Storage Container is a mix series utilizing sonic exploration to acknowledge bodily systems as containers storing the ability to transform/transport + absorb/release nutritive input and stimuli. Hosted by long-time dublab resident, Callie Ryan.

A conversation with T-Kay, LA Based (DUBLAB) DJ and Archivist. Together Callie and T-Kay discuss how gathering to listen and to share music has transformed and shifted over the last three years as we have traversed and navigated the ever-changing waters of the pandemic. As we yearn for connection amidst times of isolation, what is the meaning and impact of connecting both physically and virtually within creative spaces? Have these last four years of unique and oftentimes anxiety producing hibernation and labor affected the way that we relate in music spaces? What does it look like to re-enter these spaces and help to make them feel safe and accessible for all bodies and brains? T-Kay speaks of her experience archiving human rights documentation and the histories of marginalized communities and how music has softened and supported this process. Callie also asks T-Kay to share her perspective as an archivist on the importance of creative gatherings as a part of honoring impactful life events within a community including loss of loved ones, celebratory moments of achievement, and or simply acknowledging the joy of being together after being apart for so long. How can we provide safe containers in order to support one another in processing the dialectic experience of both grief and potential reunion that has defined these last four years? T-Kay shares what fears, excitements, anxieties, and or possible delight accompany this time and how sonic gatherings might help us to digest and integrate our varying landscapes of lived experiences alongside one another.

T-Kay is an archivist, librarian and DJ who has worked extensively on preservation partnerships with human rights and cultural heritage institutions in the US, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Her musical curation highlights the sonic celebrations of everyday life and reflects her experience preserving cultural heritage around the world. Since 2007, she has been a resident DJ at dublab and her program “The Archive of Feelings” airs on the first Saturday of the month. She comes from an immigrant family and currently resides on Tongva land.

SHOW NOTES

• The Archives of Feeling – T-Kay’s DUBLAB show
• T-Kay’s Tribute Broadcast for Sumohair
• Sumohair
• Ras G DUBLAB Tribute Broadcast
• Al Jackson
• Sunni Abegaze
• Floating
• Greg Saldate (creme)