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 […]
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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 […]
SEM Newsletter Photo Story
ENG: I extend my heartfelt thanks to Sonia Gaind-Krishnan, the newsletter editor of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), for publishing my photo story, “The Musical Veins of the Zongo Valley and the Sound Voice of its Panpipe Bamboo.” I am delighted to share more images to complement this SEM-NL Photo Story here. ESP: Extiendo mi […]
A Trip to the Zongo Valley
ENG: Before returning to Germany for the next six months, I visited my friend Don Alejandro, a chhalla bamboo collector (chhallero) in Chirimoyani in the famous Zongo valley. This valley close to the city of La Paz is known for its unique chhalla panpipe bamboo. Aymara musicians say about this panpipe bamboo that it has […]
The Musical Bamboos of the Bolivian Andes 