Resynthesising the Traditional Lab Finale
Anna Jurkiewicz, bela, Bilawa Respati, Marie Yevkiné Tirard, Medina Bazarğali, Nakul Krishnamurthy, Shoty Ndjoli, Stas Shärifullá, Susie Ibarra, trē seguritan abalos
16:30
meLê yamomo »Tumrap susilaning gěndhing winor laguning lělagon [redux]«
15:00
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During CTM 2025, the Resynthesising the Traditional artistic lab regrouped eight artist fellows selected via open call to engage critically and in-depth with aesthetic, discursive, and technological approaches when connecting to musical and cultural heritage.
Evoking resynthesis—a processing method in computer music that analyzes sounds to extract their fundamental components—as a guiding metaphor, the lab aimed to in various ways confront conservative views of culture as something frozen, solidified, and generally untouchable, thus resistant to any transformative practices. Hosted by Susie Ibarra and Stas Shärifullá, the lab included expert inputs, workshopping and discussion sessions, site visits around the city, and more.
On this final festival day, the artist and researcher meLê yamomo will open with a lecture-performance style conversation with Sri Margana, and Amabilita Celessya Shafaswara, created with the artistic and production support of Jay Yamomo, Rafaga Svara, and Yiping Tian. Titled »Tumrap susilaning gěndhing winor laguning lělagon [redux]« the conversation asks if recorded voices, music, and sound cultures stored in museums and archives in Europe just in exile, waiting for their return to their communities? Sound and media scholar Jonathan Sterne (2003) calls sound media resonant tombs where the voices of the dead reside. meLê yamomo (2021) argues that sound archives are cemeteries of deceased sounds—removed from the communities that keep them alive through collective memory. Can we reanimate them by reconnecting them with source communities? In doing so, can the archive speak back? In this performance lecture, meLê engages historical sound documents and recordings from Southeast Asia »on exile« in archives in Berlin and Amsterdam in a conversation, and asks the sound archives to speak back.
Following a short break, the fellows of the artistic lab Anna Jurkiewicz, Bela, Bilawa Respati, Marie Yevkiné Tirard, Medina Bazarğali, Nakul Krishnamurthy, Shoty Ndjoli, and trē seguritan abalos come together to present their various practices and some of the sounds, themes, prototyping, and ideating that took part during the lab. Hosts Susie Ibarra and Stas Shärifulla anchor the day with introductions, interjections, and invitations for audience reactions and discussion.
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