Black Sonic Technologies: A Future Haunting
Sound & Culture Summit
Raziyah Heath’s work aims to uncover the cross pollinations of Afro-diasporic (sub)cultures and sonic threads, focusing on the variations, range and intersectionality of the experiences that result from this. In this hybrid DJ/live set, which also serves as a sonic lecture, they connect hauntology, speculative futures, and Black sonic technologies. The work asks: How do we envision a future where our presence is uncertain, denied, erased? What might it feel like, if revenge were to become a practice within that future? Can the haunting carry our rage, our despair, our ancestral weight, and our spiritual practices?
Drawing on Black nihilism and Indigenous approaches to sound, the performance approaches sound as a technology: a tool for memory, mourning, justice, and healing. Through layers of both sonic resonance and rupture, it invites listeners into a terrain where resolution is refused and we are called to sit with the spectres of absence, resistance, and becoming.
After the performance there is the invitation to speak, exchange thoughts and reflect on the sonic landscape and its emotional, political, and spiritual implications.
Speaker: Raziyah Heath