#nandele

On Day 7 of the Spaced Out Artist Residency, fellow resident Nandele Maguni gave a refreshing presentation during the *Sound&Space* forum. Nandele hosted the forum from the confines of his quarantine accomodation in Lisbon where he was in transit to the Netherlands to promote his lockdown inspired EP Final Fantasy. Just last week Nandele interacted with his fellow artists-in-residence from his home in Maputo as they spoke about the wicked heatwave that had hit the region making their days exhausting even before noon. On this day he appeared in a jacket telling about how he was greeted by the winter of Europe. It was as if he had been taken through a portal to a whole other world. In a way this was indeed the case. In the first hour of a refreshing presentation Nandele transported Prince Moyo and Mwamba Chikwemba through their own portal into his world where he creates music out of the sounds that make up his surroundings. From the banging hammers that he would hear at a construction site in his neighbourhood in Maputo to the ululating women (which sounds much like home to his Zambian and Motswana peers) to the public announcements at the Lisbon airport repeatedly reminding travellers to keep their masks on at all times, Nandele takes his Zoom audience into the different environments that get captured by his creative radar and inspire his unique artistic expressions.