audio tapes
as a part of a personal challenge of growing my multimedia capabilities, i took the opportunity to try out audio. during the famous national arts festival, i starting recording in studio and field interviews becoming familiar with equipment and the audio mixer consol.
i edited all my sound on adobe audition.
01
Woza Albert
Woza Albert is about Two Blacks who have been oppressed by the Apartheid system are waiting for Morena to save them by using his holy Biblical miracles and free them. Hamilton Dhlamini and Thulani Mtsweni highlight bits of our South African history. The cast, along with the stage manager Phumeza Damane visited cue radio.
02
Waya Waya
by Nyaniso Lindi
Nyaniso Lindi scheduled walkabouts, in conversation with art historian, writer & curator, Professor Thembinkosi Goniwe. The walkabout covers contemporary art, where Lindi collected waste and creates his pieces from recycled material. He draws attention to mundane life and aesthetics in Makhanda – these images can also be recognised and translated in many different ways.
05
Exit/Exist
Gregory Maqoma had his last dance last night at the Rhodes University Theatre. Maqoma, along with the Complete Quartet brought us theater at its best: the performance, dance and perfect harmonies. In Exit/Exist, South African choreographer reinvigorates tradition to understand the complexities of our contemporary world. His last dance was an oud to his career on stage and thus an emotional farewell.
06
Village Green Vox Pops
Day 9 of the festivities and the buzzing fair at the heart of the National Arts Festival, Village Green was still alive. Joint Vox Pops conducted with Amahle Shosha.
03
Ndiyozilanda Exhibition by Msaki.
Msaki performed Ndiyozilanda to an intimate audience on Saturday, the 24th of June and in an interactive experience with healer and guide, well-versed in indigenous technologies, Makhosi Khynsa. This deeply personal work reflects on her traumas and Makhanda’s greater frontier history of violence. She the opens up channels of her healing development. Interview questions by Victoria Girls' High School student, Thabathani Simani, sound and editing by me.
04
How to Be A Cool Unicorn.
Simon Senn invited children to scan their face and bodies in 3D to bring a digital clone to life which they can then animate using a virtual reality headset. Children can become unicorns, small fairy’s or even somersaulting giants. Senn aims to entertain and educate young children about the developments of Virtual Reality (VR).
07
Koleka Putuma's Theatre of Beauty employs collaborative making processes and techniques, as well as experimental interaction with materials, text, image, performance, sound, and impulse. The project is an invitation to engage with the mind, memory, history, and the ways in which plant medicines are catalysts for reconfiguring identities and practises of healing and being.
08
Amaza Sound Journeys
Qhawekazi Giyose is an ethnomusicologist, vocalist, researcher, and teacher, originally from East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. She is passionate about the preservation of indigenous knowledge systems, music, instruments and using musical sound to help alleviate the anxiety and stress disorders experienced by youth & the greater community. Guided by Qhawekazi, Amaza Sound Journeys offers unique sound journeys using therapeutic instruments that produce natural overtones of specific frequencies, to create a safe and timeless space in which one can examine and reprogram old patterns and issues, to reconnect with their higher self. Joint audio session with reporters, Wanga Mbewu and Amahle Shosha