ENG: “Traveling to the recognized musical bamboo sourcing regions is about much more than bamboo alone. We met friendly people, made new friends, visited extraordinary landscapes, stayed in beautiful communities, and learned about local economies. Here are some photo impressions!” ESP: Viajar a las regiones reconocidas de recolección de bambues musicales implic mucho más que […]
Short Film Shooting Session in the Zongo Valley
ENG: Today, I am sharing some impressions from last week’s shooting session in the Zongo Valley. We took amazing shots in Milluni, Huayna Potosí, Laguna Viscachani, and, of course, in the Yungas cloud forest environment of the Zongo Valley. It was just amazing, and every time it is an impressive experience to travel into the […]
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 […]
Workshop: Cultures and Transdisciplinarity in Sustainability Science
ENG: Last month, I held the second workshop in my project, this time with Dr. Moritz Engbers (his homepage here), an independent transformation researcher and facilitator of transdisciplinary processes. We organized this workshop for the Nigerian and Ghanaian scholarship holders of our DAAD SDG Graduate School “Performing Sustainability: Cultures and Development in West Africa (here),” […]
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. […]
Bears and Bamboos in the Andes
ENG: Following up on my previous post about the tropical woody bamboo species richness in Bolivia, I would like to discuss the relationship between bears and bamboos in the Bolivian Andes. I recently read this fascinating article by The Nature Conservancy, that published a map of the potential distribution of the Andean spectacled bear known […]
Tropical Woody Bamboo Species Richness Map
ENG: As I write my academic monograph, I am currently working on a chapter about mapping musical bamboos. Here, I would like to share some information about my map of woody bamboo species richness, which I produced using species modelling software and a geographic information system (GIS). The exact methodology can be found in Appendix […]
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 […]
The Musical Bamboos of the Bolivian Andes 