AfriMus 2026
At the crossroads of electronic music / musical heritage / archives and collection, AfriMus aims to create spaces for artistic research and creation through a musical residency for Afro-Belgian and African artists.
During this four-week residency, the artist is invited to explore 37,000 sound recordings, 20,000 photographs, and 9,000 musical instruments, along with written archives documenting Central-African musical traditions from the colonial period to the early 21st century. Drawing inspiration from these archives and collections, the artists are expected to create an audiovisual work within the realm of African electronic music.
In this project, the AfricaMuseum collaborates with two African partners: The Black Power Station (SA) and Nyege Nyege Festival (UG). With their expertise and experience, these partners support the artists throughout their creative process, both on-site and remotely.
Artists
Blck Mamba: Sebene to the Future
Blck Mamba is a Brussels-based DJ and producer of Nigerian descent whose passion for club culture fuels her quest to inspire and innovate dancefloors worldwide with a mix of Afro Electronics.
As a DJ, Blck Mamba is known for her bold selections and discovery-driven sets that traverse the sounds of tomorrow, drawing from the global South, its diaspora, and kindred artists. That same spirit drives her work as the host of Club Mamba and the driving force behind Mo Mamba, Blck Mamba’s own party series running since 2018. Through these platforms, Mamba champions underrepresented artists whilst cultivating space for connection and discovery. Her commitment to community extends off the dancefloor too, with regular workshops where she shares her knowledge and inspires the next wave of DJs.
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Laryssa Kim: Renaissance Rythmique – Archives, Corps et Mémoire
Laryssa Kim is an Italo Congolese composer, singer, producer and DJ whose oneiric soundscapes bridge concert halls, acousmatic cycles, stages and screens. Born in Rome and honed in Amsterdam’s dance theatre scene, she made Brussels her home in 2013, earning a Master’s in Acousmatic Composition at the Royal Conservatory of Mons. On stage, her voice drifts like incense smoke into tender song rituals, while in the studio, she treats field recordings, synthetic tones and vocal shards as alchemical ingredients—molding and transmuting them into living textures that shapeshift in time, color, space and grain. Through montage, mixage and spatial design, these elements bloom into a three dimensional sonic tapestry—an articulated architecture of meticulously designed sound objects. Guided by a warm, deeply personal aesthetic, her work unfolds as poetic conduits—oneiric odysseys that transport listeners into realms of memory, imagination and reverie.
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Authenic Voices Africa: Sounds of Nile II
Authentic Voices Africa (AVA) is a cultural, artistic, and evolutionary collective founded in 2020. At the heart of AVA’s work lies The Authentic Voices Africa Archive, a long-term initiative dedicated to safeguarding endangered music and intangible heritage of tribes along the Nile River from its Source in Uganda to its delta in Egypt. Through collaborations with community cultural custodians, elders, chiefs, and musicians, AVA fuses indigenous music, ritual movement, ancestral sound, and storytelling with experimental hip hop, tribal house, and Afro-futuristic electronic DJing to awaken ancestral memory and shape new cultural frontiers.
From rare field recordings to spiritual chants and modern beats, AVA creates immersive, multi-sensory performances, workshops, and archives that speak to identity, resistance, healing, and transformation. At once a creative space and a living repository, AVA honours spiritual and cultural heritage while reimagining it for contemporary and global contexts.
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Partners
The Black Power Station
The Black Power Station is a dynamic and inclusive international arts destination dedicated to fostering liberated spaces for artistic expression. It is a home for those seeking an alternative space in Makhanda for free thinking. Founded by Xolile (X) Madinda, who is a hip-hop artist, social activist, community educator and entrepreneur based in Grahamstown/ Makhanda in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. X programmes and organizes an ambitious roster of artists and speakers, blending cutting-edge South African DJs, beats and rhymes with discussions, live art, lectures and children's activities. X is also founder and CEO of Around Hip Hop, an organization that runs The Black Power Station.
Industrial Area, Rautenbach Rd, Makhanda, 6139, South-Africa
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Nyege Nyege festival
The Nyege Nyege festival is an annual music festival that, among other things, runs a recording studio in Kampala and two record labels, Nyege Nyege Tapes and Hakuna Kulala. The festival is held in Jinja, Uganda, at the source of the Nile. Founded in 2014, the organisers want the festival programme to highlight recent trends in the East African underground music scene, particularly electronic genres and the cultural diversity within. The festival was set up as an incubator to develop emerging talents from the East African region. Nyege Nyege Studios and its affiliated labels Hakuna Kulala and Nyege Nyege Tapes have released over 35 albums, toured over 400 international shows and received multiple awards and accolades for its cutting edge music and music festival.
https://nyegenyege.com/
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For more information about the music residency programme: stephanie.booto@africamuseum.be and remy.jadinon@africamuseum.be
