Created by Matsang in connection with Spheres of Conspiracy, Conspiracies is a series of films and sound design pieces which draws on Freespace, the principles of maximalism and existing narratives related to the notion of “conspiracy” to build new ones.
In July 2017, the Matsang held and recorded conversations with friends on the notion of conspiracy as it relates to the African context. Drawing on these sessions, as well as collected radio excerpts, live instrumentation and sound design, they produced the following compilation, which attempts to provide a scope of the ideas and impressions driving the project.
Brought to you as a joint effort between This Thing Is Plural and People’s Education, this video mixtape (mixed and compiled by Malik Ntone Edjabe) forms part as part of a larger project exploring popular/urban musical modes from around the continent – Music Education in the Contemporary African Context.
Mix by Malik Ntone Edjabe.
Mixed and compiled by Malik Ntone Edjabe, this recording presents an interpretation of Cameroon in relation to sound, as heard from the coastal town of Limbe: Music, interviews and fragments of a sound culture.
Feelings Radio Project (2019 – 2023) Founded in 2019 by record collector and DJ Joey Modiba (aka Lirubishi) and performer-conductor Malik Ntone Edjabe (aka Hypocrite), Feelings Radio Project (FRP) was a pop-up radio and performance experiment combining music, sound-collage, improvisation and free dialogue to investigate and “get in our feelings” about a range of issues
Sorcery! is a party dedicated to the power of sound and spirit, bringing together selectors, performers and conductors in a unified act of celebration.
Sorcery! is a party dedicated to the power of sound and spirit, bringing together selectors, performers and conductors in a unified act of celebration.
Brought to you by Feelings Radio Project in collaboration with Globalize Yourself Stereo, this broadcast will draw links between three seemingly unrelated musical narratives: Funkadelic’s “Mothership”, Theo Parrish’s “Going Downstairs” and Fela Kuti’s “Underground Spiritual Game”.
Originally created as part of a larger body of work which featured in Yalla Shoola‘s White Curtain’s Group Exhibition, Plurisphere is a film by Malik Ntone Edjabe about life in Seapoint, Cape Town where residents are required by local municipal regulations to use only white curtains in their homes.