Date and Time: January Friday 29th, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Place: Tonan tei (Room No. 201), CSEAS, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University

Speaker: Dayang Yraola, Curator (Philippines)

Title: From the archive to the field and back: Introduction to the Jose Maceda Collection

Abstract:
The digitization of the Jose Maceda Collection at the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology started in 2007 under the directorship of Ramon P. Santos (National Artist for Music). With initial collection of over 2,000 hours of audio recordings, approximately 10,000 images and 100,000 pages of texts, 1,000 music instruments, 23 titles of compositions with parts and duplicates, it was perhaps one of the biggest archival projects in the Philippines in current history. By the time the digitization project was concluded in 2014, 4 collections from other anthropologists/ musicologists in UP has become part of the UP Center for Ethnomusicology (UPCE) collection.

Dayang Yraola, an independent curator, was the archivist and collections manager, then later Consultant, of UPCE from 2007-2015. Aside from managing the digitization project, she did curatorial projects that promoted the collection. This presentation shares how her experience in working for the digitization of an ethnomusicology archive motivated her curatorial practices in contemporary art.

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Bio:
Dayang MNT Yraola is an independent curator from Manila. Her main curatorial platform, Project Glocal, founded in 2011, brought her to work with artists from Southeast Asia, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the US. Her projects and research have been supported by the Singapore International Foundation, Japan Foundation and Asian Cultural Council. She was also a lecturer at the School for Design and Arts, De La Salle University-College of Saint Benilde from 2000-2006 and Archivist/Collections Manager of University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology from 2007-2015. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Cultural Studies of Lingnan University (Hong Kong). www.dayangyraola.com

Moderator: Motohide Taguchi (composer)
Motohide Taguchi studied composition under Prof. Michiharu Matsunaga, Prof. Masataka Matsuo and Prof. Kazuko Hayakawa. In 1999, he was selected as a successful competitor of the 16th Japan Society for Contemporary Music (JSCM) Award for Composers. In 2002, he was selected as a participant of the International Young Composers’ Meeting in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. Besides composition activities, he received an API fellowship (The Nippon Foundation) in 2002 and an Asia Fellowship (The Asian Scholarship Foundation) in 2010 to conduct researches on contemporary music in the Philippines and Indonesia (2002-2003) and Thailand (2010).

Other information:
1. This lecture is a part of the official program of the IIAS-CSEAS Winter School Program organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University and International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden (the Netherlands).
2. The lecture will be done in English without Japanese translation. Additional explanation in Japanese may be given if needed.
3. The main entrance to Inamori Foundation Memorial Building will be open until 6:30 pm.