Blues for Martin Sostre DUR:10:00 min/US 2019

"From Carceral to Cosmic"

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"Sun Ra, Alter Destiny and AfroFuturism

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by Thomas Bushmeat Stanley

Thomas Stanley (a/k/a Bushmeat Sound) is an artist, author, and activist deeply committed to audio culture in the service of noetic (r)evolution. As performer and curator, Bushmeat Sound has been an integral part of a visionary music scene straddling the Baltimore-Washington corridor. His audio work employs musical sound to anchor, frame, and accelerate our subjective experience of history. In 2014 he authored the Execution of Sun Ra, a critical response to the cosmological prognostications of the late jazz iconoclast. Dr. Stanley has spent three decades exploring the ramifications of Alter Destiny, Sun Ra's unique construct for a just and sustainable (Afro)Future. He has written and lectured extensively on emergent musical cultures and is co-author of George Clinton and P-Funk: An Oral History (1998, Avon paperback). He hosts "Bushmeat's Jam Session," a weekly collage of radical music heard on WPFW-FM radio (thurs, midnight et, wpfwfm.org). His doctoral work examined Butch Morris' art of Conduction as an extended meta-instrument offering unique opportunities for musical pedagogy and ensemble consciousness. He is also featured in “Stranger”, a documentary film about seminal P-Funk and Talking Heads keyboardist Bernie Worrell. Dr. Stanley is a professor of sound art and critical theory at George Mason University.