Our research project focuses on indigenous music of African origin, its diasporic evolution and the possibilities for dialogue, recognition or anchoring that it offers despite its breaking point or divergence.

The dystopian attempt to rewrite this past so far and so near raises the question of the What if?

In Africa, colonies, in the Americas, empires...
And in all these cases there are attempts at cross-dressing, intimidation, taming of the so-called popular or living arts.

And upon arrival? This music of globalization, which is indiscriminately called World Music.

Our project proposes to invest the concept of Glocal which finds a reaffirmation thanks to digital and GAFA.
Or how cultural roots have taken place thanks to the different diasporic round trips between Africa and the Americas?

The painting of the artist Hicham Matini, will give an account of this formal and conceptual investigation that will take us on both sides of the Atlantic, in search of the famous original blue note: its legacies and the various "recycling" or reappropriations that it has been the subject of.
Our approach will be synesthetic and will also question the means of plastic representations that can be offered to sound art as a retinal experience that takes into account the impossibilities of containing it in a purely pictorial form.