PitsoMusician, visual futurist, and spatial storyteller.
Pitso Rah Makhula is a Mosotho musician, historian, visual futurist, and storyteller working across sound, memory, and cultural imagination. His practice explores music as archive and speculation — holding ancestral knowledge while gesturing toward future African realities.
Composing across disciplines
Rooted in Southern Africa and resonant internationally, Pitso Rah Makhula’s creative practice is grounded in composition across disciplines, where music intersects with history, visual language, and narrative inquiry.
Rather than treating sound as a fixed product, he approaches it as a living material — shaped by space, memory, and intention. His practice bridges music, storytelling, and visual futurism to examine identity, ancestry, and collective becoming. His compositions often function as portals — opening space for contemplation, ancestral connection, and imaginative futures.
Sound as sculpture
Central to his work is the idea of sound as sculpture. Rhythm, silence, repetition, and texture are arranged to hold emotional and cultural weight, allowing audiences to inhabit sound as an environment rather than an object. Through composition, performance, and collaboration, he treats sound as a spatial and sculptural medium, creating immersive works that invite listening as an act of remembrance, presence, and reorientation.
Residencies
Pitso’s practice is inherently collaborative and research-driven. He engages in residencies, cross-disciplinary projects, and community-based initiatives that bring together musicians, visual artists, educators, cultural practitioners, and facilitators.
Collaborations
He frequently collaborates with educators, cultural facilitators, and creatives across disciplines, exploring how music can support learning, healing, and self-awareness. His collaborative work explores:
- Music as a tool for cultural memory and futurist thinking
- Sound as a medium for education, healing, and collective reflection
- Creative processes rooted in lived experience, tackling issues such as climate change, range management and soil erosion.
Through residencies and long-form collaborations with agencies such as Conservation Music, Pitso develops work that extends beyond performance — often manifesting as workshops, live experiments, youth programs, and immersive sessions. These projects prioritize depth, process, and relational exchange, allowing art to function as a living, evolving practice.
Through platforms such as Project QAMAKO and the MOCHA Schools Tour, his work continues to evolve beyond traditional performance contexts, positioning music as a catalyst for personal and collective transformation. Both initiatives integrate live music with mindset development, cultural dialogue, and youth empowerment across Southern Africa, thus positioning music as a tool for empowerment, learning, and social transformation. His work has been presented in intimate, institutional, and community settings.
Artist Videos
A curated selection highlighting the artist's story, process, and presence.
Why I Make Music
I make music to listen — deeply.
To history, to silence, to the spaces between what was and what is still becoming. Music allows me to hold memory without fixing it, to honour ancestry while imagining futures rooted in truth and dignity.
Sound carries knowledge. It holds emotion, experience, and ancestral presence. When shaped with care, it can restore balance, awaken awareness, and create space for reflection in a world that moves too quickly.
My work is an offering —
to those who are remembering,
to those who are searching,
and to those who are ready to listen.