Are lockdown live streams working for South Africa’s musicians?
Gwen Ansell, University of Pretoria “Hello,” says trumpeter Sydney Mavundla. “Greetings to you, sitting in your living room there on that red couch!” But Mavundla can’t see his audience. He’s talking through the “fourth wall” – the screen of a digital device – as he live streams a concert by his group from an empty studio out to the online world. As COVID-19 lockdown clamped down in early 2020, musicians […]