Amsterdam magazine, Folia published a news feature about DeCoSEAS. In this feature about “hidden archives” at UvA, project leaders, Barbara Titus, and meLê yamomo talk about their plans to disclose the Jaap Kunst Ethnomusicology Collection….
DecoSEAS on ‘Les carnets de la phonothèque’
The Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS) project was brought to the attention of our francophone partners through the French blog Les carnets de la phonothèque of the Maison Méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme. The full text…
DeCoSEAS on the Dutch Newspaper NRC
In February, DeCoSEAS project leaders meLê yamomo and Barbara Titus explained the aims and vision of DeCoSEAS in the Culture Section of the Dutch national newspaper NRC. Through their engagement with the Jaap Kunst Sound…
DeCoSEAS awarded a grant by the European Joint Initiatives for Cultural Heritage
meLê yamomo and Barbara Titus received a grant from the European Joint Initiatives for Cultural Heritage for their three-year project titled Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS). The project renegotiates established understandings of heritage and…
Hörstück Premiere: »Interferenzen: Koloniales Scheitern im Radio«
On 11 December midnight, meLê yamomo’s Hörstück entitled “Interferences – Colonial Failures in Radio” will premiere on Deutschlandfunk Kultur. “Interferenzen – Koloniales Scheitern im Radio” is a piece about failure. The Philips company broadcast the…
KVNM Musicological Expo 2020
The Royal Society for Music History of The Netherlands invites everyone to join their Musicological Expo on 12 December 2020. Sonic Entanglements PI and Project Leader meLê yamomo will be speaking in the first panel…
meLê yamomo receives the KNAW Early Career Award 2020
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences announced today that dr. meLê yamomo is a recipient of the KNAW Early Career Award. The prize, an amount of 15,000 euros and a work of art,…
“Archives and Transcultural Composition” Panel at Curating Diversity in Europe Symposium
The symposium “Curating Diversity in Europe”, taking place online (September 25, 2020) and offline (May 2021), offers a platform for keeping the discourse on diversity in contemporary music in Europe alive, developing potentials for transformation during…