What does a city of entanglement sound like?
Kaapse sound-maker Tristan Cornelissen sends a sonic dispatch from //Hui !Gaeb (Cape Town). A city where oceans connect and divide, where memory and amnesia coexist, and where colonisation continues to shape and contradict the present. Moving through fragments of field recordings and music of the cape, we hear the songs of //Hui !Gaeb. A listening practice for people shaped by entanglement.
Production, archive research and audio design by Tristan Cornelissen, with supervising production from Shareeka Helaluddin.
This piece was created during “Listening Through,” an experimental sound syllabus by Race Matters created to foreground the politics of sound and listening, and reclaim them as activist practices. The program’s co-dreamers were Jon Tjhia, Gabi Briggs and Shareeka Helaluddin alongside Alicia Zhao, Janey Li, Rekha Dhanaram, Fayen d'Evie and a constellation of guest artists. The purpose was to nurture an anti-racist creative space that was abstract, imaginative and challenging.