Mlondiwethu Dubazane

Mlondiwethu Dubazane, born and raised in Durban, South Africa, grew up as a curious, shy-loud, tree-talking kid. At around 17 years of age he felt called to pursue his studies in Theatre and Performance at Rhodes University, in Makhanda, Eastern Cape. It is Rhodes University where he began working closely with artist and lecturer, Nomcebisi Moyikwa. In working with Moyikwa, Mlondiwethu had an array of experiences which opened him up to his own voice and to the capabilities that making and sharing artistic musings can produce. Feeling further compelled to work and study in the Arts, Mlondiwethu was awarded a scholarship by the Mellon Foundation to study towards his Masters in Theatre, Performance and Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Cape Town.
As of late, Mlondiwethu identifies himself as a creative sound-maker, spontaneous spirit-musics practitioner and improviser. The sonic vision he's preoccupied with is one which aims to cultivate a sensitivity toward the unveiling of the heart, in sound and in practice. Mlondiwethu considers his music to be an offering toward the space of inspiration that thrums within us all.

Mlondiwethu Dubazane is a scholarship holder of the “Fokus International“ programme, which was launched in cooperation with the Austrian Ministry of Culture (BMWKMS) in 2023. Young cultural workers from Kosovo (2023 - 2025) and South Africa (2025 - 2027) are invited to Austria to complete two-month internships at selected Viennese art institutions, thereby gaining work experience and enriching the host institution through their collaboration.During his time at MQ, Mlondiwethu Dubazane will be working on a project/platform which he calls “sound seeker“. He is interested in how sound can produce and inspire new possibilities of collective attunement and on the ways sound can touch our lives. This is a project of sounds capacity to inspire alternative ways of living in our here and now. Sound and Music in this project are considered not just as a medium of meaning, or entertainment; but as a medium of deep feeling; that through vibrations we are affected (body, spirit, emotions and mind). “sound seeker“ as a research and a platform seeks to incite places, spaces and energy vortexes of Listening, where the intention is to bring the communal-collective frequency further into our awareness through the sound stream that’s thrumming within us all (and is therefore something we share).