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Tusa Montes is a percussionist, ethnomusicologist, and educator who specializes in the musics of the Philippines, Asia, West Africa, and Latin America.
Montes has performed and recorded in multiple projects, events, and festivals in the Philippines and abroad. Recent events include the »Gongster’s Paradise« Kulintang festival in the US (2023), »Rain Motions: Connecting (with) the Skies of Southeast Asia« Festival in Thailand (2023), »Padyak Hamburg« in Germany (2022), Nusasonic HCMC Festival in Vietnam (2022), and Virtual PASIC (an international percussion convention, 2021). She has performed with notable local and international musicians such as Edsel Gomez, Joe Bataan, royal hartigan, Leonard Eto, Bob Aves, Grace Nono, Johnny Alegre, and Bo Razon.
Montes graduated in 2012 with a Master’s degree in Musicology from the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Music. She subsequently taught at the University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music for 10 years, before taking a position as Senior Lecturer at the UP College of Music where she continues to teach.
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Montes has performed and recorded in multiple projects, events, and festivals in the Philippines and abroad. Recent events include the »Gongster’s Paradise« Kulintang festival in the US (2023), »Rain Motions: Connecting (with) the Skies of Southeast Asia« Festival in Thailand (2023), »Padyak Hamburg« in Germany (2022), Nusasonic HCMC Festival in Vietnam (2022), and Virtual PASIC (an international percussion convention, 2021). She has performed with notable local and international musicians such as Edsel Gomez, Joe Bataan, royal hartigan, Leonard Eto, Bob Aves, Grace Nono, Johnny Alegre, and Bo Razon.
Montes graduated in 2012 with a Master’s degree in Musicology from the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Music. She subsequently taught at the University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music for 10 years, before taking a position as Senior Lecturer at the UP College of Music where she continues to teach.
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Morgan Sully is an experimental electronic musician and initiator of Latent Sonorities.
Having grown up in Borneo, Hawaii, and Southern California, much of Morgan’s work seeks overlaps and hybrids across musical diasporas.
Previously, Morgan co-curated #soy&synth, an experimental concert series with Indonesian collective Soydivision Berlin, co-releasing much of the output on their sister label L-KW together with Midnight Shift.
With Soydivision, Morgan collaborated with Rabih Beaini from Morphine Records for a musical staging of KIAMAT, inspired by Senyawa’s sprawling, 44-label co-release with write-ups in the New York Times, Wire and Create Digital Music. Morgan also co-organized Pasar Alkisah with the band, a 48-hour decentralized online audio/video festival, and marketplace featuring over 200 remixes from the album, spanning multiple countries, streams, and concerts.
It is Morgan’s hope that this initial proposal of Latent Sonorities will move intergenerationally across DAWs, samplers, scenes, and archives.
Having grown up in Borneo, Hawaii, and Southern California, much of Morgan’s work seeks overlaps and hybrids across musical diasporas.
Previously, Morgan co-curated #soy&synth, an experimental concert series with Indonesian collective Soydivision Berlin, co-releasing much of the output on their sister label L-KW together with Midnight Shift.
With Soydivision, Morgan collaborated with Rabih Beaini from Morphine Records for a musical staging of KIAMAT, inspired by Senyawa’s sprawling, 44-label co-release with write-ups in the New York Times, Wire and Create Digital Music. Morgan also co-organized Pasar Alkisah with the band, a 48-hour decentralized online audio/video festival, and marketplace featuring over 200 remixes from the album, spanning multiple countries, streams, and concerts.
It is Morgan’s hope that this initial proposal of Latent Sonorities will move intergenerationally across DAWs, samplers, scenes, and archives.
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R A N G K Ą is an ongoing sonic-sparks between Ariel William Orah and J“Moong” Santoso Pribadi. Both raised in Bandung and Yogyakarta Indonesia and now both based in Berlin-Germany and Vilnius-Lithuania. The duo’s sparks are driven mainly by the mutual needs of an artistic expression from their shared experience as a migrant father and struggling translocal sound artist in Europe. Their main and most recent presentation format is an experimental sound performance when they blend various sound techniques and artistic strategies from self-made instruments to diverse electronics and synthesis cosmos, from live improvisation to structured pieces, all fueled by their diasporic-dialogue on seeing and valuing things.