Interview with meLe Yamomo at our Trafo Blog
The Workshop aimed to bring together scholars, historians, artists, and archivists working on sound history/iography in the Asia Pacific for an interdisciplinary theoretical conversation and practical knowledge-sharing. The two-day workshop combined panel discussions on current scholarship on Asia Pacific sound historiography, presentations on the works of archivists working on Asia Pacific historical sound materials, and excursions to the sound archives in Berlin. Within the framework of the Forum Transregionale Studien, this workshop intended to bring into conversation the interstices of currently nation-framed historiographies in order to reflect on transregional discourses on the topic. The workshop endeavored to generate conversations on the history of sound beyond its euphonic understandings in the region, as well as to explore the intersections of current scholarships from various disciplinary perspectives.
"Acoustic Histories/Historiographies in the Asia Pacific" has been followed up with the research project Sonic Entanglements: Listening to Modernities in Sound Recordings of Southeast Asia, 1890-1950. The project is headed by meLê yamomo, funded by the Dutch Scientific Research Organization (Nederlands Wetenschappelijk Organisatie – NWO) and is embedded at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
In September 2019, the project took part in a series of workshops and archival visits in Amsterdam/Hilversum, Berlin and Vienna.
