Projects

Smot is a traditional form of Buddhist chanting performed at funerals and religious ceremonies, with very deep, and elaborate melodies. This form has been preserved through private and monastic ritual practices.

Ikat weaving in Cambodia is a technique that involves textile designing through dying threads/yarn from either silk or plant fiber which will be woven into unique patterns inspired by the Khmer traditions. This process involves carefully aligning the dyed yarn during the weaving process. 

Audio and visual recordings were focusing on understanding how the communities relate with their cultural heritage and traditional forms. This involved recording of community members performing the Smot in Cambodia, and traditional rituals on the indigenous knowledge systems on indigenous plants in South Africa. Community of weavers in Takeo, Siem Reap, and the Silk Island (Koh Dach) were engaged for structured and semi-structured interviews that were recorded as audios and videos. Additionally, the weavers were also recorded visually doing the weaving on their personal, workshop, and family traditional looms. Qualitative structured tabulated data was collected specifically in South Africa through Epicollect5 mobile application in addition to the unstructured data.