life in text and stereo sound
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 →
although anthropologists would not generally confuse ethnography with documentary presentation, such a definition guides most sound work in the discipline. to broaden definitions of ethnographic sound work, i have been exploring what one could call a conceptual soundscape: rather than aiming for verisimilitude, these pieces create fantastic or impossible sounds that nonetheless explore an historically specific way of hearing Continue Reading →
I am fond of the Chishang Bento, but my own love for this product has to do with its place in the Taitung soundscape as well as its taste… Continue Reading →
I know, diffusion is about the least interesting topic to most anthropologists or ethnomusicologists these days, but questions about the distribution of musical forms might tell us something about how groups form and maintain themselves through time
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was it sold to developers? who said that they could sell its light reflecting on the ocean waves? 在杉林浴場沙灘上聽海浪 心裡應該放輕鬆 只是月娘 被遮住了 童年的回憶 也被出賣了 不是月娘已下山 是人類的貪心 讓我們坐在陰影中 唱古調吧 也許我們還能請月娘回來
