Developing a research question / decolonisation

I am interested in…

What is your topic?
Which areas of research does it involve?

… in order to find out…

What question/s are you trying to answer?

… to help my reader understand…

What do you hope to discover in the process? What might others learn from your research?

• I have thought about what I want to focus my question
• I think I want to focus on a sound culture
• there are many examples I could go into but I like the look of Times Square

Decolonisation

What does decolonisation mean/entail?

Decolonisation means undoing the effects of colonialism—when powerful countries took control of other lands, people, and cultures.

When we are talking about reclaiming after decolonisation it mean to take back what was lost from colonisation

Ontology – I the study of what is real or what exists. What is real? What kind of things exist

Epistemology – The study of knowledge, how we know things to be the truth. How do we know something is true? Who’s knowledge is valid

Cosmology – Is the study of the universe, its spiritual, cultural and mythological

EASTMAN INVOCATIONS by George E Lewis

• This performance is a great example of reclaiming erased histories
• George E Lewis made this to challenge the western classic tradition by changing the tone, structure and form
• He also uses sound as means of healing of colonisation

Decolonising DAW’s

• We talked about how DAW styles are Westernised by notes, scale and using classic musical notes and tones
• There are some examples that I played around with in which to change the way or take back more less westernised ways of making music digitally

Decolonising listening

“I used an AI system that performed what is called ‘style transfer’—it changes styles of music, morphing from one style to another. I used Antonio Zepeda’s ‘Templo Mayor’ album […] as an audio source. This was already an experimental music album. I wanted to hear what the AI system would do with these pre-hispanic sounds morphed with my own corpus of music from the past five years, not in a perspective of purity, but with the idea of creating a lineage, a continuum. The traces of pre-hispanic instruments had been lost through time, through the process of colonization. So it’s an effort to create a bridge between.”

Decolonising listening refers to the reforming of how we listen to certain music.

Why decolonising is important

• Decolonizing is important because it creates a more fair and inclusive modern world. It challenges the history and questions the impact that colonisation had on global culture. Restoring the lost voices of many indigenous, black and non-western cultures, decolonising bring the power back to that list knowledge of history, education and art.