Mulonga - The Loop

2003

Tonga.Online

Archived for 45 years, historical recordings of Tonga Ngoma Buntibe music are returning—via streaming from Grahamstown/ZA to Linz/A and via shortwave radio broadcasting from London/UK—to the territory of Zambezi River Valley. These historical files, mediated through technology and commented on via telephone are recirculated and reframed in contemporary Tonga culture. As both a broadcast event and website, the Loop is based on the interplay of seemingly obsolete and hightech media and underlines that global communication has to be considered as a process of uneven development.