alternate realities
03.24.21
This episode of alternate realities features soundscape rituals, which is the result of a workshop series rooted in Black healing. black beyond collaborated w/Navel LA and experimental sound artist Akeema-Zane.
As a group we explored the history of sound as technology to preserve and transcend the spirit of ancestors and the indigenous. Akeema-Zane led immersive sound experiments such as ‘writing sound’ and wearing blindfolds to initiate sonic journeys.
Following our research, we collected and morphed sounds, creating a collective soundscape as an embodied practice in reference to ‘afro – nowism’.
Workshop series co-organized by jazsalyn and Jeharrah Pearl.
Soundscape mixed by jazsalyn.
Still images courtesy of Akeema-Zane
alternate realities is a monthly segment hosted by black beyond
black beyond is a platform for experimental artists and activists to define alternate realities for Blackness. black beyond subverts space, allowing Black people and co-liberators to decolonize and re-indigenize social infrastructures. It interrogates understandings of Blackness outside the limitations imposed by the racist imaginary, through afro-pessimism, afro-nowism, and afro-futurism.
black beyond silences echo chambers and uplifts voices of the unheard. Allowing progressive topics which pertain to the ‘future’ to escape institutional corridors, becoming more accessible to the communities we intend to serve.
Tracklist:
Sacred Bull/HIDE – Annahstasia bandcamp Visions II – EDEN Bye and Bye – Singing and Praying Bands of Maryland and Delaware Kepla and DeForrest Brown Jr. – Absent Personae Postscript Udu Drum – Fahad Zuberi Decant (demo) / Abject – Taves bandcamp Writing sound – Akeema-Zane mixcloud Untitled – Laura Stinger Francis Bebey at Real World Studios Universal Techno “reportage” footage Babylon Official Soundtrack Okonkwo Weeps In Exile – Nicholas Dawson / Bookworms, Rafael Sanchez, Don McKenzie and Deforrest Brown Jr. Four women – Julie Dash Myce aqua vitae – Josèfa Ntjam, Hugo Mir-Valette of editingworldgrid Prayer of the Pray – Stella Deng Agwe – Dyani bandcamp Time passin’ – Jwords bandcamp In Their Fear They Plotted Her Destruction – TYGAPAW bandcamp ELEVATION – quest?onmarc bandcamp Sad slutty baby wants more from the world – MHYSA bandcamp FWU – KeiyaA bandcamp Distance – Contour bandcamp Nine Lives – maasai bandcamp Divine Comedy – African American Sound Recordings / W.G.M. bandcamp Keep goin, black girl ur not far – Nicey Blues bandcamp Diabaram – Ryuichi Sakamoto ft. Youssou N’dour Water Tourture – Herbie Hancock neptunes horizon II / these planets – jazsalyn remixed by Brian Close of Georgia
