11th–15th c. · Shona builders · Africa
The chamber score
Mbira dzavadzimu, Nhemamusasa
Shona traditional · Zimbabwe
A dry-stone capital. Ancestors speak in the mbira's metal leaves.
An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.
Why it is here
The UNESCO stone city, the greatest precolonial monument of southern Africa.
Commission the full chamber
This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.
Ask the studio to reconstruct Great Zimbabwe through hope — or shift it into another corridor.
Open a commissionShift the feeling
What if Great Zimbabwe was rebuilt as something else?
Ask the architect
