---Lukewarm Sounds---            
   
                               
       
             

           Who are we, and what do we do? Lukewarm Sounds is an experimental sound collective based both in the digital spaces & Boston, Massachusetts. We host critical listening sessions, discussions, and in-person events on creative-musicking. We did a variety of listening sessions and workshops with different themes, from Cantonese Pop, Peruvian Experimental Music, Performing Asemic Poems, to Affect & Touch & Sound in Electronic Music.

        You may ask, "

What is considered experimental anyway?"
       Contemplating the conceptual boundaries and limitations of experimentalism in certain priviledged iterations, lukewarm explores experimentalism otherwise across different junctures, raptures, discontinuities, continuities, and the lineage of experimentalism in diverse practices, notions, places, spaces, and times. Lukewarm listens to and practices experimentalism as remembrance; as survival; as transgression; as social radicalism; as malleable; as deeply connected to our lives; as transformation; as (re)imagination; as the force that dismantles, collaborates, and embraces; as rumination; as movements; as transformative justice; as dances; as ruminating; and as prayers… Experimentalism is and can be regarded as a cacophonous change of question regarding the way we feel/hear/understand ourselves and the world around us, alongside all the changes & long-haul struggles we share with others.     

       Lukewarm aims to create a space of humble listening, creative-musicking, and mutual respect. The website serves as the archives and a living document for events, discussions, music, sounds, and texts. Knowing that we are residing on the territory of Pawtucket, and their neighbors, the Wampanoag and Nipmuc Peoples, and our limitations in working within the current power structures, we keep in mind and hold spaces for those who are excluded due to the ongoing legacies of dispossession, violence, neoliberal environmental extraction, and genocides, like those in Palestine, Congo, Sudan, and so on. Thus, lukewarm invites the exploration of ethical practices of experimentalism otherwise for ourselves, and for many others. We aim to implement co-creation, play, and learning diverse forms of musicking and ways of sounding & listening across a variety of sonic cultures in diasporas. If you would like to join, host workshops, and become a regular supporter, please consider reaching out directly or signing up for our monthly newletters and community events. 
                            

Upcoming Events

hi friends!!!!!!! the last show was a super great turnout and i was so happy to see all of you there <3 i’m updating the website so that you can see the pics soon. 

 i’m putting up a new show for the experimental music series~ stay tuned for more info! also please sign up for our monthly newsletter to be in da loop~

Past Events

June 14th, 7:30 pm, @whatif. boston

A Night of Sounds


Saturday, June 14th, 4pm @whatif.bos

  experimental sound-making,
improvisation,

theater,  

all-you-can-play, 

   community open-mic & free-flowing 

      Everyone is welcome here~

rsvp/info @WHATIF.BOS


April 5th, 2025, 6:30 pm, Let’s Perform & Compose Some Asemic Poems Together? @zoom & wen’s room in Allston


March 13th,  8:30 pm, a portal ——— an hour of Sintética Cósmica, synthesizers, and pink noises…:: :::: @zoom w limited capacity🪞



Feb 16th, 6:00 pm, Affect & Sound & Touch, @zoom & 855 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA
Affect and sounds are so intimately intertwined in our daily lives. In the example of certain electronic musics, the tactilization of sound offers a sensory + affective convergence between touch, sonic experiences, listening (literally with yr body & not just yr ears), and embodied intimacy with the dancing crowds. In this workshop, we will talk about affect & sound & touch, and work with sonic + textual + tactile prompts and examples that inspire us to drift, feel, or perhaps dig into some untouched territories. Materials will be prepared if you join in person;;
A lot of percussive sounds, a lot of textures, a lot of sonic grains, a lot of multi-sensorial listenings, and a lot of repetitions!! open to all, no prior experience required. no need to RSVP. just DM me if you have a curious heart. 
~ come & explore ! <3




Jan 16th,  7:00 pm, Critical Listening Session on Cantopop, @zoom







Feb 11th, 6:30 pm, 2024, Sounding Fluxus: Ben Patterson & Mieko Shiomi, @1120 Boylston St, Boston