Music & Sound Design/2017/19 min/Reel № 17.001
ByBlinky Bill
Blinky Bill brings African musical expression to the Design Indaba stage
Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017
A close reading, kept within reach.
Blinky Bill takes music & sound design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in Kenya in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Blinky's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
The Kenyan musician, producer and DJ doesn’t care what African music is ‘supposed’ to sound like.
About the speaker
Blinky Bill
Nairobi/Kenya
Nairobi-based "Blinky" Bill Sellanga is a singer-songwriter, beat maker, producer and one fourth of Kenyan art and music collective, Just a Band.
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