An artist, producer and professor, Suzi Analogue does it all.
Analogue has been redefining — or rather, “un-defining” — music since the age of 15. Specifically, Analogue rejects music defined by genre, in what she calls “post-genre” music, or music that breaks more traditional labels. Since then, they have paved the way for women and nonbinary people to enter electronic music through their shows, recorded music and their classes.
In 2022, Analogue started teaching officially at UNC, and today, Analogue can be found on the Chapel Hill campus at the Beat Lab teaching their students the art of making beats.
But their history with the University started almost 10 years ago with Mark Katz, the John P. Barker Distinguished Professor of Music.
The pair met in 2015 through Next Level, a program encouraging cultural exchange and diplomacy through hip-hop music. Katz was the director and Analogue applied to the program. They had traveled to Uganda and Ghana together and had seen each other in Miami and Washington, D.C., but it wasn’t until 2016 that Katz invited Analogue to speak to his students whenever they came into town.
“Suzi really inspires students who see a lot of possibilities for themselves, when they share their own story,” Katz said.
Analogue has always seen themself working as a professor one day. They said they wanted to give back to the community and share their passions and have always felt at home with students and colleagues “chopping it up” about music.
The professional approach Analogue has taken aims to leave an impact, however small the change. They actively seek to make the music community more inclusive and innovative.
“I’m always looking for the people who are creating the culture, the DJs that are really organizing within [the] community, the producers that are making the tracks that are really getting to the people,” Analogue said. “So just because of how I set up my socialization around creating, I’m able to permeate the actual cultures of the places that I create in. And I do it very intentionally in a way to maybe even restructure the resources.”
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