Ali Van | Founding Guide
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A mossy clue, of peaceful constellations. Ali is a dictionary in the darkness, offering mature visions on what has come to texture feeling and time. She is first contact to new, necessary, and expansive definitions toward the pursuit of living. Through favourite things and beings of value, Ali is an ally in the act of making yourself heard. Both seed and sense for a.f.t. and its offspring, Ali is the first bloom but not the only fruit, a presence for breathing transformation.
Between meadows on a Hebridean line Ali finds motility in fullness of everyday life; a thread sung bare with her partner Shen Xin and a nest of timely spirits, namely Moine, Lugh, Mathain, Ialtag, Ail, Caim, Tarbh, Glas, Uaine, Gilm, and Sneachd, as they come to moor. To sustain in place a little farm grows, temple flourishing peat to a ferment of localities. All with a language that strives to weather sprite with soul.
Miranda ZYVB | Creative Consul
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A stone. A weaving antidote. An eternal friend and a wellness to where. Steadfast with spirit, Miranda propels to ground sense, to freeing sensational stars. Balancing layers of light, her voice intends and extends to dance, matter, and memory. Her glow reaches places she has yet to visit and her heart springs forth with action, togetherness, and a love for life.
Miranda is currently making her home on Lenape Land, in what is colonially known as Bedstuy, New York City. Alongside a.f.t., she sings with Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir, and is studying Traditional Chinese Medicine at Pacific College of Health and Science. Miranda is usually to be found at home, gardening, with little brown dog, Mushu, often in tow. At different points, Miranda's homes have been with the communities of Dirt Palace Public Projects, No Más Muertes, the Bread & Puppet Theater, and in Hong Kong Standard Time (GMT+8).
Ambika Miglani | Code Envoy
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A ring retreat, with family orientation. Ready to define boundary and beauty, Ambika reveals a gentle majesty. As independent keep of space and distance, she travels with warmth and feistiness, and an honest third eye. Riding the internal and external, she stitches between forest and ether, a clear ground for the stars. With small hands she creates ripples, meandering through the familiar and unknown.
Ambika navigates her world through sound, light, and laughter -- observing, recording, and letting them form memories. Her work has moved from the visual, to the auditory, and back to the visual, as she constantly weaves between the two worlds. Holding space for home is currently guiding her practice, as she delves into whatever medium can bring her close. She is currently cataloguing field recordings of sound in public space, appreciating ambient sounds and even silence as much as she does music.