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Found Sound Nation OneBeat is an incubator for music-based social entrepreneurship, where innovative musicians from around the world launch collaborative projects.

OneBeat convenes musical changemakers from around the world to create and perform new work in the U.S. and in select cities around the world to explore how artists and institutions can work together to rejuvenate local economies through music, technology and the creative arts. More than a music festival or a simple exchange, OneBeat is an incubator for new forms of musical expression, a hatchery for novel ways to use music as a tool for the betterment of our communities, and an ever-growing web of interconnected artists and change-makers.

Small room. Good b**r. Big ideas. Curious people. It’s been a minute, but the Found Sound Nation Collider is back! And w...
10/08/2026

Small room. Good b**r. Big ideas. Curious people. It’s been a minute, but the Found Sound Nation Collider is back! And we’re excited for this one.

Join us Sunday, October 11 at Threes Brewing in Gowanus for an afternoon of conversations about how music moves through the world—and the people who help it move.
Because music doesn’t travel by itself. It moves through people: the ones throwing parties, making connections, creating spaces, and building the communities where sounds can take root.

We’ll hear from three presenters coming at this question from very different perspectives, with short presentations followed by an open conversation.

Swipe through to meet the presenters and get a glimpse into their work ➡️ Come hang, listen, and join the conversation. See you there!

Emmy Parker (emmy parker) is a writer, cultural theorist, and co-founder of Sonic Practice Archive. Supported by the Mellon Foundation, the archive preserves unreleased recordings by Black music producers and develops new ways to reveal the intelligence embedded within them. Parker spent a decade leading brand, marketing, and strategy at Moog Music and served as Creative Director of Moogfest. Her essay “Black Sonic Intelligence,” published in Callaloo, explores how memory and knowledge move through sound. She lives in Brooklyn.

Mikey Muhanna (Mikey Mu) is the Founder & Executive Director of afikra | عفكرة (afikra.com) a global movement to reframe the narrative about the Arab World through community events, academy courses, podcasts, and its magazine Daftar. Starting from a rooftop in Brooklyn in 2014, Muhanna has grown afikra into a global education and media platform with a world-class reputation for creativity and impact and a community of 200,000 people across 30 chapters globally with a robust content library with hundreds of talks and millions of views.

Shara Lunon (SHARA LUNON) is a Brooklyn-based artist, musician, educator, and curator using voice, improvisation, sound, and community-building to explore freedom, memory, and new ways of listening together.

Look! 👀 New opportunities have arrived. 🛬✨.
Grants, fellowships, and residencies for musicians, sound makers, and artist...
10/07/2026

Look! 👀 New opportunities have arrived. 🛬✨.
Grants, fellowships, and residencies for musicians, sound makers, and artists around the world. Swipe ➡️ to find what’s out there and head to the linked pages for full details and how to apply.

Got an opportunity to share? Send them our way!

THE DIGILOGUE - Open to international artists building their careers on their own terms. - Closes October 19th.

Big Ears Festival - Open to artists at all stages of their career, priority given to those who haven’t attended the festival before. - closes October 22nd.

Culture Moves Europe - Open call for European based artists and cultural professionals - rolling application closes April 30th.

Music at the Anthology - Open to international, early- career composers and sound artists - closes November 15th.

Wave Farm - International open call. Closes December 1st.

New York Youth Symphony - Open to international composers - closes November 11th.

Antenna - New Orleans based artists.
Closes October 31st.

Buenos Aires Art Residency - Open to international artists of all disciplines. - Closes October 10th.

Come out to the Found Sound Nation Collider, it’s been a while since we’ve had one, it’s going to be special!Found Sound...
10/06/2026

Come out to the Found Sound Nation Collider, it’s been a while since we’ve had one, it’s going to be special!

Found Sound Nation revives the series at Threes Brewing in Gowanus on Sunday, October 11, with an afternoon on how music travels, and who carries it. Music doesn’t move on its own: someone throws the party, starts the conversation, builds the community that gives a sound somewhere to land. Three short presentations from three very different angles, then an open conversation. Small room, good b**r, curious people.

Swipe through to read a bit about the three presenters their work below ⬇️ . Stay tuned for more 💫!

Emmy Parker (emmy parker) is a writer, cultural theorist, and co-founder of Sonic Practice Archive. Supported by the Mellon Foundation, the archive preserves unreleased recordings by Black music producers and develops new ways to reveal the intelligence embedded within them. Parker spent a decade leading brand, marketing, and strategy at Moog Music and served as Creative Director of Moogfest. Her essay “Black Sonic Intelligence,” published in Callaloo, explores how memory and knowledge move through sound. She lives in Brooklyn.

Mikey Muhanna (Mikey Mu) is the Founder & Executive Director of afikra | عفكرة (afikra.com) a global movement to reframe the narrative about the Arab World through community events, academy courses, podcasts, and its magazine Daftar. Starting from a rooftop in Brooklyn in 2014, Muhanna has grown afikra into a global education and media platform with a world-class reputation for creativity and impact and a community of 200,000 people across 30 chapters globally with a robust content library with hundreds of talks and millions of views.

Shara Lunon (SHARA LUNON) is a Brooklyn-based artist, musician, educator, and curator using voice, improvisation, sound, and community-building to explore freedom, memory, and new ways of listening together.

Found Sound Nation revives the series at Threes Brewing in Gowanus on Sunday, October 11, with an afternoon on how music...
10/06/2026

Found Sound Nation revives the series at Threes Brewing in Gowanus on Sunday, October 11, with an afternoon on how music travels, and who carries it. Music doesn’t move on its own: someone throws the party, starts the conversation, builds the community that gives a sound somewhere to land. Three short presentations from three very different angles, then an open conversation. Small room, good b**r, curious people.

These are the three presenters!
Emmy Parker (emmy parker) is a writer, cultural theorist, and co-founder of Sonic Practice Archive. Supported by the Mellon Foundation, the archive preserves unreleased recordings by Black music producers and develops new ways to reveal the intelligence embedded within them.

Mikey Muhanna (Mikey Mu) is the Founder & Executive Director of afikra | عفكرة (afikra.com) a global movement to reframe the narrative about the Arab World through community events, academy courses, podcasts, and its magazine Daftar.

Shara Lunon (SHARA LUNON) is a Brooklyn-based artist, musician, educator, and curator using voice, improvisation, sound, and community-building to explore freedom, memory, and new ways of listening together.

09/29/2026

We know some of the most extraordinary musicians! Here are a few of them doing what they love and doing it well. Swipe through to see some of our favorite live performances from the week. ➡️

LARISSA UMAYTÁ

Rangga Purnama Aji

(っ◔◡◔)っ ✿.。.:* ☆:**:. ♥ Alyana Cabral

Hussen Al-harbi

Bongani Hussen Al-harbiBongani Givethanks

FSN Presents is happening this Saturday @ 4 pm at Barbès! See you there 👀Found Sound Nation Presents: Eliot Krimsky (El...
09/22/2026

FSN Presents is happening this Saturday @ 4 pm at Barbès! See you there 👀

Found Sound Nation Presents: Eliot Krimsky (Eliot Krimsky) + Erika Dohi (ERIKA DOHI )

Every 4th Saturday of the month at 4pm, cultural arts collective Found Sound Nation presents an afternoon salon show featuring an FSN-curated artist who, in turn, invites a guest to share the bill. This month’s show features composer, songwriter and pianist Eliot Krimsky and Osaka-born, New York-based pianist, composer and vocalist Erika Dohi.

Eliot builds pieces from sounds of lived experience, using them as entry points to explore memory, time and emotional space. Erika creates genre-fluid work at the intersection of classical, improvisation, electronics, ambient, and jazz.

Each performer will offer an intimate 20-30 min salon style set, inviting audiences to experience a unique, intimate offering of sound and story. This series is rooted in FSN’s ethos that encourages the diminishing of boundaries in music-making and music-listening — be they ethnic, cultural, or stylistic.

Tickets available in our bio

New opportunities day!! 🛬✨.
Grants, fellowships, and residencies for musicians, sound makers, and artists around the wor...
09/18/2026

New opportunities day!! 🛬✨.
Grants, fellowships, and residencies for musicians, sound makers, and artists around the world. Swipe ➡️ to find what’s out there and head to the linked pages for full details and how to apply.

Got an opportunity to share? DMs are open now!

- Closes October 5th.

- U.S. based multidisciplinary artists - Closes October 25th.

The Supporting Act Foundation - emerging artist from underrepresented groups based in Europe -
Closes October 1st.

New England Foundation for the Arts - Massachusetts based artists - closes December 1st.

Wave Farm - International Open Call -
Closes December 1st.

Community Arts Network - Global residency for International Artists - Closes September 30th.

Dawson City Music Festival - Canadian songwriters and music producers/audio engineers aged 19+ with a professional practice. - Closes October 21st.

LABVERDE - Internarional artists, sound composers and producers. - Closes September 21st.

Announcement 📢 it’s that time of the month again! Mark your calendars for the next FSN Presents happening Sat, September...
09/15/2026

Announcement 📢 it’s that time of the month again! Mark your calendars for the next FSN Presents happening Sat, September 26 @ 4 pm!

Found Sound Nation Presents: Eliot Krimsky + Erika Dohi

Every 4th Saturday of the month at 4pm, cultural arts collective Found Sound Nation presents an afternoon salon show featuring an FSN-curated artist who, in turn, invites a guest to share the bill. This month’s show features composer, songwriter and pianist Eliot Krimsky and Osaka-born, New York-based pianist, composer and vocalist Erika Dohi.

Eliot builds pieces from sounds of lived experience, using them as entry points to explore memory, time and emotional space. Erika creates genre-fluid work at the intersection of classical, improvisation, electronics, ambient, and jazz.

Each performer will offer an intimate 20-30 min salon style set, inviting audiences to experience a unique, intimate offering of sound and story. This series is rooted in FSN’s ethos that encourages the diminishing of boundaries in music-making and music-listening — be they ethnic, cultural, or stylistic.

Tickets available in our bio

09/10/2026

We know some of the most extraordinary musicians! Here are a few of them doing what they love and doing it well. Swipe through to see some of our favorite live performances from the week. ➡️

Aziz Ozouss

Booker Stardrum

Dunnie

Dylan Hunter Chee Greene with shigeto & Ali

Gabi Motuba

Video by Kuhle Nqenzana

Melisa Yıldırım

09/02/2026

Missed it live ? We’ve got you covered. 💫
Here’s a snippet from our last FSN Presents Salon featuring Melissa Almaguer & Eliana Fishbeyn

You don’t want to miss the next show in our series happening on September 26th at Barbès! Keep an eye open for more details.

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