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 →
Category: 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.
mi amor, porque te vas
it turned out that the song the faki mentioned was not an uruguayan song after all, but one that had shared meaning in the context of the relationships that formed Continue Reading →
what does democracy sound like?
in an earlier post during the 2012 elections, i asked this question as sound trucks passed by my residence; and now, with a local election finished not too long ago, Continue Reading →
remembered soundscapes, with apologies to murray schafer
today i fell for nostalgia. while harvesting a field edge by hand, i felt sad never to have heard the sound of harvesting before the arrival of the combine: although Continue Reading →
walking a “space of fifty steps” with rahic talif
>ironically, ciRahic’s project to recover the ability to read the ocean’s writing relies not upon natural materials, but on flip flops, the refuse of an industrial society that displaced an ‘amis understanding of the ocean as animate, vibrant, and life giving. nearly daily, ciRahic visits the ocean to observe and gather flip flops either discarded on the beach or elsewhere, which somehow come to rest on the beach. visiting sites along taiwan’s entire east coast, he stops when he has found a flip flop and begins to observe his surroundings, creating a narrative for what he has found. for example, the flip flop could be faded, showing the signs of a long journey; he may ask, how long did you float before you arrived here? do you miss your home? Continue Reading →
