Author/s: Alifiyah Imani

Date of production: 2024

Language/s: English

Transmission details: What forms of listening and connection might grow when you are thinking of your creative sonic practice as a ritual that you’re holding, and a meal that you are making meant to nourish someone? Who is it nourishing? You, others? What are the ingredients in your practice that are working for you? What’s a form you have wanted to make? What is its texture? What are its perceived relationships and energies?

In this essayistic radio compilation, I invited several friends and inspirational women artists to record their rituals and sonic discoveries tethered to their daily processes and creative practices. The raw excerpts, arranged and mixed compositionally, explore collaborative and embodied practices of listening-composing as long-form sonic poetry. 

Guided by an intention to nourish a continuous exploration of listening, the recorded rituals meditate on listening as a physical experience and experiment with other ways of perceiving time and relations. They share a grounding in the materiality of objects, spaces, and tactile experiences, opening a space for storytelling through voices that are influenced by their own personal histories, bodily subjectivities, and unique ties to the environment, all held together within a common sensory framework of ritual.

Concept, sound mixing, and production by: Alifiyah Imani

With contributions and voices by:  Ana Amorós López – Sound Ceramics / Eva Isolde Balzer – Presence Training through Bharatanatyam / Cecelia Pez – Ingredients to Nourish the Membrane of the Present / Maria Heller – For Voice / Alifiyah Imani – Strumok / Stephanie Fenner – Living Temple Residency

Image courtesy: Ana Amorós López

Episodes: 1