taiwan soundscapes project
    the taiwan soundscapes project documents and analyzes the sonic environment of contemporary taiwan. the goals of the project are to motivate further research on taiwanese public culture, religious practices, and vernacular aesthetics. eventually, the project will approach historical questions as well as current ones. the project will contribute to understandings of sound and subjectivity, mass media and citizenship, popular music and placemaking.  

links to sound files: more to come

jungyi lianshe festival drum group

sounds of the morning garbage trucks featuring "the young maiden's prayer"

texture of religious festival fengyuan 2006 september

more drum and double reed, or ko-chhui

RECORDINGS FROM MARKETS--AS MENTIONED ON BLOG

hawkers in lukang's morning market

i will survive, the market, that is

loudspeakers and hawkers in taipei's gongguan district

RECORDINGS OF INDIGENOUS MUSICS--BULO, SPECTACLE, AND PROTEST

indigenous protesters chanting "return our people's souls" at the united nations, 2005

calling for the spirits of the ancestors at same protest

song with guitar accompaniment at same protest

singing in the bulo, taitung 2008

appropriation of indigenous music as national spectacle, hengchun 2007

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taiwan soundscape project updates

dj presented a talk on popular musics and indigenous music at in the mix: a conference on music and popular culture"read text of wanting to be wanted: remediation and contemporary taiwanese indigenous musics

a talk on taiwanese reggae and the place of genre from SEM

dj presented a talk on reciprocity, music, and temple networks at the fairbank center symposium on temple networks

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dj presented a talk at the annual meetings of the international association for the study of popular music, u.s & canada joint meetings.

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another talk, this one on taiwanese hip hop

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