20:30 PM Doors opening
21:30 – 22:30 PM Performance
Fred Moten (voice, texts) & Brandon López (double bass)
Exceptional concert with one of the most influential and radical voices in contemporary Black studies: Fred Moten. Accompanied by the extraordinary double bassist Brandon López, they present their studio album Revision—released this year—on two European dates (Lausanne and Madrid).
Fred Moten is a poet, cultural theorist, author, professor of performance studies and comparative literature at New York University, creating new conceptual forms of Black cultural production, aesthetics and social life.
Brandon López is an indispensable double bassist from the New York improvisation scene. With Fred Moten, they have just released the album Revision, on TAO Forms in 2025.
This concert is part of a public study day of the project’s Parasonic : transmission of fugitive aural practices. This project seeks to study, deconstruct, and escape the hegemonic mechanisms of racialization at play in listening practices in art, music, and everyday life. This project is led by the BA Visual Arts program at ECAL, in partnership with the La Becque artist residency and the Arsenic – Contemporary performing arts center.
ECAL/auditorium IKEA, free entrance
Rue du Temple 5, 1020 Renens
14h-15h
Presentation of the book Sounds of Black Switzerland. Blackness,
Music and Unthought Voices by Jessie Cox
15h-16h
Collective study of the relationship between racialization and listening based on the contemporary Swiss situation, presented and moderated by Pamela Ohene-Nyako.
Jessie Cox is a percussionist, composer, and professor at Harvard University, author of the provocative and inspiring monograph: Sounds of Black Switzerland (Duke University Press, 2025).
Pamela Ohene-Nyako is the founder of Afrolitt’, a historian of Black-European feminism and internationalism, author of numerous articles, and co-editor of the important collective work Un/doing race. Racialization in Switzerland.
