http://www.womenandperformance.org/ampersand-articles/the-june-tyson-sessions-remixperiments-with-vocal-materiality-and-the-becoming-woman-of-cosmic-music.html

A collaboration between Alex Silva (https://soundcloud.com/faceofman, http://alexsilvamusic.com/), Willie Avendano (https://soundcloud.com/willieavendano, https://soundcloud.com/selfies) and myself, "The June Tyson Sessions" is an abstract experimental sound project produced solely from vocal samples of June Tyson, often credited as "U Other Space Ethnic Voice" when performing as the lead vocalist for Sun Ra's various "arkestras" and free-jazz performance outfits. June Tyson's vocal performances have been praised by musicians and thinkers from Sun Ra himself to Amiri Baraka to John Cage, Kodwo Eshun and beyond, as that which propels Ra's work "out there," as the improvisatory female voice through which "sometimes the Universe speaks," and the performative female embodiment of Sun Ra's "myth-science Alter-destiny." However, in multiple interviews, Tyson reveals that often she performed in a "do-as-told" mode, with Sun Ra literally whispering his cosmic philosophies to her on stage word-for-word, providing the linguistic incantations to be ritualistically performed. 

This project asks if there is some way that Tyson's voice can be deterretorialized and reconstituted so as to parse out the distinct materialities and vitalities that enable her sonic performances to resonate in such a speculative and affirmative realm. We are interested in separating June Tyson's voice from Sun Ra's hegemonic thought-control in a move of feminist and queer reactivation and affirmation. The key to this strategy comes in treating the vocal samples as objects exhibiting their own set of affects and allures, their own performative potentialities, their own array of contingencies to be folded over and twisted around each other in a process of revealing their speculative potential and our complicity with their immanent material-discursive behaviors and vitalities.  Affectively and effectively, this project seeks to rematerialize June Tyson as a cosmic artisan, creator of forces and arranger of forms. This is a queering of vocality and sonic materiality through the experimental creation of multiple questions, answers and sono-speculative resonances. "The June Tyson Sessions" aims to enable a queer feminist recalibration of the performativity of the materiality of the voice of June Tyson, showing that there's much more to Tyson's "Other Space Ethnic Voice" than the man whispering his cosmic-Afrogospels in her ear....

The June Tyson Sessions

https://eijrawoon.bandcamp.com/album/le-la

Eijra Woon - Leïla Ft. Jerôme Anichel

The first Radio (non)Konferenz is a durational radio event at the intersection of live performance, symposium, radio show and public forum. 
 
This 1-day event brings together artists and thinkers implicated in themes of counter memory and affective communities through body-based and sonic practices. By broadcasting a variety of formats and voices from different times, places and disciplines, it unfolds the possibilities of artistic research and the public space of radio, in generating new common senses, imaginations, and modes of being together through acts of listening. 
 
The event is broadcasted from the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste, live on reboot.fm: 88,4 MHz in Berlin & 90,7 MHz in Potsdam & online.
 
Including: 
 
Performative score reading with and by Antonia Baehr, Alice Chauchat and Neo Hülcker
Conversation between Diana McCarty and Anna Bromely
Live choreographic performance by Agata Siniarska and Mădălina Dan
Reading by Brandon LaBelle
Archival interview with Valeska Gert
Somatic movement workshop by Mira Hirtz 
Afro-Sonic Mapping live performance by Satch Hoyt
Audio Walk by Miriam Schickler 
DJ set 
 
Conceived and moderated by Netta Weiser and Anna Leon
Production: Annett Hardegen

Radio (non)Konferenz I is a cooperation between Radio-Choreography, reboot.fm and the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste. 
 
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds

Radio Non Conference 1

Satch Hoyt and Dirk Leyers / Afro-Sonic Mapping live performance

The Other Others

Daze Days

This mix is a compilation of roots afro-brazilian music that has profoundly inspired me over the years.  This music contains a wisdom and connection with the universe that I don’t find in electronic music (or at least very rarely).  Not one of the songs was created using a computer.  These beats will challenge your Ableton auto warp engine with their (beautiful) irregularity.  The velocity sensitivity on these drums will absolutely defy your groove quantize extractor.  These drums are triggered by human hands in real time.  It’s analog and human.  It’s coco, samba, samba recôncavo, sambareggae, capoeira angola, jongo and maculelê.

Maga Bo – Raízes Mix
1.  Canto II – Clementina De Jesus/Tia Doca/Geraldo Filme
2.  Coco De Manoel – Mestre Salustiano
3.  Coco Do Pneu – Cila Do Coco E Seus Pupilos
4.  Godê Pavão – Samba de Coco Raízes de Arcoverde
5.  Repente Alagoano – Beija Flor e Treme Terra
6.  Field Recording (source unknown) of Samba de Roda do Recôncavo Bahiano (artists unknown)
7.  Percussão – Boi Paz do Brasil da Sociedade Junina Turma de São João Batista
8.  Maculelê – Capoeira Mestre Suassuna
9.  Levanta A Saia Lá Vem a Maré – Mestre Morães
10.  Samba Reggae – Samara Capoeira
11.  Eu Não Sou o Primeiro – Olodum
12.  O Mais Belo dos Belos – Ilê Ayê
13.  Princesa Isabel – Luma & Só do Samba
14.  Field Recording (source unknown) – Jongo do Quilombo São José, Rio de Janeiro

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Maga Bo - Raízes Mix

The Smashing Machine

Grand Prix

Live improvisation of the track "ADITI". Morpho Hekuba (Hekub) is the hardcore / speedcore / extratone side to Eijra Woon. 

Eijra Woon (Morpho Hekuba) - ADITI (live)

THE BEST OF THE DARK CITY SISTERS

DARK CITY SISTERS - UYANG SOLISA

count ossie & the mystic revelation of rastafari -  ethiopian serenade (chöko aba touch)

Professor Joy James discusses the role of the captive maternal and the academy and celebrity culture in prison abolition through the lens of the case of the Central Park Five.

Time Talks: History, Politics, Music, and Art

Joy James on the Academy, Captive Maternal, Central park Five, Prison Abolition, and Simulacra

SPHERIC DUB | SONIC FICTIONS 

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Daze Days

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