a sound journal by ALYH ABOVE
created to explore the ephemera of the human experience. inspired by daily audio journals, supported by the sounds around me, re-contextualized through arrangement and other forms of modification.

in an effort to honor less mainstream forms of time-keeping, existentia’s installations are marked by the number of days that ALYH ABOVE has been alive at the time of episode conception or release.






DAY 10,700 “misogynoir Is a sleep paralysis entity.”
Released Oct. 6th, 2024




DESCRIPTION

Misogyny is a spirit we call “He”.

Day 10,700 explores misogynoir as a child of oppression and an entity which has its own will and stays alive through our conditioning and commitment to it.

This is in attempt to point out the importance of continually telling the complex stories we’ve survived, while contextualizing our experiences within the larger experience of oppression, and re-humanizing ourselves as we move towards liberation.

When “He” is spoken throughout the episode, it is meant to reference the spirit of misogyny itself, though it may also represent a person or archetype.
THREADS + THEMES

✷ the omnipresence of misogynoir

✷ the feigned elusiveness of oppression

✷ oppression as a force that separates us from ourselves

✷ that misogynoir has no one body, but moves through bodies. no matter what we look like, we are capable of channeling oppression.


EPISODE OUTLINE

✴︎ 01 INTRO — THE VENT:
I Gotta Find Peace of Mind — Lauryn Hill (Chopped by ALYH)

✴︎ 02 BUYING IN/THE LIE:
from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella:
Impossible — Whitney Houston + Brandy
Sweetest Sound — Brandy (Chopped by ALYH)

✴︎ 03 TRYING:
Lil Lonely — Devin Morrison
Division of Joy — J*Davey
(Mixed by ALYH)

✴︎ 04 JUST WRONG:
Snippets from ‘Poem About My Rights’ — June Jordan
Done — TeaMarr (Chopped by ALYH)


✴︎ 05 WHICH WAY IS I?:
20 Feet Tall — Erykah Badu

✴︎ 06 A LINE, BLURRED:
Reminders — Mariah The Scientist
Moments in Love — Art of Noise
Jaguar Wright on “Monsters”
(Mixed/Chopped by ALYH)


✴︎ 07 A PAIN LOOP:
My First Love — Avant + Keke Wyatt
Don’t Wake Me Up — Lianne La Havas
Like Some Dream — Sirens of Lesbos featuring JID


✴︎ 08 ASKING + INDIGNATION:
Words by Nikki Giovanni

✴︎ 09 I FOUND MY NO:
I’ll Come Too — James Blake (Chopped by ALYH)

✴︎ 10 GETTING ON (WITH IT [?])
Formwela 4 — Esperanza Spalding
(Chopped by ALYH)
Nikki Giovanni + James Baldwin in Conversation on Ellis Haizlip’s “Soul!” Network


✴︎ 11 LOVE AS LAW
Ne Me Quitte Pas — Nina Simone