Anthony Dahu Mumagi: A Life Recomposed
(formerly Anthony Collins (Mat)(Thompson-Pearson (Pat)) / David Huw Davies)
The Alchemy of Becoming
Anthony Dahu Mumagi's existence is a living testament to the art of self-composition. Born Anthony Collins, renamed David Huw Davies through Welsh adoption at infancy, he has ultimately orchestrated his own rebirth as Anthony Dahu Mumagi - a name that serves as both identity and philosophical manifesto. This triple metamorphosis mirrors his creative practice, where transformation is sacred and all materials (even personal history) become mediums for conscious reinvention.
First Iteration: Harmonic Foundations
His musical awakening became the crucible for self-discovery:
Classical Training: Absorbing the architectures of Purcell, Bach and Beethoven while dissecting modernist ruptures (Stockhausen, Cage)
Jazz Initiation: Mentored by British legends (Pete Churchill, Don Rendell) and American saxophonist Jean Toussaint, learning improvisation as a survival tactic
Digital Alchemy: Early experiments programming Atari computers revealed technology as a collaborator, not just a tool
These years established his core principle: all creation is alchemy - the transmutation of inherited fragments into new wholeness.
MuMaGi Emerges: 1999-2015
At SOAS (ethnomusicology, 1999), he synthesized his multiplicities into the MuMaGi framework:
2000-2001: MuMaGi DuKru ensemble performances, where Detroit techno (opening for Jeff Mills) conversed with ancestral memory
2003: London Jazz Festival production transformed composition into communal ceremony
2005: European tour with Meshell Ndegeocello's Spirit Music Jamia embodied jazz as spiritual technology
This period crystallized his belief: sound is spacetime made audible.
Architectural Metamorphosis
His 2023 MArch dissertation (Distinction, LSBU) Reclaiming Magic for Architectural Research and Practice applied these principles to Hampton Court Palace, revealing:
How buildings encode hidden frequencies of power
Design methodologies blending sound, ritual and material consciousness
Architecture as "applied magic" - spaces transformed through intentional resonance
Present Tense: The Mumagi Era
Now fully realized as Anthony Dahu Mumagi, his current work explores:
Collaborates with bioelectrical networks (Mycelial Network project)
Performs with Lo-Fi Ensemble exploring sonic degradation as beauty
Develops MuMaGi as a framework for transdisciplinary creation
Philosophy of Recombinant Being
His life demonstrates:
Identity as choice: Names are spells we cast upon ourselves
Materials as collaborators: Stone, sound and soil all participate in creation
Art as worldbuilding: Every act composes reality anew
Open Invitation
Anthony Dahu Mumagi seeks those who understand:
History is raw material, not destiny
Discipline and rupture are partners
To create is to continually rebirth
Selected Transformations
1999: SOAS studies begin cosmological synthesis
2003: London Jazz Festival ritual-performance
2005: European tour with Ndegeocello
2023: Architectural revelations at Hampton Court
Present: The Mumagi chapter unfolds
This biography, like its subject, remains deliberately unfinished - a work forever recomposing itself.
(formerly Anthony Collins (Mat)(Thompson-Pearson (Pat)) / David Huw Davies)
The Alchemy of Becoming
Anthony Dahu Mumagi's existence is a living testament to the art of self-composition. Born Anthony Collins, renamed David Huw Davies through Welsh adoption at infancy, he has ultimately orchestrated his own rebirth as Anthony Dahu Mumagi - a name that serves as both identity and philosophical manifesto. This triple metamorphosis mirrors his creative practice, where transformation is sacred and all materials (even personal history) become mediums for conscious reinvention.
First Iteration: Harmonic Foundations
His musical awakening became the crucible for self-discovery:
Classical Training: Absorbing the architectures of Purcell, Bach and Beethoven while dissecting modernist ruptures (Stockhausen, Cage)
Jazz Initiation: Mentored by British legends (Pete Churchill, Don Rendell) and American saxophonist Jean Toussaint, learning improvisation as a survival tactic
Digital Alchemy: Early experiments programming Atari computers revealed technology as a collaborator, not just a tool
These years established his core principle: all creation is alchemy - the transmutation of inherited fragments into new wholeness.
MuMaGi Emerges: 1999-2015
At SOAS (ethnomusicology, 1999), he synthesized his multiplicities into the MuMaGi framework:
2000-2001: MuMaGi DuKru ensemble performances, where Detroit techno (opening for Jeff Mills) conversed with ancestral memory
2003: London Jazz Festival production transformed composition into communal ceremony
2005: European tour with Meshell Ndegeocello's Spirit Music Jamia embodied jazz as spiritual technology
This period crystallized his belief: sound is spacetime made audible.
Architectural Metamorphosis
His 2023 MArch dissertation (Distinction, LSBU) Reclaiming Magic for Architectural Research and Practice applied these principles to Hampton Court Palace, revealing:
How buildings encode hidden frequencies of power
Design methodologies blending sound, ritual and material consciousness
Architecture as "applied magic" - spaces transformed through intentional resonance
Present Tense: The Mumagi Era
Now fully realized as Anthony Dahu Mumagi, his current work explores:
Collaborates with bioelectrical networks (Mycelial Network project)
Performs with Lo-Fi Ensemble exploring sonic degradation as beauty
Develops MuMaGi as a framework for transdisciplinary creation
Philosophy of Recombinant Being
His life demonstrates:
Identity as choice: Names are spells we cast upon ourselves
Materials as collaborators: Stone, sound and soil all participate in creation
Art as worldbuilding: Every act composes reality anew
Open Invitation
Anthony Dahu Mumagi seeks those who understand:
History is raw material, not destiny
Discipline and rupture are partners
To create is to continually rebirth
Selected Transformations
1999: SOAS studies begin cosmological synthesis
2003: London Jazz Festival ritual-performance
2005: European tour with Ndegeocello
2023: Architectural revelations at Hampton Court
Present: The Mumagi chapter unfolds
This biography, like its subject, remains deliberately unfinished - a work forever recomposing itself.
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