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The longstanding tendency of global sonic cataloging frameworks to relegate experimental, uncategorizable, or regionally specific sonic practices to catch-all “other” bins has erased untold amounts of nuance from works that resist the narrow genre boxes designed primarily to commodify mainstream Western sounds. For generations, independent and community-rooted sound creators across the Philippine archipelago have worked outside the bounds of what international industry infrastructures recognize as standard, formalized genres, blending inherited sonic traditions, contemporary experimental practices, and localized iterations of global creative modes that never map neatly onto the pop, rock, hip-hop, or classical buckets that dominate most global cataloging systems.
