Valmont Layne is Convenor for the New Archival Visions Programme at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape. His current research interests include sonic humanities, archives, sound art, media histories and jazz musicking. He is currently working on a monograph and a documentary film both based on his doctoral thesis, which was titled: ‘Goema’s refrain: Sonic anticipation and the musicking Cape’.
Valmont Layne
Programme Director — New Archival Visions (CHR, UWC)
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