Race Rhythm Revolution
July to November 2026
freeRhythm Race Revolution (RRR) is an 8-week course with Aditi Jaganathan that uses music and its attendant cultural texts, as a site of deep study, through which ideas of race, gender, colonialism, healing and transformative justice are collectively explored. It is a radical learning space tracing the sonic(s) of resistance.
Revolution is at the beating heart of RRR. South African musician and Jazz musician, friend and comrade Asher Gamedze, calls radical cultural work outside the gaze of racial capitalism, ‘outside work’. RRR resides in the outside spaces where, ideas, knowledge and creativity working with(in) liminal spaces, refusing the hold of the colonial gaze, and leaning into new ways of being together. As part of a dynamic ensemble, the RRR ecosystem has the power and potential to bend the will of the spirit towards refusal.
These gatherings are an invitation to listen, read and think together, exploring the ways music, race and revolutionary praxis rub up against each other. Through revolutionary resources for (un)learning together we will look at the different ways musical cultures not only create the soundscape for revolution but are a tangible and integral part of the cultural fact of liberation.
Reading lists will be provided to participants. Places are limited.
Upcoming:
29 July, 7pm
Session 2: Organic Music Society: A cosmos of being otherwiseUsing the life and practice of Don Cherry, we will move with the ways in which he created a mirror, for life to reflect the radical impulse of music. Through improvisation and a deep study of global music, we will witness the power of his learnings through the music he wove with others.
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12 August, 7pm
Session 3: Journeying the pluriverse with(in) Alice ColtraneIn this session we will traverse with and through the spiritual memory of Alice Coltrane, sedimented in the capacious archive of her music. We will dance in the liminality of her search for nirvana, and her deep yearning for collective spiritual transcendence. Journeying with her artistry we will tease out the mellifluous threads in her self-determined tapestry of liberation.
“Jazz came about not through a book but through a flight of memory" Édouard Glissant, 1990
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Forthcoming - more details tbc
Session 3: 12 August - Journeying the pluriverse with(in) Alice Coltrane
Session 4: 9 September - Return to the one with Byron Wallen
Session 5: 23 September - Deep listening to the possibilities of Azania
Session 6: 7 October - Ancestral Callings: an exploration of spirit through sound with Elisa Peebles
Session 7: 28 October - Space is the Place: The quantum physics of Sun Ra
Session 8: 11 November - Ensemble work: How the chorus leads the way
Image: Design by Rand Hamdallah. Courtesy of the artist.
Past:
15 July, 7pm
Session 1: Sound as the beating heart of revolution
In this session we will explore the ways in which sound culture has been used as a tool of rupture, refusing the dull hum of the colonial logic. Thinking with Eugene McDaniels, Fred Moten and Miriam Makeba, we will flesh out the radical poetics of music and how it prises open pathways for otherwise possibilities.
ARTIST
Dr Aditi Jaganathan is a thinker and creator, writer and dreamer. Having worked at the intersections of law, culture and politics in various capacities, Aditi is motivated by a politics of refusal, living in rupture as rapture; turning away from hegemonic worlds of oppression and tuning into something different, beyond the world we live in and moving to the rhythms of an elsewhere. It is this compulsion which guides her pedagogy in the education work she does. Riffing off education for liberation, she creates spaces of (un)learning as a site of radical praxis, using tools of music, film and visual culture, to unpack the ways in which ideologies of oppression and liberation travel through cultural production.
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