Ear Expansion Podcast is a multi-part series of recorded, long form conversations between host LaMont Hamilton and various artists of color working in all aspects of sound. This podcast aims to highlight artists who are invested in the idea of making art that extends the listening experience. Traditionally this has been described as “sound art” or “experimental” work. Ear Expansion Podcast; however, hopes to advocate for a new descriptive language- aural art. Aural Art is a move away from less defined terms such as ambient or experimental in order to specify art made for the hearing body- both the act of listening and its somatic extension.
In this episode of Ear Expansion, host LaMont Hamilton speaks with Anaïs Maviel about how her Haitian lineage—especially her mother’s artistic influence and Haiti’s history—braided music with political and spiritual life, shaping her grounding in ancestry, tradition, and collective eras. Anaïs reflects on long-term disembodiment as an Afro-descendant woman in Eurocentric patriarchal contexts and describes a return to embodiment through dropping concept-driven language, becoming a wordless (and consonant-less) singer, and focusing on listening, attunement, relation, and harmony as practices for truthful connection and collective liberation. They discuss how instruments and vocal work relate to healing, how oral and choral traditions transmit wisdom through breath and the body, and how mantra, prayer, repetition, and collective singing can intentionally shape reality and invite the “Holy Ghost.” Anaïs also discusses her element- and trigram-based work Listen to the Rain as an evolving, immersive live practice.
30 Jun 2026
Ear Expansion with JoVia Armstrong
In this episode of Ear Expansion, LaMont Hamilton converses with percussionist-composer and educator JoVia Armstrong. In this conversation, they speak about wide-ranging topics from her early sonic formation and major projects to her later immersion in global rhythms. She discusses the ensemble Musique Noire, her first solo album Fuzzy Blue Robe Chronicles, and her performance ethos of receptivity— which led to Eunoia Society and music aimed at deep audience connection. Armstrong recounts encountering the cajón through the work of Susana Baca, learning it on a South American tour, and developing her hybrid cajón kit. Also in this conversation, JoVia explains her use of drones, repetition, deep bass, time-based effects, and hybrid scoring as a way to elicit the therapeutic aspect of sound. Later, they discuss her PhD concept “Black Space,” and its central thesis: composing meditative music through a Black lens to combat unconscious bias (as reflected in her albums The Antidote Suite and Inception).
21 May 2026
Ear Expansion with Tongo Eisen- Martin
In this episode of Ear Expansion, host LaMont Hamilton speaks with Tongo Eisen-Martin about the revolutionary atmosphere that shaped his poetry and praxis. Tongo reflects on his upbringing in San Francisco within alternative community institutions, and music as a vessel for spirit and a foundation for craft. They discuss imagination made praxis, resisting bourgeois cultural subjugation, police terror and dehumanization, and a relational ethos summarized as “the humanization of others is the only thing that humanizes me,” linked to interconnected reality and craft. Tongo explains his polyvocal, trickster-inflected poetic method and discusses the We Charge Genocide, Again curriculum as a creative, flexible tool for ideological clarity about extrajudicial killings as systemic policy, writing against tyranny toward liberation, and collective survival.
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