Restituting, Reconnecting, Reimagining Sound Heritage

In 2024, the research project Restituting, Reconnecting, Reimagining Sound Heritage (Re:Sound), led by Dr. Sri Margana from Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, received a subsidy from the NWO/NWA programme “Research into Collections with a Colonial Context”, funding a PhD Candidate, two Visiting Fellows, a workshop and a summer school from and in Indonesia. Margana’s team will work together closely with Dr. meLê yamomo and Dr. Barbara Titus from the University of Amsterdam (ASCA). Yamomo and Titus will act as co-supervisors for the PhD candidate and as hosts for the Visiting Fellows who carry out research in various sound archives in Europe, among them the Jaap Kunst Collection at the UvA and the Philips Holland Omroep-Hollandse Indies radio broadcasts at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NISV) in Hilversum, that will act as a consortium partner.