About us
Lullaby Machine is a digital rest-stop featuring a library of .mp3 lullabies and an e-magazine orbiting themes of ecology, performance, dreams, and the internet.
Lullabies invite the practice of relational presence via rest. Rest invites restoration and dreaming. Dreams remind us that reality bends, and change is possible, inevitable, and necessary. Our growing collection of sonic, written, and experimental contributions explores the lullaby as a form with this expansive definition. We’re excited by submissions that span genres, geographies, languages, and production methods. We imagine Lullaby Machine as a site of emergent conversation on radical rest amid capitalism——a digital network that we hope informs embodied life.
Lullaby Machine is an associative project informed by themes of liminality, digital nostalgia, cyberfeminism, glitch ecology, posthumanism, and mutual aid. Most directly, the project cites Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jenny Odell, Legacy Russell, Meredith Monk, Mindy Seu, Octavia E. Butler, Pauline Oliveros, Tamara Kneese, Tricia Hersey, and Ursula K. Le Guin. As a collaborative project, Lullaby Machine emerges through and alongside the work of many others, including nonhuman collaborators, who are partners in our web of evolving interrelation, even in its digital form.
This project is a labor of love shared between Maia Sauer and Olivia Q. Pintair. Drawing its title from Maia’s 2023 dance work, Lullaby Machine represents our commitment to the lullaby as a potentially radical tool.
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Team
Editors: Maia Sauer, Olivia Q. Pintair
Maia is a writer and artist working across text, performance, and film. She’s interested in the poetic ecologies of human and nonhuman bodies, considering our linked experiences of rest, grief, desire, and change. Her work has been recognized by MOtiVE Brooklyn, Movement Research, and the Vermont Arts Council and appears in The Brooklyn Rail, Strange Hymnal, and elsewhere. She's an incoming MFA candidate in Literary Arts at Brown University. // maiasauer.com
Olivia is a Brooklyn-based writer and artist. Her work has received support from Tin House, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Vermont Arts Council, appearing in Rain Taxi Review of Books, The Rumpus, and Tricycle Magazine, among other outlets. Olivia studies nonfiction at New York University, where she also edits for Washington Square Review. In writing and in general, she is interested in the ocean, the internet, hysteria, animism, otherworlds, shapeshifting, and risk. // oliviaqpintair.com
Graphic Design: Cher Engmann
Cher is a designer and dancer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is inspired by movement, music, and cultural storytelling, using design to humanize and celebrate untold stories. She currently works as a Production Artist for Mickalene Thomas. // cherylengmanndesign.com
Contributors: Aiden Arata, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, a.k. barak, Amanda Hawkins, Andros Zins-Browne, Angel T. Dionne, Anne Tashi Slater, Ashley M. Jones, Bailey Sneed, Benjamina Bornstein, Bobby Lussier, Brea Souders, C Green, Charlie Menke, Cora Kircher, Corttney Feldman, Elina Katrin, Elizabeth Wing, Jacqueline Enderle, Jamieson Webster, Jane Schoenbrun, Joanna Walsh, Jenevieve Ting, Josh Knox, kai velázquez, Kristoffer Tjalve, L.N. Sauer, Lucy London, Malena Ordnung, Maria BC, Martha Langford, Mary Eliza, Mikahely, Max Cavitch, Moon Clemetson, Nakinyi Kuruga, Natalia Schwien Scott, Nia Watson, Nicky Yeager, Rook Rainsdowne, Rose Robinson, Saba Keramati, Sam Heaps, Scott Li, Sero, Sharp Veins, Sonali Roy, Taylor Elise Colimore, Terry Nguyen, Tianyu Yi, Veronica Sirotic, Zev York