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Nkisi with Joshua Woolford / Shamica Ruddock

Presenting two new commissions from Studios residents Nkisi and Shamica Ruddock.

Archived Event

DatesFri 22 Mar 2024
TimesPerformance 1: 19.00 - 20.30 Doors 18.30 Performance 2: 21.00 - 22.30 Doors 20.30
SpaceLancaster Rooms New Wing

Nkisi with Joshua Woolford
MA HA WISU, meet me at the crossroads

MA HA WISU, meet me at the crossroads is a multi-dimensional and sensorial experimentation in dance, movement, sound, music, sculpture and storytelling, blurring and blending the boundaries between ritual and musical gestures.
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Exploring the immaterial legacies embedded within sound, artist and musician Nkisi collaborates with transdisciplinary artist Joshua Woolford in a new work for Assembly that sees music and dance used to decode and recode ancestral traditions and spiritual technologies.

Shamica Ruddock

Shamica Ruddock presents a new work borrowing from her ongoing research on Maroon societies and their associated sonic practices. Working with sourced recordings, the sounds take shape from a selection of samples processed through a series of effects chains and arranged in real time. In their newly processed state, these samples provide a core foundation to build upon across the duration of the performance.

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The work speaks to dub methodologies and versioning, and with remnants of former sounds embedded amongst newly composed excerpts, Ruddock’s composition also considers the retention of the West African rhythmic structures in Afro-diasporic music, and their presence or traces in contemporary Black sonic production.

Approximate Stage Times

19.00 Shamica Ruddock
19.45 Nkisi
21.00 Nkisi
21.45 Shamica Ruddock

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MA HA WISU, meet me at the crossroads is commissioned by Somerset House Studios and supported by PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund for Organisations.

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