On Onomatopoeia - Triple Canopy

On Onomatopoeia
Tomeka Reid with Taylor Ho Bynum, Ugochi Nwaogwugwu & Mike Reed

Tomeka Reid is a cellist and composer who lives in New York, having recently moved from Chicago, where she was based for fifteen years. Reid has been a key member of ensembles led by musicians such as Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, and Nicole Mitchell, many of which are associated with Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. She is the coleader of the string trio Hear in Now. Reid released her debut recording as a bandleader in 2015 with the Tomeka Reid Quartet (Jason Roebke, Tomas Fujiwara, and Mary Halvorson). Reid is a 2016 recipient of a 3Arts Award in music and received her doctorate in music from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2017.

Taylor Ho Bynum is a cornetist, composer, writer and educator. He has released albums with several jazz ensembles. As an educator, he has led ensembles at Northwestern University and was the director of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble at Dartmouth University. His writing on music can be found in the New Yorker.

Ugochi Nwaogwugwu is a musician and poet of Nigerian descent who lives in Chicago. She is the founder of the Afro Soul Ensemble, which combines her choreo-poetic vocals with musical influences from around the world. Her most recent album, Love Shot, was released in 2018.

Mike Reed is a jazz drummer, composer, and bandleader of American and German nationality. He has played on more than fifteen albums, the most recent being Flesh and Bone (2017). Reed also produces live events and is the founding director of the Pitchfork Music Festival and owner of the Hungry Brain tavern in Chicago.

“On Onomatopoeia” was published as part of Two Ears and One Mouth, Triple Canopy’s twenty-sixth issue, which is made possible through the generous support of the Stolbun Collection, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

26 Two Ears and One Mouth

The Great Equalizer, by Alexander Provan
Omniaudience, by Triple Canopy & Nikita Gale
Parts of Speech at MCA Chicago, by Triple Canopy & Public Fiction
On the Difficulties in Writing the Truth, by Hari Kunzru
On What We Owe, by Astra Taylor & Laura Hanna
On Similitude, by Steffani Jemison with Garrett Gray
On Onomatopoeia, by Tomeka Reid with Taylor Ho Bynum, Ugochi Nwaogwugwu & Mike Reed
On Labor and Management, by Julio Torres
On the Next Economy, by Christopher Kulendran Thomas
Parts of Speech
Rave, by Rainald Goetz
Stereomodernism, by DeForrest Brown, Jr.
Listening, by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
A Cinder Block Falling on Concrete, by Lawrence Abu Hamdan
The Black Catatonic Scream, by Harmony Holiday
LITTLE GIRLS, by Nikita Gale
Second Rate, by Jonathan Sterne & Mara Mills
Table of Visions, by Tashi Wada with Alexander Provan
Proyecto DATA, by Julia Weist & Nestor Siré
Proyecto DATA, by Julia Weist & Nestor Siré
Answers with Questions, by Gregg Bordowitz with Jasmine Nyende, Vivien Goldman, Joy Ladin, Kendall Thomas, Morgan Bassichis & The Illustrious Pearl
On the Letterform of the Age, by Bo-Won Keum
A Heavy Nonpresence, by Derica Shields
i have too much to hide, by Benjamin Krusling
And Besides, It’s True, by Paige K. B. & Tiffany Sia
Medium Rotation, Season 1: Omniaudience, by Alexander Provan & Nikita Gale with Harmony Holiday, Derica Shields, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste & Tashi Wada
Episode 1: Twenty Thousand Bodies Can’t Be Wrong, by Nikita Gale & Alexander Provan
Episode 2: Holy Ghosts, by Harmony Holiday with Nikita Gale & Alexander Provan
Episode 3: The Big Society, by Derica Shields with Nikita Gale & Alexander Provan
Episode 4: The Dead Can Dance, by Tashi Wada
Light Shows, by Benjamin Krusling, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste & Asiya Wadud
Episode 5: Get Lower, by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
Episode 6: Little Symphonies, by Nikita Gale
Live in Concert, by Harmony Holiday & Fred Moten

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