{"id":740,"date":"2005-08-30T17:55:02","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T15:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2005-08-30T18:14:58","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T16:14:58","slug":"the-zulu-lightning-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/30\/the-zulu-lightning-round\/","title":{"rendered":"the zulu lightning round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>circa <a href=\"http:\/\/rhizome.org\">rhizome<\/a> and their net.art news, but I wrote it:<\/p>\n<table width=\"500\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicsa.org.za\/unyazi2005.html\" target=\"_new\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rhizome.org\/\/imagebase\/netartnews\/20050829.gif?resize=135%2C170\" width=\"135\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Click to launch site\"align=\"left\"\/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rhizome.org\/baseims\/click_to_launch_new.gif?w=850\" alt=\"Click to launch site\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>Drawing on the success of the Johannesburg Biennales of the nineties, local chemist\/ composer, Dimitri Voudouris, decided that it was time to bring attention to South African electronic musicians by connecting them with other internationally-renowned talents. Hoping to promote experimentation and interdisciplinary collaboration, he initiated the Unyazi Festival, so&#8211;named for the Zulu word for &#8216;lightning&#8217; (there is no non-anglo word for &#8216;electricity,&#8217; in South Africa&#8211;an absence with spiritual connotations). Unyazi will be the first festival of electronic music and sonic art in Africa. Local highlights include interactive pieces from Toni Olivier&#8217;s Studio for Interactive Sound, a collaboration between loop masters Carlo Mombelli and Joao Orecchia, and more experimental trips by the likes of James Webb, Chris Wood, Pops Mohammed, and Brendon Bussy. Pioneering performers include American-Egyptian Professor Halim El-Dabh&#8211;who began his tape work in North Africa in the &#8217;40s&#8211;and Pauline Oliveros, an American philosopher and composer who works with a concept she calls &#8216;Deep Listening.&#8217; The festival will feature a broad slate of workshops, multimedia theatre, interesting music, and film, all of which students and teachers can attend free. The storm is coming. The lightning round begins September 1st. &#8211; Nathaniel Stern<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicsa.org.za\/unyazi2005.html\" target=\"_new\">http:\/\/www.newmusicsa.org.za\/unyazi2005.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>circa rhizome and their net.art news, but I wrote it: Drawing on the success of the Johannesburg Biennales of the nineties, local chemist\/ composer, Dimitri Voudouris, decided that it was time to bring attention to South African electronic musicians by connecting them with other internationally-renowned talents. Hoping to promote experimentation and interdisciplinary collaboration, he initiated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,10,11,9,2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-music","category-poetry","category-pop-culture","category-south-african-art","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-bW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":762,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/10\/report-from-unyazi\/","url_meta":{"origin":740,"position":0},"title":"Report from Unyazi","author":"nathaniel","date":"10 September 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Published in rhizome.org's digest yesterday, I wrote a Report from Unyazi - the electronic music festival - in joburg last weekend. 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