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.
He introduces the techniques he uses to transform sound into space and explains the different terminology that may not be in the everyday language of visual artists. It would appear that the beatmaker used his craft to adjust the harsh temperatures of the day as the extreme heat and cold gave way to the experience.
After an hour of exploring sound the forum journeyed into the familiar area of visual art as he explained how visual art and music work inseparably. Again Nandele shared visual aspects of his work with the example of collaborative work he has done with other visual artists ( check this video he collaborated with the talented Ricardo Jorge https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a6aiMV8YyAA) and filmmakers (https://www.netflix.com/bw/title/81273165?trkid=13747225&s=a&t=wha&preventIntent=true).
Prince and Mwamba too shared about their own relationships with sound, which will feature in a later post.
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