Music of Our Movements
From peace and serenity to raw roaring power, our movements hold song and music, movement and dance as ways to hold space, create solidarity, and demand attention.
Sounds and rhythms move our cells, move our bodies, and center our minds, radically imagining our feminist futures, coming together across generations, regions, and ages to demand a collective future. Music can be transcendent, an expression of what we want the world to be.
This studio recollects songs of solidarity and chants of resistance from across the world, bringing together small and large groups in reverent movement and song, serving both as a way to engage communities and broader society, from babies to grandparents; and as a vehicle to record these songs and chants to document the music of our movements, celebrate and honor collective power and to ground and inspire for the years ahead.
How this work emerged
This studio emerges at a time when there is an intensified need for unity, revolution, and impactful social and cultural change.
We recognise that music is a powerful tool for building social movements, amplifying voices, reaching new audiences, and unifying a chorus of revolution across the globe.
Throughout history, music has played a pivotal role in shifting cultural narratives; bringing momentum to movements, speaking out in unified power, and chanting together for freedom from oppression. There have been soundtracks to fuel the sparks change across time and place; Billie Holiday’s’ “Strange Fruit” haunted listeners during the time of Slavery in America; Pete Seeger’s “Which side are you on” called upon the working classes to unionise; and Vuyisile Mini’s “Beware, Verwoerd” rallied against apartheid South Africa.
What is ‘Music of Our Movements’?
Working with musicians, artists, activists, producers, and people across the music industry, we tell the story of movements through music, to document our songs, our sounds, our lyrics and our beats, our resistance.
Community-led cultural production and preservation of the music of our movements, re-politicising and reclaiming music as part of our resistance, archiving, documenting, and building collective memory and power.
