Composition for reconciliations across racial lines
In May, Prof Kevin Malone worked with the distinguished and multi-Emmy award-winning television, film and concert composer , whose African ancestry underpins his latest compositional work about American slave ownership.
As a Professor of Social and Autoethnographic Composition, Kevin has decades of experience in interviewing, recording, editing, and creating sonic art from personalised interviews, and along with John and Australian researcher Dr Anh Nguyen, devised an approach to interview a UK-based descendant of the family that owned John鈥檚 ancestors.
Kevin also served as recording engineer and editor for this interview, which took place in 91直播 on 26 May 2022, and which will serve as the basis for John鈥檚 next work on how understanding and potential reconciliations across racial lines may be achieved. A group visit to Liverpool鈥檚 International Slavery Museum informed more of the group鈥檚 research.