*Gong(ฆ้อง) Gathering:Workshop & Participatory Performance Series #2 [Tagulaylay]–Songs of Grief* • with collaborators an_outskirt  **| EFA Project Space

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Gong(ฆ้อง) Gathering:Workshop & Participatory Performance Series **This second duo session features guest collaborator an_outskirt. We will focus on the shared cultures between our cultures and disappearing memories in Southeast Asian geography. While we have many in common, many are unique in their histories.

An immigrant's story is a tug-of-war. To locate the present, one always translates looking back into moving forward. Issues of coloniality / decoloniality, tradition, and culture are always at the forefront of every enunciation. The first week will be a workshop; an_outskirt will share different sound traditions that have, despite centuries of erasure, managed to survive and come down to them. The interlocking patterns of the Tongatong, or bamboo stomping tubes (improvised mailing cardboard tubes for the workshop), and an ancient song form, Tagulaylay, or elegy for the departed, are the traditions we will use as frameworks to confront forgotten ways of being in sound.

The following week will be a collaborative performance between elekhlekha, an_outskirt, and participants using the know-how and tools from the first session.

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