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AGUNGAN: ReSounding South

Multi-media archival installation
Dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Courtesy of the UP Center for Ethnomusicology

Notes:
Through the archival facilitation of media art historian Dayang Yraola, AGUNGAN: ReSounding South () examines the practice and scholarship of the late Filipino ethnomusicologist and composer José Maceda within the soundscape-landscape of Muslim Mindanao.

The project reflects on the metaphorical place of the gong, a percussion instrument that is present in a variety of indigenous cultures in Southeast Asia. Maceda&#;s mediation extends the possibility of playing and experiencing its sound beyond the rituals and territories of Muslim Mindanao.
Informed by the attitude and field work of José Maceda, this work portrays a history of place and its people in four modules.

The first module depicts the relationship of music with the universe and the power of music in Mindanao, and t