ADINKRAHENE is an interactive cultural sound installation by Marcus Brown. Brown uses the soulful saxophone sounds of the amazing musical artist Khari Allen Lee. In this collaboration Brown and Lee create an inspiring spiritual aural experience.

Adinkrahene is a part of JAMNOLA New Orleans's first cultural interactive art maze. 

For more visit: https://jamnola.com/

Adinkrahene is designed to be an interactive and collaborative work. 

The Adinkrahene is an Adinkra west african symbol meaning King of Adinkra symbols and is a symbol of leadership and charisma. Click here for Pronunciation of Adinkrahene

Marcus Brown  and  Khari Allen Lee collaborate often in Brown's Electro-Sonic Painting group Paint With Music.

Andrew Bertholf is sculptor, musician, photographer, sound and video artist. He has a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).  He’s done video, recording and photography HouseCore record’s Ponykiller (link) on their national Down tour. In addition he has done live media recordings and engineering, mastering for Paint with music and dozens of other bands. Bertholf has also run commercial sculpture and fabrication shops, creating large scale lighting and video installations for a number of arena shows and sporting events. He produces his own music under the name of Ghost Solipsist and composes the music for the web series Good Morning Antioch. Bertholf exhibits his work nationally and internationally.

As a Black male in America I know that I am an American Endangered  Species of sorts. George Floyd was one of many! Imagine all the people who were killed off camera! We have to address the problems we’ve made in our history, culture and institutions. We need to see the unlined connections in our American culture and history and how race was used as a tool to oppress, separate and prevent our unions. Surely, if you do not recognize that the majority of our foundational structures were built by people of color, then we’ve missed a huge piece of history in our country’s founding. If we missed the story of John Punch. If we missed that Crispus Attucks’s death was a  turning point in our American history. Then, we truly miss the historical importance of the killing of George Floyd and so many others. Ending racism through public education should be a top priority so we can solve even bigger problems. If you can imagine one bigger. We have to work together!  We have one spaceship called earth. We can change things, but we have to do it together! - Marcus Brown

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