Sonothèque de Post Pangaea

The audio ethnographies of Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

Sonothéque de Post Pangaea (SDPP) explores post-modern cultural nonlinear-ism through sonic ethnographic and anthropological musical matrixes. Pangaea aka Pangea was a colossal landmass comprised of the current seven continents on Earth in one huge supercontinent. This exhibition persuades its listeners to reimagine a world without continental, racial, ethnic, cultural, regional and national borders. SDPP documents resembling sonic and cultural landscapes from Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Americas. It builds bridges back to the one supercontinent that was home for many species of flora, fauna, fungi and humans of yesterday and today. Similar to fungi mycelium networks connecting under the Earth’s soil forming massive colonies, one land mass would have nourished hyper-local cultural-ism. With this supercontinent, universalism would be easily detectable in common dialects, foods, religion, social behaviors, art, literature, and music.


Post Pangaea, the intersections that were so easily detectable became less distinguishable due to massive land movement. The forced migration of those who were on a particular part of land during its detachment from the supercontinent is similar to modern day displacement through gentrification, human trafficking, slavery and urbanization. Natural and/or preexisting habitats innately adjust to the needs of their environments over time. This adjustment over a period of generations become what is known as culture. SDPP seeks to de-regionalize perceptions of cultural differences in musical, ritual, linguistic, ceremonial and dance traditions paying homage to the universality that once existed on the supercontinent.

Samples of my body of work are below: