Microtonal Music Studios Exhibition and Event week: “Retrieving Microtonal Inflections in the Zulu Music of South-Africa” by Dr Thokozani Mhlambi 07.03.25 at 18:00
Microtonal Music Studios Exhibition and Events Weeks
21.02-09.03.2025
07.03. Friday
Event 18.00–20.00 Lecture-Performance
Dr Thokozani Mhlambi, “Retrieving Microtonal Inflections in the Zulu Music of South-Africa”.
Thokozani Mhlambi, Phd is a musician, performer, inventor and community builder whose work has a reverence for the past and the future. Playing on a custom-designed, handmade Baroque cello with gut strings, Mhlambi creates innovative work, both for himself as a solo musician and for ensembles. He regularly plays with ensembles in South Africa and North America.
Chief amongst Mhlambi’s theoretical concerns is about thinking beyond the colonial sound archive, in imagining an African sonic past and future. In 2023, Mhlambi was invited to be part of the Reimagining America Program 2023, where he worked with youth string-players from the city of Providence (Rhode Island). In 2024, Mhlambi’s performed in Atlanta. His show was rated as the best-gig-of-the-week by Arts Atlanta news. He has also been a visiting lecturer at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver (Canada), where he performed at the World Arts Centre. He has performed at the venues such as Elastic Arts in Chicago, Prachtwerk in Berlin, Minneapolis, New Orleans (Tulane), São Paulo, Maputo (Mozambique) and New York. Thokozani Mhlambi’s latest album drops on the 18th of September 2024 on all digital platforms.