alyh ab✴︎ve



portrait ✴︎
2025ALYH ABOVE (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and archivist constructing artistic research projects that study, express, and reflect on The Human Experience as Creative Process.

Native to West Palm Beach, FL and currently creating out of Philadelphia, PA, their work is expressed through music, writing, production, design, film, archive, theory, philosophy, and creative liberation strategy. 

At current, they are developing their worldbuilding studio, here + human, which aims to equip artists and cultural workers to create the world(s) we need next through non-linear experimental offerings. here + human’s projects include the ‘Black Fulfillment Art-chives’, ‘human-ifesto’, and substack series ‘prompts for the modern human’.

They are also crafting existentia. — an interdisciplinary art-journal exploring The Human Experience as Creative Process through spells and stories from the inner world of ALYH ABOVE. The project features both original and found works, collaged into themed, episodic Creative Research Projects, available to stream via the official project website and bandcamp.

education ✴︎
2023 - 2025


2023


2015 - 2020

2013 - 2015


2009 - 2013Grassroots M.A., The Human Experience as Creative Process

Worldbuilding School: Cohort 01, Ari Felix


Grassroots B.A., Existential Artistry

Florida A&M University, Jazz Studies/Psychology
Tallahassee, FL

A.W. Dreyfoos School of Arts, Vocal Arts
West Palm Beach, FL

recent roles ✴︎
2025 - current


2023 - 2024



2023


2022 - current

2015 - current
Founder, here + human worldbuilding studio

Teaching Artist, Center For Creative Education/The Foundations School; West Palm Beach, FL

Vocal Arranger + Choir Director, The Givers Revival; Miami, FL

Creative Director, Musiqology Media Group

Founder + Artist, ALYH ABOVE Creative Studio
current iterations ✴︎2025


2025


2025 existentia: an art-journal


here and human: the muse-letter
Substack

elemental table of fulfillment


selected works + experiences ✴︎

2025

2024

2023

2023

2023

2023

2022

2021

2021

2019

2017
2017

 existentia.

impart + parcel: mini-mixes

tidbits 01

The Nectar Center for Existential Artistry

Redefining Art: An Existential Artistry Workshop

Field Notes

For Words’ Sake
The ALYH ARCHIVES

A.L.Y.H. EP

decade of demos

The Creative Coaching Workshop

Influence Academy for Creatives

selected collaborations ✴︎
2025

2025


2024


2024

2024

2024



2023

2023


2021

2024


2023


2014


2015 - 2016


2015

2013 - 2015Assata’s House: Videographer, Graphic Designer

VELVET by Bridge, Art Director + Producer + Vocalist + Songwriter + Cover Art Photographer

WAYVCAST: can you feel the water? Film, Co-Director + Editor

WAYVCAST Trailers 001 - 010

Musiqology Media Group: We Been Fly

Musiqology Media Group: Little Itty Bitty Jazz Jawns, Teaching Artist + Videographer + Voiceover Artist

Musiqology Media Group: Amiri’s Dream

Musiqology Media Group: Rebrand, Identity + Web Designer

FAVELO WORLDWIDE, Voiceover

Oliver J. Stewart, If You See This You’re Beautiful, Editor + Designer

The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body, Vocalist + Designer
Seabreeze Jazz Festival, Lead and Supporting Vocalist

Sigma Alpha Iota Int’l Music Fraternity: Theta Nu: Chapter Song Leader + Editor

Soul Xone, Lead + Supporting Vocalist

FAMU Jazz Band + FAMU Concert Choir, Lead + Supporting Vocalist



selected media + press ✴︎

2024Journal of Jazz Studies Vol. 15 No. 2



  creative support ✴︎

here + human ✴︎
home ✴︎   
art@alyhabove.com 
©2025 ALYH ABOVE
a sound journal by ALYH ABOVE
created to explore the ephemera of the human experience. 

existentia. is a themed, episodic sound journal comprised of ALYH ABOVE’s daily audio journals and the music (original and otherwise) that fills their environment — effectively combining the sounds of their internal and external world — manipulated and repurposed through different forms of audio production, made to illustrate The Human Experience as Existential Conversation. 

Each episode is numbered by the amount of days the artist has been alive at the time the episode is conceived/released, honoring queer forms of timekeeping and illustrating how the way we think of anything in our world influences our experience of it. 






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