Interstitial Listenings III: Black Music behind the Wormhole
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Published:January 2025
Swiss-based DJ and sound artist Maïté Chénière’s work Sonic S.cape breaks the individual listener up by requiring us to listen with not only our ears but also our eyes and our whole body. Created for the dance floor and combining sound as well as video, the piece unfurls an Afrofuturist outer-space flight that involves a refiguring of relations. The chapter returns to Du Bois alongside Chénière as well as Jovita dos Santos Pinto’s historiographic intervention in the study of Black Swiss lives titled “Spuren.” These musicians and thinkers propose a different kind of approach to both identification and belonging: a shift that foregrounds unknown relations, unforeseeable ways of engaging a space, beyond any one authority over lives’ movement in space and time.
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