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“Aesthetics of Breath” is the new episode of the SMRN podcast channel I recorded with my colleague and talented filmmaker and curator Kalpana Subramanian. The episode was published by Creative Disturbance, an international online platform of The ArtSciLab of The University of Texas at Dallas. The episode explores non-Western genealogies of breath in connection with notionsContinue reading “Listen to my most recent podcast episode”

Volume 16, Number 1: Music and Theory We are pleased to announce the publication of SEM Student News Volume 16, Number 1. This issue discusses new and reimagined conceptualizations of theories from many areas and traditions, and highlights student voices as they shape theoretical engagements in current and future fieldwork, social activism, and ethnomusicological academia.Continue reading “New article published by the Society for Ethnomusicology SEM-Student News”

In April 17, 2020, the communication office of the University of Pennsylvania featured the multimodal exhibit “Re-Covering the Ney Collection” under the subtopic of archaeology. According to the review, the “pre-planned web exhibit has become one of the limited opportunities to visit a museum right now—prompting professors to assign it to their students, and enticingContinue reading “Review by PennToday”

Indigenous Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Musicology presents: Lecture: Amazonian Indigenous Music and Communication with Nonhumans: The Sonic Worlds of the Hehénewa People.  ICE-TKC323 Biocultural approaches to the environment and conservation, taught by Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen & Hanna Guttorm. Tuesdays at 12:15–14:45 Place: Vuorikatu 5, h144, ground floor University of Helsinki   Film Screening of ~KİRAİÑİA (Long Flutes) and discussion with theContinue reading “Activities in Helsinki 2020”

REHAVI (Timekeepers) will be screened at Cinemística International Film Festival. The screening will take place at Corrala de Santiago on November 27 at 19:30h in Granada, Spain.  Rehavi (Timekeepers) is the story of an old migrant watch lost, found and circulated by different owners. The film presents a contemporary view of the profound philosophy of time and theContinue reading “Screening at CINEMISTICA2019”

~Kiraiñia (Long Flutes) is an essay film about how an instrument sounds like. The film is a deep immersion into the process of remaking instruments and affects in an Amazonian community living in the Uaupés River Valley in Southern Colombia. The film renders the resilience of the Emi-Hehenewa community to assemble emotion and memory outContinue reading “~Kiraiñia (Long Flutes)”

~KIRAIÑIA (Long Flutes) was selected to participate at the symposium “Film as Ethnography, Activism, and Public Work in Ethnomusicology” at the annual conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) in Indiana University in Bloomington, November 6th, 2019. This essay film stands as one of three ethnographic artifacts of a doctoral dissertation in Ethnomusicology.

Yuruparí Stereo: Exchange of Listenings, Digital Media and Repatriation of Indigenous Musical Archives in Uaupes. Abstract During the last three decades Amerindian communities living in the southeastern region of Colombia have been receiving copies of sound recordings made by foreign scholars at the beginning and mid twentieth century. Some of the reasons why these recordings are gaining publicContinue reading “Paper Presentation”

  ~Kiraiñia (Long Flutes) is an essay film about how an instrument sounds like. The film is a deep immersion into the process of remaking instruments and affects in an Amazonian community living in the Uaupés River Valley in Southern Colombia. The film renders the resilience of the Emi-Hehenewa community to assemble emotion and memoryContinue reading “Recent essay film”

“Tataroko” by Gualanday (2016)