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@demigaad is a multimedia artist working to build conversation, community, and resources for working-class people, organizing events around connection and curating sounds that center Black and brown experiences. For them, dance music is a tool for connecting with others and with one’s own body, a haven and a soft place in a dystopian world. At Sonic Resonance, they’re here to find community, grow their knowledge as a DJ, and have a great time.

@Fanonian is an artist and healer working in three words: demanding, surreptitious, voluntary. On the application, he actually answered our first question “Why does music matter to you?” with a question of his own: to what are we supposed to dance? At Sonic Resonance, he’s after good vibes, eternal friends, delicious meals from @yejinyoon, and an opportunity for conception.

@hirickyreyes is a lifelong musician, oral historian, and DJ whose practice is rooted in using sound for guardianship of community history and the ethic of “each one, teach one.” An open-format selector working primarily with analog tools, they connect seemingly disparate sounds through rhythm, interpolation, and shared lineage, having come up through @miyagirecordshop’s DJ classes, and now co-teaching that same class. For them, dance music is a living archive, passing down community stories through disco, house, and footwork rooted in the queer, Black, and immigrant communities that built refuge through invention. At Sonic Resonance, they’re after a continued sense of community where learning and teaching flow both ways, plus the push to grow from analog into digital tools like Ableton.

@1stpersoncj doesn’t separate the artist from the person: every step, every scene, from a late-night bus ride after a long shift to a sold-out show, is an unpremeditated stroke on that big canvas we all are fortunate enough to call life. Dance music is the one friend he can fully be themselves around, whether dancing, crying, or talking aloud, a way to converse with the God within, no matter how or even if the words come out audibly. At Sonic Resonance, he hopes to deepen his understanding of how music resonates with others and how to keep e by @synesthetyx

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One of my favorite recurring events is when my grandmother gets excited about food. Most of the time she has no patience for me to cook with or even for her. Dumplings were another story… might pull up just to run that back. Maybe crawfish, ima have the cajun spice ready. by @synesthetyx

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9 months ago

1. balancing out the living arrangement
2. extremely jetlagged vessel and grandmother embark on journey between disparate corners, uhauls swerves next to 18 wheelers when she has one hand holding up a magazine blocking the sun, the other tentatively holding the steering wheel. in between she tells of tragedy and comedy, here she is demonstrating proper vietnamese food enjoyment
3. life with free back pain
4. “look at my son” - leila
5. a few house heads in chicago
6. chosen few immaculate in and out
7. a real one, appreciate you sis
8. the dirty d got sauce
9. i love new york
10. one of us is locked in the land and the other is romantisizing life without homo economicus type paper chase
11. ig lost this photo
12. I know non-masculine folks can have a hard time in india. probably the most prolonged and intense interaction that I have sustained with men in my entire life.
13. so many celebrating with me, alhamdulillah. so grateful for them and the city of baltimore. more on that soon
14. teleported to south africa. we all sang superman.
15. stone pots and wechat friends
16. them typhoons run through the bamboo scaffolding, its sometimes some multistory pieces flying around.
17. olympic national park ablaze from the puget sound
18. seattle childrens hospital rinsing tossed away (nourished by time).
19. oysters & clams ajummas skeptical towards this kids inquiry into gosari filled mountains
20. 내 누나가 고향을 보여주려고 데리고 다닌다. 새해 복 많이 받으세요.

and so many more 🤎 by @synesthetyx

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10 months ago

Guilt... I can’t help but feel that I failed you. At your memorial, as I watched the photos go by our friend said it felt like you were right there with us holding us through the grief of losing you. I felt your forgiveness too. You have such an amazing mind and heartwarming smile.

Hodari’s love was a cosmic love. The kind of love that plucks you out of loss into the spiritual plane. His compass was a north star. Thank you Hodari for blessing us with your vision and loving warmth. We all wish we were with you just once more. In your honor, I commit to journeying in the same direction you shared with me and so many other people. May Allah grant your spirit the highest of heavens, until we meet again. Hodari forever.

In memory: donations, music, and resources all at https://linktr.ee/hodari_blue

photos from Blackness in a Darkroom. 2018. Digital facsimile of Kodak T-Max 400 4x5 negative, Stanford, CA. by @synesthetyx

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it’s official. taken in Baltimore, Maryland by @synesthetyx

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rico suave samba jay dee type syncopated by @synesthetyx

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2 years ago

blessed eid
thank You for another one 🍋 taken in Grande Mosquée de Paris by @synesthetyx

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for the past hour now, folks have not been able to communicate with their family, journalists, or anyone in Gaza. Telecommunications companies are putting out statements confirming that their networks are down likely due to the heavy bombardment. I beg you to pay attention and to take action; my dms are open. Right now they have no voice.

July 2022 Aunt Del passed and in my family she had the sharpest tongue about injustice. I greatly miss her. taken in Washington, DC by @synesthetyx

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3 years ago

what else could we be talking about right now besides how we are going to care for each other?

when we pulled up they were blasting water on water defenders in below freezing weather. the Dakota access pipeline has already leaked numerous times. warning before bombardment has the same effect as the leaking oil in water has the same effect as selective disinvestment in communities that produce the ghost blocks of Baltimore has the same effect as forced evictions of the batwa in the Congo. rituals of settler necropolitics.

2016 by @synesthetyx

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hopkins school of medicine administrators have just asked us to be intentionally civil with respect to the diversity of our institution while poorer darker skinned folks in surrounding east baltimore are actively being removed. we are in a moment of impossible calculus: people are dispersing themselves across multiple buildings with the hopes that at least some family survives the likely augmentation of 4,000 tonnes of bombs in the span of 7 days. in one fell swoop admin promotes deathly silence on two different parts of the globe. taken in Baltimore Running Festival by @synesthetyx

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congrats @deucepressure on leaving the ghetto that is high school. #outthepanintothefire taken in Houston, Texas by @synesthetyx

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youthful energy to start of the year from Malcolm’s 17.0 2.0 and 22.0 🫴🏼♻️🫳🏼⚛️🤌🏼🪄

#amartian by @synesthetyx

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