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monographs + periodicals + reading spots from Aug-Dec 2025 🌳 📖 🙇🏽‍♀️ //Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear, Irene Revell + Sarah Shin //Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal, Anthony Elms + Celeste DiNucci + Mark Christman //The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross //Feminist Library Collection //Etching the Voice: Emile Berliner and the First Commercial Gramophone Discs, Giovanna P. Dell’Orto //A Sexual History of the Internet, Mindy Seu //Return to the Postcolony, T.J.Demos //The New and Revised Banjo, Frederick J. Bacon

slow to post 💤 article as part of ‘Imagination as a Site of Struggle’. Many thanks to @gabriela_a_z also 🌀

Some ideations @ @willie_creative_space Thinking about the colonial murmurings behind a variety of children’s ring games — especially Emmanuel Road. The stone as a physical manifestation of embedded histories. Chalk and limestone as disappearing placeholders for the archive 🕳️

Some sonic exchanges this spring 🎧 1) @crisapsoundarts thank u @soundarthannah for the invite 2) inherited a Marantz and old radio tapes 3) piecing together the knowledge of the 🪨 gong via Umenzi’s YouTube archive 4) witnessing the rehearsals of @danieloduntan Audio Visual Ensemble

Extremely obsessed with these phonograph nails for Thursday’s talk @crisapsoundarts 🪕 Thank u @suki_nailz 🤎

I went on a phonograph research adventure to Paris a couple of weeks ago // this is the wonderful @phonogalerie and also moments from Jalal’s personal collection + studio containing early recording devices, cylinders and everything in-between. From residues of tin foil markings to public phonographs (alongside communal headphone sets) 😍

CULATRA Takeover @jumbipeckham last month *⁀➷ These grrllsss!! It's too much !! ❤︎ More of this on Feb 14th @theoldbluelast ❤︎ @tekhole @jess_row @sossyfez @helenfrombromley @dj_jsilva

Almost 2 decades of friendship and connecting through music thank you @rosh.png for the recent 📸 we have an order we like to go in for pictures too ahah, love you both x A celebration of @sossyfez birthday month also 💋

Still processing my trip to the Swahili Coast, during these difficult months I’ve come back to the sounds and reverberations from this time, especially those of my dear @century.late + @datahealing

edits 4 the future! This Jan join me online for another sonic Decolonising Wiki Network session Time to edit and research red links, missing artists and (re)worlding music histories that are important to you and your sound communities! Web 🔗 and date to be confirmed late December

On the 1st of November myself and @afromerm conducted a live research session and sonic dialogue for the closing of @by.ivna at @studio.chapple Channeling the methodologies of early wax cylinder recordings, we are informed by wax, stone and earth as containers for “infinite” composition. Together, we traced and re-mapped fragments from the Black British banjo movement of the late 1800s, exploring its influence on popular music culture and new media. Accompanied by Juniper, a custom made motion-reactive instrument for embodied electronic music @afromerm formed interludes alongside projected ephemera and a joint lecture performance. Thank you also @myacav , @metro54 and Louis X

Studio/Chapple and Metro54 are excited to invite you to celebrate the final day of ‘Sister Mine’ by Ivna Esajas with a special performance by afromerm and Jess Rowley. They will take us on a sonic journey, extending Ivna’s message that blurs the lines between individual and collective stories - both using voice, time, and history to form spatial dialogues. A continuation of afromerm’s and Jess Rowley’s archival collaboration brothers.archive; Join the duo for a live research session and sonic dialogue. Channeling the methodologies of early wax cylinder recordings, they are informed by wax, stone and earth as containers for “infinite” composition. Together, they trace and re-map fragments from the Black British banjo movement of the late 1800s, exploring its influence on popular music culture and new media. Accompanied by Juniper, a custom made motion-reactive instrument for embodied electronic music, afromerm forms interludes alongside Jess’ projected ephemera and lecture performance. 20 Plays, 20 Cracks in Time @afromerm @jess_row Saturday, November 1st 3-5PM @metro54 @by.ivna Thank you to @myacav for programming this event!