Audio post-production for BAM's archival documentation of adaku, part 1: the road opens, produced by Oresti Tsonopoulos.

Working from the original multitrack recordings captured during the live performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, I edited, mixed, and mastered the audio to faithfully reconstruct the sonic environment of the performance for video. The goal was to preserve the clarity, balance, and immersive quality of the in-person experience while meeting professional standards for both archival preservation and online presentation.

Okwui Okpokwasili, described by The New York Times as "an expectation-confounding blend of authority and vulnerability," creates dance theater rooted as much in the power of speech as in movement. adaku is the inaugural chapter of a larger speculative mythology set in a precolonial African village at the cusp of upheaval.

BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC