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This musical conversation between trail-blazing jazz drummer and composer Kesivan Naidoo and artist-anthropologist Sabelo Mcinziba will be a stylistic infusion of philosophical reflections on the life worlds of hands. The audience is invited to an immersive experience through careful and interactive listening in these musical musings and performances that animate the ideas sonically.

The conversation, facilitated by Junior Research Group Leader Joschka Philipps, stages a phonic mapping and tracing of sonic productions by hands in various activities, contexts and by different actors; ranging from labour to entertainment, often blending and bending the perceived lines of engagement given the multiplicity of hands as a medium of human expression.

On an aesthetic register, the conversation and performance summon conscious consideration on the musicality of everyday rituals in the performance of humanity through our hands, especially in the context of an increasingly precarious world sociopolitically. It grounds improvisation not only as a cornerstone of jazz but also philosophically as a living practice in the face of unsettling orders historically as well as in the present.

Please join us for an evening of courageous curation where rapturous sounds are installed as a deliberate disturbance to harmony rested on repression in some traditions. An evening that hopes to pose questions to compel us to reconfigure ideas of humanity in the 21st century.

To find out more about the event and artists, please visit: https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/Important-Dates/2024-11-29-musical-musings-kesican-and-sabelo/index.html