“Sound Fragments: Collaborative Curation with The Black Power Station” (Professor Noel Lobley, University of Virginia)

What happens when colonial sound fragments are transformed through Afrofuturistic sampling, roaring praise poetry, and the visual arts? What stories and pathways link the International Library of African Music—the world's largest archive of ethnographic music in Africa—and The Black Power Station, an independent arts activist space in Makhanda, South Africa? What work can sound artists, ethnographers and healers do together to build deeper listening spaces?

One-minute primer to sound fragments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkryvRU5RDY

Noel Lobley is a sound curator, ethnomusicologist, and artist. His sound installations have been presented internationally in spaces ranging from art galleries to rainforests, theaters to basements, in schools and out on the streets. Noel is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Virginia and author of Sound Fragments: from field recording to African Electronic Stories.