K U J I C H A G U L I A

Joe Williams is a sound liberator from Tacoma, WA.

Artistic Intention

to liberate sound

who he honors

L I B A T I O N S

performance, for me, is a committed act of channeling ancestral memories through sound to reveal that which is always liberating

that is, an embodied and witnessed connection to spiritual depths anchored by sound itself

always liberating

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Frances Walker-Slocum

M E N T O R . The first tenured African-American female professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where I studied.

William Chapman Nyaho

L I V I N G L E G E N D . Scholar-pianist who paved the road I now travel.

Professor Williams

A N C E S T O R . Birthname of my great-uncle from Mississippi. I was to become the first academic professor in my family.