Jonathan Emeruwa

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Jonathan Emeruwa is an experimental composer, music preservation archivist, mental health counsellor and sound engineer for the Ambientscape Project. He is an avid record collector particularly of ethnographic field recordings, African, indigenous and world music, as well as European wax cylinders. As a composer he is influenced by sacred, shamanic and folkloric songs and is also a research fellow with the British Library where his area of interest is the music of Black Spirituals, 'Melodic arrangement and its effect on memory for the healing of past trauma, separation and loss.' He has studied at both The Tavistock Clinic and The University of East London and works with the Children’s Mental Health Charity, Place2Be.

Relevant Links

Angakut Recordings (Composer Website & Preservation Label)

Therapy Lives

Place2Be

Published Articles

Carry me Home Reattaching to the Self: Melodic Arrangement in African American Spirituals and Early 20th Century Classical Compositions. (October 2024, British Library, Sound and Vision).

Carry me Home Reattaching to the Self: Melodic Arrangement in African American Spirituals and Early 20th Century Classical Compositions. Edited version (February 2025, CLPGS 'For the Record' Magazine).

Transmogrifying the passage of time: A Minimalist Approach to Recording Bat Calls. (December 2024, Journal of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society).

Talks and Podcasts

The Digital Archive as a Transformative Tool in Preserving Historical Cylinders and Community Cohesion (June 2024, Early Recordings Association at Surrey University, Exploring Traditional Music on Wax Cylinders).

Secret Studies Series Episode 1: (March 2025, NTS Radio Podcast and Interview with Nkisi).