“What does liberation sound like? Where do the sounds of freedom originate, and how do they converge into acts of resistance?
Zombie by Fela Kuti, a song born from a liberatory movement ultimately met with violent military repression, is dissected into its elemental stems. Each layer of sound is isolated, made tangible, and made playable through two modes of encounter: a tactile hardware sampler and the waveform view of the digital studio.
But the true geography unfolds on the right. Parent genres rise as continents from an imagined ocean, and child genres appear as cities. There are no national borders here. Instead, afrobeat bleeds into jazz, funk dissolves into soul, and house appears on multiple shores. The same feeling exists in multiple places at once, revealing that liberation sounds are never singular. Liberation is a refusal of borders, a rhythm that belongs to no single place and therefore to everyone.”
