Description
This is a sonic poetics of musical instruments housed & sometimes trapped in museums. I explore the idea of a listening session as an alternative to curating and preserving the fullness of musical instruments beyond their conception as objects displayed, hung and "safe-guarded" behind glass shelves in museums.
Beyond Objects, sonically challenges these frameworks of objectification and suggest that these spaces be reimagined. Through vinyl recordings on musical instruments such as Kudu horn, Uhadi, Marimba, Mbira, Kora, Adunga, percussions, I take listeners into a sonic world of beyond-ness, resilience, fusion, ambient and dynamism embodied by these symbolic objects. I suggest a framework where what is preserved in these museums is beyond objects; rather, sounds, music cultures and the cultural traditions that sustain them.
So welcome, I invite you to tune in and to stay tuned in. I invite you to give a listen, to keep listening and to keep expanding your listening experience.
