Abstract
Social media post: New PhD Research Output: “Embodied Frequencies: A Sonic Ethnography of Blackness”
Tonight, Inspired by a performance poetry exercise at the 'Common Ground poetry group' (Medway), facilitated by Alby tonight, I transformed my poem “My Blackness is My Strength” into a sonic artefact.
The session helped me explore emotion, tone, and pacing, all of which shaped the instrumental and voiceover.
This piece is now part of my doctoral research:
“A Practice-Based Ethnographic Study of Counternarratives, Culture, and Codes through Art, Activism, Aesthetics, and AI.”
Using AI, I composed original music and layered it with an audio voiceover using the full poem.
This is not just art. It’s ethnography. It’s soul. It’s data.
It’s a counter-narrative in sound. 🖤🎧📖
I am embodying the 4 R's (Resist, Reclaim, Reframe, and Retain), creating music from gospel, blues, and the civil rights movement and the Windrush era. I am resisting erasure, reclaiming my Blackness, reframing the Black British female lived experience, and retaining our UK Black presence through AI-created sound.
Providing an insight into Black British homes in the early 70's when I was a child on a Sunday after church.
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house," was said by the writer and activist Audre Lorde. I am challenging this viewpoint; I am using AI to dismantle bias and exclusion.
© Michi Masumi 2024. All rights reserved. This audio work was created under a Suno Pro subscription and includes original lyrics and voiceover; it is protected under UK copyright law and intended for academic and creative dissemination.
Tonight, Inspired by a performance poetry exercise at the 'Common Ground poetry group' (Medway), facilitated by Alby tonight, I transformed my poem “My Blackness is My Strength” into a sonic artefact.
The session helped me explore emotion, tone, and pacing, all of which shaped the instrumental and voiceover.
This piece is now part of my doctoral research:
“A Practice-Based Ethnographic Study of Counternarratives, Culture, and Codes through Art, Activism, Aesthetics, and AI.”
Using AI, I composed original music and layered it with an audio voiceover using the full poem.
This is not just art. It’s ethnography. It’s soul. It’s data.
It’s a counter-narrative in sound. 🖤🎧📖
I am embodying the 4 R's (Resist, Reclaim, Reframe, and Retain), creating music from gospel, blues, and the civil rights movement and the Windrush era. I am resisting erasure, reclaiming my Blackness, reframing the Black British female lived experience, and retaining our UK Black presence through AI-created sound.
Providing an insight into Black British homes in the early 70's when I was a child on a Sunday after church.
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house," was said by the writer and activist Audre Lorde. I am challenging this viewpoint; I am using AI to dismantle bias and exclusion.
© Michi Masumi 2024. All rights reserved. This audio work was created under a Suno Pro subscription and includes original lyrics and voiceover; it is protected under UK copyright law and intended for academic and creative dissemination.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Publication status | Published - 2025 |
Keywords
- AI
- Artificial intelligence
- Black methodology
- Counternarratives
- Music
- Poetry
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