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on July 28, 2018July 28, 2018

Activities at a glance...

  • "O forse, l'ho già perduta poco a poco..." at Memorial University (St. John's, NL) January 13, 2026 ・Presentation by Stephen Eckert (piano) in "Dear Teacher," part of Memorial University's Noon Concert Series at Suncor Energy Hall.
  • Collaborative piano engagement in the musical production "The Little Mermaid Jr." (Toronto) February 28, 2026 – March 1, 2026 ・A children musical production presented by Toronto-based community group "Heart & Soul Drama Club" at the Meridian Theatre.

Latest thoughts…

  • Endless persisting with fevered dreaming July 25, 2025
  • Marching child of the sun revolting July 13, 2025
  • Mapping the land of the mourning July 6, 2025

Past activities…

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NOVEMBER 2025
Ecuadorian premiere of Kina-i-ngátan at MUSLAB 2025 (Quito, Ecuador)
November 24-28, 2025
  • Presented in octophonic 8.0 sound in the “MANTRA: El Arte de Sanar” exhibition at the Teatro Prometeo.
Canadian premiere of Liham at the STAND Festival (Vancouver, BC)
November 6, 2025
  • Presented by Renee Fajardo (mezzo-soprano) and Vivian Kwok (piano) at the Scotiabank Dance Theatre.
OCTOBER 2025
American premiere of O forse, l'ho già perduta poco a poco... at the Bowling Green New Music Festival 2025 (Bowling Green, OH)
October 18, 2025
  • Presented by Stephen Eckert (piano) at the Moore Musical Arts Center in Bowling Green State University.
European premiere of Weekend Rain at the PAYSAGES | COMPOSÉS 2025 (Grenoble, France)
October 5, 2025
  • Diffused in a loudspeaker orchestra and interpreted by Alessandro De Cecco. Presented by the Association pour la Performance, l'Électroacoustique et les Expérimentations Sonores (APNÉES).
Talk/listening session featuring Kinalugarán at Library Una (Quezon City, Philippines)
October 2, 2025
  • Presented at the "Tunugang Makinilya" talk/listening session, co-presented with UP Conemus and MusiKolektibo.
SEPTEMBER 2025
Fieldwork research for the forthcoming Jeepney Ecosystem project (Metro Manila, Philippines)
September 16-October 7, 2025
  • Artistic research for upcoming commissioned works, scheduled for premieres in 2028.
AUGUST 2025
European premiere of O forse, l’ho già perduta poco a poco... at the Darmstadt Summer Course (Darmstadt, Germany)
August 2, 2025
  • Premiered by Stephen Eckert at the presentation of Nicolas Hodge’s piano studio (Akademie für Tonkunst) and the Open Space event “Style(?): Three Canadian Piano Works” (Lichtenbergschule).
JULY 2025
Hanggang sa Takipsilim at the Ekphrastic Art Exhibition (New Orleans, LA)
June 17 - July 18, 2025
  • Inclusion in a curated playlist as part of the “Drawing from the Well: Sources of Inspiration” exhibit at Tulane University’s Carroll Gallery.
JUNE 2025
Publication of "Untethering the Dragon"
  • Musicworks magazine (Summer 2025) article featuring koto artists Michiyo Yagi (JP), Sarah Pagé (CA), and Hiroko Nagai (JP/PH) on koto’s new futures and diverse belonging.
Digital online release of the song cycle Liham (Vancouver, BC)
June 12, 2025
  • Digital release in multimedia web format. Produced by Renee Fajardo; performed by Fajardo, Danlie Acebuque, and Vivian Kwok; with filming directed by Solara Thanh Bình Đặng and support from Sound The Alarm: Music/Theatre, Ontario Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts.
MAY 2025
Interview series for Liham (Vancouver, BC)
May 6-8, 2025
  • Initiated a series of interviews with three Filipino Canadian community members to accompany the digital release of the song cycle Liham, co-presented by Sound The Alarm: Music/Theatre with funding support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
APRIL 2025
Four-week artist residency at MacDowell (Peterborough, NH)
April 7 - May 5, 2025
  • Jumpstarted new musical projects as a MacDowell Fellow. Projects include the audio essay Kinatalí-an for mixed quartet and fixed media in 5.1 surround, commissioned by Ensemble Codec.
MARCH 2025
Collaborative piano engagement in Grave Songs with Carolyn Fe (Toronto, ON)
March 28-30, 2025
  • A horror-inspired musical hour co-presented by Eldritch Theatre at the Red Sandcastle Theatre.
FEBRUARY 2025
Publication of "The Parallel Multiverses of Kalaisan Kalaichelvan"
  • Musicworks magazine (Winter 2025) short feature on the multi-faceted work of Canadian composer Kalaisan Kalaichelvan.
Collaborative piano engagement in the musical production Annie Jr. (Toronto, ON)
February 22-23, 2025
  • A children musical production presented by Toronto-based community group “Heart & Soul Drama Club” at the Papermill Theatre.
DECEMBER 2024
Kina-i-ngátan in Listening Room, REF Resilience Festival 2024 (Foggia, Italy)
December 6, 2024
  • Presented by Empirica | MID SIDE Aps.
NOVEMBER 2024
Online radio broadcast of Kinalugarán (audio essay) on Hong Kong Community Radio (Hong Kong)
November 12, 2024
  • Presented by "The People's Avant-Garde" featuring Philippine-based MusiKolektibo.
OCTOBER 2024
Publication of "José Maceda: Reverberations beyond the Archipelago"
  • Musicworks magazine article (Fall 2024) featuring Western Front's curated exhibit/performance of the life and legacy of Filipino composer Jose Maceda in Vancouver. Story features curator Aki Onda and ethnomusicologist Verne de la Peña.
SEPTEMBER 2024

Performance of Kina-i-ngátan at the NUMUS Concerts 39th Season (Waterloo, ON)
September 21, 2024
  • Presented by Guy Few (trumpet) at the Kitchener-Waterloo Little Theatre.
JUNE 2024

World premiere of Liham at the MISE-EN Festival 2024 (Brooklyn, NY)
June 18, 2024
  • Presented at CUNY Brooklyn College. Premiere by Renee Fajardo and Vivian Kwok, with interspersed live readings of book excerpts by Juro Kim Feliz.
Paper presentation of "Hunting Spectres of Invisibility among the Philippine Musical Avant-garde" at the Western and World Symposium (Toronto)
June 14, 2024
  • Presentation includes a listening session of Kinalugarán (audio essay). Presented by Labyrinth Ontario at The Music Gallery.
American premiere of Weekend Rain at the New Music on the Bayou Festival 2024 (Ruston, LA)
June 5, 2024
  • Presented at the F. Jay Taylor Visual Arts Center, Louisiana Tech University.
Publication of "Claiming Space: Experimental Music from the Global South"
  • Musicworks magazine article (Summer 2024) featuring C-drík and Sarana during the Sonic Writings and Soundings residency at the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt 2023.
  • Originally written under the IMD Words on Music course, facilitated by Kate Molleson and Peter Meanwell.
MAY 2024

Paper presentation of "Kinalugarán: speaking nearby invisibility" at the Music in Difficult Times conference (Montreal)
May 3, 2024
  • Presentation includes a listening session of Kinalugarán. Conference presented by Concordia University and the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) under the Sandeep Bhagwati Homage Series.
APRIL 2024

Canadian premieres of Weekend Rain and Hanggang sa Takipsilim in Din VII: Museum of Quiet Sounds (Toronto)
April 26-27, 2024
  • Multi-site event curated and presented by Din of Shadows at The Music Gallery.
FEBRUARY 2024

Collaborative piano engagement with the musical Lion King Jr. (Toronto)
February 24, 2024
  • Produced and presented by the Heart & Soul Drama Club. With direction by Rachel Davies, musical direction by Jessica Riley, choreography by Julie Stanley, artistic direction by Elizabeth Welke.
NOVEMBER 2023

World premiere of Kinagisnán (Toronto)
November 26, 2023
  • Presented in "Krisztina Szabó sings Berio and Haber" by New Music Concerts. Premiere featuring Patrick de Belen (spoken word).
OCTOBER 2023

Kinalugarán (audio essay) presented at MUSLAB 2023 (Guayaquil, Ecuador)
October 5, 2023
  • Co-presented by the Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo for the "Planeta Complejo" exhibition
SEPTEMBER 2023

Artist residency at Willapa Bay AiR (Oysterville, WA)
September 1-27, 2023

AUGUST 2023

Attendance at the Darmstadt Summer Course (Darmstadt, Germany)
August 5-19, 2023
  • Participation in the "Words on Music" journalism course with Kate Molleson and Peter Meanwell
Presentation of an outdoor sound happening at impuls Academy (Graz, Austria)
August 2, 2023
  • Event at a traffic intersection along Erzherzog-Johann-Allee and the Burgring. Part of the "In Situ - Translucent Spaces" workshop with Klaus Lang
JULY 2023

Attendance at impuls Academy (Graz, Austria)
July 24, 2023 - August 3, 2023
  • Participation in the "In Situ - Translucent Spaces" workshop with Klaus Lang
JUNE 2023

World premiere of Kinaligta-án (Toronto)
June 29, 2023
  • Premiere by Wesley Shen (harpsichord).
Publication of "Levy Lorenzo Maximizes the Human Algorithm"
  • Musicworks magazine article (Summer 2023) featuring the electronic instrument-building practice of Filipino-American artist Levy Lorenzo.
MAY 2023

Music and sound design work for Would Virginia Woolf Contemplate Suicide if She Were Filipino? (Vancouver)
May 25-27, 2023
  • Play written by Revan Badingham III, with direction by Dennis Gupa and produced by Voices of Asia International. Featuring the single "Dark Skies" (Grumpy Kitty Boy). Presented by the rEvolver Festival.
Kinalugarán (audio essay) presented at the Het Paviljoen (Ghent)
May 4 - June 1, 2023
  • Audio essay selected for the curated outdoor exhibition "To Undiscovered Lands."
MARCH 2023

World premiere of Kina-i-ngátan (Toronto)
March 30, 2023
  • Presented in "Re-Sequencing Berio: A Film/Concert Spectacular" by New Music Concerts. Premiere by Guy Few (trumpet).
American premiere of Ni ici, ni là-bas in CAMPGround23 (Tampa, FL)
March 16, 2023
  • Premiere by Julianna Eidle (alto flute).
Kinalugarán (audio essay) in the 22nd Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art (South River, ON / online)
March 4, 2023
  • Presented in "Remote Connections" by New Adventures in Sound Art
FEBRUARY 2023

Digital release of Kinalugarán in "Deep Wireless 17"
February 4, 2023
  • Compilation album released by New Adventures in Sound Art for the 22nd Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art
Digital release of Weekend Rain and Hanggang sa Paglubog ng Araw in "Tunog Lata"
February 3, 2023
  • Compilation album released by MusiKolektibo
DECEMBER 2022

Hanggang sa Paglubog ng Araw in Listening Lounge, SONIC MATTER Festival 2022 (Zürich)
December 2-4, 2022

NOVEMBER 2022

Publication of "Examining the Asian Imaginary in Philippine Contemporary Music"
  • Musika Jornal Vol. 13 (2021) article, published by the UP Center for Ethnomusicology (Quezon City, Philippines).
Digital world premiere of O forse, l'ho già perduta poco a poco...
November 17, 2022
  • Premiere by Wesley Shen (piano), presented by Freesound (Toronto/online).
OCTOBER 2022

Publication of "Resequencing Resonances"
  • Musicworks magazine article (Fall 2022) on musical repatriation in Canadian music venues. Featuring lore man Richard Scott-Moore (Goombine), singer Marion Newman, and scholar Jeremy Strachan.
Japanese koto mentorship (New York City, NY)
October 5-November 1, 2022
  • Part of a year-long professional development program on studying the koto under Masayo Ishigure, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
JULY 2022

World premiere of A Study in Exile, No. 3: Home is not a place on a map.
July 28-31, 2022
  • Premiere by Amy Hull (dancer), Rebecca Leonard (circus artist), and the Thin Edge New Music Collective. Presented in "Anthropic Traces," produced by Balancing on the Edge and A Girl in the Sky Productions (Toronto).
Digital release of Hanggang sa Takipsilim in "Mind & Machine, Vol. 4"
July 22, 2022
  • Compilation album released by Ravello Records
JUNE 2022

Paper presentation of "Nomadic Sound Worlds: towards the transitory and the migratory" in Diasporic Solidarities
June 9, 2022
  • John Douglas Taylor Conference hosted by the Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University.
Participation as a panel member of "Lost in Translation? When instruments and music are taken out of their cultural contexts"
June 5, 2022
  • Symposium hosted by Evergreen Gamelan Club and the Canadian Music Centre.
APRIL 2022

World premiere of Kinalugarán
April 30, 2022
  • Commissioned by New Music Concerts (Toronto) in co-presentation with The Music Gallery. This new work is made possible with the financial support of the Ontario Arts Council.
Digital world premiere of Kinamulátan
April 8, 2022
  • Commissioned and premiered by Martin Carpentier (bass clarinet) and Joseph Petric (accordion). Co-presented by the Canadian Music Centre.
MARCH 2022

Radio broadcast of Ni ici, ni là-bas
March 26, 2022
  • Presented on the radio program “Pushing the Envelope” with Joel Krutt (WHUS Radio 91.7 FM UConn)
FEBRUARY 2022

Digital world premiere of Weekend Rain
February 13, 2022
  • Presented in Shortwave Transmissions by Cities and Memory (Oxford, UK/online).
AUGUST 2021

Appearance as radio host and producer of World Skip the Beat
August 16 and 23, 2021
  • Produced two episodes of World Skip the Beat under the name Grumpy Kitty Boy at CKUT 90.3 FM Montreal.
JULY 2021

Lyric video release of Grumpy Kitty Boy's Train Tracks
July 9, 2021
  • Train Tracks is a track from the debut EP Show Me The Kibbles (2021).
FEBRUARY 2021

Digital release of Grumpy Kitty Boy's debut EP Show Me The Kibbles
February 26, 2021
  • Includes the lyric video release of Dark Skies, with animations by Yuna Kim.
JANUARY 2021

Digital release of Grumpy Kitty Boy's lead single Blue Eyes
January 29, 2021
  • Includes a lyric video release with animations by Yuna Kim.
NOVEMBER 2020

Animated music video release of Grumpy Kitty Boy's Airplane Wings
November 13, 2020
  • Airplane Wings is Grumpy Kitty Boy's debut single. Video animation and direction by Yuna Kim.
JULY 2020

Digital release of Grumpy Kitty Boy's debut single Airplane Wings
July 10, 2020

MAY 2020

A Study in Exile, No. 4: Paagos in Cluster XI: Digital Edition (Winnipeg/online)
May 1-June 30, 2020

APRIL 2020

Participation in the "MCL Talks, Season 1"
April-September 2020
  • Presented by the Manila Composers Lab, this video series includes a feature on Sa Kanyang Paglayag in Episode 4.
Publication of "Neither Here Nor There: Musical Identity in the Global Flow"
  • Musicworks magazine article (Spring 2020) featuring composer Lieke van der Voort and sound artist April Aliermo.
OCTOBER 2019

Paper presentation of "Concentric Circular Spaces: Xenakis and Maceda on Diffusing, Translating, and Decentralizing Musical Thought in Southeast Asia" in Power in Southeast Asia
October 26, 2019
  • Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CCSAS) Conference 2019 hosted by McGill University and Longueuil-Université-de-Sherbrooke.
SEPTEMBER 2019

Paper presentation of "Nomadic Sound Worlds: Towards the Transitory and the Migratory" in Transnationalism and Transculturalism in Canadian Contemporary Music (1969-2019)
September 27, 2019
  • Study day organized by Christopher Moore and hosted by the University of Ottawa.
Golden Balangay Awards 2019 Dinner Gala (Winnipeg)
September 7, 2019
  • Nomination for the "Excellence Award for Music and Entertainment."
JULY 2019

Artist residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (Nebraska City, NE)
July 26-August 23, 2019

World premiere of Time moves, straightforward...
July 26-28, 2019
  • Part of the production Cries of the Earth, presented by the Art Song Collaborative Project (Toronto). Premiered by Jonathan MacArthur (tenor), Meghan Cheng (violin), Evan Bowen (percussion), Kim Feliz (live electronics).
Radio broadcast of A Study in Exile, No. 4: Paagos
July 22, 2019
  • Presented on the radio program “Acoustic Frontiers” with Ralph Hopper (CKCU 93.1 FM Ottawa).
JUNE 2019

Participation in a panel for Encounters in Exile
June 3, 2019
  • Panel/public talk hosted by Soundstreams (Toronto). Also featuring a performance of A Study in Exile, No. 4: Paagos.
APRIL 2019

World premiere of A Study in Exile, No. 4: Paagos
April 5-7, 2019
  • Commissioned by dancer Sarah Samaniego and presented by Tangente Danse (Montreal).
OCTOBER 2018

Artist residency at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (Saratoga, WY)
October 1-12, 2018

SEPTEMBER 2018

Mexican premiere of Pangkur
September 7 and 22, 2018
  • Performed by Liminar. Presented by the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez 2018 (September 7th) and the Palacio de Bellas Artes (September 22nd) (Mexico City).
(Live) world premiere of Hanggang sa Takipsilim
September 6, 2018
  • Presented by MUSLAB 2018 (Mexico City).
JULY 2018

World premiere of In stars we'll lose our way...
July 14-15, 2018
  • Part of the production Coming Home, presented by the Art Song Collaborative Project (Toronto). Premiered by Alondra Vega-Zaldivar (soprano), Gwenna Fairchild-Taylor (soprano), Katherine Watson (flute), Alexander Smith (percussion), Caitlin Frasure (piano), Joel Tangjerd (cello).
JUNE 2018

Paper presentation of "An Imaginary of 'Asia' in Philippine Contemporary Music" in Nief-Norf Summer Festival 2018 (Knoxville, TN)
June 15-17, 2018
  • New Asia: Research Summit hosted by Nief-Norf in conjunction with its summer music festival of 2018. Includes a quartet performance of Pangkur.
APRIL 2018

Library residency at the Canadian Music Centre Ontario (Toronto)
April 2018 - December 2019
  • Produced the three-part article/podcast series Nomadic Sound Worlds.
American premiere of Pangkur at MATA Festival 2018 (New York City)
April 10, 2018
  • Premiered by Liminar.

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