BFE Special Edition Podcast: Careers Beyond Academia - Katrina Damigos

The construction of Thai national identity and how this process is reflected in Thailand’s music

BFE Student Podcast: José Kress

BFE Special Edition Podcast: Academia and Caring Responsibilities - Georgie Pope

Biography:
Romy Martinez is a multilingual singer, teacher and researcher with a musical career and academic background spread between Paraguay (country of birth), Brazil and Argentina. She has released interdisciplinary and decolonial research about a common bordering musicality. This work is connected to award winning albums in collaboration with the Purahéi Trio of which she is the founder. This ensemble unites musicians from the aforementioned countries. Romy holds a degree in Music Education from UDESC and a master’s degree in communication and culture, with emphasis on Latin American Studies from PROLAM/USP, both obtained in Brazil. She also specialised in Argentinian music performance (tango and folklore) at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory in Buenos Aires and since 2018, she has been a doctoral researcher in the Music Department at Royal Holloway University of London. Her current research work focuses on Paraguayan popular song from a language perspective, exploring the indigenous language Guarani, which is second official in Paraguay, alongside with Spanish. It focuses on three main aspects: singing performance, transmission in music education, and, composition, observing the connections between language and the construction of melodies and lyrics. She also writes on Paraguayan female musicians, Brazilian music vocal performance and singing curricula. Besides, she has designed and taught courses on music from the Southern Cone in Latin America and she aims to become the first Paraguayan woman to obtain a PhD degree in the field of ethnomusicology.

www.romymartinez.com

Credits:
Atmosphere music by Paraguayan harpists Sixto and Juanjo Corbalan

BFE Podcast: Songs by the Riverbanks - Romy Martinez

On the streets with Bombos ensembles: listening to a traditional percussive practice in northern Portugal

Biography:
Lucas Wink is a drummer and ethnomusicologist based in Portugal. He holds a Bachelor degree in Music and a Masters degree in Music (Musicology). Currently he is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Aveiro, where he conducts a research on Bombos funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) of Portugal. He is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology – Center for Studies in Music and Dance (INET-md) working in the research project "EcoMusic – Sustainable Practices: a study of the post-folklorism in Portugal in the 21st century" (http://ecomusic.web.ua.pt). He also regularly plays the drums for Orquestra Bamba Social, a Luso-Brazilian ensemble mixing samba, jazz, rock and hip-hop based in Porto.

BFE Podcast: Lucas Wink

Dangerous Singing: An Interview with "Cheb," Nabil Elamouri 

Biography:
Daniel Smither is an American ethnomusicology student at SOAS focusing on Balinese gamelan music, in particular the music for the shadow play, gamelan gendér wayang. He obtained a B.A. in Music from Virginia Commonwealth University and received a Darmasiswa scholarship where he spent a year studying Balinese music at the Institut Seni Indonesia in Denpasar, Bali. He has studied and played various types of gamelan music in America, Indonesia and the UK, in groups such as Gamelan Raga Kusuma in Virginia, the Narwastu Art Group in Bali and Gamelan Lila Cita in London. He recently moderated a conference on Korean music in Indonesia for Institut Kesenian Jakarta entitled “Korean Music in Indonesia Present and Development: Urbanism Relocated and Intermediate Encounter.”

BFE Student Podcast: Daniel Smither

Fulvia Torricelli is trained in Social and Environmental Sciences and is currently enrolled as a master student in Ethnomusicology in the joint degree between the University of Geneva, the University of Neuchâtel and the Geneva University of Music (HEM), Switzerland. She is a co-founder of the Collectif Migrations Sonores in Geneva with whom she has launched a number of projects related to music, memory and identity in partnership with local associations and institutions. One of the main projects created by this collective is TOPOPHONIK, in partnership with the Geneva Museum of Ethnography and their sound archive collection (AIMP - International Archive of Popular Music) - https://migrassound.ch. This is a Podcast and sound exhibition project that aims at linking communities in Geneva with the archive, thereby creating bridges between music and identities to highlight the city's polyphony of sound and communities. The latest project Fulvia realised as part of the exhibition is called NO MEMORIALS, a sonic exhibition about the 50 years of Chilean exile in Geneva https://www.instagram.com/nomemorials.

BFE Student Podcast: Fulvia Torricelli

BFE Student Podcasts: Sara Rohr

BFE Special Edition Podcast: Careers Beyond Academia - Cara Stacey

Track Information:

Anis - 2005 - Cergy
Von D - 2017 - 12 Colonnes 
Aayité - 2019 - Cergy dans nos coeurs