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Accessibility For All: BMI Workshop on Making and Tuning Bamboo Instruments

23-25 June 2023. Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. The DOST Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI), hosted the workshop Guro, […]

Join the 7th ICTM-PASEA Symposium

Calling all Researchers and Scholars of Southeast Asian Performing Arts! Join the 7th Symposium of the International Council for Traditional […]

Ambient Images: Stories of People and Sonic Experiences Told through Film

In celebration of its 26th founding anniversary, the UP Center for Ethnomusicology, along with the UP Diliman Office of the Chancellor, presents “Ambient Images: Stories of People and Sonic Experiences Told through Film,” a film-screening event that will run on June 26, 27, 29, 30, and July 3, 2023. Through this occasion, the UP Center for Ethnomusicology seeks to advance milestones that it has set through “Road Map to 2027,” a five-year program of action geared toward the Center’s development into a world class music research institution for a global age.

Visiting the Founder: Reflections on the 5th of May

  In honor of José Monserrat Maceda (1917-2004), National Artist for Music. During the UPCE General Staff Meeting, our administrative officer, […]

Kaway-Kawayan: Bamboo Music Education Lessons for K-12 Volume 1 (Elementary and High School Sets)

by Jocelyn Timbol-Guadalupe, PhDtaken from the Introduction of the “Kaway-Kawayan: Bamboo Music Education Lessons for K-12 Volume 1“. “Sa Filipinas, […]

Virtual Launch of Kaway-Kawayan: Bamboo Musical Instruments Teaching Modules Volume 1

In celebration of the rich bamboo music heritage of the Philippines and its upcoming Independence Day commemoration, the UP Center […]

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