Raqs Maqom: Dances & Music of Central & West Asia Sun-Oct 19-2PM World Affairs Council Lobby 223 S 5th St, Louisville Free-limited seating; RSVP: worldaffairscouncilofkentucky-bloom.kindful.com/e/see-paw-ra... Raqs Maqom: collaboration between Crescent Moon Dance Co. & Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble

Always makes me chuckle when r/musictheory mods just refer folks to r/GlobalMusicTheory. 😅 www.reddit.com/r/musictheor...

Some of my more scholarly work is contributing to the expansion of string pedagogy in surprising ways. Esteban Hernández Parra's recent dissertation "Resuena Abya Yala: Otherwise Practices in Bowed Strings Learning and Performance" cites 1 of my pieces abt slave orchestras! hdl.handle.net/2022/33684

“[T]he evolution of the orchestra was brought to a standstill” silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/t...

Next Friday, Aug 29, we'll be at the World Affairs Council's inaugural WorldFest Kick-Off Reception. We hear it's already sold out, but you can come see us at WorldFest mainstage on Saturday at 3-4pm! www.sawpeep.com/events/ @silpayamanant.bsky.social @divyakrthk.bsky.social

Examples of bird songs from Simeon Pease Cheney's 1892 "Wood Notes Wild: Notations of Bird Music" (Cheney died in 1890, so this was published posthumously). Images are from pages 39, 94, and 101. Cheney's book is downloadable here: archive.org/details/wood...

200+ more entries added to the Timeline of Music Notation since the last update. 1700+ entries total now! silpayamanant.wordpress.com/timeline-of-... A number of Korean notations; systems for animal songs (esp. for birds/whales); accordion/free reed tabs; & some dutar/fiddle/folk instr. tabs.

Love how the implication here is that there are "non-ethnic" instruments. It's the classic way to normalize supraethnic/macro-ethnic (e.g. Western/European instruments) phenomena as neutral and/or universal. www.reddit.com/r/composer/c...

Open Access here: escholarship.org/uc/item/64k2... "Historical evidence suggests that the fiddle may be one of the oldest uninterrupted instrumental traditions in African American culture, yet most people in the United States, including African Americans, do not identify it with Black music"

I guess we'll be hearing more from Timothy Jackson and the Journal of Schenkerian Studies going forward...

"Score-type notation of Maibataraki made by an amateur musician, Tazaki Enjirō. Ōtsuzumi in blue, kotsuzumi in red, taiko in green and red, and the chanting text and nohkan’s shōga in black from right to left in a column." noh.stanford.edu/music/notati...

Just added another 50+ entries to the Timeline of Music Notation the past couple of days which brings the total to over 1300 entries. silpayamanant.wordpress.com/timeline-of-...

@kcommons.bsky.social How do we login into our hcommons profile if the only login method was via twitter?

Listening to some Raag Malkauns to calm after the earlier barrage of sound... www.chandraveena.com/blog/r25-mal...

From Mark Slobin's 1993 "Subcultural Sounds: Micromusics of the West" (page 30) archive.org/details/subc... www.weslpress.org/978081956261...

Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble is so pleased to announce that we have been selected to be the COLLIDER Artist-in-Residence for December 2025! Learn more about the COLLIDER Artist-in-Residence program: www.lfpl.org/lifelong-lea... Learn more about past COLLIDER artists: www.lfpl.org/past-collide...

"Pu‘uwai Haokila: The Story of How Hawai‘i Shaped Modern Music" www.pbshawaii.org/puuwai-haokila "Narrated by Raiatea Helm, this PBS Hawai‘i documentary uncovers Hawaiʻi’s deep, global impact on modern music despite the political struggles they faced at home."

Ok, I watched the "Klingon Music Theory is Weird" video and it was "meh" but I did laugh when an image of me from a 2012 performance with Il Troubadore Klingon Music Project showed up in the vid (at the 25:27 mark)! 😂

Whatever happened to Shadia Mansour? This is still one of my favorite collabs she's done--"Sonos Sur" with Ana Tijoux! youtu.be/EKGUJXzxNqc

It was great finally performing this after it was initially cancelled in April, 2020! I opened the event with the Global Cello project performing works composers from Southeast Asia or of Southeast Asian descent! www.silpayamanant.com/projects/glo...

This is a companion piece for her "The New “Yellow Peril” in “Western” European Symphony Orchestras" doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

Found a couple of my works cited in Maiko Kawabata's "Racism and Diversity in Orchestral Practice" which is the first chapter of the edited volume "East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music" (edited by Ken Ueno and Maiko Kawabata)! ethicspress.com/products/eas...

What Islam Gave the Blues by Sylviane Diouf www.youtube.com/watch?v=19jk... renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/what...

Been needing to overhaul this page, but had to update w/ Athita Kuankachorn's diss. "The Application of Thai Classical Fiddle Techniques for Cello" & Nichagarn Chiracharasporn's beautiful cello work "Homage to Mor-lam" which I've been enjoying working on! silpayamanant.wordpress.com/sea-string-p...

This book has been a few years in the making and we are so excited to share the cover! Kristina R. Gaddy and I have brought together 19 pieces of Black music created between 1687 and 1867, spanning from the Caribbean to North America, with my banjo tab, plus the story behind each piece.

I had a delightful time presenting as part of TU Dublin Conservatoire's "Contemporary Composition Perspectives" series yesterday!

Just got my copy of Nancy Yunhwa Rao's "Inside Chinese Theater: Community and Artistry in Nineteenth-Century California and Beyond" in the mail today! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Everyone seems to love the last ("Flamenco") movement of Rogelio Huguet y Tagell's (1882-1956) first Unaccompanied Spanish Cello Suite but I'm kinda partial to the prelude to the second!! Love playing this and looking forward to performing on some upcoming Global Cello recitals!!

Added about a hundred entries to the Timeline of Music Notation this week in addition to several dozens of entries to the references/bibliography! silpayamanant.wordpress.com/timeline-of-...

“I’m gravitating towards the pure skill that was incorporated,” she continued. “Anyone who doesn’t think that hip-hop is an intellectual genre, I think that assumption is rooted in racism.” www.billboard.com/music/music-...

More anti-DEI nonsense www.facebook.com/kevin.charoe...

Congrats @piargno84.bsky.social and Chelsea Komschlies--the next cohort of the Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps! www.facebook.com/LouisvilleOr...

Been thinking a lot about interval training in [Western] music fundamentals at the formal level and how that shapes the diminished ability to recognize a wide variety of interval types found outside Western musics (and even in a wide variety of non-mainstreamized Western musics).

This'll bring them out of the woodwork! www.facebook.com/groups/87619...

"Towards a Global Music Theory: Practical Concepts and Methods for the Analysis of Music Across Human Cultures" by Mark Hijleh Routledge www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Classical Music ≠ Notated Music or Composed Music At some point I should probably turn this unrolled thread into a blog post or more fleshed out piece. threadreaderapp.com/thread/14726...

"Special Issue: Music Theory in the Plural" is live! "Despite the diversity of musical thought across historical and cultural spaces, much of what is nominally titled “music theory” concerns only a small sliver of this intellectual tradition..." mtosmt.org/issues/mto.2...

Heard the LO String Quartet perform works by Asian Am composers Wu Man, Dylan Trần, Grace Ann Lee, & Texu Kim at the Lunar New Year event. At a Dec 17 "Diversity and Equity in Classical Music" event they played works by TJ Cole, Caroline Shaw, Rhiannon Giddens, & Amy Beach at Logan Street Market.

In this, the Year of the Snake 😑

Me: idk, I feel like the Samuel L. Jackson bits were maybe too heavyhanded, we don’t need the subtext spelled out for us, the audience is smarter than that Me after reading several insane takes about the halftime show: I think maybe the Samuel L. Jackson bits were not heavyhanded enough

"I'm so happy we're all here celebrating especially during a time when I feel like we're under assault just for celebrating the diverse communities we have here!" - Joel Buno, director of Crane House

Happy Lunar New Year!! From all of us at Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble, thanks to Oswald Huỳnh, Jacob Gotlib, Joel Buno, the Crane House, the Louisville Orchestra, the Americana Community Center, Inc., and the Louisville Vietnamese community for hosting a wonderful Lunar New Year event last night!

At my academia. edu page too! www.academia.edu/127481199/Ma...

Stefan Ehrenkreutz's "Medieval Arabic Music Theory and Contemporary Scholarship" Open Access here: www.jstor.org/stable/41859...

It's the 20th anniversary of Mae Mai! Here's a review of Mae Mai from 2022 by Aniarani Andita in the Yearbook for Traditional Music! www.silpayamanant.com/wp-content/u...

There's a reason I bring this up now - truly understanding the contribution of Black artists and how they've been erased from our history, musicology, music theory, scholarship can resolve those same injustices now. As always follow @silpayamanant.bsky.social -

I haven't been so excited to play recitals since I started the Global Cello series!

Just ordered the music for this and looking forward to performing it in the Fall! youtu.be/dZ9J1ly0LbI

Black musicians, composers, music scholars predated the Renaissance and, not surprisingly, existed outside of the Western world. Let’s stop pretending composition, musicology, and music theory only existed in Europe. silpayamanant.wordpress.com/bmc_505-1505/

White Composer Dude™ blaming DEI for his loss of work last December was just a warmup for this year... 😑