V°L#04 📻

22.04.2024

☁️ 4.1

#mutatingkinshiplab 2023 OST curated by Ariel Orah🧹
featuring tunes from :
👉🏼 @pisitakun ✅
👉🏼 @6_e_l_a ✅
👉🏼 @repost.institute ✅
👉🏼 @debbchia ✅
👉🏼 @heartbloodmusic ✅
👉🏼 @kartinimusic ✅
👉🏼 @naarimusic ✅
👉🏼 @tengal ✅

Mutating Kinship Lab (MKL) is an artistic think-tank initiative dedicated to fostering dialogue and collaboration within the Asian Diaspora artistic community in Germany. With a primary focus on archival initiatives, building a network of support, and sharing resources, MKL currently comprises 9 Asian Diaspora artist-led initiatives based in Germany. In 2022, the iniative responded to the pressing issues of precarious living and working conditions faced by the Asian diaspora, followed by the 2023 project series titled "On Post Pandemic Audienceship: Exploring Brave Space and Anti-Fragility in Asian Diaspora Artistic Practice in Germany."https://mutatingkinshiplab.com/

☁️4.2

#soyandsynth 2023 set 4 : @no_soniculture_ &
@anabambalaelsatatiana 🌶️ recorded from @acudmachtneu 🎈

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Born in Jakarta, since early Teenager has been involved in Vibrant Jakarta DIY Subculture scene either hosting events or being Performer itself, after moving to Berlin still continues taking part in Subculture scene and Political activism, in and out Punk bands and organizing dozens of events.

Elsa M'bala was born in Yaoundé, the capitol of Cameroon. Her family moved to South-West Germany, where M'bala visited an international school and learned to express herself in various languages. In 2009 M'bala co-created the Pan-African feminist poetry duo „Rising Thoughts" . From 2012 to 2016 she moves back to Cameroon where she developed a new artistic language, between visual and sonic explorations. Her current work uses voices and online samples in the form of transcoding, code switching and algorithms patterns, building a fine print of electronic griotage reaching from the past into the future. Mixing analogue and digital sound machines as well as electronic and acoustic instruments to experiment with speeches, rituals and poetry. Elsa M’bala work Addis’63 is a sound performance that explore the complexities and dualities of life, always torn between the aim to balance the inner with the outer world, the spiritual quest for identity. Using the total submergence of electronic sound and the rhythmical properties of Ekang/Bikutsi rhythms of the Beti people of central Africa to help us reconnect with the mythological, the spiritual and the imaginary. As the philosopher Mudibe said, Africa is an invention, for that matter Africans have to (re-)invent themselves. Elsa M'bala performed her writings and music at various events throughout Europe and the African continent. From Centre d'art contemporain de Bretigny, Bandjoun Station (CMR), Engagement global (DE), Aperture Magazine (USA), Contemporary And (C&); (DE), New Art Exchange Nottingham (E), Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa);(DE), Goethe Institut Kamerun, Centre Culturel Francais du Cameroun, Alte Oper Frankfurt, KW Berlin, heroines of sound festival Berlin, Augmented reality festival Darmstadt , She is one of the incubators Winners for Berlin Community Radio 2017 and had a regular radio show on the platform before it closed in 2019. She is currently in a residency at Ker Thiossane in Dakar, Senegal. “... Another example is her more recent work: both audio pieces titled Imposer le Savoir and Je Wanda. These were presented at Still unresolved and very much ongoing, a group show curated by Christine Eyene in London in 2017, by bridging Cameroonian sonic heritage, voices, acoustic music with digital sound, Elsa M'Bala addresses the protests by the English-speaking part of Cameroon against their marginalization by predominantly Francophone structural systems in place: a linguistic and political legacy of French colonisation. Now based between Berlin and Yaoundé, Elsa M'Bala aka A.M.E.T. is one of the rare female sound artists of African descent. By using technology as an empowering tool and through her own keen observations, she explores further the interconnections between race, gender, technology and spirituality. Specifically in times of acute racial crisis in Europe and in the US, while the dominant discourse reproduces the patterns of disconnected narratives, exclusion, and invisibility. Elsa M'Bala shows us that marginalized bodies and voices can be (re)connected through shared collectivities.” Text written by Aicha Kaleko for the Berlin biennale 10

www.soundcloud.com/elsambala IG: anabambalaelsatatiana www.elsambala.com