
Zane Rodulfo
Saint Albans, New York
Zane Rodulfo is a drummer and composer living and working in New York City. Born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, Rodulfo has been intrigued by the sound of music since an infant. He began studying and performing music at the early age of 4 and completed graduate study in Jazz Studies at New York University. He holds Bachelor of Music degrees in both Jazz Performance and Ethnomusicology from the Oberlin Conservatory Of Music. Zane has opened for iconic musicians such as Stevie Wonder and Roy Ayers and performs at various festivals and venues such as Jazz at Lincoln Center and Blue Note. He has also worked as composer and music coordinator for films and documentaries. Zane has partnered with and been commissioned by organizations such as the Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum, Asian Arts Initiative, The Harlem Arts Alliance, the Brooklyn Arts Council and Hi-ARTS. His composition, Around The Circle, commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum, was part of the Vasily Kandinsky exhibition from August 2021 through September 2022. He also exhibited Abandoned Orchestra, a sound sculpture installation and performance at the Guggenheim Museum in 2021.
Zane focuses on publicly-engaging work addressing decolonization, the intersection of traditional and contemporary music, and ideas of transcendence. He performs and composes with electro-acoustic instruments, videos, and found/repurposed instruments.

Mother Rosa Ciprian (deceased), 1984. Credit: Dr. Teacher Hazel Ann Gibbs De Peza.
Shouter Baptist Procession in Trinidad, 1981. Credit: Dr. Teacher Hazel Ann Gibbs De Peza.
Spiritual Baptist Leaders: Left: Leader Carlton Herman Wilson (deceased), Center: Teacher Hazel Ann Gibbs De Peza, Right: Bishop Rodney R. Thomas (deceased), 1981 and 1991. Credit: Dr. Teacher Hazel Ann Gibbs De Peza.
Shouter Baptist River Baptism. Credit: Dr. Teacher Hazel Ann Gibbs De Peza.
Lorenzo Dow Turner, Doing the Ring Shout in Georgia, 1930. Film.
Shouter Baptist Altar, 1991. Credit: Dr. Teacher Hazel Ann Gibbs De Peza.
SHOUTER!
Zane Rodulfo is a drummer and composer from Trinidad & Tobago. Based in New York, his work addresses decolonization, sonic histories, and ideas of transcendence by use of film, installation and electro-acoustic performance.
Artist BioShouter! is a multimedia project comprising performance, composition and immersive technologies. It explores the socio-political and cultural connections of Trinidad’s Spiritual Shouter Baptists and Ring Shouters from the American South. Shouter! examines the emigration of Black American Marines, or Merikins, to Trinidad after the War of 1812, who were gifted land as free settlers for military service to Britain. Their presence influenced the creation of the Shouter Baptist religion, which through violent sanction was banned under the 1917 Shouter Prohibition Ordinance until 1951. The Spiritual Shouter Baptist religion remains a vibrant locus for African spiritual practices, with Spiritual Baptist Liberation Day becoming a national holiday in 1996.
Tracing diasporic movement, Shouter! disrupts the myopic idea of migration from ‘the colonies’ to the US, and reminds us of the multilinear flow of Black people who, through embodied sound and performance, thrived amidst religious suppression.
Healing traditions, herbalism practices, rituals, ceremonies, dialects, and music are direct leylines between the Spiritual Shouter Baptists and the Gullah Geechee Ring Shout tradition. Many songs and hymns used by Shouter Baptists in ceremonies derive from Black Southern Christian traditions and the Gullah Sea Islands. Shouter! retains and refracts the Africanisms embedded within both communities through original compositions and arrangements of songs and hymns, as well as projections of archival film, field recordings, and interviews with faith based practitioners and leaders. The performance will coalesce with dancers, singers and musicians who bridge the two traditions evoking the shared resonances from within the faiths.

