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Flying/F*cking/Falling is a queer feminist zine about sex dreams

Is your subconscious perverse as heck? Can you barely close your eyes without images of fisting dancing across your head? Would you like to share writing or art based upon these dreams? Well look no further because we are right here, ready and waiting. 

~*~SUBMISSION GUIDELINES~*~

Thanks for your interest in submitting to falling/f*cking/flying! We’re really excited to read through a bunch of submissions from rad lady and non-binary queers! Woohoo, go team! We’re looking for stories about sex dreams. We all have them, and they exist at varying degrees of funny, dark, morbid, weird, and hot. While we are very down with porn so yeah go ahead and submit that, we are also looking for more nuanced pieces answering such questions as: what did your sex dream tell you about yourself? what did your sex dream tell you about others? did your sex dream totally come true? was it recurring? Et cetera. More or less, we’ve all had sex dreams, so what is unique about this one? We accept comic, art, and writing submissions! If you send art, please do us the favor of sending hi-res scans, and keep in mind that the zine size is 8.5"x11" folded in half, so try to keep your art submissions at 8.5"x5.5" and at least 300 dpi. Falling/F*cking/Flying is a DIY project, so we unfortunately can’t pay writers much, but we do offer $10 and 2 contributor copies to all contributors. If you run a distro or want to sell the collection or tours, we are also willing to give you copies at cost. We believe artists deserve to get paid for their work and that it’s a non-negotiable fact, so, while we are sorry we can’t pay more, we hope that arrangement can suffice as this is also a labor of love for us. This zine is for queer women, trans women, non-binary people, and any mixture of those things. (No TERFs or SWERFs, thanks~) If this applies to you and you are interested in sharing, please submit to [email protected] Deadline for submissions is Chaka Khan’s birthday, aka March 23rd, 2016.

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i put “All I Want for Christmas is You” through a MIDI converter, and then back through an mp3 converter

the result is this garbage

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I’m driving myself up the wall because I swear I can hear the vocal line but I don’t know how that could be if it was truly converted to MIDI. Unless you can replicate speech sounds entirely with modulated MIDI notes, in which case I’m actually impressed with this tire fire of an MP3.

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Beast Nest @ Signal Flow Fest in Olympia Washington

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SONGS FOR PUPPIES (FULL SPECTRUM)

Beast Nest is the primary performance vehicle for Sharmi Basu, a queer South Asian woman of color focused on creating experimental music as a means of decolonizing musical language. One day, Sharmi aspires to have an ensemble called “Dog Divas,” which will feature her lying in the grass surrounded by Casio keyboards played by overexcited 6-week-old puppies.  With that in mind: ongs For Puppie marks her Full Spectrum debut. A dense mosaic of textures and sonic ephemera, these recordings explore intersectional dualities, catalyzing a political – yet ethereal – aesthetic by combining her anti-colonial and anti-imperialist political leanings with a commitment to spirituality within the arts.  Over its duration, the listener is transported through densely layered aural environments that are at once becalmed and brutal; light and dark; ordered and collapsing utterly into entropy. Recalling, at times, the toothsome noise jams of the late Yellow Swans, or perhaps Rashad Becker’s biomimetic aural sculptures, we are thrilled to feature this remarkable work as part of the Full Spectrum catalog.

credits

released 02 March 2015  All songs produced, composed and mixed by Sharmi Basu in Oakland, CA.  Mastered by Andrew Weathers.  Album Artwork by Gretchen Korsmo  Virgo Rising is dedicated to my mama and Rishi.  This record is for the eye of the cervix, for Beni (my puppy), and for all those using creative music for moments of liberation in struggle. This record is for knowing that all brown and black bodies will rise up out of the ashes of our suffering and glow through the rage of our ancestors. This record will never be for cops, white supremacists, or perpetrators of gendered violence. This record is not for the complacent. This record is for encouraging the people at their work, and exhorting them to help one another.  FS034

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CLICK HERE to support Oppositional Consciousness: Workshop and Tour!

Help OpCon bring decolonizing music and thought to Europe at the ISIM Conference! | Crowdfunding is a democratic way to support the fundraising needs of your community. Make a contribution today!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP US GET TO THIS PLACE. We don’t have enough to get there ourselves! We really really really don’t! We won’t be able to do it!  Marshall and I are scheming and scrambling however we can! 

I know that there are material consequences to being brown/black freaks who don’t fit into any specific niche. We have to work 4x as hard, yell a billion times as loud, and we’re still told that we’re ugly / disgusting / dangerous / aggressive / crazy etc. Anyway, this is not the most important thing in the world, but if  you are ABLE to support some black and brown people bringing musical and political education to marginalized youth in racist countries then pleeeaaase throw down some coffee money towards our plane tix

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CLICK HERE to support Oppositional Consciousness: Workshop and Tour!

Help OpCon bring decolonizing music and thought to Europe at the ISIM Conference! | Crowdfunding is a democratic way to support the fundraising needs of your community. Make a contribution today!

OpCon: Research Strategies on Art and Resistance in the EU! ///

COMMUNITY + FAMILY + FRIENDS:

Sry to be bugging y’all with this, but I’m trying to hustle and hustling is vulnerable ....

As some of you may be aware, I am a part of a trio with Zachary James Watkins and Marshall Trammell (from Black Spirituals) called Oppositional Consciousness that does a workshop and performance series across various universities and various DIY communities, often in “sites of opposition”. We have brought various workshops such as Decolonizing Sound and Decolonizing the Imagination to UC Berkeley, UCSC, SF State, Mills College, and more and we have recently been invited to present our work in Switzerland at the International Society of Improvised Music Conference. We have already booked a tour around the project covering Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Geneva, and are hoping to get support in those places, but we cannot get to the conference without external help unfortunately! If you have the ability to give $5 or $20 or $100 or whatever OR can share the link with your network and community, it would be very much appreciated! The work we are doing is very legitimate and very important. We are rehistorisizing the influence of communities of color in moments of struggle and resistance, and are documenting the ways that artists have changed critical political moments, specifically through improvisation and music. At the end of this specific trip we will have a series of video interviews and are working on a new writing project documenting art and resistance intersections in the EU in 2015, and are planning a report back in the Bay Area in August.

The link for the indiegogo is here! Please please help us out if you can!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/oppositional-consciousness-workshop-and-tour/x/10581251#/story

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hi, i made this flier recently feeling sad about all the murders of trans women, maybe it’ll be helpful for some people. i’m open to any feedback (posi or negative) about this too. feel free to print  this on your own and distribute if you like. also thank you to thebedroomwitch for drawing the image. also thank you luna, jibblez, pookie, and rola for helping as well. stay safe y’all - DJ F

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Diego of Decoder Magazine reviewed my new Beast Nest tape,  Songs for Puppies! It is so sweet and thoughtful! Please check it out!

“Music alone can never hope to destabilize global capitalist hegemony (sorry, optimists), but what it can do is destabilize the sensory expectations it has filled up, blurring the line in the sand our culture has drawn between positive and negative, desire and repulsion, fight or flight responses”

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Hey! I am sold out of my physical tapes! You can now download them online though, so if you have not done so please do! Thanks Full Spectrum Recordsfor putting out such a sweet thing. I should also have download codes at my shows, if that is more compelling to you. <3

Listen/purchase: Songs for Puppies by Beast Nest

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envoking the spirit of gimli for this show #blessedbe

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SONGS FOR PUPPIES (FULL SPECTRUM)

Beast Nest is the primary performance vehicle for Sharmi Basu, a queer South Asian woman of color focused on creating experimental music as a means of decolonizing musical language. One day, Sharmi aspires to have an ensemble called “Dog Divas,” which will feature her lying in the grass surrounded by Casio keyboards played by overexcited 6-week-old puppies.  With that in mind: ongs For Puppie marks her Full Spectrum debut. A dense mosaic of textures and sonic ephemera, these recordings explore intersectional dualities, catalyzing a political – yet ethereal – aesthetic by combining her anti-colonial and anti-imperialist political leanings with a commitment to spirituality within the arts.  Over its duration, the listener is transported through densely layered aural environments that are at once becalmed and brutal; light and dark; ordered and collapsing utterly into entropy. Recalling, at times, the toothsome noise jams of the late Yellow Swans, or perhaps Rashad Becker’s biomimetic aural sculptures, we are thrilled to feature this remarkable work as part of the Full Spectrum catalog.

credits

released 02 March 2015  All songs produced, composed and mixed by Sharmi Basu in Oakland, CA.  Mastered by Andrew Weathers.  Album Artwork by Gretchen Korsmo  Virgo Rising is dedicated to my mama and Rishi.  This record is for the eye of the cervix, for Beni (my puppy), and for all those using creative music for moments of liberation in struggle. This record is for knowing that all brown and black bodies will rise up out of the ashes of our suffering and glow through the rage of our ancestors. This record will never be for cops, white supremacists, or perpetrators of gendered violence. This record is not for the complacent. This record is for encouraging the people at their work, and exhorting them to help one another.  FS034

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Decolonizing Sound at SFSU 3.14.15

I am going to put the prezi and audio from my talk/workshop at SFSU on the Patreon (so you can only access those if you are subscribed to me there), but will post them in the future on my website.

For now I wanted to share some of the links // music I played for the attendees!

Raven Chacon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1VohDKUL-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_iAn39fsDY

Pamela Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBir0ev5iDc

Art Ensemble of Chicago <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y8V0t7UlyQ

Joseph Jarman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk5J9f5LFpI

and of course, Yetunde Olagbaju, Wizard Apprentice, and Now I Lay Me Down from Brown Noise which can be found on the MARA COLLECTIVE tumblr!

 http://maraperformance.tumblr.com/

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on this women’s day, let me do a shout out to women who aren’t seen as “strong”, who aren’t financially successful, who aren’t easy for the world to handle. disabled women, trans women, women of color, bi and pan and lesbian women, women who are unemployed, women who have to fight to get through the day. your existence is radical. i love you.

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As always, I acknowledge my intellectual, spiritual, political and blood ancestors, elders, and brethren. There are no new ideas under the sun; it’s always just a remix. Also, solidarity to my comrades fighting for worldwide divestment from the Israeli economy and its murdering,...

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BEAST NEST at SOMArts 3.3.15 for The News presented by Periwinkle Cinema. Live soundtrack and video created by Sharmi Basu.

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YOU GUYS! I have made this patreon because I really need funding to help continue the work I do. I work on hard on art and really believe that my presence in this community is contributing to some new modes of listening and playing and being with each other, especially with the MARA Performance Collective getting together. I play SO much and hardly ever get paid and rarely over $20 / a show (usually I get $5 if I get paid at all). I don’t complain really, but I’m struggling and could really use the support from community to help me focus on these things! Help a didi out! 

click on the picture above or this link! https://www.patreon.com/beastnest

I have not been posting all the work I do because, TBH, I am really embarrassed and critical of crowd funding. I made this Patreon 5 months ago and have been sitting on it for so long because I haven't felt like it was legitimate. I feel okay (well not okay, but less bad) about Patreon because basically you are giving me like a dollar for each project or even just a dollar a month, or whatever you can spare, and it is in exchange for ACTUAL WORK. If I don't produce something, you don't fund me!  Anyway if I have like zero funders at the end of the day I won't be offended because duh all of my friends are poor artists, but I'm trying to be creative with the ways that I exist in Capitalism and I'm hoping that folks can like get on board with that.

If you can't, which is cool, please spread the word, I am struggling but trying to be serious!

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