We ask the question: What are you listening for? The double-headed axe of the god Changó invokes ideas concerning the potential focus and purpose of listening. Black Spirituals feel compelled to explore these assumptions through a creative inquiry into redesigning and recontextualizing a genre shaped by the historical conditions of the movement of people’s bodies over time, space, and land, while preserving critically innovative technologies.
Acknowledgements: Exploratorium Resonance Residency, Marshall Trammell, Victoria Ruiz, Amber McZeal, Jon Leidecker