Sonic Entanglements Podcast
Hosted by scholar and artist meLê yamomo, this podcast presents conversations about the history of sound in Southeast Asia. The show engages with researchers, artists, and cultural practitioners to explore how sound, technology, and everyday practices intersect in the region. Each episode delves into sonic memories and acoustic cultures from a decolonial perspective.
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2.5 Grace Ann Buenaventura and Roan Opiso | Community Archives
Welcome to episode 2.5 of the Sonic Entanglements podcast. In this conversation, Gardika Gigih speaks with Roan Opiso and Grace Ann Buenaventura from the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology. They discuss cultural bearer residencies, community archives, and how communities take the lead in preserving and valuing their own cultural memory.
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2.4. Grace Ann Buenaventura and James Gazmin | UPCE Instrumentarium
In this episode, Gardikah Gigih speaks with Grace Ann Buenaventura and James Gazmin—two stewards of this vast collection of over 3,700 traditional and contemporary instruments from across the Philippines and beyond. More than just historical artifacts, these instruments are in constant use—played, studied, and cared for by students, musicians, and community members alike. What emerges is a portrai
2.3 Verne de la Peña
In this episode, Gardika speaks with Dr. Laverne de la Peña, a distinguished ethnomusicologist, composer, and director of the University of the Philippines Centre for Ethnomusicology. The conversation centers on de la Peña’s collaborative composition Si Siwan Si Siwan, a music theatre piece inspired by Filipino folklore and performed through a dynamic interplay of voice, puppetry, and percussion.
2.2 Ramon Santos
The second season of Sonic Entanglements entitled “Dari Akar ke Mekar,” (Indonesian for “From roots to blossoms”) is hosted and produced by Gardika Gigih. In this four-part series, Gardika traces how field recordings of Philippine traditional music cultures inspire new works by Filipino contemporary composers. This episode, and the two forthcoming ones, expands on the role of sound archives and th
2.1 Roan Opiso and Dino Guadalupe | The University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology (UPCE) Collection
Welcome back to season two of the Sonic Entanglements podcast.
This series is entitled “Dari Akar ke Mekar,” (Indonesian for “From roots to blossoms”) and is hosted and produced by Gardika Gigih. In this four-part series, Gardika traces how field recordings of Philippine traditional music cultures inspire new works by Filipino contemporary composers. In this season’s first episode, Gardika delve
1.8 Nadja Wallaszkowits (Part 2) | How did sound recording and archiving shape the way we listen?
This is the second episode of a two-part interview with Dr. Nadja Wallaszkowits, the Head Sound Engineer of the Phonogram Archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. This episode focuses on Nadja’s and my reflection on how the development of audio recording and technology shifted the questions we ask about sound, and how they shaped our listening aesthetics. I asked Nadja, how does the knowledge
1.7 Nadja Wallaszkowits (Part 1) | Vienna Phonogram Archive: The Role of Scientific Sound Archive in Academic Research
In 2018, I interviewed Dr. Nadja Wallaszkowits, head of the audio department at the Sound Archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Nadja is responsible for developing customized audio technologies for field recordings, as well as in audio restoration, re-recording and digital archiving. Her customized equipment and operation procedures became the standard in many other sound archives
1.6 Harry van Biessum | Uncovering Dutch Colonial Media at the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision
I talked with Harry van Biessum, about the history of the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision – the country’s broadcasting and media archive. The institute also houses some rare historical sound and music recordings from the early twentieth century and we uncovered some materials from the Dutch colonial history. We spoke about the role of such an archive in the age of the internet.
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1.5 Gerda Lechtleitner | Listening to the History of the World's First Sound Archive
As the oldest audio archive in the world, what is the role of the Vienna Phonogram Archive in the history of sound research? What recordings about Southeast Asia are stored in the institute? In this episode, meLê yamomo speaks with Gerda Lechleitner – former archivist and researcher at the Sound Archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Gerda tells about her career in the intersection
1.4 Elizabeth Enriquez (Part 2) | Tracing Colonial Radio History in the Archives
In the previous episode, I interviewed Prof. Elizabeth “Betsy” Enriquez about her research on the history of colonial radio broadcasting in the Philippines. This episode is a continuation of our dialogue, and this time we talk about what she discovered while researching in the archives in the Philippines and the US. We also reflect on the relationship of archives with colonial history. The previou
1.3 Elizabeth Enriquez (Part 1) | Appropriation of Colonial Broadcasting: A History of Early Philippine Radio
In this first part of a two-episode interview, I spoke to Elizabeth “Betsy” Enriquez about her pioneering research on the history of the radio media in the Philippines. We listened to extant recordings of music and audio programs created by the front-runners of the Filipino radio broadcasting industry. Betsy talked about the historical context of mass media culture in the US-occupied Philippines b
1.2 Vincent Kuitenbrouwer | Radio as a Tool of Colonialism
In the second episode of the Sonic Entanglements podcast, I speak with Vincent Kuitenbrouwer about the history of early radio broadcasting in colonial Indonesia. We listen to recordings of some of the first radio transmissions from the Netherlands to what was then called the “Dutch East Indies”. Vincent talks about how the Dutch used radio as a tool of imperialism, and how this project failed.
1.1 Barbara Titus | Disclosing the Jaap Kunst Ethnomusicology Archive
In this pilot episode of the Sonic Entanglements podcast, I spoke to Barbara about some of the earliest sound and music recordings made in colonial Indonesia by Jaap Kunst in the early 1900s. Barbara talks about the history of how these recordings would eventually form the Jaap Kunst Ethnomusicology Archive at the University of Amsterdam. As the curator of the archive, we discussed the future of t
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Sonic Entanglements Podcast examines the history of sound in Southeast Asia, through conversations with sound experts: historians, archivists, sound engineers, artists, and scholars. The podcast is hosted by meLê yamomo.
