Pre-performance Panel: Interferences: Live – On Glitches, Static, and Sonic Histories

How do we listen to failure? What does it mean to tune into the static, the noise, the disruption?

Thursday May 29, Goethe-Institut
Panel: 17:00 | Doors: 16:45

To introduce the performance Interferences: Live, a panel will be hosted on Thursday 29 May at Goethe-Institut on the research and broader topic of ‘interference’ and ‘glitches’ and the ways it opens up decolonial potentialities of listening. The panel is presented in collaboration with our partners ASCA and AYA, and is situated among the physical traces of colonialism in the building of the Goethe-Institut.

The panelists will probe the layered meanings of “interference” in the performance Interferences: Live – a live performed piece made with samples from Dutch-Indonesian colonial radio archives and live gamelan music – as metaphor, as method, and as material condition of radio and its colonial entanglements. The speakers invite us to a collective attunement to interruption—not as failure to be corrected, but as a critical site of listening and remembering. How do these sonic residues challenge dominant archival practices and narratives?

Together with Dr. Sri Margana (Universitas Gadjah Mada), Dr. Anette Hoffmann, composer meLê yamomo, and moderated by composer Alison Isadora (Royal Conservatory, The Hague), the discussion opens up multiple threads: What histories are encoded in the aesthetics of sonic disruption? How have radio signals—bleeding across borders—shaped acoustic epistemologies and imaginaries of the global? What does it mean to curate or compose with noise, with glitch, with interference?

Event Summary

• Date: Thursday May 29

• Time: 17:00 - 18:00

• Location: Goethe-Institut, Herengracht 470, 1017 CA Amsterdam

• Price: Student € 9.50 | Regular: € 12.50

The panel is co-developed in collaboration between Sieve Bonaiuti, meLê yamomo, Leonie Schmidt and Zoë Horsten. It’s supported by Goethe-Institut, ASCA and AYA.

Access to the panel is included in the ticket for the Thursday May 29 performance