the third masking (2018)
The vibraphone is hidden by the keys and the drum. What/where is the vibraphone? Why is it hidden?
maskings is an exposition distilled from a wider research project called how the vibraphone can be a mouth. Using music, prose, and free verse, I seek to highlight the issues that project revealed within jazz and improvised music studies, and studies into vibraphone practice; briefly show the practical-philosophical roots of my methodology in the research; and present the practice-led roots of my current philosophy of the vibraphone.
Corey Mwamba performing in Derby, 2017. Photo by Joseph Barraud
About the researcher
Born and based in Derby, Dr Corey Mwamba is a critically-acclaimed vibraphonist, as well as a researcher, promoter, and award-winning radio presenter on BBC Radio 3. Mwamba is affiliated with Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and is an associate lecturer at Goldsmiths College, London.