yamomo is an Assistant Professor of Theatre, Performance, and Sound Studies at the University of Amsterdam and the author of Sounding Modernities: Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

He is a laureate of the Veni Innovation Grant (2017-2022), funded by the Dutch Research Organization (NWO), for his project »Sonic Entanglements: Listening to Modernities in Southeast Asian Sound Recordings,« and he was awarded a KNAW Early Career Award by the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. yamomo is also a resident artist at Theater Ballhaus Naunynstraße. In his work as artist-scholar, he engages the topics of sonic migrations, queer aesthetics, and post/de-colonial acoustemologies.