I’ve always been driven by stories. To me, sharing them is the most fundamental way we connect with each other.

My professional path began in the club culture of Amsterdam. As a 21-year-old rookie working at Mary Go Wild, a renowned institution for underground culture, I slowly came to realize that it wasn’t necessarily the music that fascinated me most, but the people within the scene and the stories constantly being created around it. The music built a space where people could bond, let go, and imagine a world in which even the most marginalized in our society felt safe and accepted.

It was in these spaces that I first became aware of how culture and identity are carried and altered, not only through words, but through sound and space. Sound became the medium through which I listen to stories, to connect and understand.

Through field expeditions and travel, I work to make room for suppressed voices and distorted histories to be heard on their own terms. My practice, both academic and artistic, comes down to paying attention to what usually gets ignored or pushed away.

With roots in the Netherlands, Suriname, and India, my work often focuses on protecting vulnerable cultures within these regions, deeply affected by colonialism. I engage with decolonization and cultural preservation, exploring how sound carries their identity and culture.

Sound turns the ordinary into something meaningful. Instruments and natural cycles of the forest, may carry stories of everyday life, survival, or history. To me, listening is simply where real understanding begins, of each other, and the world around us

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