How do we envision a future where our presence is uncertain, denied, erased? What might it feel like, if revenge were to become a practice within that future? Can the haunting carry our rage, our despair, our ancestral weight, and our spiritual practices?

DJ and sound researcher Raziyah Heath's work aims to uncover the cross pollinations of Afro-diasporic (sub)cultures and sonic threads, focusing on the variations, range and intersectionality of the experiences that result from this.

In this podcast, the fourth in a series of conversations recorded at Le Guess Who?’s Sound & Culture Summit, Raziyah Heath presents a hybrid DJ/live set, which also serves as a sonic lecture. The performance draws on Black nihilism and Indigenous approaches to sound, approaching sound as a technology: a tool for memory, mourning, justice and healing.

Audio recording by Marc Broer
Editing by Margaret Munchheimer
Photography by Noah Schielen