BEA
Black Electronic Artistry
BEA is an evolving platform dedicated to contemporary electronic practices emerging from diasporic communities. More than a fixed group, BEA functions as a living laboratory: a constellation of artists I’ve been collaborating with over the years through performances, stage pieces, concerts, and curated programs. The project is rooted in existing relationships built on experimentation, knowledge-sharing, and co-creation.
“Consent not to be a single being.”
Fred Moten
Fred Moten
BEA grew organically from my own practice, from the places I inhabit as a musician and performer at the intersection of blackness, electronics, percussion, and voice. I approach them both as instruments and carriers of memory, rhythm, and affect. I create spaces where sound and gesture intersect, generating performances that are responsive. My work often takes the form of improvised live sets, hybrid performance pieces, and collective sound explorations, reflecting my ongoing engagement with diasporic sonic lineages, techno, and electroacoustic experimentation. These practices are deeply relational as I perform in conversation with other artists, in constellations that allow for experimentation, improvisation, and shared sonic research.
Over the years, I realized that moments and spaces where artists from diasporic electronic lineages can gather, share research, try things out, and really be together, without the pressure of a finished “show” are rare. So every invitation, performance, or project became an opportunity to meet other artists from my communities and to build lasting connections.
Rather than operating as a formal, closed collective, BEA emerges from repeated collaborations, cross-invitations, and shared working contexts. It is a framework that circulates moments of gathering, reflection, and creative exchange and it’s always open, each edition, each gathering invites new voices, new ideas, new experiments.
The platform is designed to create space and time for collective work:
For the first edition of BEA untitled “Echo Chamber”, the day was structured as a shared gathering from 2pm to midnight, where each artist was given a moment to perform or experiment. the constellation gathered : Hevatiana, Marley, Kleopatra Divine, Sara Lehad, Erna, Just S, Cherry B Diamond, Ganera, and Fallon. The sound engineering was handled by Mei and Nana, making sure that every detail could be fully heard and felt in the space.
BEA is about creating frameworks where each artist can have a moment, a proposal, while being supported by the constellation.
The energy comes from being together, from taking the time to meet, listen and experiment.
Over the years, I realized that moments and spaces where artists from diasporic electronic lineages can gather, share research, try things out, and really be together, without the pressure of a finished “show” are rare. So every invitation, performance, or project became an opportunity to meet other artists from my communities and to build lasting connections.
Rather than operating as a formal, closed collective, BEA emerges from repeated collaborations, cross-invitations, and shared working contexts. It is a framework that circulates moments of gathering, reflection, and creative exchange and it’s always open, each edition, each gathering invites new voices, new ideas, new experiments.
The platform is designed to create space and time for collective work:
- Performing and experimenting live : sets, improvisations, hybrid forms.
- Research and exchange : sharing techniques, methods, sonic ideas.
- Collaboration and co-creation : exploring how different practices, instruments, and approaches can converse in real time.
- Learning together : listening, observing, responding, and growing through shared experience.
For the first edition of BEA untitled “Echo Chamber”, the day was structured as a shared gathering from 2pm to midnight, where each artist was given a moment to perform or experiment. the constellation gathered : Hevatiana, Marley, Kleopatra Divine, Sara Lehad, Erna, Just S, Cherry B Diamond, Ganera, and Fallon. The sound engineering was handled by Mei and Nana, making sure that every detail could be fully heard and felt in the space.
BEA is about creating frameworks where each artist can have a moment, a proposal, while being supported by the constellation.
The energy comes from being together, from taking the time to meet, listen and experiment.
“Relation is not made of things but of movements.”
Édouard Glissant
