The cello group "Cetallica" performing movement II, "Isaan," of my Two Thai Tunes for cello - and without sheet music! So Awesome!
Thanks to Zachary Sweet, Lisa Caravan, Daniel Ketter, the Cello Teaching Repertoire Consortium, and Ithaca Suzuki Music Education!
My Timeline of Music Notation gets a mention in Sean Williams' latest book "Music at the Threshold from the Sacred to the Dangerous" ( Oxford University Press | https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197761762.001.0001 ).
Screenshot is from the online edition (print edition not available till May).
About 20 new entries to the Indonesian Cello/Strings bibliography--including 7 articles and monographs on keroncong cello pedagogy and analysis! The cello world is truly so big once we get out of strictly Western repertories and styles.
https://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/cello/sea-vlc/mari-sea-vlc/id-vlc/
Another project I'm working on currently--a resource page for flute and cello works by Latin American composers!
https://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/composition/composers/la-comp/la-comp-fl-vcl/
Here's a breakdown of the unique composers from Global Cello events (2023-2025).
Interestingly, this masks diasporic & ethnicity info. For ex., the Central Eu composer is Austro-Persian & six N American composers are Armenian Am, Black Haitian-Am, Black Belizean-British, Filipino Am, & Indian Am.
Since starting the Global Cello series a little over a couple years ago, I've performed 76 pieces on 15 different events and recitals!
I've been breaking down the demographics of the composers by region, gender, ethnicity and their works by date, form and style, and difficulty levels and thought I'd share this chart.
I seriously thought I performed more folk tunes--but I might have to go back through program notes and do some more nuanced coding of the works! 😁
Was thinking about Rissa SoFar's recent Facebook post about K-pop's roots being in Black culture, and realized I needed to include that post in my resource, "K-Pop, Appropriation, & American Imperialism," which I'd forgotten this was still set to private.
https://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/k-pop-appropriation-american-imperialism-bibliography/
Hadn't updated the "DAW, Music Production, and Colonialism" bib in a while but I just added about a dozen pieces I've come across recently. Can't believe I didn't add my "Sound Archives, Music Production, and Colonialism" resource in there now too!
https://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/bibliography/daw-colonialism/
Something I always keep in mind, especially as this was my experience as a young student and a reason I founded the Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble and Global Cello projects!
p105 of Lucy Green's "Popular music education in and for itself, and for ‘other’ music" https://doi.org/10.1177/0255761406065471
Joshua Han's 2026 "On the politics of 'music theory' and the implications of its importation into research on music and meaning"
Open access here: https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2025-0049
