Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท
@silpayamanant.bsky.social
Intercultural & Southeast Asian Music Researcher, Composer, Educator. Founder Saw Peep Intercultural Orchestra. Host of BBC "World of Classical." he/him 🖤 🩶🤍💜
"As I'm compiling a bibliography of primary sources about orchestras and ensembles of enslaved musicians I've decided to map their locations."
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October 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"As I'm compiling a bibliography of primary sources about orchestras and ensembles of enslaved musicians I've decided to map their locations."
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I keep forgetting to post on the micro-platforms. Here's the beginnings of a South Asian Music Theory & Treatises Bibliography I started last summer. Eventually I would like to include info and links to translations as well.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I keep forgetting to post on the micro-platforms. Here's the beginnings of a South Asian Music Theory & Treatises Bibliography I started last summer. Eventually I would like to include info and links to translations as well.
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Raqs Maqom: Dances & Music of Central & West Asia
Sun-Oct 19-2PM
World Affairs Council Lobby
223 S 5th St, Louisville
Free-limited seating; RSVP: worldaffairscouncilofkentucky-bloom.kindful.com/e/see-paw-ra...
Raqs Maqom: collaboration between Crescent Moon Dance Co. & Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble
Sun-Oct 19-2PM
World Affairs Council Lobby
223 S 5th St, Louisville
Free-limited seating; RSVP: worldaffairscouncilofkentucky-bloom.kindful.com/e/see-paw-ra...
Raqs Maqom: collaboration between Crescent Moon Dance Co. & Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble
September 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Raqs Maqom: Dances & Music of Central & West Asia
Sun-Oct 19-2PM
World Affairs Council Lobby
223 S 5th St, Louisville
Free-limited seating; RSVP: worldaffairscouncilofkentucky-bloom.kindful.com/e/see-paw-ra...
Raqs Maqom: collaboration between Crescent Moon Dance Co. & Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble
Sun-Oct 19-2PM
World Affairs Council Lobby
223 S 5th St, Louisville
Free-limited seating; RSVP: worldaffairscouncilofkentucky-bloom.kindful.com/e/see-paw-ra...
Raqs Maqom: collaboration between Crescent Moon Dance Co. & Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble
Always makes me chuckle when r/musictheory mods just refer folks to r/GlobalMusicTheory. 😅
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September 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Always makes me chuckle when r/musictheory mods just refer folks to r/GlobalMusicTheory. 😅
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Some of my more scholarly work is contributing to the expansion of string pedagogy in surprising ways. Esteban Hernández Parra's recent dissertation "Resuena Abya Yala: Otherwise Practices in Bowed Strings Learning and Performance" cites 1 of my pieces abt slave orchestras!
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September 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Some of my more scholarly work is contributing to the expansion of string pedagogy in surprising ways. Esteban Hernández Parra's recent dissertation "Resuena Abya Yala: Otherwise Practices in Bowed Strings Learning and Performance" cites 1 of my pieces abt slave orchestras!
hdl.handle.net/2022/33684
hdl.handle.net/2022/33684
“[T]he evolution of the orchestra was brought to a standstill”
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“[T]he evolution of the orchestra was brought to a standstill”
“There is a landmark moment in which the evolution of the orchestra was brought to a standstill.” William Bolcom wrote in his 2013 “The Future of the Orchestra.”1 Later in t…
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August 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“[T]he evolution of the orchestra was brought to a standstill”
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Next Friday, Aug 29, we'll be at the World Affairs Council's inaugural WorldFest Kick-Off Reception. We hear it's already sold out, but you can come see us at WorldFest mainstage on Saturday at 3-4pm!
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August 24, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Next Friday, Aug 29, we'll be at the World Affairs Council's inaugural WorldFest Kick-Off Reception. We hear it's already sold out, but you can come see us at WorldFest mainstage on Saturday at 3-4pm!
www.sawpeep.com/events/ @silpayamanant.bsky.social @divyakrthk.bsky.social
www.sawpeep.com/events/ @silpayamanant.bsky.social @divyakrthk.bsky.social
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Examples of bird songs from Simeon Pease Cheney's 1892 "Wood Notes Wild: Notations of Bird Music" (Cheney died in 1890, so this was published posthumously).
Images are from pages 39, 94, and 101. Cheney's book is downloadable here: archive.org/details/wood...
Images are from pages 39, 94, and 101. Cheney's book is downloadable here: archive.org/details/wood...
August 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Examples of bird songs from Simeon Pease Cheney's 1892 "Wood Notes Wild: Notations of Bird Music" (Cheney died in 1890, so this was published posthumously).
Images are from pages 39, 94, and 101. Cheney's book is downloadable here: archive.org/details/wood...
Images are from pages 39, 94, and 101. Cheney's book is downloadable here: archive.org/details/wood...
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200+ more entries added to the Timeline of Music Notation since the last update. 1700+ entries total now!
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A number of Korean notations; systems for animal songs (esp. for birds/whales); accordion/free reed tabs; & some dutar/fiddle/folk instr. tabs.
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A number of Korean notations; systems for animal songs (esp. for birds/whales); accordion/free reed tabs; & some dutar/fiddle/folk instr. tabs.
August 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
200+ more entries added to the Timeline of Music Notation since the last update. 1700+ entries total now!
silpayamanant.wordpress.com/timeline-of-...
A number of Korean notations; systems for animal songs (esp. for birds/whales); accordion/free reed tabs; & some dutar/fiddle/folk instr. tabs.
silpayamanant.wordpress.com/timeline-of-...
A number of Korean notations; systems for animal songs (esp. for birds/whales); accordion/free reed tabs; & some dutar/fiddle/folk instr. tabs.
Love how the implication here is that there are "non-ethnic" instruments. It's the classic way to normalize supraethnic/macro-ethnic (e.g. Western/European instruments) phenomena as neutral and/or universal.
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July 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Love how the implication here is that there are "non-ethnic" instruments. It's the classic way to normalize supraethnic/macro-ethnic (e.g. Western/European instruments) phenomena as neutral and/or universal.
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Open Access here: escholarship.org/uc/item/64k2...
"Historical evidence suggests that the fiddle may be one of the oldest uninterrupted instrumental traditions in African American culture, yet most people in the United States, including African Americans, do not identify it with Black music"
"Historical evidence suggests that the fiddle may be one of the oldest uninterrupted instrumental traditions in African American culture, yet most people in the United States, including African Americans, do not identify it with Black music"
July 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Open Access here: escholarship.org/uc/item/64k2...
"Historical evidence suggests that the fiddle may be one of the oldest uninterrupted instrumental traditions in African American culture, yet most people in the United States, including African Americans, do not identify it with Black music"
"Historical evidence suggests that the fiddle may be one of the oldest uninterrupted instrumental traditions in African American culture, yet most people in the United States, including African Americans, do not identify it with Black music"
I guess we'll be hearing more from Timothy Jackson and the Journal of Schenkerian Studies going forward...
July 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I guess we'll be hearing more from Timothy Jackson and the Journal of Schenkerian Studies going forward...
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"Score-type notation of Maibataraki made by an amateur musician, Tazaki Enjirō. Ōtsuzumi in blue, kotsuzumi in red, taiko in green and red, and the chanting text and nohkan’s shōga in black from right to left in a column."
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July 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"Score-type notation of Maibataraki made by an amateur musician, Tazaki Enjirō. Ōtsuzumi in blue, kotsuzumi in red, taiko in green and red, and the chanting text and nohkan’s shōga in black from right to left in a column."
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Just added another 50+ entries to the Timeline of Music Notation the past couple of days which brings the total to over 1300 entries.
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Timeline of Music Notation
Jon Silpayamanant DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.22723760 Link: silpayamanant.wordpress.com/timeline-of-music-notation PUBLISHED 2/4/2017; UPDATED 7/12/2025; (1345 entries) INTRODUCTIONTIMELINEBCE Music …
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July 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Just added another 50+ entries to the Timeline of Music Notation the past couple of days which brings the total to over 1300 entries.
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How do we login into our hcommons profile if the only login method was via twitter?
How do we login into our hcommons profile if the only login method was via twitter?
July 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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How do we login into our hcommons profile if the only login method was via twitter?
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Listening to some Raag Malkauns to calm after the earlier barrage of sound...
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Chandraveena | Raga Malkauns - The Calming Melody
Raga Malkauns is one of the oldest Ragas in Indian Classical Music. It is considered as one of the six principal Ragas in the Raga - Ragini classification of Ragas in Indian Classical Music.
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July 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Listening to some Raag Malkauns to calm after the earlier barrage of sound...
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From Mark Slobin's 1993 "Subcultural Sounds: Micromusics of the West" (page 30)
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June 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
From Mark Slobin's 1993 "Subcultural Sounds: Micromusics of the West" (page 30)
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Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble is so pleased to announce that we have been selected to be the COLLIDER Artist-in-Residence for December 2025!
Learn more about the COLLIDER Artist-in-Residence program:
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Learn more about past COLLIDER artists: www.lfpl.org/past-collide...
Learn more about the COLLIDER Artist-in-Residence program:
www.lfpl.org/lifelong-lea...
Learn more about past COLLIDER artists: www.lfpl.org/past-collide...
May 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble is so pleased to announce that we have been selected to be the COLLIDER Artist-in-Residence for December 2025!
Learn more about the COLLIDER Artist-in-Residence program:
www.lfpl.org/lifelong-lea...
Learn more about past COLLIDER artists: www.lfpl.org/past-collide...
Learn more about the COLLIDER Artist-in-Residence program:
www.lfpl.org/lifelong-lea...
Learn more about past COLLIDER artists: www.lfpl.org/past-collide...
"Pu‘uwai Haokila: The Story of How Hawai‘i Shaped Modern Music"
www.pbshawaii.org/puuwai-haokila
"Narrated by Raiatea Helm, this PBS Hawai‘i documentary uncovers Hawaiʻi’s deep, global impact on modern music despite the political struggles they faced at home."
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"Narrated by Raiatea Helm, this PBS Hawai‘i documentary uncovers Hawaiʻi’s deep, global impact on modern music despite the political struggles they faced at home."
May 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"Pu‘uwai Haokila: The Story of How Hawai‘i Shaped Modern Music"
www.pbshawaii.org/puuwai-haokila
"Narrated by Raiatea Helm, this PBS Hawai‘i documentary uncovers Hawaiʻi’s deep, global impact on modern music despite the political struggles they faced at home."
www.pbshawaii.org/puuwai-haokila
"Narrated by Raiatea Helm, this PBS Hawai‘i documentary uncovers Hawaiʻi’s deep, global impact on modern music despite the political struggles they faced at home."
Ok, I watched the "Klingon Music Theory is Weird" video and it was "meh" but I did laugh when an image of me from a 2012 performance with Il Troubadore Klingon Music Project showed up in the vid (at the 25:27 mark)! 😂
April 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Ok, I watched the "Klingon Music Theory is Weird" video and it was "meh" but I did laugh when an image of me from a 2012 performance with Il Troubadore Klingon Music Project showed up in the vid (at the 25:27 mark)! 😂
Whatever happened to Shadia Mansour? This is still one of my favorite collabs she's done--"Sonos Sur" with Ana Tijoux!
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Ana Tijoux - Somos Sur ft. Shadia Mansour (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Nacional Records
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April 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Whatever happened to Shadia Mansour? This is still one of my favorite collabs she's done--"Sonos Sur" with Ana Tijoux!
youtu.be/EKGUJXzxNqc
youtu.be/EKGUJXzxNqc
It was great finally performing this after it was initially cancelled in April, 2020!
I opened the event with the Global Cello project performing works composers from Southeast Asia or of Southeast Asian descent!
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I opened the event with the Global Cello project performing works composers from Southeast Asia or of Southeast Asian descent!
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April 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It was great finally performing this after it was initially cancelled in April, 2020!
I opened the event with the Global Cello project performing works composers from Southeast Asia or of Southeast Asian descent!
www.silpayamanant.com/projects/glo...
I opened the event with the Global Cello project performing works composers from Southeast Asia or of Southeast Asian descent!
www.silpayamanant.com/projects/glo...
This is a companion piece for her "The New “Yellow Peril” in “Western” European Symphony Orchestras"
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April 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This is a companion piece for her "The New “Yellow Peril” in “Western” European Symphony Orchestras"
doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
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Found a couple of my works cited in Maiko Kawabata's "Racism and Diversity in Orchestral Practice" which is the first chapter of the edited volume "East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music" (edited by Ken Ueno and Maiko Kawabata)!
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April 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Found a couple of my works cited in Maiko Kawabata's "Racism and Diversity in Orchestral Practice" which is the first chapter of the edited volume "East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music" (edited by Ken Ueno and Maiko Kawabata)!
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What Islam Gave the Blues by Sylviane Diouf
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April 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
What Islam Gave the Blues by Sylviane Diouf
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