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As part of the build up to the Pan African Space Station festival, Brendon Bussy presented a series of performances exploring unusual approaches to music making.

Some great pictures by Niklas Zimmer of the event.

New Old, Old New
Inventing, reinventing and rediscovering musical instruments.

An opportunity to see performers who work with the available, driving a new, and old, musical language, spanning traditional African through psuedo African through every other form of appropriated contemporary sound culture.

Performances were interspersed with discussion, question time and demonstration. All were recorded for the PASS archive.

2 Sept Artist and musician, Brendon Bussy, performed on electronic and software processed Mandolin inspired by African polyrhythms and combined with found environmental sound.

9 Sept Artist, instrument maker and musician, Garth Erasmus, performed on a variety of his musical inventions inspired by KhoiSan instruments and demonstrated his unique use of circular breathing Saxophone techniques.

16 Sept Instrument designer and musician, Gavin Coppenhall, performed on a variety of African instruments including the Kundi harp and his recent and unique version of the Ramkie – a wood and skin precursor to the 'blik' kitaar.

23 Sept Drummer, producer and multimedia wunderkind, Dean Henning aka Captain Asthma, performed with his electronic instruments constructed from cheap (mostly chinese) toys using a technique called Circuit Bending.