by Amabilita Celessya Shafaswara The “Kagungan Dalěm Sěrat Pasindhen Bědhaya utawi Srimpi” is a manuscript that belongs to KHP. Kridhamardawa Keraton Yogyakarta contains lyrical (sindhenan) text of the song used in Javanese court dances such…
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[Sound Bite] Jaap Kunst – Flores
by Barbara Titus Phon. K. 185, recorded by Jaap Kunst in August 1930Place: Riangkroko, far western tip of the curling peninsula in north-east FloresSingers: Merien, RajaSong titles: Najat netung [nitun] – Be’odong – Barassi [berasi]…
[Sound Bite] Soekarno, Music, and Decolonization
By Citra Aryandari After Indonesia’s independence, President Soekarno made several cultural policies that were considered quite interesting for further study. The desire to be completely free from colonialism in all fields formed the desire to…
[Sound Bite] Static and Philippine Martial Law
By Teilhard Paradela The sound and sight of static marks the memory of many Filipinos who witnessed the live broadcast of the proclamation of the Martial Law by then President Ferdinand Marcos on September 23,…
[Sound Bite] “Sa Kabukiran” – Early Recording of Cebuano Composed Music
by Jose Buenconsejo At the beginning of the twentieth century, the utilization of the musicians in the still-foreign-owned music industry was a major strand in the web of cultural development. It cannot be separated, in the…
[Sound Bite] Ensounding Nation and Empires: Sonic Traces of Nineteenth- Century Philippine Military Musicians
In the nineteenth-century Philippines, the colonial military bands provided the musical soundscape in the different cities. Due to problems with sending Spanish recruits from Europe, salaried military positions of the Spanish colonial government were opened…
[Sound Bite] Producing local popular culture from colonial radio
By Elizabeth Enriquez American businessmen introduced commercial radio broadcasting in the Philippines beginning in 1922. It was encouraged and supported by the colonial administration, which saw radio as an efficient channel by which American culture…
[Sound Bite] Early Commercial Recordings of Composed Philippine Music (1905-1929)
by Jose Buenconsejo Originally marketed as a device for embalming the human voice afterlife and as an aide to assisting what is said in court proceedings, audio recording technology would find its way into commoditizing…
[Sound Bite] Jaap Kunst – Urbinasopèn (1932)
Decolonizing South East Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS) – Nieuwe vragen en gedeelde wetenschap door Barbara Titus (Project Leader, DeCoSEAS) [For the English version, please scroll down.] Note: Readers of the article Rehearsing Decolonial Curatorship of Southeast Asian Sound…
[Sound Bite] Radio as Tool of Empire
by Vincent Kuitenbrouwer In 1927 the Dutch electronic company Philips in Eindhoven succeeded in broadcasting directly to the Dutch East Indies, with a shortwave radio transmitter. Consequently, it started a radio station that from 1933 onwards…