DJ Shannon Harris

About ME

Experience – Sound / Music

I have a multifaceted career as an international DJ, musician, composer, sound designer, videographer, Qi Gong instructor, speaker, and Audio Pharmacologist™️. My journey in the fields of art, science, therapies, and music span over three decades, six continents, and numerous cultural and spiritual traditions.

Since 1986 I have professionally honed my talents as a disc jockey, musician, producer, sound designer, composer and remixer. In 1999 I started Urbanicity Recordings, which houses several personal and collaborative recordings.

Since 2012, my primary focus has been on developing and instructing my unique style of Audio Pharmacology™️ leading me to the creation of immersive Healing Arts Experiences. In 2019, I was one of five Elastic Arts artist residency recipients. During my residency I curated a 10 month series of public health social practice experiences entitled “EVOLution: The Healing Arts Movement” where I co-designed public healing Arts installations. In response to COVID-19 and mass quarantine I created a monthly series entitled “AfriFuTrinity: Quantum Cosmic Futures”. 

AfriFuTrinity: Quantum Cosmic Futures™️ is an Immersive Audio Song Book™️ interweaving multi-sensory platforms into an episodic auditory experience. The project utilizes ancient and future sciences in its sound design to entrain listeners with healthy mind, body and spirit frequencies. It seeks to demarcate the differences between pre/post colonial history, science fiction, identity and spirituality with it’s Afri-Sci-Facts™️.

AfriFuTrinity is an immersive educational experience that stretches imaginations with scientifically proven methods. The content uncovers many alternative perspectives, perceptions, wisdom systems, ideologies, and practices to its listeners aka Astral Travelers. Expect a bi-lingual curriculum along with live Immersive Engagements™️ (Sonic Air Improv), ethnomusicology cultural exchange programs and virtual immersive SELF mastery courses for Carnegie Hall’s Afrofuturism Festival in 2022.

Experience – Teaching

My passion for sound design, technology, science, astronomy, cosmology, sound energy, physics, health, art, and culture led me to teach a broad range of educational classes for the following academic institutions and organizations: Columbia College, Antioch University Midwest, Saikeri Primary School (Kenya), Baker College Prep, South Side Occupational Prep, Logan Center of the Arts, University of Chicago, Graves Elementary, Golden Avatar Academy, Harvey School District, Uplift High School, Peace House, Freedom Home Academy, Francis W. Parker School, Natural Healing Centers, and Destination Imagination.

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