Decolonizing Music Technologies 01

Kontemporary Frequencies

Through dialogue and performativity, Kontemporary frequencies is a listening space that explores practices and senses around music production.

In this conversation/performance, Khyam Allami, Alejandra Cardenas “Ale Hop” ,  Moises Horta “Hexorcismos”  and Musicologist Romain Malwengo Kingenzi will exchange perspectives on music technology, performative potentiality and production tools for musical worlds. From Artificial Intelligence, musical instrument creation in Kinshasa, to open source software. The audience is invited to enter in relation  with the artists and professionals by questioning our  listening positionalities

Each participant will do a presentation, sharing their inputs on how to create spaces of  musical experience from the exterior of the western canon. Musicians and researchers will bring along autonomous instruments, musical imagination and narratives of musical worlds.

Musicians:
Khyam Allami
Ale Hop
Hexorcismos

Researchers:
Romain Malwengo Kingenzi
Nico Daleman