No Country, No City, No Tribe

Searching for the Individual through Concealment

Submitted as my Major Project for MA Music (Audiovisual Cultures) at Goldsmiths, University of London, class of 2023.

Keywords: identity, individuality, concealment, uncertainty, obscurity, Renaissance, humanism, universalism, diaspora, acousmatic, spacing, tactics vs. strategies, presentism, tactus

The Bird With Its Head Tilted Backwards

A Call for ‘Sankofa’ in Music

Submitted as my Final Essay for Digital Music & Sound Arts (BA) at the University of Brighton, class of 2021.

Keywords: Sankofa, indigenisation, syncretism, neocolonialism, globalisation, social constructionism, essentialism, double-consciousness, heritage, universality, uniformity