For the 2025 RISING Festival un Talks placed Kampire, a vibrant bass-heavy DJ and core member of Nyege Nyege Collective in conversation with Samira Farah, curator, producer and host of The Score on RRR. This talk coincided with the publication of un Magazine's issue 19.1, Resonant Imaginaries and sound clashes guest edited by Lucreccia Quintanilla, bringing together dialogues of how sound is approached as multidisciplinary form.
Founded in 2014, Uganda’s annual Nyege Nyege Festival (now label) has become a seminal space for afro-galactic electronic music and queer expression, despite consistent attempts from religious conservatives to shut it down. In this way their resistance finds common ground with Quintanalla’s editorial approach to Resonant Imageries. As both draw out diverse constructions of polyrhythmic, political, and disruptive sounds and modes of listening.
Resonant imaginaries features an article on Nyege Nyege, written by New York and Gadigal/Sydney-based writer Hannah Wickramasuriya, who inquires into singeli, polyrhythms, high BPMs and embodiment. The piece, Velocity, Polyrhythmic Fracture and Temporal Multiplicity was read aloud by Thomas Ragnar and Quintanilla to accompany the dialogue of Kampire and Samira Farah.
