Listening session: Album Art Analysis

Lynnée Denise, a global practitioner of sound, language, and Black Atlantic thought, is an Amsterdam-Johannesburg-based writer and interdisciplinary artist from Los Angeles, California. Influenced by her parent's record collection and the 1980s, her work highlights the intimacies of music migration and Black electronic music in the African Diaspora. In 2013, she coined the term DJ Scholarship, which examines how knowledge is gathered, interpreted, and produced through a conceptual and theoretical framework, shifting the role of the DJ from a party purveyor to an archivist and cultural worker. A doctoral student in the Department of Visual Culture at the Goldsmiths University of London, Denise’s research addresses how iterations of sound system culture create a living archive for the Black queer diaspora.

Saige Sounds is a DJ, researcher and music curator driven by a deep love of music and what it carries. With a background in anthropology, her approach to music is rooted in curiosity, feeling and a deep respect for its histories. Guided by digging, storytelling and care, Saige has regularly hosted shows on Balamii, NTS & Oroko Radio whilst having spent the past 3 years leading culture at Wax Poetics Magazine. Alongside her DJ work, Saige founded Studio Sula - an archival project dedicated to Black cultural memory, where she documents and shares her ongoing research into rare books, records and music ephemera.