Red Clay Sound Haus

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Red Clay Sound Haus Collective is a sound-centric experience and institution archiving and amplifying Black sound. The ongoing project has four thematic directives: Land, Love, Labor, and Legacy, which amplify the sound of Black San Francisco. It explores architectural sites as instruments imbued with personal narratives and utilizes historical and contextual research to unearth a symphonic tapestry of sound. Red Clay Sound Haus is a collection of run-ins, synchronicities, memories, and predictions primed for performance—a creation interpreted through a musical and visual landscape that captures the sounds of the Bay Area, both people and places. Collective members include Tossie Long, Evelyn Ficarra, Maria Judice, Crystal, Miles Lassi, Sonia McDaniel, Inez Schynell, Abeje Sneed, Schynell Strong, The Andersen Family, El Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church

Generational San Franciscan Tossie Long (she/her) is a multi-hyphenate Grammy Nominated performing artist, producer and director that speaks to the intersections of music, culture and sociopolitical edges spanning from rock and roll vocals to afrofuturist immersive productions. Nicknamed “Bone Rattler,” Tossie is a practitioner of ceremonial music from around the world with a focus on diasporic cosmology. An ethnomusicologist; Tossie has voyaged to Ayiti, Cuba, Benin, Nigeria, Brazil and New Orleans tracing the migration of Vodou for a holistic investigation of the music in its cultural contexts. Tossie does not perform for the sake of performing, but to push her perceived limits.