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This is a hard field of study where we could yet find many issues, it is also difficult to define but from an educational point of view this is a subject where when can reflect about what was taken to indigenous cultures during the colonisation, and how could we return in some way the culture stolen during that invasions.

In terms of “musical” decolonisation there are many artist whose are trying to claim that cultural legacy through their artistic practice, but in particular we’ve focused the attention to George E Lewis, an afro-american musician and philosopher who has dedicated much of his work to fusion western and African sounds during his career; we have also seen him performing on a video, he follows an opera singer with a digital setup and the composition flows smoothly.

We’ve also seen some plugins made with Max for Live and we tried them on Ableton, these instruments were called Sufi and Apotome, and they try to emulate non western sounds and scales. This was an interesting experience and we also found that there is a community behind programming non-western sounding instruments, something that claims more presence of minorities in electronic music and sound art too.