Abstract
This chapter takes notes on Ralph Ellison’s use of sonic metaphors in Invisible Man as point of departure for a discussion of vibrations. Following Sun Ra, and the Afrofuturist tradition, vibrations are understood as connecting music to the universe, which is shown in two main cases: Sun Ra’s album The Heliocentric World of Sun Ra Vol. II and Flying Lotus’s Cosmogramma. The discussion of Flying Lotus also combines different Afrofuturist elements—from Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane—thus showing the continuous renegotiation of Afrofuturism.
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