Greetings beautiful Creator,
Hope you've been taking good care of yourself and your heart.
I've finally gathered the WhereWithAll to move on this EP that's been tugging to be born, and I’d be honored to collaborate with you on it. I pray this project meets you in a moment where it's ripe and ready for you too.
Here’s a quick overview:
UTOPIA: A Sonic Anthology
What’s a Sonic Anthology?
An anthology is basically a collection of voices and ideas — A curated chorus. What I love about anthologies is that they involve multiple authors. I feel that harmonizing hearts & minds this way is a key building block of a post-empire world.
Sound syncs spirit and matter. It’s the natural vehicle for a collective timeline jump.
Why UTOPIA?
The collective imagination is overrun with dystopic visions right now. People imagine destruction more readily than they imagine life-affirming realities. Yikes.
What we put mind to, becomes matter.
UTOPIA is a balm for this time of rampant dystopic imaginaries: It echoes, amplifies, and creates new visions of harmonious and life-affirming worlds. It reaches into a future of nourishing reciprocity, safety, and a realization of Earth’s natural abundance.
Through sound, this project draws those futures into the present moment.
Through samples — of chosen ancestors, living luminaries, medicine places, and healing sounds including our own voices — the project puts different sources in conversation. On the same track we may hear you, a mystic, a revolutionary, a river, and an ancestral song. Each of these is an anchor point holding a piece of the world we want.
There is a loud, insistent call right now to articulate and animate utopic imaginaries.
We must start envisioning what comes after the rain.
For me, this project is an answer to that call, and
an experimental step into liberatory possibilities.
And you?
You are a powerful sculptor of sound and harmony. I’ve witnessed it firsthand.
You are also a thoughtful, kind, principled genius.
So I’d be tickled to harmonize in the realm of ideas and dreams with you as we
collectively call forth liberatory possibilities through sounds, yaps, and samples.
The How.
Have a scroll through this Sample Bank — It’s a collection of lectures, political speeches, and yaps that have inspired, activated and informed my own creative and political action. If any relevant yaps come to mind for you, feel free to send me a link and I can add it to the Sample Bank.
Next weekend, We meet on Zoom with fellow Creators contributing to this Sonic Anthology, and do some worldbuilding.
We’ll introduce ourselves as needed, and speak into the kinds of UTOPIAs we’re calling in.
We’ll record the UTOPIAs part of our sesh — and that becomes our Seed Bank.
Each track will be…
1 Sample + 1 Seed + 1 Soundscape (Nature, Beat, etc.)
+ Binaural Hertz Solfeggio Activities
My hope is that each track is super easy to create! Nothing complicated needed.
Each track is intended to be put together within a couple of sessions.
IF this all sounds good, RSVP for Zoom with Creators next Sunday.
From there, we’ll meet again Sunday July 19th to cypher, lab, and share.
Then we’ll have a final Closing Meeting on Sunday July 26th.
In this closing meet, we’ll Zoom Out and look at our co-creation through a Bird’s Eye!
This project prototypes collective worldbuilding over a few weeks.
My prayer is that it feels easy, natural, and simple to create!
UTOPIA’s Completion
Once the EP is complete, we’ll have a listening party!!!! Soft exhilaration.
The EP will live on Soundcloud and Youtube. I can’t wait to meet it.
And I hope this month-long conversation on UTOPIA and worlds we’re calling in creates nourishing, fertile soil for your and our practices ongoing — in resistance, and remembrance.
Thank you for you 💧
Note: No AI was used in the writing of this project intro.
Emdash been my girl for a long long time. loooololol ok love u. more soon :3 see u on zoom next wkend