“The composer meLê yamomo will receive the Open Ear Award on November 2, which the Trillende Lucht Foundation awards to composers who “show a world of their own” in their work. The awards ceremony will…
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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…
Wie klingt Kolonialismus? meLê yamomo im Interview
Elisa Erkelenz spoke with meLê yamomo about his performance Echoing Europe – Postcolonial Reverberations at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. The conversation is published on the most recent edition of VAN Outernational Magazine. “yamomos Soundperformance im Ballhaus Naunynstrasse ist eine vielschichtige Überlagerung…
“Sometimes you only have to listen…”
Stefan Donath of the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” interviewed meLê yamomo about the premiere of Echoing Europe – Postcolonial Reverberations. I met meLê yamomo in June 2019 to talk about the very successful premiere of his…