SCRAAATCH is a collaborative pair that creates multimedia performance, experimental music, and hybrid DJ sets.
SCRAAATCH consists of E. Jane and chukwumaa, aka MHYSA and lawd knows. SCRAAATCH focus on Black diasporan intra-communication, generational traumas, social upheaval, and the social conditions of urban environments. They source sounds, images, and physical objects that represent ever-morphing urban and digital landscapes, reflecting on the socio-political dynamics within these spaces.
Originally from Prince George’s County, Maryland, and based in Brooklyn, New York, SCRAAATCH has performed and exhibited experiments at venues including MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, and the New Museum in New York, Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and Les Urbaines in Switzerland. Releases include Teardrops EP (2019), and the one-off tracks “u don’t kno until u come” (2020) and “blue light” (2021) contributed to the “Sermon 4 Anniversary” and “Virgō” compilations, respectively.’