Current Project: Shillelagh Studies
Holistic Investigation of Stick-fighting Culture and Knowledge (HOLISTICK): Musical Decolonization of 19th-Century Irish Faction Combat Skills to Foster Healthy 21st-Century Shillelagh Walking Stick Martial Arts
Searching for meaning at the intersection of sound and movement.
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Current Project: Shillelagh Studies
On Irish Stick-fighting, Bruce Lee’s Musicality, and Chinese Lion Dances with Dr Colin McGuire. I had the honour and pleasure of being interviewed about my research for the Martial Arts Studies Podcast. Professor Paul Bowman of Cardiff University is the host of the program, as well as the head of the Martial Arts Studies Research … More Interview: Martial Arts Studies Podcast
Unisonance in Kung Fu Film Music, or the Wong Fei-hung Theme Song as a Cantonese Transnational Anthem. Here are text and video versions of some research I did on the idea of unofficial anthems for transnations that precede, rupture, exceed and transgress the seemingly stable territories and borders of states. My case study was a … More Article and Video: The Most Famous Song in Kung Fu Films is an Unofficial Cantonese Anthem
I’m delighted to announce that I received a James M. Flaherty Scholarship from the Ireland Canada University Foundation to start a research project on music and Irish stick-fighting. I’m one week in, and the scholarship runs till the end of November. Thanks to the Department of Music at University College Cork for hosting me! The … More Shillelagh Studies: New Research Project on Music and Irish Martial Arts
***featuring the Phonogarde on guitar***
My DJ/producer alter ego, Ronin E-Ville: beats and bass, samples and synths, funk and fusion, dub and dirt, jazz and juxtaposition, etc.