BURNING CHROME | Somatodelic: ‘Putting art back to its punk roots’
The word "punk" has long outgrown its association with distorted guitars, leather jackets and anti-establishment slogans. At its most fundamental,...
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BY-LINER | Lirio in performance: A portrait of the Filipino as cyborg
The text below is a slight emendation of an article I wrote in the now defunct online news outlet InterAksyon....
BURNING CHROME | Resonances and revolutions — from noise to art (Part 2)
If the first generation of Philippine sound artists wrestled with obscurity and skepticism, the next wave embraced community-building. The mid-2000s...
BURNING CHROME | Resonances and revolutions — from noise to art (Part 1)
The question of what makes music has always been fraught, but the 20th century shook it to its core. When...