Anthony Dahu Mumagi: A Life Recomposed
Anthony Dahu Mumagi embodies intentional transformation. Born Anthony Collins-Pearson-Thompson, renamed David Huw Davies after Welsh adoption, he consciously forged his identity as Anthony Dahu Mumagi, reflecting his core philosophy and creative essence. His life is a continuous process of recomposition, using personal history, sound, and space as raw materials.
His interdisciplinary vision emerged from diverse roots: classical structures (Purcell to Beethoven fused with modernists like Cage), jazz improvisation (mentored by Rendell, Toussaint), and pioneering early digital collaboration (Atari programming). This formed his ethos: creation as alchemy, synthesizing fragments into new wholes.
At SOAS (Ethnomusicology, 1999), his MuMaGi framework crystallized. Key milestones include:
2000-2001: MuMaGi DuKru performances bridging Detroit techno (opening for Jeff Mills) with ancestral resonance.
2003: London Jazz Festival production redefining composition as collective ritual.
2005: European tour with Meshell Ndegeocello's Spirit Music Jamia, exploring jazz's spiritual dimensions.
This period solidified his insight: sound shapes temporal and spatial perception.
His 2023 MArch dissertation (Distinction, LSBU), Reclaiming Magic for Architectural Research and Practice, applied this at Hampton Court Palace. It examined how architecture encodes power narratives and proposed methodologies merging sound, ritual, and materiality, culminating in the concept of "Intentional Resonance" - activating spaces through mindful intervention.
Now working fully as Mumagi, he expands his transdisciplinary practice: collaborating with bioelectrical systems (Mycelial Networks), leading Lo-Fi Ensemble performances framing decay as aesthetic, and developing MuMaGi as a universal creative language.
His philosophy manifests as:
Identity as Choice: Names are acts of self-creation.
Materials as Dialogue: Stone, sound, soil become collaborators.
Art as Reality-Composition: Reshaping perception through creative acts.
Mumagi seeks collaborators embracing history as malleable clay, uniting discipline with radical innovation, and viewing creation as infinite evolution. His life and work are a testament to recombinant creation.
Anthony Dahu Mumagi embodies intentional transformation. Born Anthony Collins-Pearson-Thompson, renamed David Huw Davies after Welsh adoption, he consciously forged his identity as Anthony Dahu Mumagi, reflecting his core philosophy and creative essence. His life is a continuous process of recomposition, using personal history, sound, and space as raw materials.
His interdisciplinary vision emerged from diverse roots: classical structures (Purcell to Beethoven fused with modernists like Cage), jazz improvisation (mentored by Rendell, Toussaint), and pioneering early digital collaboration (Atari programming). This formed his ethos: creation as alchemy, synthesizing fragments into new wholes.
At SOAS (Ethnomusicology, 1999), his MuMaGi framework crystallized. Key milestones include:
2000-2001: MuMaGi DuKru performances bridging Detroit techno (opening for Jeff Mills) with ancestral resonance.
2003: London Jazz Festival production redefining composition as collective ritual.
2005: European tour with Meshell Ndegeocello's Spirit Music Jamia, exploring jazz's spiritual dimensions.
This period solidified his insight: sound shapes temporal and spatial perception.
His 2023 MArch dissertation (Distinction, LSBU), Reclaiming Magic for Architectural Research and Practice, applied this at Hampton Court Palace. It examined how architecture encodes power narratives and proposed methodologies merging sound, ritual, and materiality, culminating in the concept of "Intentional Resonance" - activating spaces through mindful intervention.
Now working fully as Mumagi, he expands his transdisciplinary practice: collaborating with bioelectrical systems (Mycelial Networks), leading Lo-Fi Ensemble performances framing decay as aesthetic, and developing MuMaGi as a universal creative language.
His philosophy manifests as:
Identity as Choice: Names are acts of self-creation.
Materials as Dialogue: Stone, sound, soil become collaborators.
Art as Reality-Composition: Reshaping perception through creative acts.
Mumagi seeks collaborators embracing history as malleable clay, uniting discipline with radical innovation, and viewing creation as infinite evolution. His life and work are a testament to recombinant creation.
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