playing with gender
one thing that no one ever tells you when you go to do fieldwork is how important it is to pay attention to furniture. recently, much of my observations at Continue Reading →
Tag: drinking
remediation and ethnographic sound work
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 →
a sailor’s story
evening in a’tolan. i go out to the main street in search of food. a typhoon has just passed through, giving us a break from the heat of late june. Continue Reading →
drinking before noon: participatory musicking and rainy days in a’tolan
“maratar, fayi!” i shouted as i stood on the street outside of the betel and drink stand beside backpacker dog in a’tolan. “hai!” said the auntie who runs the stand, Continue Reading →
