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"The bridge between jazz and Africa just took on a new elevation."-Greg Tate
Listening to Roots and Voicing Branches: Transnational Freedom Songs of the Black Atlantic is a multi-media performance piece that attempts to redress intra-racial tensions in the African Diaspora through the sonic and visual presentation of the Black Atlantic's cultural memory. Written by African vocalist Somi and African-American vocalist Chanda Rule, the two women introduce new modes of listening to indexical Black histories. By using Jazz as the foundation of their musical conversation, the piece strives to carve out a new space of cultural belonging and exchange, while the artists weave between song, (dis)harmony, and spoken word - creating acoustically and electronically layered textures of rhythm, movement, textuality, and sound.
Directed by Elizabeth Herron
Original Score by David Gilmore
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