School of Arts and Creative Technologies
Kolawole Ganikale
PhD by Research
Thesis
Thesis Title & Description
Jùjú Music Mediation and Performance Economy
- Supervisor: Amandine Pras, Matthew Williams
A study of the impact of modern technology, economic and climatic factors, and teaching methods on cultural music to design an innovative music technology that will minimise the number of performance personnel of Jùjú Music, with a focus to substitute the organic membranophones (talking drums) with a version of human-machine interactive music technology that will not compromise the cultural sensitivity of the Jùjú genre. This concept is about using modern production tools to negotiate live cultural performance from a Yorùbá traditional perspective - a goal to preserve Jùjú heritage through technology and academic research.
Biography
Biography
Scholar-Practitioner of West African Jùjú genre with a formative years of apprenticeships in street music.
Diploma in Music Education (Credit)
BA Music (2nd class upper division)
MA in Creative Music Production (Distinction)
Director, Composer, Arranger, Producer, and Performer: MAKOLA MAMBO Juju Music Mediator.
Research
Research Interests
Juju Music Mediation.
Human-Machine performance interaction.
Juju Music
Yoruba Talking drums
Music Information Retrieval system MIR
African Music Production and Performance
Traditional Music Education.
Yoruba Music
Publications
Publications
2022 (Sept), PG Forum, UoY
Juju Music Mediation.
Presented at the Rymers auditorium University of York.
2022 (Oct), AES Convention Express Paper
JÙJÚ MUSIC PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTION: Sound
Mediation from the Cultural perspective of Yorùbá Music
Practice. Presented at the 153rd New York Convention.
2023 (Feb), The Indigenous Music Technology (IMT) Conference
Africanising the Arranger Technology.
Presented at Rhode University, Makhanda South Africa.
2023 (June), Streetlife Workshop, York
Afrobeat Making Workshop
Presented at Coney Street
2023 (July), Decolonisation of African Sounds.
Audio Education Research Project in Nairobi, Kenya. Partly funded by African York Research Network.
2023 (Sept), AES Audio Education Conference
GET BACK: A panel of discussion on decolonisation of audio equipment, education, and research. Hasselt, Belgium.
2023 (Sept), GAPS2 Conference.#
The Use of Technologies for Creative Practice in The Art of Jùjú Music
Presented at the UoY.
2023 (Oct), Annual Black Music Research Symposium (BMRU).
Harnessing Ai potentials for Diaspora Juju Music Culture.
Presented at the British Library, London.
