Broadcast | Taji Ra’oof Nahl/TR7

Broadcast is the calibration of the unfolding declaration—a living ledger of sonic movement and spatial audit, where every happening is an entry in the record of our being.

Calculating Banneker: The Work of Water

An Installation Activation in Four Movements Fairmount Water Works — Philadelphia TR7’s Sonic Sculpture Ensemble returns with a site-responsive activation at Fairmount Water Works, expanding the ongoing Calculating Banneker continuum through sound, moving image, environmental inquiry, and structured improvisation. Featuring Jamaaladeen Tacuma Jamal Moore Eugene Lew Shaun Walker Scott Verrastro Classic Reinvention The Experience A four-movement journey where the players seek t

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Roman King Bee

To Rome, we go. The American Academy in Rome just dropped the manifest for the 2026-2027 Rome Prize Fellows. To the traditional ears, this reads as a highly prestigious megaphone disguised as an institutional press release. A celebration of classical scholarship and refined contemporary practice. But if you apply the proper query-acoustics to the Visual Arts roster, you realize the absolute magnitude of what actually just occurred. The Academy didn't just award a fellowship.

Classic Reinvention

Apr 271 min read

The Chemtrails Receipts

TR7 Live at the House of Schlesinger Chemtrails Receipts is an assemblage of public records—popular science, military history, policy language, patents, scientific modeling, and citizen-generated data—tracing how weather has been imagined, tested, regulated, and at times covertly weaponized. Rather than asserting a hidden program, the work examines the gap between documented capability and public explanation: how atmospheric intervention moved from open speculation to classi

Feb 101 min read

The year is 2016 and I called on one of my elders, artist Brian Bazemore to assist in realizing this passage from Frederick Douglass autobiography…..

Captured on the Avenue of the Republic,Philadelphia

Feb 101 min read

Video Almanac — Parkway Central Library

Jair'Rohm Parker Wells, TR7 & Raphael Xaiver, activating Interior / Exterior Philly Video Almanac — Free Library of Philadelphia Excerpt (4 min) | Adam Vocabulary Club Activation This excerpt documents a live chapter of Video Almanac presented at the Free Library of Philadelphia as an Adam Vocabulary Club activation. The work is built through field research—walking, listening, and moving through the city to understand its intelligence. The films move non-linearly between Ben

Jan 251 min read

Abstract Dynamics Continues

Thursday, January 15, 2026 6:30pm Taji Ra’oof Nahl (TR7) continues his ongoing Abstract Dynamics series with a collaborative installment exploring improvisation across experimental sound, jazz lineage, cinematic structure, and hip-hop traditions. For this presentation, TR7 is joined by legendary composer and bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma at the Museum for Art in Wood , Philadelphia.Click the link below for full program details. https://museumforartinwood.org/event/a-special-

Jan 121 min read

Calculating Banneker comes to Parkway Central Library auditorium

Calculating Banneker: The Assistants, video still 2025 featuring Akeem Richards & Shaun Walker “Peace. On December 20th, I’m bringing a special presentation to the Parkway Central Library: Calculating Banneker — Non Linear. It ’s a double-feature from my Video Almanac series — with a live score by my friend Hprizm, co-founder of Anti-Pop Consortium. We’re screening Calculating Banneker: The Survey, and Interior/Exterior Philly in a rare abridged version with live sound. W

Dec 12, 20251 min read

Evolution of a Calling

Full Statement video still from, Black Seed & Me , 2025. written, directed & filmed in collaboration with William Classic Thomas TR7: Painter of Stories / Griot of Signs Qur’anic Parallels and Islamic Touchpoints in the Modus Operandi of My Work My work as an artist unfolds through what I call Field Trips to Staged Productions —a seven-phase process that moves from research to activation, sculpture to cinema. Though its form belongs to the language of contemporary art, its f

Nov 8, 20256 min read

The Last Hurrah; Cross Pollination

As the solo exhibition Cross Pollination draws to a close at Marginal Utility, we are grateful & appreciative of your indulgence it has been a truly rewarding & enriching adventure. To do a proper exit to what was intricate experiment in field production & using the gallery as a base station, I have had a change of heart in terms of executing a live production in the gallery. To facilitate this I have reconfigured Marginal Utility to accommodate an unexpected art happing, M

Oct 14, 20251 min read

Sonic Dojo: Crescendo — TR7’s Baton

In this reflection, TR7 traces the lineage of Sonic Dojo: Crescendo , linking the sacred description of humankind as pottery in the Qur’an with the sound worlds of Milford Graves and Butch Morris. From the Icebox Project Space to The Pottery Gym, this essay follows how conduction, vibration, and breath form a continuum of practice — a relay of legacy carried forward through ensemble improvisation. Another Field Trip, Another Staged Production In the sacred Qur’an Allah (SWT

Oct 3, 20254 min read