Album news!

Happy October! It's Ari here, writing with some new album news, and new offering news. Lots of news.

We are deep into editing and mixing our album. It has a name. We are finalizing art. We are brewing new ideas for how to engage more with all of you and create community around, well, creativity.

Soon we will be transferring our email list over to Substack and offering monthly newsletters there. These will include glimpses into how we write our music, ruminations on creativity, and more. We'll suggest prompts for mining your regular old daily life and turning it into art of any kind and there will be opportunity for sharing in the comments section. We're working on some online course offerings as well.

In the meantime, here's a video of my song "In Charge of Birds" performed with string quartet at a concert called Songs for the Earth I got to be a part of this past June. Though Mia is not in this video, she'll be there on the album track. You can read the poem this song is based on, originally published in Pangyrus and also in my chapbook.

Both poem and song are based on a small moment with my kid and a bird. You can turn a kid and a bird into a piece of art, too! If this sparks your curiosity, join our newsletter for a monthly prompt.

In creative solidarity,

Ari&Mia