José Maceda: Echoes Beyond the Archipelago exhibits at Western Front, now until July 27

Multi-part project explores Filipinx composer and ethnomusicologist’s pioneering work through photographs, objects, scores, and more

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José Maceda. Photo courtesy of UP Center for Ethnomusicology

Western Front is presenting José Maceda: Echoes Beyond the Archipelago, a multi-part project about the pioneering work of Filipinx composer and ethnomusicologist José Maceda, until July 27.

Maceda is a significant yet little-known figure within the history of 20th-century music, both for his fieldwork on Filipinx musicality and knowledge of European avant-garde music. Maceda’s compositions uniquely fused cutting-edge techniques such as spatialization, attention to timbre, and musique concrète with traditional Asian instruments, rhythms, and structures.

Curated by long-term Maceda expert Aki Onda, the exhibition provides greater insights into Maceda’s life and work through a display of photographs, print ephemera, objects, and scores that explore both his accomplishments as an ethnomusicologist and his major compositions: 1968’s Pagsamba, 1974’s Ugnayan, 1975’s Udlot-Udlot, and 1993’s Music for Five Pianos.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a month-long installation of Ugnayan in Western Front’s Grand Luxe Hall until June 1.

More details are at Western Front.

Post sponsored by Western Front.