Description
Sounds from a Listening Body. Three days with Dumama.
Gugulethu Duma is a South African musician, composer, and sonic poet from the Eastern Cape, based in Berlin. She works with voice, uHadi (Xhosa bow), live loops, and electronics. She studied under legendary bow master Madosini. Her duo album with kechou — Buffering Juju — brought future-folk to stages across Europe.
This workshop explores voice as instrument, archive, and social technology. How the body carries memory, rhythm, landscape, grief, joy, and futurity — and how all of that shapes sound.
Day 1 — Body as Archive: Voice, Memory, and Sonic Embodiment
South African vocal techniques, breath-based vocality, call-and-response, listening walks, sonic mapping, group chant construction.
Day 2 — Improvisation, Choreography, and Future Folk Composition
Movement-as-score, vocal layering, collective composition, speculative folk practice. What happens when ancestral vocal forms meet experimental electronics?
Day 3 — Electronic Voice, Sonic Transformation, and Performance
Live vocal processing, looping, layering, effects, ambient composition. The workshop ends with collaborative performance compositions.
Open to singers, performers, dancers, composers, sound artists, writers, researchers — and anyone interested in voice, embodiment, and experimental practice. No formal musical training required.
3 days · Jul 10–12, 2026 · 4 hours/day · ACUD Kunsthaus, Berlin-Mitte
