Composed, arranged and performed by Neo Muyanga, this audio cd supplement was part of the Chimurenga Chronicle (October 2011) , a speculative newspaper which is issue 16 of Chimurenga.
Tracklist:
a) 1+1= (a re-composition of a 5000-year-old offering to Lord Ganesha, the Hindu deity, an opener of sorts)
b) 4:7 (heaven’s on the ocean is a proportional refrain on reaching nirvana, the 7th grade, via the mundane material world)
c) 3sin= rθ (sino projection technology theme)
d) 3(x)n (illegal border crossing and migration theme. composed for dancers)
e) e=mcx \rightarrow \infty (a true story about an explosive riot day with SADF soldiers who attacked Soweto on June 16th, 1985. Composed for those who got hurt)
f) ƒ:X→Y (horizon heart aflame. Composed for a lover)
g) (a summing of random themes theme)
h) 4x+2 (the 2 or 4 step theme)
i) y~ 6/8 (a travelling theme in 6 parts over eight. Composed for puppets)
j) y\ge \!\, 6/8 (a running theme in 6 parts over 8 )
k) 1/4° (a kota bread theme. Composed for skolies and thieves)
l) (a perpetual circle. Composed for an apartheid-era multi-racial soccer club)
The short stories of Archéologie des trous take place in a South Africa oscillating between fantasy and raw realism.
A narrator with piercing and dumbfounded eyes auscultates the holes, which are everywhere: in the bodies, the desires, the ransacked earth, the erased lives and memories, the forgotten loves and massacres.
In this hallucinated fresco, one can just as well autopsy one's own corpse, live inside a cow, foment a revolt of migrant workers, discover a fallen empire at the bottom of a wasteland, engage in the traffic of lice, exploring a black hole by digging in your garden, or being present on the day when the white people left by the sea.
Translated from English by Elisabeth Malaquais and Jean-Baptiste Naudy