Dr. M.J. (meLê) Yamomo
- Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16-18
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Postbus 93065
1090 BB Amsterdam
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Profile
meLê yamomo is an Assistant Professor of New Dramaturgies, Media Cultures, Artistic Research, and Decoloniality and author of Sounding Modernities: Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). He is the co-project leader and principal investigator of the European Joint Programming Initiative Cultural Heritage (JPICH) project Decolonizing Southeast Asian Archives (DeCoSEAS), and laureate of the »Veni Innovation Grant« (2017-2022) funded by the Dutch Research Organization (NWO) for the project »Sonic Entanglements: Listening to Modernities in Southeast Asian Sound Recordings« (2017-2022). meLê is the winner of the Open Ear Award, the most prestigious composer’s prize in the Netherlands, and one of the 2020 KNAW Early Career Awardee by the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also currently a member of the Amsterdam Young Academy. meLê is also resident artist at Theater Ballhaus Naunynstrasse where his creations Echoing Europe, sonus, and Forces of Overtones are on repertoire. meLê also curates the Decolonial Frequences Festival and hosts the Sonic Entanglements podcast. In his works as artist-scholar, meLê engages the topics of sonic migrations, queer aesthetics, and post/de-colonial acoustemologies.
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Teaching
Current Teaching
MA
Sound Culture as a Method for Decolonial Research
Artistic Research Core Module 2: Research Matters: Knowledge Production Within and Beyond the Academy
Artistic Research Thesis Project/ExhibitionBA
Studiereis Theaterwetenschap (Theatre Studies)
Philosophy of Humanities (Media and Culture)
Research Seminar and BA Thesis (Media and Culture)
Doing Media Studies 1 (Media and Culture)Past Teaching
MA
Theatre and Globalization
Music Theatre as Laboratory (jointly offered by the Theatre Studies and the Musicology Departments)BA
Presence and Aesthetic Experience in Performance, Film and the Arts
I hear you. Theatre, Film, Media and Sonic Art in Sound Culture
Composing Theatre, Staging Music. Practices and Concepts in Music Theatre -
Projects
Research Projects
as Project Leader/Principal Investigator
Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS)
Funded by the Joint Programming Initiative Cultural Heritage (JPICH), 2021-2024Sonic Entanglements: Listening to Modernities in Southeast Asian Sound Recordings, 1890-1950
NWO Veni Innovation Research Project
Funded by the Dutch Research Organization (NWO), 2017-2021Globalization in Cylinders: Recording Asian Sounds on the European Stage, 1890-1910
International Research Center »Interweaving Performance Cultures« (2016-2017)
Freie Universität BerlinGlobalization in Cylinders: Recording Asian Sounds on the European Stage, 1890-1910
Postdoctoral Research Project
Global Theatre Histories Project
Ludwig Maximilians Universität-MünchenFellowships
Artist in Residency
Akademie der Künste-Studio for Electroacoustic Music (Berlin, Germany)Research Fellow
International Research Center »Interweaving Performance Cultures« (2018-2020)
Artist in Residence
Theater Ballhaus Naunynstrasse (2017-present)
Research Fellow
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (2018-2020)Workshop and Conference Organization
Sonic Returns: Repatriating Sounds in Exile
Principal convenor and organizer
25 October 2022 (SOAS-London), 28 October (CNRS-CASE Paris), 1 November (Department of Music Studies, University of Amsterdam), 4 November (Department of Musicology and Media Studies, Humboldt University-Berlin)Untangling Philippine Sound, Archive, And Knowledge
Principal convenor and organizer
Co-organized with the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology
5-7 May 2022, University of the PhilippinesSonic Entanglements: Sound, Archive, and Acoustic Historiographies in the Asia Pacific
(A four-city, nine-day workshop series and archival tour)
Principal convenor and organizer
Co-organizers: Barbara Titus (University of Amsterdam), Harry van Biessum (The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision), Gerda Lechleitner (Vienna Phonogram Archive)EuroSEAS 2019 (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Panel Convenor “Sonic Entanglements: Sound, Archive, and Acoustic Historiographies in the Asia Pacific”
Co-convened with Barbara Titus
September 10–13, 2019, Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinAcoustic Histories/Historiographies in the Asia Pacific
Workshop funded by the Transregional Studies Forum-Berlin and Max Weber Foundation
11-12 January 2018, Transregional Studies Forum - BerlinThe Boat is Sinking? Open Encounter Addressing the Urgency of Artistic Cross-Cultural Dialogues
co-organized with Dancing on the Edge in cooperation with Dutch Culture and the Amsterdam School of Globalisation Studies
5 November 2015, 15:00-18:00, University Theater, AmsterdamTransformation: Lecture and Open Masterclass by Pierre Audi
Stage Director, "Sorella, que dici?.... Prenderò quel brunettino", from Mozart’s Così fan tutte (1790)
University Theatre, Amsterdam, 6 October 2015, 10:00Troubled Love (Opera Masterclass with Pierre Audi)
Co-organizer together with Kasper van Kooten and Prof. Kati Röttger Organized under through the Theatre Studies Amsterdam, and the Pierre Audi Honorary Fellowship Programme
University Theater, Amsterdam, 13 May 2015Localizing the International: Visions of Curatorship in Theatre and Performance: Master class with Frie Leysen
Organizer and convener
Organized on the occassion of Frie Leysen’s winning the Erasmus Prize and the Jubileaum of the Theatre Studies, University of Amsterdam; Funded through the Praemium Erasmianum,
University Theater, Amsterdam, 24 October 2014Globalizing Opera Workshop
Organizer and co-convener together with Prof. dr. Kati Röttger
International Workshop funded through the Amsterdam School of Globalization Studies; and organized through the Netherlands Institute of Cultural Analysis
University Theater Amsterdam, 19 June 2014Cross-Culturality in/as Music Theatre (Practice-as-Research Workshop)
Workshop; Organized through Theatre Studies Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute of Cultural Analysis
University Theater, Amsterdam, 14-15 May 2014Media
Global Theatre Histories ScienceCast
Directed and Produced the »Global Theatre Histories« ScienceCast Video for Ludwig Maxmilians Universität Munich, ©2014.
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Publications
2024
- Curtin, A., Purkayastha , P., & Yamomo, M. (2024). Methodologies Dialogue: Archives and Embodiments. In T. C. Davis, & P. Rae (Eds.), The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies (pp. 217-235). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009294904.015 [details]
Yamomo, M. (2024). How and why? The post/decolonial as method in contemporary European theatre. In R. Remshardt, & A. Mancewicz (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance (pp. 416-424). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003082538-67 [details]- Yamomo, M. (2024). La Sonoridad del Mundo en Manila del siglo XIX: A Synesthetic Listening to Spanish Writings in 19th-Century Manila. In A. Gasquet, & R. Ortuño Casanova (Eds.), Transnational Philippines : Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish (pp. 173-189). University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11959397 [details]
- Yamomo, M., & Beyer, T. (2024). "Framing Europe": meLê yamomo interviewed by Theresa Beyer. In C. Grüny, & B. Farnsworth (Eds.), New Music and Institutional Critique (pp. 195-205). (Ästhetiken X.0 – Zeitgenössische Konturen ästhetischen Denkens). J.B. Metzler. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67131-3 [details]
2023
- Yamomo, M. (2023). Disentangling Colonial Archives: The Combustible Affair of Ensuring/Insuring Theater Safety in Colonial Singapore. In E. Fischer-Lichte, M. Sugiera, T. Jost, H. Hartung, & O. Soltani (Eds.), Entangled Performance Histories : New Approaches to Theater Historiography (pp. 127-144). (Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance). Routledge. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003353461-9 [details]
2022
- Yamomo, M. (2022). Dis/Obedience Performed. Southeast of Now, 6(1), 177-181. https://doi.org/10.1353/sen.2022.0008 [details]
- Yamomo, M. (2022). Sonic Experiments of Postcolonial Democracy: Listening to José Maceda's Udlot-udlot and Ugnayan. Southeast of Now, 6(2), 133-146. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/871494 [details]
2021
- Yamomo, M. (2021). Acoustic Epistemologies and Early Sound Recordings in the Nusantara Region: Phonography, Archive, and the Birth of Ethnomusicology. In A. Johan , & M. A. Santaella (Eds.), Made in Nusantara: Studies in Popular Music (pp. 75-82). (Routledge Global Popular Music Series ). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367855529-9 [details]
- Yamomo, M. (2021). [Review of: N. Porath (2019) Hearing Southeast Asia: Sounds of Hierarchy and Power in Context]. Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, 177(2-3), 439-441. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134379-17702013 [details]
- Yamomo, M., & Titus, B. (2021). The Persistent Refrain of the Colonial Archival Logic/Colonial Entanglements and Sonic Transgressions: Sounding Out the Jaap Kunst Collection. The World of Music, 10(1), 39-70. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27032505 [details]
2019
- Yamomo, M. (2019). [Review of: B. Barendrecht, P. Keppy, H. Schulte Nordholt (2017) Popular Music in Southeast Asia: Banal Beats, Muted Histories]. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 175(1), 127-128. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134379-17501015 [details]
2018
- Yamomo, M. (2018). Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946: Sounding Modernities. (Transnational Theatre Histories). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69176-3 [details]
- Yamomo, M. (2018). Echoing Musical Modernities: Filipino migrant musicians from the 19th century to the Present. In A. Q. Tan (Ed.), Saysay Himig: A sourcebook on Philippine music history 1880-1941 (pp. 265-270). (Music and culture book series). The University of the Philippines Press. [details]
- Yamomo, M. (2018). Making Sense of an Unfinished Business. In C. Rajendran, K. Takiguchi, & C. Nge (Eds.), Excavations, Interrogations, Krishen Jit & Contemporary Malaysian Theatre (pp. 158-165). Five Arts Centre. [details]
- Yamomo, M. (2018). Medializing Race: Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Colonial Southeast Asia. In T. C. Davis, & S. Mihaylova (Eds.), Uncle Tom's Cabins: The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book (pp. 258-281). The University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.8057139 [details]
2017
- Yamomo, M. (2017). Global Currents, Musical Streams: European Opera in Colonial Southeast Asia. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 44(1), 54-74. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748372717741440 [details]
- Yamomo, M., & Villaruz, B. E. (2017). Manila and the World Dance Space: Nationalism and Globalization in Cold War Philippines and South East Asia. In C. B. Balme, & B. Szymanski-Düll (Eds.), Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War (pp. 307-323). (Transnational Theatre Histories). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48084-8_18 [details]
2015
- Yamomo, M. (2015). Brokering Sonic Modernities: migrant Manila musicians in the Asia Pacific, 1881-1948. Popular Entertainment Studies, 6(2), 22-37. https://novaojs.newcastle.edu.au/ojs/index.php/pes/article/view/157 [details]
2010
- yamomo, M. (2010). Panay Creation Myth as World Picture in {The Alunsina Network}. Musika Jornal, 6(1), 68-83. https://www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/musika/article/view/1866
2021
- Titus, B., Yamomo, M. J., & Juan, C. (2021). Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives. Web publication or website https://www.decoseas.org/
2014
- yamomo, M. (Author). (2014). Global Theatre Histories ScienceCast. Web publication or website, ITunes. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/global-theatre-histories-hd/id804045891?mt=2
Prize / grant
- Yamomo, m. (2022). Open Oor/Open Ear Prize 2022. https://trillendelucht.nl/nl/winnaar/vierde-prijswinnaar/
- Yamomo, m. (2022). Open Oor Award. https://trillendelucht.nl/uk/winner/fourth-award-winner/
- Yamomo, m. (2021). Early Career Award.
- Titus, B. & yamomo, m. (2021). Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS). https://www.decoseas.org/
- Yamomo, m. (2019). ASCA Article Award. https://aihr.uva.nl/content/news/2019/06/asca-awards.html
- yamomo, m. (2017). NWO Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni.
- yamomo, m. (2016). Fellowship: International Research Center »Interweaving Performance Cultures«.
- yamomo, m. (2014). Fellowship: SIAS Summer Institute »Cultural Encounters«.
- yamomo, m. (2013). Fellowship: SIAS Summer Institute »Cultural Encounters«.
Membership / relevant position
- Yamomo, m. (2023-2024). Amsterdam Young Academy. https://amsterdamyoungacademy.nl/member/mele-yamomo/
Media appearance
- Yamomo, m. (13-02-2024). Keine Zeit für Black History Month [Web] Nacht Kritik. Keine Zeit für Black History Month. https://www.nachtkritik.de/atif-mohammed-nour-hussein/kolumne-grand-guignol-im-opernhaus-postkolonialer-kampf-gilt-jeder-form-von-ausschluss
- Yamomo, m. (27-10-2023). Het Lichaam als Archief, Geluid als Erfgoed. [Web] New Music Now. Het Lichaam als Archief, Geluid als Erfgoed. https://newmusicnow.nl/verken/article/het-lichaam-als-archief-geluid-als-erfgoed
- Yamomo, m. (15-09-2023). Archival Silences [Other] Sonic Interventions. Archival Silences. https://sonicinterventions.podigee.io/6-silent-interventions
- Yamomo, m. (08-08-2023). Presence, failure, and the ancestral remediation of sound [Web] Arts Everyhere. Presence, failure, and the ancestral remediation of sound. https://www.artseverywhere.ca/decolonial-frequencies/
- Yamomo, m. (01-05-2023). Irgendwas mit Medien #4: Interferences [Print] Museum für Kommunikation-Berlin. Irgendwas mit Medien #4: Interferences. https://www.mfk-berlin.de/irgendwas-mit-medien/
- Yamomo, m. (01-08-2022). Wohin des Weges? Über Dekolonisierung in der zeitgenössischen Musik [Web] Beitrags-Navigation Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. Wohin des Weges? Über Dekolonisierung in der zeitgenössischen Musik. https://musikderzeit.de/ausgabe/gegen-macht/
- Yamomo, m. (31-03-2022). For the Record. Part 2: meLê yamomo [Other] Le Guess Who. For the Record. Part 2: meLê yamomo. https://leguesswho.com/news/podcast-listen-to-part-2-of-for-the-record
- Yamomo, m. (01-03-2022). "Wohin des Weges? Über Dekolonisierung in der zeitgenössischen Musik." [Print] Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. "Wohin des Weges? Über Dekolonisierung in der zeitgenössischen Musik". https://musikderzeit.de/ausgabe/gegen-macht/
- Yamomo, m. (01-11-2021). Dissonant Intimacies: Disentangling the Colonial Sonus in Archives and Repertoires [Print] Donaueschingen Musiktage. Dissonant Intimacies: Disentangling the Colonial Sonus in Archives and Repertoires. https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles/portal/125094995/DEM21_reader_digital_150.pdf
- Titus, B., Yamomo, m. & Hoebe, M. (07-05-2021). Twee UvA’ers proberen beroemd geluidsarchief weer bijeen te brengen [Web] Folia. Twee UvA’ers proberen beroemd geluidsarchief weer bijeen te brengen. https://www.folia.nl/actueel/145573/twee-uvaers-proberen-beroemd-geluidsarchief-weer-bijeen-te-brengen
- Titus, B., Yamomo, m. & Gandolahage, R. (25-02-2021). Grote archieven koloniale geluiden amper toegankelijk [Print] NRC Handelsblad Cultureel Supplement. Grote archieven koloniale geluiden amper toegankelijk. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/02/24/grote-schatten-aan-koloniale-geluiden-amper-toegankelijk-a4033075
- Yamomo, m. (16-01-2020). Wie klingt Kolonialismus? meLê yamomo im Interview [Web] Van Outernational. Wie klingt Kolonialismus? meLê yamomo im Interview. https://www.van-outernational.com/mele-yamomo/
- Yamomo, m. (16-01-2020). Wie klingt Kolonialismus? meLê yamomo im Interview [Web] Van Outernational. Wie klingt Kolonialismus? meLê yamomo im Interview. https://www.van-outernational.com/mele-yamomo
- Yamomo, m. (10-12-2019). “Sometimes you only have to listen…” About the sonic entanglements of our colonial past [Web] Textures - Online Platform for Interweaving Performance Cultures. “Sometimes you only have to listen…” About the sonic entanglements of our colonial past. http://www.textures-platform.com/?p=4975
- Yamomo, m. (24-07-2019). “Echoing Europe – Postcolonial Reverberations”. Interview with meLê yamomo [Web]. “Echoing Europe – Postcolonial Reverberations”. Interview with meLê yamomo. https://trafo.hypotheses.org/19223
- Yamomo, m. (16-05-2019). Sound-Performance „Echoing Europe“ : Der Klang des Kolonialismus [Radio] Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Sound-Performance „Echoing Europe“ : Der Klang des Kolonialismus. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/sound-performance-echoing-europe-der-klang-des-kolonialismus.807.de.html?dram:article_id=448881
- Yamomo, m. (08-01-2018). Acoustic Histories/Historiographies in the Asia Pacific. An Interview with meLê yamomo [Web]. Acoustic Histories/Historiographies in the Asia Pacific. An Interview with meLê yamomo. https://trafo.hypotheses.org/8710
Journal editor
- yamomo, m. (member of editorial board) (2023-). Amsterdam Museum Journal (Journal).
- yamomo, m. (member of editorial board) (2023-2028). Palgrave Transnational Theatre Histories (Publisher).
- yamomo, m. (member of editorial board) (2021-2022). Journal of the SEAMEO Regional Centre for Archaelogy and FIne Arts (SPAFA) (Journal).
Talk / presentation
- Peeren, E. (speaker), Isenia, J. (speaker), Stelder, M. (speaker), Yamomo, m. (speaker) & Titus, B. (speaker) (27-11-2021). Activism, Academic Research and Decoloniality, The Future of the Dutch Colonial Past, Amsterdam.
- Yamomo, m. (speaker) (12-12-2020). When did the Manila musicians become Filipinos? And when did Post-migration become Post, Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis Musicological Expo 2020.
- Yamomo, m. (speaker) (25-9-2020). 1st Sounds Now Symposium: Curating Diversity in Europe - Decolonizing Contemporary Music, Akademie der Künste Berlin. https://www.adk.de/de/programm/index.htm?we_objectID=61356
- Yamomo, m. (speaker) (17-7-2020). Keynote Lecture: Opera and the Exotic Within Us, Mannheimer Sommer Europäisches Festival für Musik und Theater von Mozart bis heute 2020, Mannheim. https://www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de/de/stueck_details.php?SID=3778
Others
- Yamomo, m. (other) (11-2020). Artist-in-Residence Fellowship (other).
- Yamomo, m. (chair), Titus, B. (member of programme committee), Kuitenbrouwer, V. (participant), Margana, S. (participant), Aryandari, C. (participant), Buenconsejo, J. (participant) & de Jesus, R. (participant) (13-9-2019). Euroseas conference, Berlin, Berlin. Double Panel entitled "Sonic Entanglements: Sound, Archive, and Acoustic Historiographies in Southeast Asia" (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/sonic-entanglements-sound-archive-and-acoustic-historiographies-in-southeast-asia
- Yamomo, m. (organiser), Titus, B. (participant), Margana, S. (participant), Aryandari, C. (participant), Buenconsejo, J. (participant), de Jesus, R. (participant) & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (participant) (9-9-2019 - 16-9-2019). Sonic Entanglements Archival Visits. Between 9-16 September, The Sonic Entanglements Research Project gathers together scholars of history, anthropology, ethnomusicology, performance (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://sonic-entanglements.com/news/
- Yamomo, m. (organiser), Titus, B. (organiser), de Kloet, J. (participant), Margana, S. (participant), Aryandari, C. (participant), Barendregt, B. (participant), Buenconsejo, J. (participant), Birdsall, C. (participant), Schmidt, L. (participant), Chow, Y. (participant), Ajotikar, R. (participant), Spiller, H. (participant), de Jesus, R. (participant) & Kuitenbrouwer, V. (participant) (9-9-2019). Sonic Entanglements, Hilversum. This workshop gathers together scholars of history, anthropology, ethnomusicology, performance studies, media studies, and psychology working on/in (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Titus, B. (participant), Yamomo, M. J. (participant), Aryandari, C. (participant) & Seibt, F. O. (organiser) (19-10-2018). International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-DACH) Conference, Bern. Participation in the Panel Asia as Method in Popular Music Studies (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Yamomo, m. (organiser) (2018). Acoustic Histories/Historiographies in the Asia Pacific, Berlin. The Workshop aims to bring together scholars, historians, artists, and archivists working on sound histories/iographies in the Asia Pacific for an (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://trafo.hypotheses.org/8710
- yamomo, m. (organiser) (2015). The Boat is Sinking? Open Encounter Addressing the Urgency of Artistic Cross-Cultural Dialogues, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Yamomo, m. (organiser) (2014). Localizing the International: Visions of Curatorship in Theatre and Performance,Master class with Frie Leysen, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
2016
- Yamomo, M. J. (2016). Sounding Modernities: Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946.
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Yamomo, M. (2024). How and why? The post/decolonial as method in contemporary European theatre. In R. Remshardt, & A. Mancewicz (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance (pp. 416-424). Routledge.