Sonic Tarot Society | First Friday of each month — 6pm PDT
Hosted by Def Sound with virtual care lab

Sonic Tarot Society is a community sonic potluck that centers listening. By gathering intentionally to discuss bodies of work once a month, we are finding new ways of seeing each other, bringing who we are and where we've been to the work. It’s like a book club but we read music together. We will experiment with engaging and savoring the content and context of music beyond its usual shelf life, and revisit works that have stuck with us in ways worth sharing.

Every song is a form of time travel. Each time we gather a different person to choose the album. On our third hitchhiking trip, we are listening to a pick from Kenny Zhao.

To join STS, meet us in our next session and bring a song and/or an album to add to the queue that you would love to listen to as a community. Even if it's not out yet, and it's your own work. We would love to give projects a first group listen. Additions will weave a virtual care lab community playlist over time.

About the host: If music was a menu, Def Sound would be the vegan option. As an Afro Latino (parents from Belize & Panama) born and based in South Central LA, Def Sound is a Grammy Award considered contemporary hip-hop artist, producer, published poet, DJ and cultural worker. Def’s work as a poet has been included in Saul Williams' Anthology CHORUS, while his music has been featured in LA WEEKLY, LA Record, The L.A. Times, LACMA’s Poetry series POETRY In Color, the art exhibition The Black Index curated by Bridget Cooks and the Spectrum Television show Music Diaries. Def is serving a buffet of healthy experimental raps and poems that feed both the mind and spirit.

virtual care lab is a series of experiments in remote connection, in partnership with NAVEL. Reach out at virtualcarelab@gmail.com, or @virtualcarelab on IG or Twitter.