On Wednesday, February 7, the Amsterdam Museum is hosting a drinks reception in honor of the launch of The Future of the Dutch Colonial Past: Curating Heritage, Art and Activism (Amsterdam University Press, 2024). Barbara Titus and meLê yamomo…
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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]…
The Persistent Refrain of Colonial Archival Logic / Sounding Out the Jaap Kunst Collection
DeCoSEAS project leaders meLê yamomo and Barbara Titus published a joint article about the complexities of curating colonial sound archives with DeCoSEAS concerns forming the core of the article. The article titled, “The Persistent Refrain…
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 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…
[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…
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…
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 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…