ENG: My current transdisciplinary project, “From Native Bamboos to Indigenous Flutes”, funded by the German Research Foundation, will conclude in two weeks. As I reach the end of this two-year journey, I am publishing a policy paper on musical bamboos on the website of Conservación Amazónica – ACEAA. This document summarizes the current sustainability challenges […]
Category: Publications
Musical Bamboos in The Sound of Change Podcast
Yesterday, my contribution to the podcast “The Sound of Change: Musikinstrumente im Wandel von Umwelt, Gesellschaft und Digitalität” (Musical Instruments in the Transformation of Environment, Society, and Digitality) was published by Melusina Press. Many thanks to Anne Baillot and Torsten Roeder for this opportunity, and to Celia Fritze-Nabjinsky for the production and editing. Here is […]
Music-Making Materials Edited Volume OUT NOW!
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 […]
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 […]
The Musical Bamboos of the Bolivian Andes 