To SubServe and UnProtect: A Sonic Response
[guest curator / performer]
During the 2014, march in Ferguson, at the shooting site of Michael Brown, I was overcome with the idea to have a sonic response as a form of resistance to what was happening. Later that night I performed, what has come to be called, To SubServe & UnProtect : A Sonic Response, to a room of family and friends for Black Lives Matter. The consists of dispatch samples, snippets from arrests and more, in which I perform a live musical improvisational score.
Years later, with the continued corruption happening worldwide, especially in the USA , I felt it was necessary to continue sonically addressing these issues.
October 2015 : WORM : Rotterdam hosted a weekend Afrofuturism Now! Festival curated by Rahsheedah Philips of Afrofuturist Affair
October 2016 : Matatu Festival : Oakland, Ca curated by Michael Orange
May 2017 : CTM Festival : Berlin (video below) for their Anger Fear Love themed event