My Timeline of Music Notation gets a mention in Sean Williams' latest book "Music at the Threshold from the Sacred to the Dangerous" ( Oxford University Press | doi.org/10.1093/9780... ). Screenshot is from the online edition (print edition not available till May).

About 20 new entries to the Indonesian Cello/Strings bibliography--including 7 articles and monographs on keroncong cello pedagogy and analysis! The cello world is truly so big once we get out of strictly Western repertories and styles. silpayamanant.wordpress.com/cello/sea-vl...

Another project I'm working on currently--a resource page for flute and cello works by Latin American composers! silpayamanant.wordpress.com/composition/...

Here's a breakdown of the unique composers from Global Cello events (2023-2025). Interestingly, this masks diasporic & ethnicity info. For ex., the Central Eu composer is Austro-Persian & six N American composers are Armenian Am, Black Haitian-Am, Black Belizean-British, Filipino Am, & Indian Am.

Since starting the Global Cello series a little over a couple years ago, I've performed 76 pieces on 15 different events & recitals! I've been breaking down the composers' demographics by region, gender, ethnicity & the works by date, form & style, and difficulty levels and thought I'd share this.

Was thinking about Rissa SoFar's recent Facebook post about K-pop's roots being in Black culture, and realized I needed to include that post in my resource, "K-Pop, Appropriation, & American Imperialism," which I'd forgotten this was still set to private. silpayamanant.wordpress.com/k-pop-approp...

Hadn't updated the "DAW, Music Production, and Colonialism" bib in a while but I just added about a dozen pieces I've come across recently. Can't believe I didn't add my "Sound Archives, Music Production, and Colonialism" resource in there now too! silpayamanant.wordpress.com/bibliography...

Something I always keep in mind, especially as this was my experience as a young student and a reason I founded the Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble and Global Cello projects! p105 of Lucy Green's "Popular music education in and for itself, and for ‘other’ music" doi.org/10.1177/0255...

Joshua Han's 2026 "On the politics of 'music theory' and the implications of its importation into research on music and meaning" Open access here: doi.org/10.1515/jwl-...

Currently working on a database and resource page for solo cello works by women composers. I'm still in the A's but already have 60 works by 30 composers. This may take a while! 😆

I've almost doubled the number of entries in the music notation timeline this year alone--and it's hard to believe that in a year this resource will have been online for a decade! silpayamanant.wordpress.com/timeline-of-...

Seen in a comment in the music theory group. Lot's to be said about the whole post, but the highlighted part is one of the many reasons I refer to these communities as "safe spaces for colonialist harmony"-as if the entire body of music theoretical works deals only with [invariably Western] harmony.

*Phew* I haven't read something like this since the last time I read an 18th/19th century European music history/theory treatise. JK--this is a pretty common sentiment at this (and other) online music theory forums and I come across this daily. www.facebook.com/groups/87619...

Saw Peep is halfway through its COLLIDER Residency and I've been enjoying the smaller talks given in the studio as much as the big workshops we've given. Pics from the Shadow Puppet workshop (12/14), Asian Fiddles (12/13) and Music Notations of Asia (12/10) presentations! www.lfpl.org/collider

I know, I probably shouldn't bother. 😑 Comment here: www.facebook.com/groups/87619...

"As I'm compiling a bibliography of primary sources about orchestras and ensembles of enslaved musicians I've decided to map their locations." silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/m...

I keep forgetting to post on the micro-platforms. Here's the beginnings of a South Asian Music Theory & Treatises Bibliography I started last summer. Eventually I would like to include info and links to translations as well. silpayamanant.wordpress.com/south-asian-...

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).