Barbara Titus
Project Leader and Principal Investigator (Netherlands)
Barbara Titus studied musicology at Utrecht University and gained her doctorate from Oxford University in the United Kingdom (M.St. Lincoln College [2000], D.Phil. St Anne’s College [2005]) with a dissertation that was published under the title Recognizing Music as an Art Form: Friedrich Th. Vischer and German music criticism, 1848-1887. (Leuven University Press, 2016). Barbara is a fellow at the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) Community. She is co-editor of the journal the world of music (new series), and is a member of the advisory board for the journal Music Theory and Analysis. From 2008 to 2013, Barbara worked as an assistant professor teaching European music history post-1800 at Utrecht University. In 2013, she was appointed associate professor of cultural musicology at the University of Amsterdam.
Barbara is the curator of the Jaap Kunst Sound Collection at the University of Amsterdam. In this capacity, she is the Project Leader and First Principal Investigator of the JPICH-funded project Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS) that renegotiates established understandings of heritage curation.
meLê yamomo
Co-Project Leader and Principal Investigator (Netherlands)
meLê yamomo is an Assistant Professor of Theatre, Performance, and Sound Studies at the University of Amsterdam and author of Sounding Modernities: Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946. He is co-Project Leader and Principal Investigator of Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives funded by the European Joint Project Initiatives for Cultural Heritage, and laureate of the Veni Innovation Grant by the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for his project »Sonic Entanglements: Listening to Modernities in Southeast Asian Sound Recordings«. meLê is a 2020 Early Career Awardee of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences, and was fellow at the “Interweaving Performance Cultures” Center (Berlin) and the Global Theatre Histories Center (Munich).
meLê is also a theatre director and composer, and is a resident artist at Theater Ballhaus Naunynstraße where his creations »Echoing Europe« and »sonus – the sound within us« are on repertoire.
Cristina Martinez-Juan
Principal Investigator, United Kingdom
Cristina Martinez-Juan has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines, Diliman. As an Associate Professor at the Humanities Department of the University of the Philippines, Cebu, she taught at U.P. before she moved to New York in 1996 then to London in 2013. In 2016, she established Philippine Studies at SOAS (PSS) under the Centre of South East Asian Studies at SOAS. PSS is an interdisciplinary forum for Philippine-related teaching, research and cultural production in the UK. It functions as a resource and networking hub and as a research gateway which seeks to create avenues for sourcing and inscribing annotative knowledge from cultural originators in the Philippines. The PH studies programming includes digital humanities projects ( Mapping Philippine Material Culture and Digital Filipiniana) as well as SULAT – a creative writing space for UK-based South East Asian Writers. It also hosts a Philippine-lecture series and an Annual Philippine Studies Conference in London. At the SOAS School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, she teaches Philippine Literature and Philippine Cultural Studies for its BA and MA in South East Asian Studies modules. She is a member of the editorial board of the SOAS Journal of South East Asian Research.
Dana Rappoport
Principal Investigator (France)
Dana Rappoport, who obtained her PhD in ethnomusicology at Paris X-Nanterre university in 1997, is currently a fellow ethnomusicologist at the French Center for Southeast Asian Studies in Paris (CASE, CNRS-EHESS-INALCO). Her research deals with music of the Indonesian archipelago, studied by way of formal musicology, anthropology of religion and social organisation. Since nearly 30 years, she has been studying musical traditions through ethnographic fieldworks in Indonesia (Sulawesi, Kalimantan, Flores) and more recently, in East Timor (Atauro).
She is the author of Songs from the thrice-blooded land: Ritual music of the Toraja (Sulawesi, Indonesia) (2009) and the director of the documentary film Death of the One who Knows (Sulawesi, Indonesia) (2020). She takes great effort in making the audio-video material accessible through archiving, and documenting the music in local languages (https://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/search/quick/corpus/?q=Rappoport). She is also co-director of the French Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CASE).
Joséphine Simonnot
Advisor, Center of research in ethnomusicology (CREM)
Joséphine Simonnot is research engineer at CNRS (France) and she is an expert on digitization, sound and audio-visual production, analogue and digital data preservation, musical acoustics and the online disclosure of audio-visual data.
Graduate from « Ecole nationale supérieure Louis Lumière » and from Sorbonne University (musicology), she studied and recorded vocal music in East Indonesia (Flores, Maluku, Sulawesi). In 1999-2009, she was appointed at Musée de l’Homme, Center of research in ethnomusicology (CREM). She designed and managed a web platform sound archives (2009-2020) to share with a wide audience a world musical heritage and to improve innovative and collaborative tools for indexing audio data. She contributes to restitution programmes and she is familiar with European digital project through its participation in Europeana Sounds. Her technical expertise is requested in the construction of a digital access platform.
Today, Joséphine Simonnot is member of PRISM Laboratory (Perception, Representation, Image, Sound, Music), CNRS/Aix-Marseille University.
Archives web site : archives.crem-cnrs.fr
Layan Nijem
Jaap Kunst Sound Collection, Project Assistant
Layan Nijem is a graduate student of cultural musicology at the University of Amsterdam. She is interested in sound as a way of knowing, steering away from Western epistemology and its reliance on historical written text. By engaging with sound recordings, her research investigates the dynamics of cultural memory and the politics of narrative in relation to identity formation, sovereignty and cultural agencies. Since 2019, Layan has been a student assistant working in the Jaap Kunst Sound Collection under the supervision of Dr. Barbara Titus. Apart from research, Layan holds a Bachelor of Music in classical Viola performance from Conservatorium Maastricht.
LaVerne de la Peña
University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology (Philippines)
Sol Maris Trinidad
UP Center for Ethnomusicology, Philippines
Sol Maris Trinidad (b. 1980) is an ethnomusicologist, arts manager and cultural worker. She completed her Bachelor of Music in Musicology from the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Music. She was a member of the UP Rondalla where she played bandurria and a Founding Member of the UP Tugtugang Musika Asyatika (TUGMA). With them, she has travelled as performer and stage manager in the Philippines, China, and Thailand. Among her research areas are Cebuano church music, dalit (sung prayers) and band music of the Tagalog, traditional music from the islands of Panay and Mindanao in the Philippines and choral music management of the Philippines. She has presented papers on these in the Philippines, Thailand and Italy and has been published in the bi-annual arts and ideas magazine, International Gallerie. Sol maintains fiscal management of the UP Center for Ethnomusicology and is currently pursuing her Masters in Musicology from UP Diliman.
Asosiasi Tradisi Lisan (ATL) [Indonesian Oral Traditions Association] (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Pudentia MPSS
Chairwomen of the Oral Traditions Association (Asosiasi Tradisi Lisan)
Pudentia MPSS is Chairwomen of the Oral Traditions Association (Asosiasi Tradisi Lisan), the head of the Institute for Strategy and Community and Cultural Empowerment as well as Analysis of the Impact of the Cultural Environment at the Faculty of Humanity University of Indonesia. She completed her sandwich programme doctoral studies at University of Indonesia, Leiden University, and UC Berkeley on Malay Oral Tradition Studies. She was a member of President Yudoyono’s EPG Indonesia Malaysia (2009-2011) and Expert Staff in the Indonesian Representative Office in UNESCO, Paris (2009/2010). Since 2012, she has been a member of the Indonesian Committee for Memory of the World UNESCO. In 2018, she was invited by University of Melbourne as guest researcher and panel speaker on ASILE (Australian Society of Indonesia Languages Educators). Currently she leads the Competency Standardization Program for the Intangible Heritage Expert Team, Directorate General of Culture The Ministry of Education and Culture Republic of Indonesia. She has written several books and articles, among others Transformasi Sastra: Analisis Kasus atas Cerita Pantun Sunda Lutung Kasarung, Tranformation of Literature: Case of Sundanese Story Lutung Kasarung), Balai Pustaka, “Revitalization of Mak Yong in the Malay World”, Jurnal Wacana , Vol 12, No 1, (April 2010) and has produced several films such as the documentary films “Lifting the Soaking Trunk: Mak Yong (Mengangkat Batang Terendam)”, “The Prayer of a Bell Ringer’s Child”, and “Chasing the Morning Dew to Europe (Mengejar Embun ke Eropa)”, widescreen movies, and “Bugis Heritage Becomes Memory of the World” (I Lagaligo).
Mayco Santaella
Research Team Member
Mayco Santaella is Associate Professor and Head of the Film and Performing Arts department at
Sunway University. He studied at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as an East-West Center fellow
researching music and dance traditions of the extended Sulu Zone and its links to the Nusantara
region. He carried out fieldwork for his doctoral studies in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia as a Fulbright
recipient (2012–2013). His research foci include the study of music and dance within the extended
Sulu Zone, and popular music in maritime Southeast Asia.
MyArchives
MyArchives (Malaysian Audio-Visual Archives) is a project developed by the ICTM National
Committee of Malaysia under the auspices of the International Council for Traditional Music. This
project consists of a digital archive of performing arts developed through the joint efforts of
scholars, performers and researchers focusing on traditions, past and present. The material is
preserved in digital format for the purposes of research, sustainability and viability of the performing
arts of the country.
Sunway University is one of Malaysia’s leading private universities which is a strictly not-for-profit
institution and dedicated to quality education, supporting enterprise, and undertaking research
focused on key global problems.
Nicole Emmenegger
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Nicole Emmenegger is a Product Manager at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision responsible for developing and leading international projects for the target group Research and Digital Heritage professionals. She also coordinates the EUscreen network of European broadcast archives and sits on the Board of the EUScreen network. In 2021, with funding from Mondriaan Fonds, she co-founded the project Sounds Familiar, which, over several years, aims to examine how Sound and Vision can decolonise its archival practices and policies. Emmenegger holds an MA in Cultural Policy from Goldsmiths College and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Heritage Studies from the University of East London. She has previously worked for Europeana in The Hague and Historypin in London.
Organization
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NISV) based in Hilversum, The Netherlands, manages one of the largest digitized media archives in the world. Packed with (among others) radio, television, YouTube videos, objects, written press, podcasts and games. We preserve our daily growing media collection as cultural heritage for perpetuity. At the same time, we closely follow all movements on the global media landscape. Our starting point in everything we do is the importance of free media for our democracy. We work with a variety of partners, such as creative media makers, specialists, researchers, national and international universities. This way, we contribute to an open, free, inclusive and media-savvy society.
Johan Oomen
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Johan Oomen is Head of Research and Heritage Services at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and a researcher at the User-Centric Data Science group of the VU University Amsterdam. Throughout his practice, Oomen works on initiatives that focus on providing access to digital heritage. He has a background in information science, media studies and computer science, and his current research focuses on exploring the potential of digital cultural heritage in the wider Cultural and Creative Industries. He is a board member of the Europeana Foundation, the EUscreen Foundation and the PublicSpaces Foundation. Oomen is an advisor to the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Time Machine Organisation and the Dutch National Research Council for Cultural Heritage, and co-chair of The Netherlands Heritage Network. In 2020, he co-founded the NLAIC working group on Culture and Media and the Cultural AI Lab.
Organization
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NISV) based in Hilversum, The Netherlands, manages one of the largest digitized media archives in the world. Packed with (among others) radio, television, YouTube videos, objects, written press, podcasts and games. We preserve our daily growing media collection as cultural heritage for perpetuity. At the same time, we closely follow all movements on the global media landscape. Our starting point in everything we do is the importance of free media for our democracy. We work with a variety of partners, such as creative media makers, specialists, researchers, national and international universities. This way, we contribute to an open, free, inclusive and media-savvy society.
Fredrik Molin
SOAS Radio
Fredrik Molin is the Station Manager at SOAS Radio. Fredrik oversees the day to day running of the station, overseeing the programming, training students as well as producing podcasts for the school and its academic centres, showcasing SOAS research and regional expertise. Fredrik has also provided training and support on sound recording and postproduction on three modules taught in the Radio Studio: “Podcasting”, “Presenting World Music on Radio” and “Development Communications.
Organization
SOAS Radio is an independent online radio station and production company based at SOAS, University of London. SOAS Radio exists as an independent media hub for students, academics and like-minded communities to share their knowledge and stories. SOAS Radio broadcasts and produces a variety of music and speech podcasts and radio shows with a focus on Africa, Asia and the Middle East. SOAS Radio also functions as a production company. Clients include the Centre of African Studies, PositiveNegatives, Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Royal African Society, London International Development Centre and the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy. SOAS Radio has acted as a consultant of Communication for Development projects in the UK and Africa and worked in the Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Mozambique and Ghana, contributing to the setting-up and running of Biso na Biso, a community radio station for the Forest semi-nomadic Indigenous People in the North-East Republic of Congo and JT Live Radio, Ghana, a youth-led online radio station based in Jamestown, Accra.
Thongbang Homsombat
Archives of Traditional Music in Laos [ATML]
Gisa Jähnichen
Archives of Traditional Music in Laos [ATML]
Prof. Dr. Gisa Jähnichen (Ecomusicology, Performance Practices of Southeast Asia) teaches at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She is the Chair of the ICTM Study Group on Musical Instruments, Secretary of the IASA T&E Committee, Ambassador of IASA to Malaysia and China, and she also teaches at Guangxi University of the Arts, Vienna University, and Humboldt University Berlin. She is the consultant for the Archives of Traditional Music in Laos at the National Library of Laos. She studied at Charles University, Prague, Humboldt-University Berlin, and Vienna University. Her many writings were widely published and are accessible online and in libraries around the world.
Organization
The collection of the Archives of Traditional Music in Laos (ATML) was officially started in 1998. It forms part of the National library of Laos. Initially, the approaches towards item collection and preservation within the National Library were modelled after the earliest safeguarding projects of anthropologists and ethnomusicologists of the First Berlin School, aimed at collecting ‘representative items’ for non-destined later use. After 2002, the ATML slowly allowed for a wider variety of collecting principles and activities. The collection is growing slowly to nearly 4000 sound items and around 500 video items from all over the country, not counting stills, other pictures, drawings, and transcriptions. Our first research report, edited in 2001, is one of the most requested publications in the entire library. The database is self-made and uses Windows Access as a basic layout. This database has been transferred step-by-step to an OPAC platform. All visitors, mostly from abroad but also school classes, try to undertake fieldwork and request assistance from the archive.
Thongbang Homsombat comes from a small village 90 km from the Laotian capital Vientiane. As the only one of ten siblings, she studied at the National School for Music and Dance in Vientiane taking Violin and Music Theory as main subjects. Later, she worked with the Media Section of the National Library and became the main administrator of the Archives of Traditional Music in Laos (ATML) in 2002. She is involved in extensive field work throughout the country and in training projects for audiovisual archiving in other media institutions of Laos. Next to her work for ATML, she did her BA in English language at Vientiane’s Dongdok University, and she studied accounting, and sound technology.
Dominggus Elcid Li
Institute of Resource Governance and Social Change [IRGSC]
Florence Descamps
Association Française d’Archives Sonores (AFAS) (Paris, France)
Véronique Ginouvès
Association Française des Archives Orales, Sonores et Audiovisuelles [AFAS]