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Sonic InterventionsPodcasting Oral history in the KitchenPatrycja Rozwora
In the last episode of this season, Adriana Raczykowski is in conversation with Polish artist and curator Patrycja Rozwora, who founded the Kitchen Conversations Podcast. Patrycja talks about her practice of podcast curation and narration about Eastern European and Central Asian contemporalities in the arts. With this broader outlook on the eastern horizon, this season concludes, inviting listeners to dive deeper into topics regarding the East, for example through Patrycja’s platform.
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Patrycja Rozwora
Patrycja Rozwora (she/her) is a Warsovian artist, author, curator and po...2024-07-1933 min
Sonic InterventionsCentering Eastern PeripheriesOramics
Mala Herba and dogheadsurigeri from the Oramics collective meet with Adriana Raczykowski to talk about the politics of the dance floor and sonic spaces curation. Guided by the motto “Your periphery is our center”, they address Western hegemony in contemporary electronic subcultures.
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Paulina Trzeciak (dogheadsurigeri)
Paulina Trzeciak (she/her) is a Polish DJ based in London. Under her stage name dogheadsurigeri, she has performed in different clubs all over Poland and at venues including Colour Factory (London), Fuga (Bratislava), and Garage Noord (Amsterdam), as well as fest...2024-06-2831 min
Sonic InterventionsFrom Private to Public: Entering the Polish Drag Scene (in Polish)Lulla La Polaca
In this episode in Polish language, Adriana Raczykowski is in conversation with Lulla La Polaca, who is widely recognised as the oldest Drag Queen of Poland. She traces back her roots as a performer in times of PPR, and talks about musical inspirations, the importance of friendship and community, and her hopes and wishes for younger generations of drag artists in Poland today.
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Andrzej Szwan
Andrzej Szwan was born in 1938 into a Jewish family in Warsaw, where he survived the Warsaw Ghetto and...2024-06-1425 min
Sonic InterventionsSong and Gender in Zulu CulturesNompumelelo Zondi
In this episode recorded at the University of Pretoria, Prof. Nompumelelo Zondi, gives insights into her book on women’s song in rural Zulu culture. She presents an understanding of song as a medium of resistance and resilience, and uses her own voice to share examples.
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Nompumelelo Zondi
Nompumelelo Zondi, also known as “Mpume”, is a Vice-Dean of Research and Postgraduate Studies in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Prior appointments include: University of Pretoria (Profes...2024-03-0132 min
Sonic InterventionsContemporary Vibrations of Xhosa TraditionsSky Dladla
Our third season centers South African Sound Cultures and is curated by our main host Dr. Layla Zami. In this episode, she is in conversation with multi-instrumentalist and composer Sky Dladla. Dladla speaks of her love for Indigenous Xhosa instruments, the intersection of traditional and contemporary performance culture, and her collaboration with artists such as Zolani Mahola. Recorded at Blueprint Studios in Johannesburg.
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Sky Dladla
Sky Dladla is an African instrumentalist, a percussionist, songwriter, singer, and indigenous instrument maker born in Gugulethu, Cape...2024-02-0133 min
Sonic InterventionsResounding Rhythms
Season 2 closes with a conversation between Victoria Pham and Emma Lo. Victoria Pham introduces us to the many intersections of her work as an evolutionary biologist and artist. The conversation focuses on rhythm and listening in Pham’s research and practices, and Pham's and James Nguyen's open source project RE:SOUNDING.
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Victoria Pham
Victoria Pham is an Australian artist, evolutionary biologist, writer and composer. She is based between Paris and Sydney. Originally trained as an archaeologist, she is a current PhD candidate in Biological Anthropology at...2023-10-2723 min
Sonic InterventionsVoice Machines
This episode features Rully Shabara, an experimental vocalist based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Emma Lo talks with him about Xhabarabot Voice Machines, an ongoing project in which Shabara engineers interactive instruments from his own vocal samples. They discuss issues of consent in sampling, appropriation and self-exploitation, and open source technologies.
In conversation with
Rully Shabara
Rully Shabara born in Palu, Indonesia, is interested in exploring human voice as a medium of creation, and language as a subject to experiment with. Shabara has initiated numerous concept-based projects around voice, for...2023-10-1322 min
Sonic InterventionsVocal dis/obedience
This episodes features Anjeline de Dios, a philipino cultural geographer and vocal artist. Emma Lo will talk with her about voices, disobedience, well-being, and sonic conceptions of space. They will engage with how voices are shaped and how to connect with one’s own voice.
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Anjeline de Dios
Anjeline de Dios is a cultural geographer and vocal performer creating and studying emergent spaces of sound, healing, and change. She previously worked in academia as a university professor of cultural studies, and in systems-led innovation as a...2023-09-2935 min
Sonic InterventionsArchival silences
The new season of Sonic Interventions engages with Asian (diasporic) perspectives and opens with a conversation of Prof. Dr. Doris Kolesch, Dr. Layla Zami, and Emma Lo with artist-scholar Dr. meLê yamomo. In this first episode, they discuss sonic relationalities and archival practices. Learn more about his work, such as 'Echoing Europe’, the Decolonial Frequencies Festival, and DeCoSEAS.
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meLê yamomo
meLê yamomo is an Assistant Professor of New Dramaturgies, Media Cultures, Artistic Research, and Decoloniality and author of Sounding Modernities: Theatre and Music in Manila and t...2023-09-1529 min
Sonic InterventionsStimmbezirke (in German)Natalia Kiës and Elias Wessel
In this episode in German language, musician Natalia Kiës and photographer Elias Wessel discuss the project “It’s Complicated - Ist möglicherweise Kunst". The conversation facilitated by Dr. Layla Zami addresses information overflow, photography as painting, and the possibility for sound art to intervene into social media algorithms.
In Conversation With
Natalia Kiës
Natalia Kiës has been always communicative, her main language is music: While her contemporaries mauled their flutes, melodica and glockenspiel to create some sound, five-year-old Natalia sat in front...2023-03-1535 min
Sonic InterventionsMusic as Retroactive ReparationsCharlene Jean and Mercy Kelly
This episode presents BRICKS (A 20-YEAR MUSIC TOUR OF REPARATIONS), and features playwright Charlene Jean, performer Mercy Kelly, and host Dr. Layla Zami. A conversation about decolonial spirituality, matriarchs, gentrification, Black time, and queer performance strategies, enriched with lively audio samples from the performance.
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Charlene Jean
Charlene Jean is an experimental theatrical artist, performer, playwright, and producer. She is a playwright of BRICKS (A 20-YEAR MUSIC TOUR OF REPARATIONS. BRICKS is an always-changing script-template detailing the history-repeating shared injustice of "buried" towns...2023-03-0131 min
Sonic InterventionsSounds of RestNajee & Erika Harper at Weeksville Heritage Center
Recorded on the historical site of the Weeksville Heritage Center, this episode welcomes Najee_ (interdisciplinary artist and yogi) and Erica Harper (VP of Learning and Engagement at WHC). The conversation with Dr. Layla Zami addresses restful practices and restorative sounds, African-American liberation history and the meaning of community. An episode full of emotions and information!
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Najee Wilson
Najee (1987.Charleston South Carolina, USA) is a Multidisciplinary Artist ,Certified Yoga Instructor and Sound Practitioner based in Brooklyn New York, whose...2023-02-1532 min
Sonic InterventionsLower FrequenciesMendi+Keith Obadike
Dr. Layla Zami is in conversation with fellow artists-scholars Mendi and Keith Obadike, a married Igbo Nigerian American couple who create music, writing, and art. In this first episode, they discuss alternate ways of listening that allow us to perceive something beyond the surface. Learn more about their work, such as 'Frequency' and 'Timbre', which were inspired by a lively African-American literary legacy.
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Mendi+Keith Obadike
Mendi + Keith Obadike make music, art and literature. Their early works include The Sour Thunder, an Internet opera...2023-02-0125 min
Sonic InterventionsTrailerSeason 1
Intervening Arts
This research network combines arts-related disciplines such as performance studies with philosophy, history, sociology, and cultural anthropology. The Collaborative Research Center is based at the Freie Universität Berlin and works in cooperation with Humboldt University, the Berlin University of the Arts, the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), and Leuphana University in Lüneburg.
Podcast Credits
Concept
Dr. Layla Zami, Postdoctoral Researcher in Performance Studies
Producer Freie Universität Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Intervening Arts (SFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste, TP B05)
Fund...2023-01-1600 min
the minor constellations podcastEpisode 5 | PerforMemory: in conversation with Dr. Layla Zami and Jan DammelIn this episode we host a conversation between Dr Layla Zami and Jan Dammel about Dr Zami's recently published book Contemporary PerforMemory: Dancing Through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century.
Dr Zami is an academic and artist, working in the fields of humanities, performance studies and art history. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She also curates for the International Human Rights Art Festival in New York, together with Oxana Chi. Jan Dammel is our colleague in the RTG minor cosmopolitanisms and his project, Theatre a...2021-10-2032 min
Movers & Shapers: A Dance PodcastMSP 80: Oxana ChiToday's guest is Oxana Chi. Oxana is a choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, curator, and author. She founded the company Oxana Chi & Ensemble Xinren in Berlin, Germany in 1991 and moved to New York City in 2015. In 2018, she was listed in the Dance Enthusiast’s 2018 “A to Z” of People Who Power the Dance World. She is featured in several publications and films, and is the main protagonist of the movie Dancing Through Gardens. Chi is accompanied in this podcast by her main collaborator Dr. Layla Zami, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Performance + Performance Studies MFA Program at Pratt Institute and interdisciplinary artist (m...2019-03-0759 min