Episodes

A stitching and sowing together of contributions from loved ones answering the question: “HOW DO YOU RECEIVE NURTURING AND HOW DO YOU GIVE NURTURING?”. This episode explores the innate interdependence of us all, the ebb and flow of giving and receiving in heat, in coolness, in strength, tenderness, and in softness. Soothing sounds hold together these community sourced vocal archives

Submissions from: In order as heard: Kelsey Rootenberg, Callie Ryan, Joan Ryan, Sara Madani, Averie Rivera, Dani Golub, Emily Alford, Olivia London, and Madison Rootenberg.

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.

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?

Sounds for softness, welcoming in this shift of the season - may we bring in softness, sweetness, and acknowledgment of all that is erupting within and around us. Can we support these realizations of our insides and the clarity of the need for liberation and care by giving ourselves and our loved ones pillows and blankets to rest on as they revolt? Can care, action, conversation, and providing safe spaces to cry help us to root into our individual roles and strengths to offer to the collective?

The intention of this episode is to act as a capsule of restoration as we ease and or are thrust into a new season. with love and care, softness and strength, silliness and sadness, joy and grief. Tree roots spilling onto the sidewalk.

A sonic blanket of warmth, holding and connection weaving community sourced voice memos and field recordings which acknowledge and archive various relationships with vessels and the environments they exist within. These noise - based documents of holding are sprinkled and nestled within a landscape of music compositions which also represent actions of containing.

Featuring a community sourced compilation of voice memos and field recordings honoring spaces, beings, & objects that hold.

Guest, Ghorba, an LA producer, DJ and founder of Feminist Synth Lab Library, a workshop series and synthesizer and music equipment lending library for all marginalized genders in LA - joins Callie to discuss all of the ways in which community work, intentional cooking/ sharing food, and expansive, unlimited creative practice can result in joy and grounding. Ghorba’s musical selections highlight compositions recorded in various regions of Swana and are interwoven with stories and vessels honoring Ghorba’s Lebanese roots.

Together they explore the complexities of caring for one another and creating safety for all bodies during this transitional moment during the pandemic as covid mandates in Los Angeles are being lifted. In this conversation, Callie and Ghorba ask what is possible moving forward from this past year and what ideas regarding accessibility and mutual aid can be implemented within our music communities.

A conversation and music curation featuring Los Angeles based musician, Maral. Together, Callie and Maral will discuss the potential for music to act as a bridge opening up acknowledgement and symbiotic care with ancestors and rituals of one’s lineage. The sonic quilt of this episode is woven together by relics of sound sacred to both contributor’s hearts + roots

A sonic exploration of our body as a vessel which facilitates intuitive rhythm by looking at the sinoatrial node – a small body of muscle tissue in the wall of the right atrium of the heart which acts as our body’s natural pacemaker by creating a contractile signal at regular intervals. The spacing of these regular intervals is different for each body. This rhythm sequence makes space for our body to carry out the necessary transportation of blood, nutrients, and lymphatic fluid that our body needs to build, renew, and release.

Through conversation, live performance and music curation we will explore how the sinoatrial node influences Brin’s compositions and how his compositions enmesh with his internal rhythms.