A Practice-Led Re-Interpretation of Bugobogobo
Documentation, transcription, and contemporary composition in the Sukuma tradition: how one Bugobogobo rhythm became a bachelor's thesis and a new concert work.
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Publications
Essays on rhythm, heritage, and what happens in a practice room. Written to be sat with rather than skimmed.
A Practice-Led Re-Interpretation of Bugobogobo
Documentation, transcription, and contemporary composition in the Sukuma tradition: how one Bugobogobo rhythm became a bachelor's thesis and a new concert work.
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A year in five stages
Five stages in one year, and the same music arriving at each one with a different band behind it.
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Tanzania: Beats of Resistance
Music as Political Resistance and Social Responsibility in Tanzania
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Improvisation in African Perspective
African musical traditions are some of the most tightly composed music on earth — and that is exactly what makes their improvisation possible.
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