Tyné Angela is a GRAMMY-nominated musician, archivist, and doctoral researcher. Her in-progress dissertation at Oxford explores how the earliest recordings of Black women’s voices (c. 1920) became acts of navigation, resistance, and survival. She is the founder of Echolocation, a creative and research platform that merges multimedia production with archival restoration and cultural memory.
Since 2010, Tyné has released seven albums. She has performed internationally, opening for artists such as Lalah Hathaway and Vanessa Williams, and singing at the Kennedy Center. She completed her B.A. and M.A. at Dartmouth, where she was named a Senior Fellow with honors. Her current research examines early phonograph recordings, treating historic recordings as navigational acts (like sonar), mapping the cultural terrain of the early 20th century.
Tyné’s work has been featured at the Grammy Museum, Banff Centre, Columbia Museum of Art, and TEDx, with coverage in publications ranging from Seventeen Magazine to Columbia Metropolitan Magazine. Her practice has been generously supported by the National YoungArts Foundation, the South Carolina Arts Commission, and the Recording Academy, among others. As a 2024-25 YoungArts Fellow, Tyné’s Sustainable Symphony project focused on constructing musical instruments using sustainable methods and materials. Beyond her work, she is a devoted foodie and Marine wife.
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I explore how the earliest recordings of Black women’s voices (c. 1920) became acts of navigation, resistance, and survival. Many songs were made under restrictive, racialized conditions. My Echolocation project is about listening to the archive, which is filled with voices that history tried to silence. I treat historic recordings as navigational acts (like sonar), mapping the cultural terrain of the early 20th century.
My work is interdisciplinary, drawing from sound studies, archival research, and immersive audio production. I search for early recordings often hidden in collections or scattered across institutions, working to restore them to audibility. It’s about recontextualizing and amplifying these voices so they remain present in our cultural memory. It’s an invitation to listen as a form of historical discovery and navigation.
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Tyné Angela is a musician, archivist, and doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. She explores early phonograph recordings by Black women as a way-finding strategy. She is the founder of Echolocation, a creative and research platform that merges immersive audio, archival restoration, and cultural preservation.
Tyné was awarded the 2024-25 YoungArts Fellowship. Her Sustainable Symphony project focused on constructing musical instruments using sustainable methods and materials, specifically reclaimed wood from decommissioned acoustic pianos. Showcased in a culminating performance at the Columbia Museum of Art (spring 2025), the constructed instruments explore creative solutions to problems of accessibility, functionality, cost, and environmental sustainability.
Tyné Angela is a musician, author, and doctoral researcher. Since 2010, she has released seven albums, opened for artists such as Lalah Hathaway and Vanessa Williams, and performed at diverse venues, including the Kennedy Center. She studied at Dartmouth College, where she was named a Senior Fellow with honors.
Her work has been featured and exhibited at venues including the Grammy Museum and Banff Center for the Arts, and her original music has led to coverage in publications ranging from Seventeen Magazine to Columbia Metropolitan Magazine. Tyné’s practice has been generously supported by the National YoungArts Foundation, the South Carolina Arts Commission, the Recording Academy, Dartmouth’s Reynold’s Fellowship, and TEDx.
Tyné is currently a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, where her dissertation engages echolocation as a methodological lens, exploring
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