Live & Performance Research

Live work across performance, sound, movement, and research—open each project to watch or explore.

Selected projects

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Signals of Power

A radiophonic performance-research project tracing colonial listening infrastructures across Germany, Togo, and Namibia.

Towards an Expanse

Towards an Expanse

A transdisciplinary performance-research process weaving oceanic memory, Xhosa vocal traditions, and ritual performance.

Kodwityala Lilapho

Kodwityala Lilapho

Performance research and composition shaped by gestural scoring, movement, and ancestral body-noise.

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DUMAMA × XJAZZ

Live from Berlin: vocals, synths, bass, drums, trumpet, and percussion in open-form performance.

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AI Anarchies

A multi-channel sound installation on dialect recognition, migrant voice, and spectral reworlding.

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Koshka Performance

“12 Owl Songs”: a sonic prayer shaped through the calls of Southern African owls.

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DUMAMA at Moods Zürich

Voice, composition, samples, drums, keys, and electronics in a live Zürich performance.

Pushing Portals — vocalist with braids

Pushing Portals

An improvised performance research process on gender equality, social justice, and collaborative sound.

SAVVY Contemporary

SAVVY Contemporary

A collective sonic-mapping performance with Dumama and Kechou, made with the community present.

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dream state(s)

A six-part research and audio series using dreaming, ritual, and conversation as paths toward liberation.

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Dumama & Kechou — Amanzi

A live-loop and dance response to Cape Town’s water crisis, shaped by vulnerability and improvisation.

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Yarns

Live concert form from the Berlin Konzerthaus, with voice, saxophone, bass, and drums.

an interdimensional womb (2021) — M.A.M.A.

an interdimensional womb (2021)

An audio-visual M.A.M.A. collaboration by Dumama and blk banaana, exploring psycho-spiritual transcendence, data, and being.

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