DeCoSEAS
Recording Session at Urbinasopèn, Waigéo (1932) – Jaap Kunst Collection, Amsterdam
Postcard with a Subuagane listening to a phonograph (Mt Province, Philippines c. 1915)
Jaap Kunst Collection, University of Amsterdam. Photo: Olivier Middendorp
December 1953 Issue of London Calling, the Journal of the BBC Empire Service
Princess Siti Noeroel Koesoemowardani, Solo Radio Co., Surakarta

Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives

DeCoSEAS is a transnational research project focused on hearing and listening as dialogical modes of knowledge formation in order to renegotiate established understandings of heritage curation.
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 Our Initiatives

Fellowships

Up to three young less established scholars, artists, curators or stakeholders from Southeast Asia are invited annually for a three-month stay at one or more of the DeCoSEAS sound collections in Europe and Southeast Asia.
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Digitization

DeCoSEAS aims to produce four digital, open access collections of music and sound from Southeast Asia that are now located in repositories in Europe.

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Jaap Kunst Sound Collection
BBC Empire Service in SE Asia
Songs of the Thrice-Blooded Land
Southeast Asia Hearing

Publications

Southeast Asian scholars take the lead in selecting, shaping, writing and editing academic publications, bringing new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives to the curation of sonic cultural heritage.

DeCoSEAS supports the dissemination of the following:

DeCoSEAS Publications

Fellowship Reports

Sound Bites

Outreach

The aims and findings of DeCoSEAS reach new target groups in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian diasporic communities in Europe. They raise awareness about the colonial patrimony of heritage among Europeans.

Stakeholder and Community Reconnection Initiatives

Public Lectures and Talks

Connecting with Social Media

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DeCoSEAS · DeCoSEAS Podcast Episode 1