October 24th, 2024 - Dr. Thomas Stanley - Sun Ra
													
													
Thomas Stanley (a/k/a Bushmeat Sound) is an artist, author, and activist deeply committed to audio culture in the service of personal growth and noetic (r)evolution. As performer, curator, and broadcaster, Bushmeat Sound has been an integral part of a visionary music scene straddling the Baltimore-Washington corridor. Dr. Stanley is assistant professor in George Mason University’s School of Art where he teaches classes in sound art, sound studies, and critical theory. Stanley theorizes an affective dimension to our experience of historical flow that can be accessed and activated by audio culture, including music. In the musical practice of Black improvisation, Stanley has found ways of engaging historical epochs that we have yet to fully enter. Stanley’s lectures and performances demonstrate our ability to exceed and escape stagnant historical narratives.