About

We are a non-profit organization celebrating musical traditions in harmony with digital remix art.

Our mission is to co-create spaces of belonging and mutual support by collaboratively documenting and remixing underrepresented traditional musicians and their communities’ stories. 

Otherwise we are lost.

Thanks in part to funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Brooklyn Arts Council, we have completed the residency portion of our latest Tanfis program, featuring an incredible selection of 14 NY-based artists from the Palestinian, Syrian, Lebanese, and Iraqi diaspora communities. On Dec 1, 2023, we premiered the result of this collaboration for an audience of 300+ at Funoon in Brooklyn. Over the course of 3 hours, we took the audience on a "tanfis" (catharsis) journey, seamlessly harmonizing acoustic traditional music and electronic audio and video remixes, deep listening and dance, storytelling and trance, embroidery and video art. We then improved the live program and presented it again on Jan 15, 2023 at the iconic Roulette Intermedium venue in Brooklyn. The response from both events’ attendees was overwhelmingly positive and deeply appreciative for our important offering in this time of increased oppression and dehumanization of the communities served by this project. We are now working on two more phases for this project:

• May ‘24 - release a comprehensive digital library of the works created during the Tanfis residency

• Later in ‘24 - take the Tanfis live program to a handful of venues in California

• Fall ‘24 - facilitate a new residency centering NY-based artists of African and/or Indigenous lineages.