2025
Margins In Resonance is a welcoming and collaborative audio-social project that invites members of diverse Black communities to share their stories, voices, and sounds. Rooted in a desire for connection, the project explores how music and sound shape identity, culture, and a sense of belonging across the Black diaspora.
Participants are invited to reflect on their lived sonic experiences through questions such as:
- What role does music play in shaping your sense of self?
- How do the places you call home, and the realities you navigate daily, influence the sounds you’re drawn to, whether in listening or creating?
Conversations are recorded (with consent) and woven into a mixed audio collage that combines field recordings, experimental sounds, and music.
The project extends my ongoing commitment to Black studies and diasporic research, which together allow me to trace the socio-historical threads that shape my identity and the broader realities of Black life across geographies. Through shared conversations, I engage with these threads, grappling with what it means to carry multiple histories, and find resonance in the stories, rhythms, and voices of other Black diasporic people.
The project was first developed during my five-week residency at Struts Gallery in Sackville, New Brunswick (July–August 2025), where I launched a project website and call for participants. The video above is a 19-minute demo audio collage and soundscape from this residency.
Charlie Star 