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The Centre for the Less Good Idea is an interdisciplinary incubator space for the arts based in Maboneng, Johannesburg

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    • ABOUT
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    • COLLATION 4 | THE MASKANDALIFICATION OF OPERA (2026)
    • COLLATION 3 | THE UNEXPECTED CITY (2025)
    • COLLATION 2 | SOUNDING PICTURES: LIVE SCORES TO SHORT SILENT FILMS (2024)
    • COLLATION 1 | ON AIR: VISUAL RADIO PLAYS (2024)
    • SEASON ARCHIVE (2017 - 2025)
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    • A GODOT MOMENT (2020)
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Episode 01 - STATIC

In this episode the musicians explore musical ideas responding to the concept of ‘static', in which the word was re-imagined from different sonic perspectives.

Created by Shane Cooper
Bokani Dyer (piano, composition)
Cara Stacey (traditional Southern African instruments, piano, composition)
Daliwonga Tshangela (cello, composition)
Shane Cooper (various instruments, composition, production, recording, mixing)
Cinematographer | Bukhosibakhe Kelvin Khoza
Editor | Julia Ramsay
Music composition by Shane Cooper, Bokani Dyer,
Assistant record engineer | by Zain Vally
Assistants | Monthati Masebe, Khanyisile Peterson, Likhona Camane
Cover Photographer | Zivanai Matangi
Listen to STATIC here | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTYwk2sF5x4