Commissioned by Creative Time for Day of Dreaming curated by Alisha B. Wormsley and Kite. Kalunga Lining: Portal I Inspired by Bakongo Kosmology, spirals in and out of time using sound as a vehicle for transformation. Acting as a conductor, artist Muse Dodd ushers listeners into the liminal space known as the Kalunga line, bolstered by the ethereal sounds of the theremin, electronic melodies and harmonies of singing bowls and voice to invite transformation. Activating the historic neighborhood of Weeksville, on the summer equinox, a day after Juneteenth. Audio sampled from Asar Imhotep from his YouTube lecture ‘Kalunga and Maat: Foundational aspects of Kimoyo Part 1

New Suns is breathing life into a new world, while the old one is still burning. Stoking the fires with our collective memory. New suns is a study in which we explore how to hold all of the iterations of ourselves, our ancestors and descendants at the same time. This breaking of the space-time continuum opens up new portals for world building and self-discovery through embodiment. Throughout my practice I see messages from nature that teach me what it means to be sovereign and in community. How our survival depends on the survival of our community. New Suns is the unfolding of a new world from the meridian points of the old worlds, those moments that keep us stuck in a loop, to release the stagnant energy of Chattel slavery, colonialism, and the exploitation of Mother Earth.

I created this track using site specific audio while at my residency at Mirante Xique Xique in Bahia, Brazil. I’ve been continually thinking about memory and how we can interact with the spirits of the past, so I visited an old mining site turned museum led by the great grandson of a former miner. I thought of how the enslaved would have wanted to be remembered and wanted to create a space for revenge, for liberation through sound. There is also this unexplained phenomena in Igatu, with this aurora borealis event that appears in the mountains for those lucky enough to witness, I didn’t get the opportunity to see, I waited about an hour for the lights but nothing happened. But I recorded a conversation with someone who experienced it and added it to the track. I like to think that the spirits of the garimpeiros are involved in some way or maybe it’s all a hoax for us visitors and estrangeiros, either way I’m here for it.