Dana Dawud, independent researcher and artist exploring cultural mediums through writing and sound, currently the host of the Pleasure Helmet podcast which creates a virtual space for both established intellectuals and niche artists from interdisciplinary fields to discuss current tropes in culture  music and philosophy.

Dana and her guests; music journalist Zuhour Mahmoud and sound researcher Tawuus,  discuss the political and artistic legacy of  Muslimgauze, the main project of late experimental music artist Bryn Jones, attending to the question: what makes art political?

Tracklist:
 
00.00 Abu Nidal
00:52 Discussion with Zuhour and Tawuus  
35:43 Uzi Mahmoud
37:31 mumbai vibe garden
38:38 Shouf Balek
43:38 Zibib
45:34 Sikh Needle
49:05 Abode of Turquoize

Migrations ~ Ma3azef x Threads: The Pleasure Helmet: Discussing Muslimgauze w/ Zuhour & Tawuus

Beta Testing

LSD - Beta Testing

audio recording of segments 1-7 along with musical accompaniment to Guy Debord's- Society of the Spectacle. Along with it is a sequence of videos that narrate the text-music. Originally posted to my Only Flans as commentary on the spectaclization of the "alt sex worker" and the creation of a fixed identity of one- something that is personally relevant for myself as a  working class worker with 12 years in the industry for whom sex work is not an identity but a means to an end in life under capitalism. the spectacle on the identity construct of sex work under neoliberal capitalism that defanges the actually potent positionality of prostitution via the amnesia of a class consciousness asnd assimilating it further and further into the land of watered down liberal death.  this makes my confrontation with it through a sensual reading also a specifically pointed piece of video art and recording.

This is the first installment of what will be a long term project.

Society of the Spectacle Audiobook

(the buzzing in the song is not because your speakers are suddenly broken)

This is the 2nd release since last year of my now decided musical-theater schizo noise surrealist situationist sonic soundtrack to challenge the society of control internally and externally.  I have been sitting on over a dozen tracks here and there and have decided to just start slowly releasing them on their own for the next few months.This Album is called Songs for the Nervous System.  I have been studying the way the nervous system is impacted and impacts the world around us politically socially and ecologically from a place informed by trauma-liberation and Deleuze as well as esoteric studies and avant garde art practices into a now self styled art therapy as a way to create non hegemonic conditions in which to transform what it means to be an artist now, with all parts of our creativity told they are inevitably going to fall prey to the gaze of capitalism (not true and will never be true and has never been true) from the society of control and the lies of precarity within neoliberalism, another entity that dominates us through the NS.  This is a meditated/ channeling meant to inspire dreaming of what could be, what it would be like to live within a world of lived spiritual communism. I want to encourae and myself need hypnotic encouraging sometimes. I would love to hear if anyone listens to this and has some cool channeled results
! My practice is called Somatic Surrealist Situationist Snake Sorcery and isexcstatic inregards to the spiritual mystery of rebellion in all ways. I am excited to develop new spiritual technologies of rebellion in the here and now, with you! f you want to collaborate on crazy commie class conscious wild art please let me know lets be friend!!

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