KODWO ESHUN

'Kodwo Eshun' (born 1967) is a British writer and theorist. He studied English Literature (BA Hons, MA Hons) at University College, Oxford University and Post Colonial Discourse Analysis MA Hons at Southampton University. He is currently course leader of the MA in Aural and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Contents

Writing

More Brilliant Than The Sun

Architechtronics

The Otolith Group

Bibliography

Notes

External Links

Writing

Eshun's writing deals with cyberculture, science fiction and music with a paticular focus on where these ideas intersect with the African Diaspora. He has contributed to a wide-range of publications including The Guardian, The Face, The Wire, i-D, Melody Maker, Spin, Arena, Frieze, CR: The New Centennial Review and 032c.

More Brilliant Than The Sun

Eshun's book ''More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction'' was published in 1998 and is “At it's simplest... a study of visions of the future in music from Sun Ra to 4 Hero”''Kodwo Eshun - Image Capture'' http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_motion.htm. Reliant on neologism and re-appropriated jargon the book is an exploration of “Sonic Fictions” - Eshun's term for the intersection of Black Music and Science Fiction; Eshun describes himself not as the book's author, but as it's "concept-engineer"''Kodwo Eshun - Image Capture'' http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_motion.htm. Specific consideration is made of the following musicians:

★ George Russell

★ Teo Macero

★ Miles Davis

★ Herbie Hancock

★ Grandmaster Flash

★ The Knights Of The Turntable

★ Mantronix

★ Ultramagnetic MCs

★ Rammellzee

★ Dr. Octagon

★ Cypress Hill

★ The RZA

★ Gravediggaz

★ Sunz Of Man

★ Funkadelic,

★ Tricky

★ The Upsetter

★ 4 Hero

★ Rob Playford

★ Goldie

★ A Guy Called Gerald

★ Cybotron

★ Zapp

★ Drexciya

★ Kraftwerk

★ The Jungle Brothers

★ Phuture

★ Bam Bam

★ Sleazy D

★ Model 500

★ The Electrifying Mojo

★ The Bomb Squad

★ Underground Resistance

★ Scientist

★ X-102

★ Parliament

★ Sun Ra

★ Alice Coltrane

★ John Coltrane

★ Pharoah Sanders

Architechtronics

''Architechtronics'' is a collaboration by Kodwo Eshun and Franz Pomassl recorded live at the AR-60-Studio (ORF/FM4) Vienna in 1998. Eshun's contribution is a text entitled ''Black Atlantic Turns On The Flow Line'' which condenses much of the thematic content of ''More Brilliant Than The Sun''.

The Otolith Group

In 2002 Eshun co-founded The Otolith Group with Anjalika Sagar, the name coming from a structure found in the inner ear that establishes our sense of gravity and orientation''The Otolith Group'' http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.2041611/k.AD96/The_Otolith_Group.htm. Based in London the groups work engages with archival materials, with futurity and with the histories of transnationality''The Otolith Group'' The Ghosts Of Songs: The Film Art Of The Black Audio Film Collective. ISBN 978-1-84631-014-0. The group's projects have included the film ''Otolith'' and curating the exhibition ''The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of The Black Audio Collective''.

Bibliography

★ ''More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction''. London: Quartet Books. 1998. ISBN 0704380250

★ ''The Microrhythmic Pneumacosm of Hype Williams'' in ''Cinesonic: cinema and the sound of music''. Edited by Philip Brophy. Sydney: Australian film, television, and radio school. 2000. ISBN 9781876351090

★ ''Operating System for the Redesign of Sonic Reality'' in ''Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music'' Edited by Christoph Cox & Daniel Warner. London: Continuum Books. 2004. ISBN 0826416152

★ ''Learning from Lagos: A Dialogue on the Poetics of Informal Habitation'' in ''David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings: Specificity Customization Imbrication'' Edited by Peter Allison. London: Thames & Hudson. 2006. ISBN 0500286485

★ ''Drawing the Forms of Things Unknown'' and ''John Akomfrah in conversation with Kodwo Eshun'' in ''The Ghosts Of Songs: The Film Art of The Black Audio Film Collective''. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2007. ISBN 9781846310140

★ ''Hat and Beard'' London: Bookworks. 2007. ISBN 1870699 95 5

Notes

External Links

★ [1] - ''Drexciya: Fear of a Wet Planet'' an article by Kodwo Eshun from The Wire originally published in Issue 167 January 1998

★ [2] - ''Abducted by Audio'' by Kodwo Eshun from Abstract Culture

★ [3] - ''"Everything was to be done. All the adventures are still there." A Speculative Dialogue with Kodwo Eshun'' by Geert Lovnik originally published in Telepolis

★ [4] - ''Some Excursions into Sonic Fiction - A two-step with Kodwo Eshun'' by Dirk Van Weelden

★ [5] - ''Wookie: Civilization and its Discos - Part 1'' an article by Kodwo Eshun from Hyperdub.com, originally published in 2000

★ [6] - ''Zed Bias: 2step has a Right to Children - Part 1'' an article by Kodwo Eshun from Hyperdub.com, originally published in 2000

★ [7] - ''Gush Collective: 2step has a Right to Children - Part 2'' an article by Kodwo Eshun from Hyperdub.com, originally published in 2000

★ [8] - ''Groove Chronicles: Civilization and its Discos - Part 2'' n article by Kodwo Eshun from Hyperdub.com, originally published in 2002

★ [9] - Obituary of Octavia Butler by Kodwo Eshun from The Guardian, published Thursday March 16, 2006

★ [10] - ''This Day Remains'' an article by The Otolith Group about The Black Audio Film Collective from Frieze