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,…
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“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…
Opera and the Exotic in Us
Catch the online performances of this year’s Mannheimer Sommer Festival, running this week. On Friday, 17 July 2020, meLê yamomo will be giving the keynote lecture, “Opera and the Exotic in Us”. This will be followed by…
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…
Prof. Barbara Titus – “Sonic Entanglements on Tour: Visiting Colonial Sound Archives in the Early Twenty-First Century”
Prof. Barbara Titus will deliver a lecture at the Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University on 23 January 2020 entitled, “Sonic Entanglements on Tour: Visiting Colonial Sound Archives in the Early Twenty-First Century”. In this…
Sonic Entanglements Team at the “Inward/Outward” Symposium
The Sonic Entanglements Team composed of Prof. Sri Margana (Universitas Gadjah Mada), Vincent Kuitenbrouwer (University of Amsterdam), and meLe yamomo will have a panel at the “Inward/Outward” Symposium organized by the Dutch Institute of Sound and Vision and the KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute…
“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…
Sonic Entanglements on Tour: A short update by meLê yamomo
Last month, I had the privilege to have talked, collaborated, and traveled with archivists, historians, and scholars working on sound histories of Southeast Asia. The group discussed sonic understandings, materialities of sounds, and listening as…
Sonic Entanglements: Sound, Archive, and Acoustic Historiographies in the Asia Pacific
9 September | 10:30-17:30 | Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum10 September | 10:00-16:00 | VOC Zaal, University of Amsterdam This workshop gathers together scholars of history, anthropology, ethnomusicology, performance studies, media studies, and…
Sonic Entanglements Workshop and Archival Visits 2019
Between 9-16 September, The Sonic Entanglements Research Project gathers together scholars of history, anthropology, ethnomusicology, performance studies, media studies, and psychology, as well as archivists working on Southeast Asian sound histories in a series of workshop, panel discussion, and archival…