Re:SOUNDING

RE:SOUNDING aims to locate, record, digitise, and re-engage with the percussive sounds of the Vietnamese Bronze Age Đông Sơn drum.

Displaced by colonisation and the post-war trade in Southeast Asian antiquities, these drums have the significance of announcing the rain, harvests, fertility, and well-being of local communities as well as instruments of resistance and warfare. Now held in museums and collections throughout the world, this project reimagines how the Đông Sơn drum can conceptually exist beyond the museum display cabinet.

In the hands of contemporary artists and musicians, the digitised drum sample will continue the acoustic voice and cultural impact of these ancient instruments.

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James Nguyen + Victoria Pham

SAMSTAG MUSEUM: Winter Program 2021

May 07, 2021  /  Victoria Pham

RE:SOUNDING makes its second physical exhibition installation. This time as part of the Winter 2021 program at the Samstag Museum of Arts (Adelaide). Showcasing our research process, Episodes I and II as well as all our musical performances from Bagus Mazasupa, RCD and Phams’ Bronze Echoes performed by Salina Myat, Adam Cooper-Standbury and Hamish Upton - this exhibition is curated by Gillian Brown.

Information about the exhibition can be accessed here: https://www.unisa.edu.au/connect/samstag-museum/

23 APRIL- 17 JULY: 2021

Image: Provided courtesy of Samstag Museum of Art

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