“Feedback” refers to both sustained response and, in musical contexts, to the noise produced by live electronic instruments. It is a loop, but the transmission changes as it’s circulated. In a new show of the same name at Spike Island (
@spikeisland ) in Bristol, Olukemi Lijadu (
@kemkemlij ) draws out the implications of feedback loops, recursive recall, and call-and-response, in a wideranging examination of the interrelated musical worlds of West Africa, the US, and the UK.
Centring on a film commission formed through extensive research in Chicago, Lagos, and the UK, ‘Feedback’ follows the influence of West African drumming on diasporic music traditions in the West.
Read Lijadu in conversation with Finn Blythe (
@finnblythe ) on Ocula, link in bio.
