Concert „Transoceanic Encounters: Brazil-Mozambique“ with Alexandre Vieira and Luka Mukhavele
- Title
- Concert „Transoceanic Encounters: Brazil-Mozambique“ with Alexandre Vieira and Luka Mukhavele
- Abstract
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In June 2023 the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence presented a concert featuring the musician Alexandre Vieira from Brazil visiting Bayreuth for an artist fellowship and Mozambiquan musician Luka Mukhavele.
Luka Mukhavele
Luka Mukhavele is a music/Culture scholar, artist, instrument builder, and language teacher, from Mozambique. He engaged with music from early age, influenced by family members and community, which were very musical. Since buying toys for children was no a common practice, Luka and his friends taught themselves to build their own, and this included musical instruments.
In 2005, Luka founded Mukhambira-musical, to research on the construction and performance of African musical. Adding to Mukhambira, Luka's PhD thesis “African Musical Instruments from a Contemporary Global Perspective —Mbira and Xizambi”, competed at Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, emerged as his artistic-academic approach to the reinvigoration African music and instruments and their integration in the global body of artistic and scientific knowledge in musicology, a discipline which he finds to have many ideological, conceptual, and paradigmatic detriments.
Currently, Luka is the Editor/Designer of the course “Living Heritage in Africa: Music and the Performing Arts”, a freelancer consultant, artist, and lecturer. Both his artistic and his academic work are grounded on his “African Contemporary self-built instruments, from which he draws otherwise lost concepts and paradigms, aiming to address the shortfalls and inherent detriments of musicology in a global perspective.
Alexandre Vieira
Alexandre Vieira is a Brazilian musician based in Salvador - Bahia - Brasil. Master in music performance - Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), plays upright bass, electric bass, guitar, percussion and sing, performing as a frontman and sideman. Born in a musical family, started playing in his early childhood with his father, sister and brother, became professional at 17 years old. Played and recorded alongside great artists from Brazil and abroad. His most recent and representative participations include the series of concerts Isso Ainda Dá Repercussão based on the work of the Brazilian composer Itamar Assumpção, the project Chulas na Feira at Santo Amaro da Purificação with Roberto Mendes, the recording of the album Fogueira Doce by MateusAleluia (Os Tincoãs), the recording of the album Afrodiaspórico by Luan Sodré Trio, the recording of the EP Grito by Manuela Rodrigues, collaborating as a musician for the Whale Whispering project by Michaela Harrison, and most recently the recording of the album Dança do Tempo by Ubiratan Marques and Asé Ensemble which will be fully released in 2023. Self-taught on most instruments, started playing upright bass at the university playing both classical and jazz, from where he aroused his interest to delve into Afrodiasporic arts, exploring the creative processes that involve oralities and corporeities connected with musical instruments. - YouTube playlist
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- Date
- June 22, 2023
- Language
- English
- Transcript
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about the voice connection that he uses with his instruments also and the sonorities the textures and well that's it okay yeah thank you thank you thank you so much for being here I must also thank you friendly she's the one who she's the ideologist of this encounter um yeah uh she realized she understood she thought she believed that our encounter would be something interesting and and I find it to be very interesting you are a Visionary woman yeah and I really hope our experience together it's very good experience for me it's really very very accomplishing to work with alishandri and I hope we can really carry on we don't just end up with this with this concept with this event that we're doing and the encounters um yeah I've been for many years researching on uh Mozambique and I would say in general African traditional musical instruments as far as construction and performance is concerned [Music] in in that regard for example my PhD thesis which I completed here in Germany I started long times ago about over a decade in Mozambique but I never finished because because of many many issues and I I had a chance to finish it here in Germany uh was based on two instruments actually initially three but then I reduced to two shizambi and beta these are the two instruments that I wrote my PhD dissertation on and the idea is really to bring to bring out the science to bring to the awareness that these instruments have got their own identity have got their own language and they've got their own values and they've a lot to contribute above all that the law to contribute to musical Sciences not only in Africa but globally and um yeah we are not yet fully aware in a global level that there is a lot to be discovered to be learned from lots of other musical instruments musicology continues to be heavily Western oriented like in our own countries in my country if I say in our own it's not only in my country I've experienced in many countries when when you talk of musicology when you talk of Music teaching it's all about western music and so uh I think I have an opportunity here to do some cultural diplomacy bringing African music uh in a contemporary perspective which was my thesis African musical instruments in a global contemporary perspective to to the world not just to Europe so thanks a lot [Applause] and since he's not a lecture here it's a concept we have to continue with the music what what do you think would take next how would you what did you like to wow let me see with Mira okay yeah you know we met a few days ago and we have been sort of working intensively to put a program together so that is the Indira here is an instrument whose history is set to or from its history it's said to exist for over 3000 years in in in the African continent foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] together [Music] [Music] [Music] 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the instruments huh I started with the shizambi I already presented and then we represented but no this one who is that one thank you who is that one okay that's shigulia in my mother tongue because she go here she is made from a heart heart shell fruit it's called in my in my in my language it's called the Salah and in plural Masala so you hold it the fruit and you have a fruit it's very easy from fruit to fruit so uh yeah you follow it and then you make the different other holes to control your sounds you know the peaches so yeah it's normally played actually the song I played is a song that is played by Kettle boys you know the boys when they drink the kettle in the mornings to go grazing the first one who goes who opens this girl for the for the cows to go starts playing [Music] and he's signaling the others that oh I'm already moving and then the others respond so they play each one has got their own a different tone and when they responded a polyphone is created you know call in response and and all of that dialogue I can't do it with one instrument alone sometimes I use Technologies when I'm here in Europe using Loop stations but it was too much to prepare for this short time so yeah so this is in vocal vocal is also a unique instrument of its kind which have built uh some years ago in an attempt to improve a traditional instrument called the shinbo komboko similar principle but with only one string and smaller half the size with a calabash resonator that size or double the size of this and but when I wanted to make my music then it came to a point where it was limited so I decided to add the strings and and all of that uh that's how that's how it came to existence um maybe pretending we are going to play another instrument here the Brazilians might know a close relative of the city Mouse is the close relative of vegetarian yes uh you see this is uh from Mozambique but again this this is not really the traditional version because that's the traditional version of the city so um yeah in order to really use it in as I said in my PhD thesis in a contemporary Global Perspective I do put lots of add-ons modifications yeah um okay actually I'm concerned about our time you know can you um update us on our time how much more time we can still use here because you know if you don't push a break who can play till morning here and some people can start to get possessed you know this is the essence of this viewers Pretender I would also play standing and really moving or jogging and walking or jogging that's how in the tradition it's played people played when they go along distances and they played in different All Occasions okay foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] [Laughter] 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died [Music] when it comes and it imposes on on the top of your house on your roof and you start seeing it means you are dying so that's the time you should give your secrets it's a big Testaments to to everyone you know [Music] things like this [Music] things like that you know [Music] thank you [Music] did it [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] thank you thank you [Applause] thank you so much because I might get possessed how do you handle that here thank you so much for being here actually all this energy energy that you seem to see and as it's coming from you we just reverted and fed it back to you yes yeah thank you good thank you thank you the technical stuff a lot you did a wonderful job for us tonight wow so thank you again I think it was a wonderful concert and I forgot to say also in the beginning of today's International Day of music by chance I didn't even know that we organized it today and those who still want to listen to more music we have 10 minutes break and then we get a stream from another concert for 20 minutes after the Break season I will hand over to her and to the screen and yeah okay but first of all again thank you [Applause] foreign [Applause]
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