Episodes
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Mutual-Nurturing
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.
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Lullaby for You
I feel my feet on the floor as all of this thickness unravels My hands massaging the greens and the salt as all of these dewey webs begin to fall
I hold your picture close to my belly and I dance with you all night long The aroma of sweet potatoes roasting in the oven sprinkled with marshmallows, sprinkled with yams – and chocolate chips I hold you close baby vanilla ice creams thick stems of joy Magic garage I sit in you know on your beige cement floor with the laugh of my lived ones The smell of warm latkes you hold me on one side and Grandpop holds me on the other and I am floating I see that little girl, I find her through all of the sticky through all of the doubt, the fear, the panic, the muddiness I whisk her up I hold her in my arms, I rinse her with water, I brush her hair I hold her close to my belly
The magic of the soft belly that you showed me in a dream I pass on to her and her gut softens, her intestines calm down all is forgiven all is wiped away all is washed away, she feels the magic of the soft belly, the tender belly, the loving belly, the soft body she breathes in – amen, I love you.
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Soft Sounds
Soft sounds for feeling of being porous, of leaping into unknown pools of murkiness guided only by loved ones. Sounds for tenderness, hardness with cravings of release, the desire for holding, the comfort of fabric on a body, the soothing of noise in the ear canal or vibration in the body, the velvet smooth ear of one’s animal as sits by your side while tears flow.
An archive of sounds rubbing your back, pillows for your heart, sweetness like honey, ease like flowing water, coolness during heat like slowly melting snow on brown leaves revealing sprouts.
You are loved by these soft sounds, may they hold and soothe, tend to you with gentle understanding.
rubbing your back, pillows for your heart sweetness like honey ease like flowing water
*this show is dedicated to Jerry the Bulldog
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Environmental Connection Through Sonic Curation
w/ Ki Oni
What does it look like and what does it feel like to connect with our surrounding ecosystem people, plants, animals, movements, practices and rituals through sound creation and through sonic exploration? How does the curation of sound landscapes honor environments which have held us, and which we strive to hold? What is the process of internal cultivation and internal exploration that occurs during the creation of music that helps us to better understand our own unique roles within our eco-systems which can help us to care for those around us? In this episode, Callie and Chuck, long-time friends, who met through dublab, discuss how sound cultivation and music composition have helped them to acknowledge magical happenings in their environment, support loved ones (near and far), and build relationship.
They also exchange memories and honor the impact in which being a part of the long-form, unconditional, supportive, and fully accepting dublab family has deeply influenced their ability to make work which feels explorative, ever-changing, resonant, and expansive. Callie and Chuck’s conversation is woven together with songs which touch on themes and artists mentioned in the interview. The show is brought to a close with a caring, bright, and spacious feeling pre-recorded live set by Ki-Oni.
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Prayer for Swimming & Water Whispers
Water: Remembering Rain for Whispers and Quiet Listens; Swimming sweetly and softly in the space of never ending moisture Gentle waves of ebbs and flows - in-head whispers Speaking to loved ones made possible by the echoing of waves in the water into infinity and on and on… soften aching bellies, soothe tender joints and on and on.
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Music as Balm
w/ T-Kay
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?
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Sounds for Softness, Welcoming Fall
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.
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From My Deepest Creases
w/ Yoni Wolf
Callie and Yoni Wolf (of WHY?) along with his dog Marty discuss the complexities of living in a body subject to constant shifts and waves. How does this layered lived experience sculpt their relationship to internal bodily systems, the creative process and the ways in which they move through social situations, art communities, and the seemingly mundane. What steps, choices, as well as the desire for control arise from experiencing the unknown in your insides and how does this lived experience influence and/or contribute to an awe-some and deeply intimate relationship with our internal organs and the “deepest creases” of ourselves.
What does it mean to be open and honest about bodily experiences which we experience in isolation? How does intergenerational trauma manifest as chronic illness and how do we acknowledge this passing down of memories, feelings, and body sensations? Callie asks Yoni about certain lyrics which touch on these ideas of “health”, illness, and the desire for ease in our brains and bodies. The interview is inserted amidst a special curation of music which includes songs from Yoni’s various projects which touch on these ideas of honoring the abject, unknown, confusing, challenging, and the very intimate experience of living in a body which ebbs and flows.
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Home Part I
Sweet sensitive sounds gathered from moments of tender observation of home. Home as place, home as heart, home in relationship, home in nature, home in the elements, home nestled in our brain and in our bodily vessels, home in caring for one another. Sweet and nourishing sonic curation intertwined with field recordings documenting ideas of place both physical and ethereal.
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Slowness Part II
A sonic portal to facilitate an entry into slowness to cultivate more ease to sense us into sensitivity to jolt us into listening to drip us into a cup, a vessel, a time, a moment, a body, an organ, a feeling, a person, an animal, a texture, a mineral, a soil, a plant, a person, a light, a calming of the water to settle our salt and rocks - an honoring of bitter greens to highlight the soft and the sweet. Berries in our cup, coconut in our hands, fatty pockets of protection.
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Slowness Part I
A sonic portal to facilitate an entry into slowness to cultivate more ease to sense us into sensitivity to jolt us into listening to drip us into a cup, a vessel, a time, a moment, a body, an organ, a feeling, a person, an animal, a texture, a mineral, a soil, a plant, a person, a light, a calming of the water to settle our salt and rocks - an honoring of bitter greens to highlight the soft and the sweet. Berries in our cup, coconut in our hands, fatty pockets of protection.
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Urban Ecology + Vessels of Self and Other
w/ Rowan
Together, Callie and Rowan (gender fluid, sound & video artist, urban ecologist, and horticulture ecological healer psychogeography documentarian) of ecogreenarchives, explore what might be possible when we honor and take an active response to our interconnectedness with the ecology within, above, below and all around us. Much of Rowan’s journey into Urban ecology and observing ecosystems and how people, plants, and other animals cohabitate is rooted in their experience within radical movements of grassroots activism and mutual aid.
How can an approach or mindset which de-centers the individual and re-prioritizes the whole might affect our shared ecosystems - for all beings, plants, humans, animals, waters, lands, micro and macro-organisms? What is the relationship between Urban Ecology and viewing our own bodily vessels as a part of our ecosystem, constantly intertwined, contributing either positive/nutritive stimulus and care into our surroundings and/or harmful stimulus or dissociation with our environment? The sonic component of this episode will include clips from Rowan’s own compositions/video work/and field recording archive.
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What Makes Your Heart Sing?
A holding of one another in times of isolation through archived moments of bodily and heart-centered joy and delight. In these times of abundant fear, anxiety, and overwhelm, can we gift one another with an offering of guttural comfort? Music curation that feels like hand holding, archived exploration of support through the land, scent, water, lemon, one-another, animals, ground, noise, navigation, expression through projects, nettles, giving - receiving, singing, birds, dandelion, and all the complexities included in our ability to feel deeply.
Featuring the voices, musings, and collected sonic offerings from loved ones.
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Honoring Archives of Friendship (mini ecosystems of personalized long form care) as a way of De-centering the Individual and Re-prioritizing the Collective Whole
w/ Ella Warren & Kelsey Rootenberg
A warm and loving sharing of the many ways Los Angeles based best friends and offerers of care - Ella Warren and Kelsey Rootenberg provide safe containers for one another. How can friendship offer both the comfort of acceptance and unconditional love as well as the necessary giving and receiving action which lends itself to growth?
Can friendship respond to moments of heaviness in the way that tendons and ligaments of the body do? Growing to meet the needs of resistance and weight.
In this conversation, Callie offers questions to create a tender explorative space for Ella and Kelsey to honor, acknowledge, share, remember, story-tell, and laugh with all of the sacred innermost workings of their love for one another. This episode works to ask the question - if we spend more present moments listening to one another’s unique stories of mutual care, can we continue to work towards ecosystems where we are de-centering the individual and re-prioritizing the collective whole? All music featured in the episode was selected by Ella and Kelsey as a way to provide a mini snapshot into their special sonic pocket of the universe.
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Body as a Site of Memory
w/ Rino Kodama
"An abundance of love envelopes you" - a phrase inscribed on Rino Kodama’s sacred cocoon vessel as well as the main source of inspiration for this episode of Storage Container. Rino Kodama (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist born in Singapore and raised on Ohlone land, the bay area. They draw with clay to reconnect to the earth, dance to return to their body, and write to listen to their inner child and ancestors past. They give grief the chance to unfold…and they treasure joy like the light it is.
Callie and Rino explore the idea of “the body as a site of memory” - a vessel which is able to hold everything from delight to trauma and how the process of creating art can not only act as a way of releasing these heavy holdings but also as a practice in sharing the abundance of life with one another. Rino discusses the ways in which engraving text onto vessels, writing, and listening to music can allow us to surround ourselves with everyday spells. Together, as new friends meeting for the first time, Rino and Callie deconstruct ideas about “community” structure as they acknowledge that support looks and feels differently for everyone and that both healing and caring for one another is a non-linear, ever-changing practice. All music curated by Rino Kodama.
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Vessels Edition
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.
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Unlimited Practice + Questions About Care
w/ Ghorba
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.
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Creative Process as Ritual
w/ Xyla
A conversation with Xyla, San Francisco based electronic artist, whose compositions sprout from a blend of IDM, footwork and R&B influenced by her extensive training as a classical french hornist. As of October 2020, Xyla’s record Ways was released via Leaving Records. Together Callie and Xyla discuss how the creative process can act as ritual during times of isolation. This discussion moves with fluidity in exploring how certain sonic textures can manifest in the body and inform the way one builds a composition. What is our relationship with vessels that create sound and how do these intimate relationships develop and shift over time? The conversation is woven together with reflection of this past year and how music has supported community members in maintaining and nourishing connection.
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Herbal Medicine as Community Care & Stepping Away from the Idea of Purity
w/ Fino of Snakeroot Apothecary
Together, Callie and Fino, an herbalist, chef of magical creations and founder of Snakeroot Apothecary, explore the potential of plant and food practices as a way of showing warmth, care, and healing to the community during times of consistent change and inequity. A deep dive into Fino’s path to becoming an herbalist and participant of projects, such as the LA Herbalist Collective, that apply mutual aid structures to the creation and distribution of plant medicine. Alongside one another, braided with intentionally selected sonic pieces, explore specific herbs to support individual and community balance as well as a sharing of stories and experiences with plants, land, and kitchen happenings. The episode hopes to provide a warm environment that helps one to feel like they are sipping on a warm beverage made for you by a loved one, into your belly and heart. May this be a musical and anecdotal resource share that helps us all to feel outside of these times of isolation and fear.
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Symbiotic Care and Communication with Ancestors / Lineage Through Sound Composition
w/ Maral
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
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Theories of Embodied Sound Practice / Stretching Towards Community Care and Expansion Through Sonic Landscape Architecture
w/ CY X
Together Callie and guest, CY X, will engage in a verbal exchange exploring the potential of embodied sound practice that exists outside of the “traditional canon and modes of theory offered in most academic spaces” (CY X). How does a sound practice which roots in awareness + acknowledgment of the body increase music’s abundant potential to act as mutual aid and a resource for healing during inflamed times? This conversation will be wrapped/embraced by a special mix created by CY X titled ‘Post Black Meditation”.
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Embodied Maternity + Sound Composition as Direct Action and Care
w/ ILLIXIE
An active exploration and engagement with the sounds and words of ILLIXIE – a mother, an artist, and an embodiment of care, warmth, and deep intentionality. Through discussion and live performance we will delve into the intersection of black maternity and intuitive sound practice as a form of activism, resilience, softness, and strength.
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Sonic Care for the Revolution + Actualization of Imagined Worlds
w/ Bapari
Through word exchange and sound curation with guest BAPARI, we will engage in a productive conversation on how communities centered around music and sound can contribute to the uprising and demand sustainable social change which provides care and liberation for QTBIPOC members of the experimental electronic community and beyond. What needs to change in order for physical (and virtual) spaces in which we gather together to listen to music and move our bodies feel safe?
How is sound capable of providing a container for restoration and grounding as well as anger, grief, and the active dismantling of government sanctioned violence and systems of oppression? What physical manifestations of sonic care can act as nourishment for bodies working towards trauma recovery and the shift from acting from our sympathetic nervous systems to our parasympathetic nervous systems?
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Letters To My Body
I PROMISE TO KEEP TRYING HARD TO BE SOFT - TO LOVE YOU AND TO HEAR YOUR TRUEST INTENTIONS AND THE SACRED WAYS YOU STRETCH OUT AND LENGTHEN TO YOUR LOVED ONES. I PROMISE TO LOOK AT THE BARRIERS THAT KEEP YOUR HONEST NEEDS FROM FLOATING INTO MY EAR DRUMS AND INTO MY HEART. WE ARE CAPABLE OF PEACE WE ARE CAPABLE OF SOLACE WE ARE CAPABLE OF GRIEF WE ARE CAPABLE OF HEALING WE ARE CAPABLE OF ABUNDANT FLUID WE ARE CAPABLE OF CARE WE ARE CAPABLE OF SLOWNESS WE ARE CAPABLE OF SYMBIOTIC INSEPARABLE COMMUNICATION AND EASE. AMEN I LOVE YOU.
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Soft Protection + Saturated Response
w/ Vanessa Samp, Sasha Zimani & Tristan Friedberg Rodman
An embodied conversation and musical curation supporting a collaborative exploration of the body’s response to social, political, environmental stimuli as well as EQUITY OF CARE. What does it mean to lack access to healthcare while moving through chronic dis-ease and how is this magnified during a pandemic? How do certain compositions, environmental sounds & sonic archives of bodily movements help us to feel safe/supported & comforted when are body responds in a way that presents deep challenge?
This team of bodies and brains will share their experience with immune response and how it acts as both protection and saturation – moving our bodies through peace, uncertainty, safety, fear, tenderness, dis-ease, and the constantly shifting process of healing (balance of functional action and nutritive fluid).
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Vessels + Percussions
w/ Brin
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.