ENG: Exactly one year after our international conference about natural resource use and sustainability in musical instrument making, I am happy to share with you the published edited volume with contributions from this conference (open access through the UniHil Press hompage here). Thanks to Silke Lichtenberg for co-editing this book and to all contributors who […]
Category: Publications
Musical Bamboo Monograph
ENG: Today is World Bamboo Day, an initiative established in 2009 by the World Bamboo Organization (WBO) to raise global awareness of bamboo’s environmental, economic, and cultural benefits. As this is a special day, I would like to share here a preliminary table of contents as well as the beginning of the introduction to my […]
Music-Making Materials Edited Volume
ENG: Over the past month, I have been working on finalizing the book manuscript for our edited volume on Music-Making Materials. Silke and I have written an introduction, and we are already close to completing our final revisions with the chapter proofs. Here, I would like to offer you a short glimpse into what promises […]
English Version Out Now! Musical Bamboos Photobook
ENG: I am happy to announce the official publication of the Musical Bamboos photobook in English. Find the download link on the ACEAA website here. ESP: Estoy feliz de poder anunciar la publicación oficial del libro de fotografías de lso Bambúes Musicales en Inglés. Encuentran el enlace de descarga en la página de ACEAA aquí. […]
Musical Bamboo Podcast
ENG: In May, my colleague Celia Fritze-Nabjinsky and I worked on a podcast about the musical bamboos of the Bolivian Andes and the use of digital methods. The podcast (in German) will be published soon as part of a contribution to a podcast edited volume within the Digital Humanities project “From Global to Local” at […]
Official Publication of Musical Bamboos Manual
ENG: We continue with another publication about the Musical Bamboos of the Bolivian Andes in collaboration with Conservación Amazónica – ACEAA. Today, we launch the manual and systematisation of the ecological knowledge about the Musical Bamboos. I am grateful to the ACEAA team, A Tiempo Press in La Paz, and especially to illustrators Cecilia Bustillos […]
Official Publication of Musical Bamboos Photobook
ENG: I am happy to announce the official publication of the Musical Bamboos Photo Book (in Spanish). Many thanks go to the Conservación Amazónica – ACEAA team around Daniel Larrea, Natalia Gil Ostria, and Gabriel Fernández, for their productive collaboration and the time spent over the last months. I am also grateful to A Tiempo […]
The Archaeology of Musical Bamboos
ENG: As a follow up on the interview in 3preguntas@ with Henry Stobart (here), I would like to propose to read my article “The Archaeology of Musical Bamboos: Native Bamboos and Pre-Hispanic Flutes on the Andean Altiplano around Lake Titicaca (A First Approximation)”. In this article, I discuss three archaeological questions that arose during my […]
Advances in Collaboration with Conservación Amazónica – ACEAA
ENG: During a working meeting with Conservación Amazónica-ACEAA on Monday, I received the proof copy of my photobook. We’re almost there—what an exciting time! The book will be published in Spanish in a limited print edition, and it will also be available digitally in both English and Spanish on the ACEAA homepage. Simultaneously, we are […]
Climate Change and Musical Bamboos
ENG: I am happy to announce the publication of a chapter in Sara Beimdieke and Julian Caskel’s (2025) edited volume on Music and Climate Change. Thanks to the editors for including my chapter into the edited volume. In this article, I have analyzed the effects of land-use changes and deforestation-related bamboo habitat loss. The Andean […]
The Musical Bamboos of the Bolivian Andes 