South African musician, composer and cultural researcher Gugulethu Duma, aka Dumama, explores the deconstruction and critique of archaic modes of representation in Southern African/African sonic and performance culture. As a storyteller and lyricist, she weaves together childhood songs, stories and personal memories with electronic hues and gestures, experimenting with the divide between traditional oral culture and futuristic, globally oriented poetics in her embodiment of an African technological consciousness. Rooted in improvisation, she predominantly works with voice, uHadi (a traditional Xhosa bow instrument), live vocal effect loops, processors, field recordings and distortions for her performances and compositions.
Dumama is awarded the 2024 co-creation residency in Accra, Ghana and Berlin, Germany, under which she collaborates with Accra-based Susan Augustt.
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