What is the Sound of Freedom?
Fred Moten Ultra-red
For day four of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Fred Moten.
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For day four of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Fred Moten.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by National Ugly Mugs, Sex Workers Union, Scotland for Decrim (Decrim Now) host
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
A sung-through Nubian musical ballet. A darkly humorous take on sexual trauma and what magical and ancestral tools might heal it.
A collaborative social justice project that uses art, activism and awareness to combat the systemic oppression facing young, trans, queer & gender nonconforming people of colour.
Thinking against the monoculturalism of Western thought—of faith, affection, sexuality and gender—which completely lacks any utility to, or descriptive value of Indigenous worldviews.
A workshop for educators, activists and young people to think about radical, anti-imperialist pedagogy, and what fighting for the Palestinian cause looks like for young people in the imperial core. PDF of the resource available soon.
A collaborative performance where sound and image are created, performed and mediated by light, water and glass.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.