Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Join us for a special edition of FIC Studio Sessions' The Listening Room.

We will be joined by special guests aja monet and Def Sound as we explore "the color of rain" by aja monet.

The Listening Room is an intimate hi-fi vinyl listening experience that explores music as a universal conduit for introspection, presence, and connection.

aja monet

aja monet Bacquie is a Brooklyn-born, Cuban-Jamaican poet, musician, and activist. Her work explores themes of love, gender, justice, and spirituality. At 19, she became the youngest Grand Slam Champion in the history of the Nuyorican Poets Café. Monet's debut poetry collection, My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in 2018.

Def Sound

Def Sound (born Emmanuel "Def Sound" Ricketts) is an Afro-Caribbean, post-binary transdisciplinary artist, poet, and producer based in South Central, Los Angeles. They are widely recognized as a "conceptual word artist" whose music and academic work merge hip-hop theory, poetry, and Black critical theory.

Studio Sessions

Music has the power to gather us, heal us, and connect us. Historically, sonic gathering spaces have been at the heart of revolutionary movements. They were spaces where individuals, particularly from marginalized communities, could fully express and be seen, and where the artificial barriers between people could be broken down by a unifying rhythm.

FUTURE IS COLOR Studio sessions is our weekly live music experience and sonic gathering space rooted on these principles of bringing community together in love.

Studio Sessions, an extension of the Future Is Color brand mission.