Ocula

“Feedback” refers to both sustained response and, in musical contexts, to the noise produced by live electronic instruments. It is a loop, but the transmission changes as it’s circulated. In a new show of the same name at Spike Island (@spikeisland) in Bristol, Olukemi Lijadu (@kemkemlij) draws out the implications of feedback loops, recursive recall, and call-and-response, in a wideranging examination of the interrelated musical worlds of West Africa, the US, and the UK.⁠
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Centring on a film commission formed through extensive research in Chicago, Lagos, and the UK, ‘Feedback’ follows the influence of West African drumming on diasporic music traditions in the West. ⁠
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Read Lijadu in conversation with Finn Blythe (@finnblythe) on Ocula, link in bio.