life in text and stereo sound
one of the most powerful examples of the colonial circulation of malikoda can be found in a 1942 film produced by the governor general’s office, “southward advance from taiwan.” a Continue Reading →
japanese colonial depictions of malikoda followed the broader dimensions of taiwan in colonial discourses. to understand these discourses, i find it useful to think of them as scale making projects. Continue Reading →
music–particularly discourses about good versus bad musics–feature in many discussions of urban planning; perhaps this sonic connection to urban planning is more evident in the developing (or in the case Continue Reading →
i’m convinced that songwriters and ethnographers have a great deal to talk about and to learn from each other. figuring out how to facilitate this conversation has become one of my questions as i teach and do research
我深深感到，歌手和人類學學者，應該有很多的話題可以聊，更進一步說，我們互相學習的空間，顯者很大。要如何實現人類學和作曲的對話？這也是值得探討的問題 Continue Reading →
ghosts rework social space: not just through legend or insubstantial shivers, but through their materiality, either the traces that they leave in space, or the remains of the dead that offer sticky problems to urban planners Continue Reading →
