Afr(indi)an fiction*
Kinsmen x
Othnell Mangoma Moyo
︎ exchange dialogue
01: introductions
︎ exchange dialogue
02: call / response /
action / research
︎ exchange dialogue
03: call / response /
action / research
︎ exchange dialogue
04: call / response /
action / research
(still in process)
*with thanks to Pallavi Rasogi.
Kinsmen x
Othnell Mangoma Moyo
︎ exchange dialogue
01: introductions
︎ exchange dialogue
02: call / response /
action / research
︎ exchange dialogue
03: call / response /
action / research
︎ exchange dialogue
04: call / response /
action / research
(still in process)
*with thanks to Pallavi Rasogi.
[03 A] : 03.11.2020
“The music hears the whole story of how everything will go.
It shows the spaces that you (we) are going to give each other...”
Othnell Mangoma Moyo
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Exchange excerpt 01:
Mangoma first call,
Shailesh responds,
Dhruv responds
Exchange excerpt 02:
Muhammad responds to ensemble
“To abandon the cherished object, the guaranteed insurance,
established and recognized references,
to abandon oneself to a music that goes beyond the state of “pleasure”
and is not scared to open the door to self-assessment
in an unpossessed alterity, ravishment, raputre.
Who knows what loss the change might bring?
What is there to lose?
Possibly the frame that imprisons us.”
Philippe Carles, Jean-Louis Comolli (2000)
Free-Jazz / Black Power
[03 B] : 26.11.2020It shows the spaces that you (we) are going to give each other...”
Othnell Mangoma Moyo
Exchange excerpt 01:
Mangoma first call,
Shailesh responds,
Dhruv responds
Exchange excerpt 02:
Muhammad responds to ensemble
Exchange excerpt 03:
Snippet of call & response
Snippet of call & response
“To abandon the cherished object, the guaranteed insurance,
established and recognized references,
to abandon oneself to a music that goes beyond the state of “pleasure”
and is not scared to open the door to self-assessment
in an unpossessed alterity, ravishment, raputre.
Who knows what loss the change might bring?
What is there to lose?
Possibly the frame that imprisons us.”
Philippe Carles, Jean-Louis Comolli (2000)
Free-Jazz / Black Power
Dialectic:
A process of thought by which apparent contradictions (thesis and antithesis) are seen to be part of a higher truth (synthesis).
Dharma:
untranslatable -
a fundamental substance, a medium of motion, the inherent nature of things, the eternal law of the cosmos.
Intention / spirit mediums / music making practices / the role of tradition
An alternate history of reed music (ngororombe & saxophone) [Community making, values & principles]
Tapping into traditional timezones, borrowing from and making ideas relevant to this moment / across genre, across geography.
Reflections on process and individual contributions through texture, timbre and melody.
Navigating conflict and contradiction in an intuitive process of composition.
Cyclical structures as conceptual anchors – always a target in mind [Indian Classical / Ngororombe / Orchestration / Mbira]
Speculative practice and emergent language(s)
Self-actualisation: making new paths from pre-existing forms and practices
︎ Link to full exchange dialogue 03