2024’s first episode of Vortex Temporum podcast features Nigerian born composer, based in Switzerland since 1968, Charles Uzor (Udo Mbaise, 1961). Charles guides us along the episode with his voice, thoughts and sounds in order to offer us his manifesto. If you do not know his work yet, you might be very well surprised by clicking play.
credits:
qui ainsi me refait…. veoir seulement et oïr [2003], for guitar quartet | guitar ensemble 'quasi fantasia' (Christian Bissig > standard ten-string guitar; Karin Rüdt > octavine guitar; Susanne Ott > terz guitar; Gudrun Bachmann > quinte-basse guitar) // Jaray's journey to the Ba-Benzélé [2022], for Ondes Martenot and hybrid electronics | Caroline Ether > ondes martenot; Charles Uzor > sound bawls, piano reverb, electronics
texts (also by Charles Uzor)
Manifesto. Nach der Natur // 10 Bamboos // Snow