ABSTRACT
I met my partner in Haiti when he was a sound tech for his sister’s band, Boukman Eksperyans, while I was doing field research on Vodou and music. We were introduced at the Rex Theater in downtown Port-au-Prince, right on the stage, a few hours before the show. The band usually set up to a soundtrack of their own music or to Bob Marley and the Wailers pumped up to a volume I found uncomfortable but that the musicians loved. Loud music made the air thicker, and it shaped the space into a pulsating,vibrating, energized place.
