The song I created during my month in Amplify Berlin

Itchy

A remix of @ISA_HOLO's track "Take Some Ways Forward" as part of our month in Amplify Berlin
Listen to the original here: https://bit.ly/3tF9uCJ

Isa Holo - Take Some Ways Forward (MINQ's Extended Dance Mix)

This is the first installment of my Queer Meditation series. I am exploring creating guided meditations that are queer in content and made for queer people. 

This episode is part of the "corpolegible" project with the VanAbbe Museum.

Queer Meditation With MINQ

This was my first live show at Refuge Worldwide's new studio in Berlin. Please excuse the effects I accidentally left on my voice :)
The show is a recap of my research project, "Sonic Utopias", which *officially concluded in September. However, I plan and am excited  to continue developing this work for the foreseeable future. Enjoy!

Sonic Utopias, hosted by MINQ, is an audio-diary of their on-going research project that shares the same name. The project aims to explore and develop a sonic-somatic practice for Queer and Trans Black and Brown people or QTBIPoC. Pauline Oliveros’ work on “Deep Listening” is at the foundation of the research. 

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Show image: Derek MF Di Fabio

Sonic Utopias on Refuge Worldwide | 29.09.2021

Now that the winter blues have set in, I've been feeling uninspired. I decided to put together a collection of some of the music that has inspired or moved me in the last couple months as a practice of focusing on the good things. Hope you enjoy <3

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Sonic Utopias on Refuge Worldwide | 20.01.2022

Black History Month show. This episode highlights Black musicians, sound artists and poets of today.

Tracklist:
Say it Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud) - James Brown
TEMPORAL TECHNOL - Black Quantum Futurism
watch night service - Black Quantum Futurism
Unicorns In Paradise - Laraaji
Like Orchids - Space Afrika

An Anthem - composed by Demi S.H. Ward (m.x.mun)
featuring Les Cenelles
Violin - Denise Frazier
Viola - Demi S.H. Ward (m.x.mun)
Bass - Peter J Bowling
Accordion - Jonathan Mayers
Sample credit: Sonia Sanchez's 'An Anthem' (for the ANC and Brandywine peace Community)

Honest Labour ft HforSpirit - Space Afrika
Candice Nembhard/okcandice - Bloom
JP Nembhard - How Do We Move?
Ladybird Drone - Space Afrika
Live in the world - Alero
Slow Dance - Beverly Glenn-Copland
they were just too far away - KMRU
day zero - Black Quantum Futurism
cradle - m.x.mun
AGUARRAS - BLKM3T4
waiting for the hour - Black Quantum Futurism
Unicorns In Paradise - Laraaji

Sonic Utopias on Refuge Worldwide | 17.02.2022

This episode is made up of my latest inspirations, as well as highlighting some of the artists I'm excited to see perform at Rewire Festival in The Hague next month.

Tracklist:

Burrata - Crys Cole & Oren Ambarchi

Fountain #3 JJJJJerome Ellis

Monk Vessel - An Opera Epic - Meredith Monk

Merry-Go-Round - Dominique Dumont

Monolith - Batu

Extra Track - Georgia

Parola - Donato Dozzy

Clean - Pan Daijing

sinked swamps - KMRU

Data.Microhelix - Rioji Ikeda

Heart and Mind Connections - PAT ft. Lafawndah & Jacolby Satterwhite

Clip from Born in Flames

One Honey Island - Total Freedom

Sonic Utopias on Refuge Worldwide | 17.03.2022

MINQ invites special guest and long time friend from home, phlegm to Sonic Utopias during his first visit to Berlin! The pair are sharing songs that have left a mark on their life as well as some special songs for each other. This is an episode to celebrate friendship <3

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Sonic Utopias with phlegm on Refuge Worldwide | 24.05.2022

Forced isolation across the globe ignited a yearning to breathe, sing, dance and be together. Orbit is a composition that imagines a world where Radical Care, authentic communication and genuine connection are paramount to the human experience and poses the question: How can placing importance on these aspects of life affect the way we shape our relationships, communities and political structures? Inspired by the innovative Deep Listening work of Pauline Oliveros, this piece is a result of a series of listening and improvisation activities used to explore community-building and politics through embodied sound practices.
The voices heard in this recording are of participants of Sonic Utopias | Research Lab, a 3-day workshop I facilitated in 2021 and is part of my ongoing research project. This is an environment that creates space for and centers on the lived-experiences of Queer and Transgender Black, Brown, Indigenous and People of Color. Orbit is a living, breathing, human body of sound. It could be described as a single body made of separate, autonomous voices each having the freedom to move in unison or independently, advancing together while the movement of each part being able to shift the relation of all other parts. With this set of principles at its foundation, my project aims to enable participants and listeners to create a non judgemental space for vocalizing feelings or bodily sensations, allowing us to tune into ourselves, our environments and others.

Orbit

Snuggle up with your boo, your grandma, your cat, or your favorite shark pillow - make a hot chocolate (spike it if ya freaky) and enjoy this Winter Wind Down journey through soft, cozy and trippy sounds with MINQ. 

*This was one of 8 shows part of Refuge Worldwide's End of Year Specials played during 24-27 December and 01-04 January.

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End of Year Special on Refuge Worldwide

Sonic Utopias celebrates 2 years on Refuge Worldwide! To celebrate, I have created a two-part series where I'll share music new, old and new-to-me by Black womxn, Black femmes and Black gender non-conforming people, as a thank you to those who got me to where I am.

This is part 1, part 2 to follow on 28 June.

Tracklist:
Alice Coltrane - Andromeda's Suffering
SAULT - Reality
Lotic - Love and Light
Nyokabi Kariuki - folds
Mandhla. - waking up (carboot soul mix)
Moor Mother - The Myth Hold Weight
Siren x Hal Haywood - schwarzchild radius
Kelela - Holier
dumama + kechou - mother time
Florence Adooni - Fo Yelle
Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru - Ballad of the Spirits
Tina Turner - Private Dancer

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Sonic Utopias on Refuge Worldwide | 31.05.2023

Sonic Utopias celebrates 2 years on Refuge Worldwide! To celebrate, they have created a two-part series where they'll share new, old, and new-to-them music by Black womxn, Black femmes, and Black gender non-conforming people, as a thank you to those who got them to where they are.

This is part 2, find part 1 in the archive.

 Tracklist:
Florence Adooni - Mam Pe'ela Su'ure
Coco Em ft. Labdi - Pesa
Tooker ft. Labdi - Nang'o 
Amaarae - HELLZ ANGEL
Koffee - Pull Up
BAMBII - One Touch
Jlin - Embryo
Lotic - Bulletproof
Jasmine Infiniti - Ghettro
Juliana Huxtable (Remix) - Lionsong (Bjork)
Light Asylum - Skull Fuct
Klein - postcode wars
Kelsey Lu - Morning Dew

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Sonic Utopias on Refuge Worldwide | 28.06.2023

It's summer! Let's have fun :)

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Sonic Utopias on Refuge Worldwide | 19.07.2023

A selection of MINQ's current sonic addictions.

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Sonic Utopias on Refuge Worldwide | 30.08.2023

Darkness has consumed not only Berlin as we settle into the Fall but darkness has also fallen onto the world.
Get cozy, cuddle up with your boo/bestie/fave pillow, turn on your night light, and enjoy sounds for grieving and healing.

RIP Áerea Negrot
FREE FREE PALESTINE

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Sonic Utopias on Refuge Worldwide | 02.11.2023

Here is an excerpt of a performance I did in 2021 at Ufer Studios in Berlin in collaboration with my dear Xenia Taniko who passed away in February. I prepared this to play at their funeral. We were working together to release the entire performance as an EP but never finished. I wanted to share this in the meantime.

Rest peacefully, Xenia. I am forever grateful for the time we spent together. You have been such a light and and inspiration in my life. You will live forever in my heart 💜


The original performance text:

"flux. is a listening performance and a vocal dialogue, a collaboration between the artists Xenia Taniko and MINQ. Meeting their intersecting practices that navigate the boundaries between sound, voice and the body, Taniko and MINQ co-create a sonic landscape through vocal instrumentation, embedded in the Impossible Forest at Uferstudios. An entangled performance for listeners & bypassers that shifts internal and external landscapes, invoking other places and voices.

flux. with Xenia Taniko (excerpt)

Here is my research (audio) paper on the community radio station, Refuge Worldwide, located in Berlin. The paper was part a seminar taught by Gilles Aubry, "Sonic Engagement in Times of Digital Precarity" at the Sound Studies and Sonic Arts program at UdK Berlin.

Here is a link to the text supplement for this audio paper:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zpjlJiUQKrUzmsilP1wo4Pt0APmK5zZA/view?usp=sharing

Building Community Through Radio; Refuge Worldwide | Audio Paper 01.11.2023

Out of the red, clay walls came the women
In droves, connected like a paper doll chain
One after the other
They told me to remember what I am and where I have come from
I saw them. I heard them.
I moved.

I heard Dave,
Dave the Potter
One of many enslaved Africans making pottery in 19th century South Carolina
In a quiet sounding – a quotidian act of resistance, Dave was inscribing the pieces with his poetry and signing his name. 
Literacy was illegal for slaves, punishable by beating or mutilation.
I saw him. I heard him.
I moved.

Some of these pots bore faces,
A style believed to have crossed the Atlantic, drawn from the Nkisi figures of Central Africa
The figures allow communication with ancestors and the spiritual world.
Did they inscribe themselves into these pots to anchor a line back to themselves?
I saw them. I heard them.
I moved.

I moved into my own ceramics practice this year, taking inspiration from Dave’s story and the Nkisi figures. 
I noticed as I trans-form the clay, the clay trans-forms me
Ideas sprouting, emotion stirring, flowing through my hands

These sculptures speak.
to something, someone, somewhere I haven’t found yet. 
But I can feel them.

I didn’t know Dave’s story until recently
I never heard of enslaved Black people making pottery
A piece of the story, my story that has been missing was revealed to me
A call.

I can see myself in Dave. Through his creations and his words.
The magic that was going into his pieces is alive. 
I felt it.
Those pieces are alive with magic.
It jumped into me that day
And I heard them speak.
I moved.


Hollow (Live) - MINQ ft. Cavid Dhen

New Moons are a great time for planting seeds and setting intentions. It's been way to long since I uploaded a new mix and doing it on the new moon felt appropriate. I made a lil quickie mix of some my favorite trax to run in the club over the last year or so. Hope you enjoy

xoxo MINQ

Photographs by Gülsüm Güler 

New Moon Mix

Part of my set from Holy Moly @ SOUNDS in Berlin. Hope you enjoy it mistakes, singing breaks, and all :)

MINQ @ SOUNDS (Berlin) 22.03.19

*****UPDATE******
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Through this fundraiser we were able to donate $747 to Southern Solidarity and their efforts! Thank you to everyone who donated and spread the word throughout all the online channels. If you were unable to donate to the fundraiser, you can donate directly to Southern Solidarity at https://southernsolidarity.org/.  

*******

So today (30 April) is my birthday! To celebrate I made this cute lil mix to make your ass shake, heart bump, and pupils dilate.  It's not only a mix for you to enjoy but also a fundraiser for the homies back in New Orleans organizing Southern Solidarity who are supporting the unhoused New Orleanians during this crazy time. I will be collecting donations from today thru Sunday night.  Monday, 04 May, all the money raised will be sent to Southern Solidarity. Send all donations, large or small to paypal.me/spencerlcarter. No donation is too small!

Donate. Share. Repost.
ENJOY YOUR DANCE

xoxo,
MINQ

Southern Solidarity is a grassroots, community-based group of volunteers in solidarity with the unhoused in their quest toward liberation. They organize the delivery of food, medical resources and basic needs directly to the unhoused in the downtown area of New Orleans because the government has not filled this need. They are influenced by anti-imperialist principles and mobilized by a black queer woman.
More info: https://southernsolidarity.org/

Birthday Fundraiser Mix

This mix is a physical manifestation of letting go of the old and embracing the new; acknowledging where I am and where I have been to give me an idea of where I’m going. We are now and this is forever. Welcome to Global PandeMINQ. I hope you enjoy :)

Please take a moment to read, donate to, and share the Queer Black Therapy Fund, which is raising €65,000 to provide access to Mental Health Professionals for 10 people who identify as Black, of the African diaspora, and LGBTQIA+.
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*Sponsored by GLADT e.V. 
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**Original Photo by Sarah Alikhan

Global PandeMINQ | Fundraiser Mix

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Sound artist, DJ and radio host living in Berlin. Currently pursuing an MA in Sound Studies and Sonic Art at the Universität der Künste Berlin. This page is a collection of original music, DJ sets/mixes, Radio Shows, sound works, sonic experiments and a general display of what I'm up to. If something is interesting to you comment or send me a message! I am happy to connect with others.

Furthermore, I'm exploring sound-based mindfulness practices such as Deep Listening and facilitating workshops with the aim to discover what lies at the intersection of mindfulness, movement and sound in QTBIPoc-centered spaces in my research project and workshop series Sonic Utopias | Research Lab.

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