Lullaby Machine

Lullaby Machine is a digital rest-stop dedicated to sharing lullabies in a world where it can be hard to fall asleep. Growing from the idea of lullabies as portals into dream and potential tools for collective care, the site hosts a library of .mp3 lullabies and an e-magazine featuring meditations on lullaby, rest, dreams, grief, capitalism, ecology, and the internet [listed separately].

Lullabies have long been ways of sharing myth and opening doorways into dreamworlds. Our hope is to open such a portal on the internet——a liminal place that can also feel like a dream. We imagine Lullaby Machine as a site of emergent conversation on radical rest amid capitalism——a small but public network of sonic gift-giving that we hope informs embodied life in digital and AFK spacetime. Our growing collection of sonic, written, and experimental contributions explores the lullaby as a form with an expansive definition. We’re excited by submissions that span genres, geographies, languages, and production methods to offer creative forms of online witness.

Lullaby Machine is an associative project that follows citational trails and referential rabbit holes toward themes of liminality, digital nostalgia, cyberfeminism, glitch ecology, posthumanism, and mutual aid. Most directly, the project cites feminist and womanist writers and artists including Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Fae Heaselgrave, Jenny Odell, Jia Tolentino, 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.

Country of Publication

United States

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