Museum of Psychphonics

01/03/2020

It's First Friday.....so the Museum will be open tonight! 6 to 9pm.

09/06/2019

Sun Ra Arkestra: NPR Music Tink Desk Concert

Hey there Psychphonics Fans: Space is still the place........https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ToFXHW5pg

Sun Ra was a big-band innovator, a pioneer of recording and playing with electronics, a poet, a cosmic philosopher, a bandleader and a keyboard innovator who...

09/05/2019

Psychphonics Fans: Be sure to tune in to WFYI this evening at 8:00 for a new edition of Curious Mix featuring a visit to the Museum. The program will be rebroadcast Sunday, Sept. 8 at 3pm.

04/05/2019

The Museum of Psychphonics has returned!! Let the people rejoice!! The Museum will be open on the first Friday of every month from 6 to 9 pm, and by appointment, or chance. Please keep an eye on our page for announcements regarding musical experiments and special exhibits. We hope to see you soon!

07/06/2018

Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments

We certainly appreciate your patience while we are working on the new space for the Museum. Here's something you might enjoy while you are waiting for us to finish our work. It's our new favorite thing on the internet and you will love it....The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments.

The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments by Deirdre Loughridge and Thomas Patteson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

06/29/2018

1959: Monitor: Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum

We like this. You will like it too.

05/31/2018

RAMMELLZEE: It’s Not Who But What

Recommended viewing.

05/04/2018

The Fine Art of Television Repair

As we work to reinstall the Museum in its new location we are taking special care of our vintage television sets. Here's a look at how some other fine institutions care for their elderly technology:

08/31/2017

NOTE: As of July 22, 2017, the Museum is temporarily closed while it moves locations.

07/18/2017

Indy's weird, tiny Museum of Psychphonics plans not-so-big move

Last week we had a visit from the fine folks at The Indianapolis Star. They talked with us about our upcoming special event and subsequent relocation. Here is the resulting article which features a delightful video:
http://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/2017/07/17/indys-weird-tiny-museum-psychphonics-plans-not-so-big-move/471411001/

07/16/2017

02/17/2017

The soundtracked city

Soundtracking Indianapolis through site-based sound art and composition! Sound Expeditions just launched their audio city map, featuring work from Psychphonic collaborators Sedcairn Archives, blottboyy, Shame Thugs, and dozens of other incredible musicians:

Sound Expeditions is a music commissioning program designed to create a soundtracked city in which spaces and places both familiar and unfamiliar take on a new layer of meaning and experience. It is both a collection and an archive documenting site-based sound art and composition. Commissions pair p...

02/10/2017

Art Trip: Indianapolis | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

We're glad The Art Assignment stopped in a visited the Museum. Have you found us yet?

Go to http://prudential.com/savemore and learn more about how you can better plan for your retirement. We've spent quite a bit of time exploring art in other...

09/24/2016

Atlas Obscura | Museum of Psychphonics

"A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism and musical vibrations."

A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism and musical vibrations.

06/24/2016

An Afrofuturist Community Center Targets Gentrification

An Afrofuturist Community Center Targets Gentrification

PHILADELPHIA — The bus dropped me off a block away from 22nd Street and Ridge Avenue in North Philadelphia, where Community Futures Lab is located.

06/01/2016

Interview with Michael Kaufmann: The Museum of Psychphonics : Bad at Sports

Interview with Michael Kaufmann: The Museum of Psychphonics : Bad at Sports

Welcome to Bad at Sports a leading Art news and 60 min audio interview show that has new episodes weekly and news posted daily. Focuses on the International contemporary fine art business, education & overall industry.

06/01/2016

To imagine the ocean of the future: picture a writhing mass of unkillable tentacles, forever

To imagine the ocean of the future: picture a writhing mass of unkillable tentacles, forever

In Global proliferation of cephalopods a paper in Current Biology, an esteemed group of marine biologists reports that the population of octopuses (and other cephalopods) is booming thanks to its a…

05/25/2016

Parliament/Funkadelic's George Clinton visited the original Baby Mothership at the Museum of Psychphonics. Photos taken by Hadley Fruits

05/24/2016

The Museum Of Psychphonics opens in Indianapolis - The Wire

We're on The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music! Featuring Kipp Normand's incredible work, tracks by Shame Thugs, Blottboyy, Sedcairn Archives, + the Didactic-zine.

A new collection of musical curiosities and paranormal ephemera in Indianapolis.

05/06/2016

Culture Q&A: George Clinton and His ‘Mothership Connection’ to Indy - Indianapolis Monthly

"We’ve been coming to Naptown ever since the ’60s, since '(I Wanna) Testify' was out... So we go way back with Indianapolis." Indianapolis Monthly talks with George Clinton ahead of his show tonight at the Vogue.

Set to play the Vogue on May 6, George Clinton gives IM the lowdown on his upcoming Parliament album, ongoing court battles, and ties to Indianapolis.

05/05/2016

Whatever doesn't kill you is just catnip.
-Kietzsche (by MK Ultralight)

05/04/2016

George Clinton talks Sun Ra, Kendrick, Prince, Jimi Hendrix and more

Psychphonic co-conspirator Kyle Long talks with the legendary space man himself, George Clinton! From Sun Ra and Indiana Avenue to doo-wop, Ishmael Reed and the baby mothership... (via NUVO)

The legendary space man also talks about the baby Mothership, now on display at the Museum of Psychphonics in the Murphy Art Center, plus remembers shows at Broad Ripple High School, the Murat and more.

04/21/2016

Timeline photos

04/19/2016

The Center for AfroFuturist Studies

Psychphonic activity spotted in Iowa City.

The Center for Afrofuturist Studies (CAS) is a two-year initiative to re-imagine new futures for marginalized peoples by generating safe work spaces for artists of color. Organized by Anaïs Duplan in collaboration with several Iowa City organizations and individuals including PS1, CAS will host visi…

04/16/2016

Meet the Brooklyn Artists Building a Future for the African Diaspora

Meet the Brooklyn Artists Building a Future for the African Diaspora

The Iyapo Repository serves as an archival library and a future museum for the African diaspora in Brooklyn an beyond.

04/14/2016

Cultural Manifesto: Kipp Normand and Michael Kaufmann

We shared some of our psychphonic inspiration on Kyle Long's public radio program. (Our playlist included some of our favorite musicians: Sun Ra, Harry Partch, Parliament, Sedcairn Archives and more.)

An interview with Kipp Normand and Michael Kaufmann, the creative visionaries behind the new Museum of Psychphonics in Fountain Square. Kipp and Michael will be sharing music and stories that inspired the museum. Tonight's playlist includes some of my favorite musicians: Sun Ra, Harry Partch, Parlia…

04/12/2016

119 Bank St., La Monte Young Apt., 1 of 3

119 Bank St., La Monte Young Apt., 1 of 3

"Henry Flynt in New York." Composer/philosopher/activist Henry Flynt reflects on his years in the downtown avant-garde and the sectarian Left. In this scene,...

04/05/2016

Sedcairn Archives - Trouble Slug

Scrapper Blackwell x Sedcairn Archives // This track is playing on loop in the museum, circling the mothership, invading your brain, blending blues and Chicago footwork...

Secairn Archvies Location: 39.788840, -86.169937 Description: “Trouble Slug” is an emotional reaction to multiple traumatic circumstances that surround the life and death of Scrapper Blackwell, an I

04/04/2016

We need Afrofuturism more than ever

“I see the urgency of Afrofuturism for a postcolonial, multiethnic city-state with a strong presence of the black diaspora. It is the speculative and non-white vision that this city needs, against the currently dystopian rule driven by angst-ridden white nostalgia.”

There must be more intersectional visions of the future that include all races, genders, sexualities, species and religions

04/03/2016

Kamasi Washington’s Giant Step

"Kamasi's Epic is a groove-based jazz, adjacent to the Afro-futurist psychedelia of his friend and collaborator Flying Lotus (who is the grandnephew of Alice Coltrane)." // "Kamasi's name comes from Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti tribes in Ghana. To be under the kuma tree is to bring people together, to bring peace.’’

With his popular, political, uncategorizable jazz, the young saxophonist has become something his genre rarely produces anymore: a celebrity.

03/26/2016

Oh my, but the Fountain Square Music Festival is delightful. Here's a glimpse behind the scenes......

03/25/2016

Ahh the wonders of Old Timey technology....here at the Joyful Noise Record Shop (home to the Museum of Psychphonics) there is a working record lathe from the 1940's. Today the lathe is being run by David Moose Adamson to make a series of one of a kind recordings of the bands featured on the Joyful Noise Label. If you have a VIP ticket to the Fountain Square Music Festival you can watch this marvelous machine at work. First up is the band Surfer Blood. They are really great.