Ari's Listening Room : Athenkosi "Athi Maq

​Athenkosi "Athi Maq” Maqubela is a Cape Town–based Landscape Architecture researcher and DJ. She has hosted a number of concept-driven radio shows exploring sound, culture, and environment — including GMF (A11 Agency, 2020), a gentle pandemic-era series of artists in conversation and uplifting mixes; Aspects (Hamshack Radio, 2021–2022), where guests reflected on urban ecology through jazz and liberation focused soundscapes and Ingoma (Other Radio, 2023–2024) which traced underground and historical music lineages across regions and eras through archival storytelling and deep listening.

​Athi Maq will guide a listening session bridging cool-jazz clarity and cosmic exploration — uncovering the spirit of improvisation, atmosphere, and social reflection, noting how these astral curiosities echo through the postmodern and networked age of production.