An Afrofuturist Participatory Sonic Convocation on the Works of Dr. Yusef Lateef
feat. Angel Bat Dawid, LuFuki & Dr. Adam Zanolini
Intentions
Autophysiopsychic Millennium is a creative research music collective that explores, experiments, and studies the music methodology, and philosophical and spiritual works of the late Dr. Yusef abdul-Lateef.
As a collective of Black and BIPOC musicians, this collective is pushing back on the use of the over-commercialized term “jazz,” and reclaiming the genre through the teachings and wisdom of Dr. Yusef abdul-Lateef, who was a deeply spiritual intellectual and stressed the depth and intentionality of this music.
Curated by Detroit's LuFuki and Chicago’s Angel Bat Dawid and Dr. Adam Zanolini, Autophysiopsychic Millennium presents educational workshops and performances (Sonic Convocations) in which participants are invited to intentionally engage as a way to bring Dr. Lateef's methodology into the new millennium.
Autophysiopsychic Millennium performs Angel Bat Dawid’s “We are Starzz” at Carnegie Hall
Autophysiopsyschic Music is the term developed by world-renowned multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, author, visual artist, professor, Afro-Futurist, and Detroit native, Dr. Yusef abdul-Lateef to describe what the world today calls Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Hip-Hop, etc or better known as Black Music. He described Autophysiopsychic as music that comes from one's physical, mental, and spiritual self.
Dr. Lateef left a number of amazing resources for composers and listeners on the study and methods of this music. He was also an Afro-Futurist, the movement that sets the tone for the future of what blackness is as defined by Black People. Dr. Yusef Lateef is one of the progenitors of this movement. With Sci-fi novels to music prophesying about the robot age, Dr. Yusef abdul-Lateef's work has not been thoroughly studied as it should nor widely taught in the universities and music schools of today.
About Dr. abdul-Yusef Lateef and Autophysiopsychic Music
Courtesy of Barbara Barefield
APPM trailer for the Cranbrook Art Museum, Horizons-Upward Bound, and Cranbrook Upper Schools for a summer residency culminating with a public performance, “Something Else in the Garden,” at Cranbrook’s Greek Theatre
“…music from one's physical, spiritual and mental self: i.e., music from the heart. In other words, my music is a conduit whereby and through which Providence may reveal some of the beauties of creation to the ears of those who listen with their ears and their hearts”
