Category: Global Sonic Cultures

I’ve been interested in Indonesian gamelan music for a while and wanted to research it more properly. I came across a thesis by I Wayan Sudirana called Gamelan Gong Luang: Ritual, Time, Place, Music, and Change in a Balinese Sacred Ensemble, and it was honestly a lot more interesting than I expected. I’d listened to…

I was reading this article on Rendah Mag about Awareness II, the charity compilation VALE put out for Autism Awareness Month, and I found it really interesting. It’s the second volume of a project they started in 2020, featuring 27 artists contributing 21 tracks. All the proceeds go to Music for Autism. It’s cool how…

Notes on reading https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/deconstructed-club-music-understanding-the-avant-garde-dance-sound What on earth is deconstructed club? “it might just be easier to simply think of it as “dance music that isn’t too bothered about what the house and techno and tech-house lot are up to.” In fact, it might just be easier to simply think of it as “dance music that…

My plan for this assignment is to: Explore Deconstructed club and Its relationship to queer culture, its relationship to neurodivergence, and themes of Transhumanism present in the scene around the music. Reading list: Wang, Jing (2014). ‘Mapping an existential territory: an autoethnography of a sound researcher’. International Review of Qualitative Research, 7 (4), 486–501, doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2014.7.4.486. …