@kiernan-laveaux

Introduce yourself? Pronouns? Where do you currently reside? 1 fun fact about yourself?

Hey! Thanks for these thoughtful questions
My pronouns are She/Her or They/Them
I currently reside in Pittsburgh, PA
I eat strawberries whole :)

How did you get your DJ name? 

So one night when I was 18, I was at a Los Crudos show at the venue that a lot of friends and I would later throw parties at in Cleveland (shout out to Martin and any Limp Wrist fans reading this too!). The venue is next door to a terrible gay bar, I went there randomly (weird for me because gay bars are hell on earth 99% of the time) and ended up meeting a group of queens who said they were from the House of Laveaux and that I was their daughter now. They said I needed a name, and the name they chose for me was Kiernan Laveaux. I never saw them again after that night, but a few months later I began to go by the name when I started DJing. It’s become a part of my being in a way I couldn’t have imagined, and also a way of expressing my inner voice in hopes that it reaches the inner voices of others too - and maybe we all start to sing together.  

Who/what currently inspires your music-wise that has nothing to do with music?

Everything is musical & leads back to music for me no matter what, but recently leaning into the fact that I’m the oldest of a handful of young people on the paternal side of my family has been a really inspiring perspective shift of life. The potential of being a supportive & loving older person in the lives of younger people fills me with an infinite amount of joy.

I’ve been discovering more about Jewish heritage of mine that’s been attempted to be erased (as it goes), and in turn learning/reading more about Kabbalisitic thought & ways of being - engaging in magic in my own ways has been expanding my perspective on music/DJing the past several years. 

I’m far from any kind of expert on kabbalah, but the way energy flow & manifestation is written about and practiced within it has been validating to read, in music but as well as the way it feeds back into life. Even just the ability of the word “kabbalah” to translate to “reception”, “tradition”, or “correspondence” <3

Dream line-up?

System of a Down, Nissenenmondai, Cities Aviv, Devo, Mwandishi, The Body, Madam Data, Model Home, Obnox, Neon Phusion, African Head Charge, Cindytalk, Maurice Fulton, Via App, Cyrnai, Rakta, Plack Blague + all the homies DJing for a week straight

What was your best moment on the dance floor?

I’m thankful a lot of meaningful ones come to mind when I think of this - 
the one I always jump to with this question is the first time I saw Titonton Duvante & Bill Converse dj in May 2016, somewhere in Ohio. Both are definitely some of the first people who helped me see how unique & personal you can really be with DJing, Bill’s set that night especially helped show me how deep you can traverse the wormhole. It was just like this completely enveloping & beautiful psychedelic phenomena for me. I don’t remember a lot of the music, but I’ll never forget how it made me feel. Eternally grateful to have any of these experiences in life to help me smile and still feel coursing through my DJing to this day.

Do you have any upcoming releases/gigs?

Lots of ideas swirling in my mind to manifest for the future, but as of right now…

I’m playing in NYC Friday Sept 24 at Nowadays with 
Azu Tiwaline & DJ Voices :)

What would you like to see in the future for the dance community?

A complete & utter overhaul of the ways we create space, express ourselves, and love one another.

Check out the A/V set to Kiernan Laveaux's 363˚ mix here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAFVqE6tdn8&ab_channel=KiernanLaveaux

For extended Q&A + OG pi pi pi game please visit the website ------> pipipi.life <--------

Kiernan Laveaux - 363˚

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"i’ve always found the concept of healing to be very abstract and esoteric to the point it seemed somewhat inaccessible, like it’s for other people. for me it’s something that those privileged enough to be exposed to it don’t want to define. for men in particular it can seem more elusive as there’s an inherent hardness which is reluctant to soften. there is a femininty attached to the concept of healing which can feel exclusive.

because of this i find it easy to call bullshit when people describe something impractical (such as a dj mix) as “healing” because enforces this intangibleness. other people are healed by it, but i’m not etc.

i’ve come to realize that take this literally is to miss the point. the act of healing is so personal, complex and never ending that it can’t be explained or administered by some artistic piece, and that any expectation that this is the case can only result in disappointment and continuation of this exclusatory cycle.

one thing i am sure of however is that the entry point is to first feel. feeling creates the conditions for exploration and acknowledgement of what is there, and only from here can we begin to look at what healing looks like for us. art generally and music specifically are cheat codes to feeling - they can reveal a numbness we may not know we had.

so this 2 hours of music was never intended to heal (though making it was healing for me). it was made instead to help us feel. it is a personal reflection of heartbreak and grief in its many forms, but i don’t consider it sad. i hope it helps someone who needs to feel, feel(:" - kraka

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tracklist:
SAULT - Rise
Kate Bush - Waking the Witch
Macie Stewart - Stairwell (Before and After) 
nthng - With You
bod [包家巷] - things whispered while asleep
Lucy Gooch - Clay
Nobo Uematsu - Parting Forever (Lost Oddesey OST)
Gigi Masin - The Word Love
Alex Somers - Color Memory (Nickel Boys OST)
The Durutti Column - Requiem Again
The Durutti Column - Otis
Cremation Lily - Lovers Against the Rocks
Yves Tumor - Psalm
Bonjr - if it’s real, then i’ll stay
Kieren Hebden & William Tyler - If I Had a Boat
Calibre - Hearth
Jlin & Moor Mother - We’ve Been Through So Much (Grief)
Sinéad O’Connor - Black Boys on Mopeds
Jónsi & Alex Somer - Happiness
Requiem for a Dream - ur the most beautiful girl i ever seen
Skee Mask - Session Add
Malibu - Nana (Like A Star Made For Me)
Finley Quaye - Even After All
Nala Sinephro - Space 1
Croatian Amor & Scandanavian Star - With Eyes Unclouded by Longing
Skee Mask - Fourth
Duval Timothy & Yu Su - Wood
Jon Batiste - MOVEMENT 11’
Four Tet - Mama Teaches Sanskrit
James K & Yves Tumor - Open
Big Thief - Shark Smile
Malibu - Held
Deya Dova - Grandmother Tree & The Feathered Serpent
Deya Dova - Bloom
Benjy Wertheimer & John De Kadt - One River
Kronos Quartet, SunRa, Red Hot Org, Laraaji - Daddy’s Gonna Tell You No Lie
Synkro - Changes
Daughter - Youth
Jan Miserre - Orkey (The Outrun OST)
José González - Heartbreaks
Jan Miserre - Dance of the Selkies (The Outrun OST)
Ennio Morricone et al - The Crisis

sounds of healing vol. 9 w/ kraka

angel by your side...all my fears looking where to hide 

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