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“What shall we do with the tools?”

PALESA MOTSUMI & TARIRO MUDZAMIRI

The Impact of Covid-19 on the Arts in South Africa

Theme Africa Synthesized

CARINA VENTER & STEPHANIE VOS

Africa Synthesized: Editorial Note

GEORGE E. LEWIS

Recharging Unyazi 2005

A Look at Lightning – The Life and Compositions of Halim el-Dabh

A Sonic letter to Halim El-Dabh

Shane Cooper’s Tape Collage – a living archive

HANS ROOSENSCHOON

Tape loops: Cataclysm (1980)

STEPHANUS MULLER

Hans Roosenschoon's Cataclysm: message in a bubble or mere spectacular flotsam?

Composing with Jurgen Brauninger: 1989-2019

LIZABÉ LAMBRECHTS

The Woodstock Sound System and South African sound reinforcement

Synthesizer and portastudio: their roles in the Tigrayan People’s Liberation struggle - an audio essay.

Africa Synthesized: A Sonic Essay

Afrotechnolomagic before the internet came to town – How electrons made Africans in music zing

Interspeller (some B-sides)

WARRICK SWINNEY

House on Fire: Sankomota and the art of abstraction

Beatmaking in Dakar: The Shaping of a West-African Hip-hop Sound

Materials of Relation: A Sonic Pedagogy of Non-Mastery

(Whose) Vinyl in (Which) Africa? A Zoom Fiasco

Mandela is Dead

A Peaceful City

PIERRE-HENRI WICOMB

A Composition Machine

SONO-CHOREOGRAPHIC COLLECTIVE

Playing Grounds: a polymodal essay

STELARC & MAURIZIO LAZZARATO

Parasite: A Government of Signs

The Bauhaus Loops

KING SV & MARCO LONGARI

The Black Condition

SIPHELELE MAMBA

Enough is enough

SEGOMOTSO PALESA MOTSUMI

Explaining racism

KHANYISILE MBONGWA

Mombathiseni UnoDolly Wam

Choreographies of Protest Performance: 1. The Transgression of Space

TSEPO WA MAMATU

The Colonising Laughter in Leon Schuster’s Mr. Bones and Sweet ’n Short

On racism and how to read Hannah Arendt

Sembène Ousmane

MAVAMBO CHAZUNGUZA

Sacred Sonic Cosmos

GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN

The Saharan WhatsApp Series - an Experiment in Immediacy

Cross-cultural collaboration in African Electronica

STEVEN CRAIG HICKMAN

The Listening of Horror

MICHAEL C COLDWELL

The Noise made by Ghosts

GABRIEL GERMAINE DE LARCH

I will not be erased

JESÚS SEPÚLVEDA

Viaje a Tánatos

From Beyond the World of Dead Sirens

(Ultra) Lockdown

SINDISWA BUSUKU

Let’s Talk Kaffir

MAAKOMELE R. MANAKA

Four Indigenous Poems

Language & Storytelling: On Zöe Modiga’s Inganekwane

LINDELWA DALAMBA

After the Aftermath: Recovery?

ATHI MONGEZELELI JOJA

Uninterrogated Phallophilia

Sicula iOpera – a raised fist?

TSELISO MONAHENG

How to build a Scene

Struggle Sounds

MKHULU MAPHIKISA

Short but not sweet: Skeptical Erections and the Black Condition

Tales from The UnderWorld

The Exhibition of Vandalizim – Improvising Healing, Politics and Film in South Africa

MARIETJIE PAUW, GARTH ERASMUS & FRANCOIS BLOM

Improvising Khoi’npsalms

KHADIJA TRACEY HEEGER

Lewis Nkosi – treasured memory

Chant of Divination for Steve Biko

How I fell in love with music

THOKOZANI MHLAMBI

Early Sound Recordings in Africa: Challenges for Future Scholarship

Everywhere but nowhere: reflections on DV8 magazine

Live Jimi Presley 1990-1995

AFRIKAAPS compIete script deel 3

PHILLIPPA YAA DE VILLIERS

An urgency to action

PABLO VAN WETTEN

Sort of a ramble

PONE MASHIANGWAKO

Artists' Prayer - A Tribute to Motlhabane Mashiangwako

Purchase or listen

MICHAEL TAUSSIG

Unpacking My Library: An Experiment in the Technique of Awakening

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