The atsalonisu.org LGBTQ sound art showcase was curated by trans poet/sound artist Samuel Ace for atSalon: FREEDOM NOW 2020. The live event was to have taken place earlier this year, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 precautions to safeguard audience and staff at University Libraries ISU and Obsidian.

Samuel Ace is a trans* poet and sound artist. He is the author of several books, most recently Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish 2019), the newly re-issued Meet Me There: Normal Sex and Home in three days. Don’t wash., (Belladonna* Germinal Texts 2019), and Stealth with poet Maureen Seaton. He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer Award and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry, as well as a two-time finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. His work has been widely anthologized and recent poems can be found in Poetry, PEN America, Best American Experimental Poetry, Vinyl, and many other journals and anthologies. He currently teaches poetry and creative writing at Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts. In the summer of 2020, he will be guest faculty at the Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Retreat in Los Angeles.

@Salon Queer Sound 2020 Curated by Samuel Ace

This playlist features digital content by artists featured in the Obsidian journal, Volume 47.1

Obsidian Volume 47.1

Obsidian Volume 47.2 - Full track list of audio features

Dischord Dissolving by Mankwe Ndosi is featured in the Obsidian Digital portion of Volume 47.1 at https://obsidianlit.org

Dischord Dissolving

Mankwe Ndosi - Dischord Dissolving

Discarded by Mankwe Ndosi is featured in the Obsidian Digital portion of Volume 47.1 at https://obsidianlit.org

Science And Spirit

Mankwe Ndosi - Discarded

The Nerve of Death by A. H. Jerriod Avant is part of Sound Tunnels, digital content featured in the Obsidian Digital portion of Volume 47.1 at https://obsidianlit.org

The Nerve of Death

Soopah Thik by A. H. Jerriod Avant is part of Sound Tunnels, digital content featured in the Obsidian Digital portion of Volume 47.1 at https://obsidianlit.org

Soopah Thik

A Reason To Git Back by A. H. Jerriod Avant is part of Sound Tunnels, digital content featured in the Obsidian Digital portion of Volume 47.1 at https://obsidianlit.org

A Reason To Git Back

Burn by Jason "Da Hater" Harris is digital content featured in the Obsidian Digital portion of Volume 47.2 at https://obsidianlit.org

Burn by Jason "Da Hater" Harris

Stuff of Local Legend by Jason "Da Hater" Harris is digital content featured in the Obsidian Digital portion of Volume 47.2 at https://obsidianlit.org

Stuff Of Local Legend by Jason "Da Hater" Harris

Microphone Wizard by Jason "Da Hater" Harris is digital content featured in the Obsidian Digital portion of Volume 47.2 at https://obsidianlit.org

Microphone Wizard by Jason "Da Hater" Harris

Autobiography for the body that won’t leave by Carmin Wong is digital content featured in the Obsidian Digital portion of Volume 47.2 at https://obsidianlit.org

Autobiography For The Body That Won’t Leave by Carmin Wong

The Great Reset (Control Alt Delete Intro)
Darryl Cohen a.k.a. DJ D-Skillz is digital content featured in the Obsidian Digital portion of Volume 47.2 at https://obsidianlit.org

Ctrl Alt Delete

The Great Reset (Ctrl Alt Delete Intro) by DJ D-Skillz

Kayla Kiki by Duriel E. Harris is digital content featured in the Obsidian Digital portion of Volume 48.2 at obsidianlit.org

Kayla Kiki by Duriel E. Harris

featured in Black Listening: O|Sessions Exhibition

Collaborator:
Sophiyah Elizabeth
Composer
ig: sophiyah.e
website: www.sophiyah.com

Jassmine Parks
Poet & Interdisciplinary Storyteller
ig: jassmoneyrecords
website: www.jassmineparkstheflowerchild.com

Makidada By Jassmine Parks

say you gonna be my testimony by karen lee
for Black Listening: O|Sessions Exhibition

say you gonna be my testimony by karen lee

Dark Honeeey original poem by Me'Chelle
for Black Listening: O|Sessions Online Exhibition

Recorded at Classick studios by Daniel Vargas

Dark Honeeey Poem by Me'Chelle

DarkHoneeey in song by Me'Chelle
for Black Listening: O|Sessions Online Exhibition

Instrumental by Stoic Beats

Recorded at Classick studios by Daniel Vargas

DarkHoneeey in song by Me'Chelle

Early Days by Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
for Black Listening: O|Sessions Online Exhibition

Early Days by Ngwatilo Mawiyoo

Whats It Hittin Fuh by Jerriod Avant
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

02 Whats It Hittin Fuh by Jerriod Avant

Gone: Experimental Soundscapes about the American South by Keyania Campbell
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

07 Practice by KeyaniaCampbell

Freddie King Beatin' Eggs and It's All Love by Jerriod Avant
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

04  Freddie King Beatin' Eggs and It's All Love by Jerriod Avant

Unjumble by Elizabeth Mudenyo
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

19 Unjumble by Elizabeth Mudenyo

06 Intro by Keyania Campbell

God Will Get The Glory by Cornelius Eady
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

12 God Will Get The Glory by Cornelius Eady

Fuh Reasons I'd Rather Ask Befo' I Tell by JerriodAvant
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

03  Fuh Reasons I'd Rather Ask Befo' I Tell by Jerriod Avant

Skin Rash by Curtis Crisler
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

10 Skin Rash by Curtis Crisler

09 Uncle D by Keyania Campbell

Perry by Cornelius Eady
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

13 Perry by Cornelius Eady

No One Spoke Your Name by Karen Lee
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

16 No One Spoke Your Name by Karen Lee

05 I'll Call Back KeyaniaCampbell

Gift by Sterling Plumpp
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

21 Gift by Sterling Plumpp

Voice by Sterling Plumpp
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

22 Voice by Sterling Plumpp

08 The Spirit Part 2 by KeyaniaCampbell

On Black Language Of Resistance by Victoria Danielle
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

26 On Black Language Of Resistance by Victoria Danielle

Emmett [til de remix] by avery r. young
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

29 Emmett [til de remix] by avery r. young

Inheritance by Sterling Plumpp
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

24 Inheritance by Sterling Plumpp

The Escalator by  Ronaldo Wilson
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

27 The Escalator by Ronaldo Wilson

Come Take Your Boy by Cornelius Eady
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

11 Come Take Your Boy by Cornelius Eady

For  Mary by Sterling Plumpp
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

23 For Mary by Sterling Plumpp

The Enzymes by  Ronaldo Wilson
for Black Listening: Outta Sight! Online Exhibition | Obsidian Volume 49.2

28 The Enzymes by  Ronaldo Wilson

Yolanda Wisher is a multidisciplinary poet and educator based in Philadelphia, PA. She holds a B.A. in English and Black Studies from Lafayette College and an M.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry from Temple University. The author of Monk Eats an Afro (Hanging Loose Press, 2014) and the co-editor of Peace is a Haiku Song (City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, 2013), Wisher was born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, where she founded and directed the Germantown Poetry Festival from 2006 to 2010. She later served as the Director of Art Education for the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program from 2010 to 2015. Wisher’s work has appeared in GOOD Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Harriet the Blog, Ploughshares, Fence, MELUS, and the anthologies Gathering Ground and The Ringing Ear. The inaugural Montgomery County Pennsylvania Poet Laureate in 1999, a Cave Canem Fellow (1999-2001), and a 2015 Pew Fellow, Wisher currently works as the Chief Rhapsodist of Wherewithal for the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture. yolandawisher.com

Gangsta Birth

Cycle

Africa SOS

DJ Lynnée Denise (LA, Amsterdam, South Africa )

DJ Lynnée Denise - African Rhythm Fiction

Mirrors, by Silka aka Jasmine Nicole Mitchell (Melodious Fly), is featured on Obsidian Digital as part of the print volume 45.1. Silka born Jasmine Nicole Mitchell (Melodiousfly) is a songwriter, musician, guitarist, actress, live performer and record producer. Her music is an eclectic blend of soul, rhythm and blues, pop, J-pop, fusion jazz, hip-hop, electronic and rock.

Mirrors

These are audio tracks related to the blues opera, Indigo and featured piece in Obsidian Volume 45.1 with creator Karma Mayet Johnson and Toshi Reagon.

September Songs

Indigo

Urayoán Noel “Tourist Threesomes” 
Urayoán Noel teaches at NYU and at Stetson University's MFA of the Americas. His books include In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam(Iowa), Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona), and, as editor and translator, Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry (Shearsman) by Pablo de Rokha, which was a finalist for the National Translation Award.

12 Noel_Tourist Threesomes

Caroline Bergvall “Together (Doing It)” 
Caroline Bergvall - International poet and sound artist, Caroline Bergvall has an interdisciplinary practice and works across artforms media and languages. Outputs alternate between books, performances, sound installations and print-work.

04 Bergvall_Together (Doing It)

Serena Chopra “My Family’s Fears” 
Serena Chopra is a writer, dancer, filmmaker, soundscape designer and a visual and performance artist. She is Fulbright Scholar and has recent publications in Foglifter and Matters of Feminist Practice. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Seattle University. You can find out more at SerenaChopra.com

03 Chopra_My Family's Fears

Ian Hatcher “Ping” 
Ian Hatcher is a writer, vocalist, programmer, and performance artist whose work focuses on human/machine dynamics. He is the author of a poetry collection, Prosthesis, and numerous mixed media projects. Selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Norway, he will teach at the University of Bergen in 2020-21.

02 Hatcher_Ping

Denice Frohman “Accents Con Ritmo” 
Denice Frohman is a poet and performer from New York City. A CantoMundo Fellow, she’s received residencies and awards from the National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures, Blue Mountain Center and Millay Colony. Her poems have appeared in Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color, What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump, and elsewhere.

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