The Social Soundtrack: Part 2

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Studio Arisaema, named after one of the most unique plants of the natural world, exists outside of tired tradition. Created by M Jamison and Yonci Jameson, Studio Arisaema makes space for Black artists of marginalized genders and sexualities through artist residencies, workshops, event curation, film scoring, and record production. Queering these lanes, they create a force of magic and magnetism. Sounds—some reminiscent, some strange—invite you to listen with a courageous heart, an open mind, and a potent soul.

Queen Drea is a sound alchemist, mixing sonic potions laced with looped vocals, jagged rhythms, and found sounds. She has designed sonic worlds for PH+T’s productions of What to Send Up, When it Goes Down, and The Great Divide 3&4; Penumbra Theater’s For Colored Girls…, and Spittin Seeds; Minnesota Children’s Theatre’s Locomotion; and dance companies BrotherHood Dance and Ananya Dance Theater. She has created work about depression in the Black community, African creator goddess Mawu, and an exploration of what life comes from Black Wombs. She is a 2022 McKnight Composer Fellow, 2019 PH+T Naked Stages Fellow, 2019 Jerome Finalist, and 2017 ACF Emerging Composer awardee.

Atim Opoka (they/she) is a Ugandan American multidisciplinary artist who fuses Afropop and experimental beats while embracing the power of transformative storytelling. They believe in the power of storytelling. Part of their current practice is decolonizing what is “Good Art,” challenging European power structures that decide what and whose stories get told a nd decentering the colonial lens of art-making. They are a 2024 Naked Stages Fellow and received a 2024 Monkey Bear WIP puppetry fellowship, Q-Stage 2023, 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow (music), TRCSTR 2023 Artist (public art), 2023 Red Eye WIP Festival (multimedia), a 2021 recipient of a Waters Award, as well as an 2021 Our Space is Spoken For fellowship from the Twin Cities Media Alliance.

Dameun Strange is a sound explorer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and sound designer. His conceptual electronic and improvised electro-acoustic works focus on stories and themes of the African diaspora, often using surrealist and afro-futurist aesthetics. He has composed music with Leslie Parker, Ananya Chatterjea, Joanna Lees, Pramila Vasudevan, and Chamindika Wanduragala, among others, and has been a featured performer in concerts celebrating the work of George Lewis, Thurston Moore, and Henry Threadgill. A 2019 Jerome Hill Fellow, he is the recipient of a 2022 BMI Foundation Carlos Surinach Fund Commission for flutist Adam Sadberry, _not running. (The Life of L. Alex Wilson) for flute and electronics, which premiered at the Kaufman Music Center, New York, in 2023.