Collisions of memory, voice, sound, and physicality though a multi-sensorial radio remix installation
Collisions of memory, voice, sound, and physicality though a multi-sensorial radio remix installation
This presentation addresses the collision of the tactile and the sonic, through an ethnographic installation based on archived audio recordings from one of Radio Zambia’s most popular programs, Kabusha Takolelwe Bowa (a Bemba proverb meaning “The Person Who Inquires First, Is Not Poisoned by a Mushroom”). The installation, “Kabusha Radio Remix,”repurposes Bemba language recordings from the program. We discuss how sonic frontiers are exploited and transgressed in the engineered sound mix and via visitors’ engagements with the installation and how issues of subject agency, immortality, translation, wisdom, ownership,truth, and the media-democracy relationship are thrown into bold relief.
Phillips, Kwame
31da4afa-6336-4810-8b4f-a46027d28770
4 June 2016
Phillips, Kwame
31da4afa-6336-4810-8b4f-a46027d28770
Phillips, Kwame
(2016)
Collisions of memory, voice, sound, and physicality though a multi-sensorial radio remix installation.
Sound Art Matters, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
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This presentation addresses the collision of the tactile and the sonic, through an ethnographic installation based on archived audio recordings from one of Radio Zambia’s most popular programs, Kabusha Takolelwe Bowa (a Bemba proverb meaning “The Person Who Inquires First, Is Not Poisoned by a Mushroom”). The installation, “Kabusha Radio Remix,”repurposes Bemba language recordings from the program. We discuss how sonic frontiers are exploited and transgressed in the engineered sound mix and via visitors’ engagements with the installation and how issues of subject agency, immortality, translation, wisdom, ownership,truth, and the media-democracy relationship are thrown into bold relief.
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Published date: 4 June 2016
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Sound Art Matters, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 2016-06-01
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Kwame Phillips
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