Un-Muting Album Cover by Satch Hoyt.webp

Un-Muting Album Back Cover by Satch Hoyt.webp

Un-Muting Album A-Side by Satch Hoyt.webp

Un-Muting Album B-Side by Satch Hoyt.webp

Limited Edition 10” Vinyl LP

Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumHoused in a reverse board, offset-printed sleeve. Includes specially commissioned liner notes by Tavia Nyong'o, exclusive to the physical edition. Pressed on black vinyl.

Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

SIDE – A

SIDE – B

FROM SLAVESHIP TO SPACESHIP

MUSIC

Excerpt: Oblation Unmuted (excerpt of a track called Oblation Un-muted - attached)
Excerpt: BM Unmuting (excerpt of a track called Oblation Un-muted - attached)
Album: Un-Muting, Beyond Misspelt Borders (2025)
Video: Satch Hoyt - Un-Muting / Beyond Misspelt Borders 3
Album: LATITUDE (Afro-Sonic Sextant) (2019)

VIDEO

Performance:

Afro-Sonic Mapping – excerpts from live performance - Phoenix Central Park, Sydney, Australia, 2025 (attached)
Sonic Shadow - Live Berghain Kantine
(from Sonics page on Satch website) Sonic Shadow Live performance - Silent Green, Berlin, Germany

SHORT BIO

Satch Hoyt is a Jamaican-British artist and musician based in Berlin whose work explores the sonic memory of the African Diaspora. Through performance, recording, composing and arranging, he investigates what he terms The Eternal Migration of the Afro-Sonic Signifier—a living archive of sound carried across generations and geographies. Drawing from time spent in London, New York, Paris and Mombasa Hoyt creates deeply immersive works that connect history, identity, and collective memory through sound.

BIO

Satch Hoyt is a Berlin-based Jamaican-British musician and interdisciplinary artist whose work centers on sound as a carrier of memory across the African Diaspora. Blending experimental music, performance, and sonic installation, his practice explores what he calls The Eternal Migration of the Afro-Sonic Signifier—a living archive of rhythm, resonance, and voice shaped by histories of displacement, survival and celebration.

His compositions draw on archival research, oral traditions, and improvisation, weaving together field recordings, instrumentation, and layered sonic textures to create immersive listening experiences. Whether in live performance or recorded form, his work moves between the experimental, the spiritual, and the political—foregrounding sound as both a historical witness and a tool for connection.

Born in London and now based in Berlin, Hoyt’s work is informed by a transnational life spanning New York, Paris, and Mombasa. Across these geographies, he traces the echoes of diasporic sound—exploring how music carries identity, memory, and resistance across time and place.

LIVE PROJECTS

Un-Muting Sonic Restitution
An immersive live performance combining sound, voice, and archival material. The work explores diasporic memory and sonic resistance through layered compositions and spatial listening. Solo live performance with electronic percussion, processors and traditional antique African instruments and occasional guest musicians.

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

Un-Muting - MEAKUSMA Festival, Belgium (2026); Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2025); Nottingham Contemporary (UK, 2025); OK Studios (Toronto, 2025)
Afro-Sonic Mapping - KARST (UK, 2025); Liquid Architecture, Melbourne (2024); Pheonix Central Park, Sydney (2024)
Time Travel: Hear Today (with Moor Mother) — Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2026)
La Peau Sauvage (with Sammy Baloji) — Barbican, London (2026); Bozar, Brussels (2025)

Additional highlights:
Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber- Lincoln Center (NYC, 2022); Kennedy Center (Washington DC, 2022); Afro-Sonic Mapping - Cosmopollis Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2019)

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY

Solo

Un-Muting, Beyond Misspelt Borders (2025)
LATITUDE (Afro-Sonic Sextant) (2019)

Collaborations & Session Work

Grace Jones — 7 Day Weekend (Composer)
Bebel Gilberto — Tudo (Session musician)
Seu Jorge — The Other Side (Session musician)
Louise Bourgeois — OTTE (Featured flautist)

Ensemble Work

Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber (Flute & Percussion)
Los Massieras — We Don’t Need (Flute, Vocals & Percussion)
The Bakol — Re Mixtape (Flute, Vocal & Percussion)

PRESS / MEDIA

The Wire — Afro Sonic Boom by Francis Gooding (Issue 495, May 2025)
Songlines — Satch Hoyt’s My World Interview by Justin Turford (Features, August 21, 2025)
Hyperallergic — The Artist Freeing Museums’ Captive Instruments by Noah Angell (Features, August 2025)
Afrikadaa — In Pursuit of the Sounds of Resistance and Liberation by Satch Hoyt (No. 17 / Politics of Sound #2, 2025)
Taz Berlin — The Shapeshifter by Julian Weber (edition 13th October 2025)
Les Trésors volés: on ne parle pas — ARTE Tracks, documentary feature (Oct 2025)

TECHNICAL

- 1x monitor box - 1 x 2m (L) x 1m (W) x 80cm (H) Bültec table (foldable legs): covered with black felt material to soften the sound of instruments on a hard surface. - 4 x mic boom stands

- 1 x DI box - 3 x Sure SM57 + XLR cables and stands - 1 x small guitar amp (Fender, or Roland or similar)

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