Live & Performance Research
Live work across performance, sound, movement, and research—open each project to watch or explore.
Selected projects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

dream state(s)
A six-part research and audio series using dreaming, ritual, and conversation as paths toward liberation.

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

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

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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