Speech Sounds is a 5-part audio-series showcasing sound artists, griots and poets working while engaging in a conversation around memory and culture for those within the African diaspora. Speech Sounds is an independent project of Hush Harbour Press.More info: hushharbour.com/speechsounds
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This final episode recaps the series’ previous themes while meditating on ‘process’ for individual Black sound makers. Unlike other episodes that collage around a central theme, “How to Write a Sonic Story” features interviews by long-time storytellers, the episode offers insight to those interested in building up their own repertoire around sonic …
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This episode follows the dark, beautiful, incomprehensible spectrum of queerness among Black sound makers. Celebrating Black, queer femmes in particular—our sound, adornment, celebration, and resistance. By unpacking how Black femininity, in particular, has been demonized historically, particularly at the intersection of queerness and spirituality—…
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Episode 4: Our Aesthetic: Celebrating Black Sound
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In this episode, we are guided by SOSA (aka The Sauce), a soft-spoken sound and music art therapist, who welcomes a new patient for a session. Although the patient arrives full of doubts and anxiety, SOSA uses the power of Black aesthetic sound to offer solace and healing. An entirely FUBU call to the heavens, forever out of reach from the white ga…
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Our aunties are the bridge between parent and child. They are wise storytellers within our families, friend circles, and communities and hold the riches of oral traditions that are too often undocumented and underappreciated. Whether it is gossiping at the kitchen table, teaching us how to be independent or sharing historic memory of a country’s in…
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Spoken word is an ancient form, a Black form, with origins from our ancestral storytellers—spoken word emerged from Black jazz poets, using African riffs, rhythmics, and beats to accompany the core of the stories being told. In “The Art of Listening”, we talk about how listening and being listened to is critical for Black thought, counterculture, r…
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In "Honouring Our Auntie's Audio" we celebrate the wise storytellers within our families, friend circles, and communities and hold the riches of oral traditions that are too often undocumented and underappreciated. Voice: Lue PalmerBy Hush Harbour Press
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[TEASER] Ep 4: Our Aesthetic: Celebration of Black Sound
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An entirely FUBU call to the heavens, forever out of reach from the white gaze, this episode unpacks, expressed & celebrates the nuanced texture of sound-makers that are committed to Black collective aesthetics. Voice: Lue PalmerBy Hush Harbour Press
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[TEASER] Ep 5: Process: How to Make a Sonic Story
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This final episode recaps the series’ previous themes while meditating on ‘process’ for individual Black sound makers. Unlike other episodes that focus on a central theme, “How to Write a Sonic Story” acts as a guide for emerging Black sonic artists wishing to try their hand at crafting their own audio stories. By featuring interviews by long-time …
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In “The Art of Listening” we talk about how listening & being listened to is critical for Black thought, counterculture, revolution, & myth-making. Drawing on dub, jazz, toasting, beat, hip hop, protest & more, this sonic adventure honours the everyday poet. Voice: Mahlikah the Moonrise PoetBy Hush Harbour Press
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In "Queer Gifted and Black", this episode follows the dark, beautiful, incomprehensible spectrum of queerness among Black sound makers. Celebrating Black, queer femmes in particular—our sound, adornment, celebration & resistance. Voice: NASRABy Hush Harbour Press
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