but what is considered experimental anyway? Contemplating the conceptual boundaries and limitations of experimentalism in certain privileged 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.
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.
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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 by aiming 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.