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

CONNECT I LIVE: Footscray Community Art Center

May 31, 2021  /  Victoria Pham

And we’re back at Footscray Community Arts Center! This time for a month-long festival as part of CONNECT where RE:SOUNDING will feature in 3 lives performances.

Firstly is the Opening Ceremony where the Dong Son Drum itself will be performed on by 3 percussionists and musicians, Quang Ding, Mia Sjalso and Hamish Upton. Details about attending the opening ceremony for the 22nd of May can be accessed here: https://footscrayarts.com/event/connect/

The following is taken from the FCAC website:

“CONNECT is a site-specific public outdoor art exhibition in two parts curated by Tamsen Hopkinson. Following the first iteration in January to February this year, the second part of CONNECT continues to build on ideas of navigating place, community and public space through contemporary art.

Rafaella McDonald, James Nguyen and Victoria Pham are joined by Hannah Brontë, Nabilah Nordin and Kerrie Poliness in an inventive activation of new work across the outdoor site at Footscray Community Arts Centre. The exhibition spans across performance, painting, sculpture, large-scale participatory field drawing and text based banners; encouraging viewers to celebrate their connection to art, place and each other.”

Image provided by James Nguyen. Pictured are our three musicians, Left to Right: Quang, Mia and Hamish.