Alongside the projects supported through the Tawid core fund, Tawid also helps amplify and enable a small number of related initiatives made possible through partner support.
Through the wider network and institutional connections built across Sonic Entanglements and the Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS) project, we can sometimes connect grassroots, community-led archiving work to complementary resources held by collaborating institution.
The initiatives gathered under this category are not financed by the Tawid core grant. Instead, they are supported through partner funding or in-kind contributions, aligned with Tawid’s commitment to community accountability, ethical listening, and the (re)connection of sonic heritage with the people and places from which it comes.
Where possible, we prioritize initiatives that strengthen local capacity, return materials to communities, and support consent-led documentation, annotation, and stewardship.
We share these partner-supported initiatives here to make the ecology of support visible: to acknowledge the institutions and collaborators who help carry this work, and to recognize the practitioners whose care, labor, and local knowledge keep archives alive without hardening them into distant, extractive infrastructures.
ETNOMUSIKLOPEDIA
ETNOMUSIKLOPEDIA is a six-month applied research initiative led by Dr. Citra Aryandari to build an integrated multimedia portal for Indonesia’s ethnomusicological heritage, bringing together academic texts, musical notation, audio recordings, and video documentation within a single, searchable entry. Aryandari’s philosophy treats archival materials not as detachable “content,” but as living, relational knowledge whose meaning depends on context, language, and the rights of the communities from which it emerges. In response to a preservation crisis where invaluable works remain in degrading physical formats and institutionally siloed, Etnomusiklopedia frames digitization as an ethical act of care: to prevent loss while restoring access and interpretive authority.