Pablo D. Herrera Veitia, Ph.D., is an Inclusive Excellence Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Afrosonic Innovation Lab, ACM, UTSC. He is a scholar-practitioner working through the assemblage of Afro-Cuban Yoruba-derived religious practice, global hip-hop studies and sounded digital multimodal ethnography. A pioneering producer-archivist of the rap cubano sound, Herrera Veitia is a 2018-2019 Nasir Jones Fellowship alumnus at the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University.
Sound braid (Luisa Isidro Herrera, Nicole Marchesseau, Johann Sander Puustusmaa, Pablo D. Herrera Veitia) is an exploration of collaborative listening and sonic conversations, a convergence of events that hop on and off the web platform with the hopes of sparking discussion, remixing, and moving through and with bodies in various ways. Sound braid is a non-institutionally sanctioned space and side-project meant for collaboration, inhabitation, and disruption. A mutable platform subject to change and revision, the sound braid website invites sounds that move, simmer, or ignite discussions. It aims to engage with experimental forms and to create rather than reproduce, to shape ecologies rather than libraries. This site may include or prompt non-performed or unexceptional sounds, dedramatized silences, quotidian dins, or failures.
