Calls on ixilongo – the horn to instigate a space for sonic mappings that centralise wind instruments. It is an ancestral and forensic listening to our breath and how it is funnelled through ixilongo to announce sound. It is about tracing wailing and ululating, a reading of how sound makes itself present, what and how it holds being here. Sonic mappings engage with rehearsal and improvisation as an act of breathing. Here we are working with musicologists, producers, musicians and sound artists to map the relationship between our breath and wind instruments.

NDISEBENZELA ITHONGO: Sound, Divination & Ancestral Technologies for Cosmic Healing, Remembrance and Emergence

Ndisebenzela iThongo—we are in service to the ancestral realm, engaged in the sacred labor of healing, remembering, and attuning to the frequencies that shape our existence. Our work with traditional and ancient instruments is an ongoing dialogue with the unseen, a commitment to the sonic technologies of our lineage, and a surrender to the call of iThongo—the vast ancestral consciousness that moves through us.