Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a national and international touring musician, poet, visual artist, and Professor of Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music. Her work speaks to many genres from electronic to free jazz and classical music. Camae's work has been featured at the Guggenheim Museum, The Met, Carnegie Mellon and Carnegie Hall, Documenta 15, the Berlin Jazz Festival, and the Glastonbury Festival. Through the lens and practice of Black Quantum Futurism the art she makes is a statement for the future, as well as a way to honor the present and its historic connections to a multitude of past realities and future outcomes. She specializes in practical concepts, but works in speculation and historical concepts. Moor Mother creates soundscapes using field sounds and archival sound collage in order to create sonic maps that allow us to journey to our buried histories and futures. She is an artist who, through writing, music, film, visual art, socially engaged art, and creative research, explores personal, cultural, familial, and communal cycles of experience, and solutions for transforming oppressive linear temporalities into empowering, alternative temporalities. Her work seeks to inspire practical techniques of vision and agency against a forever expanding re -conquering of land, housing, and health in Black communities. Camae is a Pew Fellow, a The Kitchen Inaugural Emerging Artist Awardee, a Leeway Transformation Award, a Blade of Grass Fellow as part of Black Quantum Futurism, and a Rad Girls Philly Artist of the Year. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange, WORM! Rotterdam residency, and the Creative Capital and CERN collide residency with Black Quantum Futurism.

Irreversible Entanglements (IE) is a free-jazz quintet with an experimental punk mentality, consisting of poet/vocalist Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother), bassist Luke Stewart, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, and drummer Tcheser Holmes. An award-winning band together for a decade, they play deeply improvised, rhythmic music full of love and social commitment, having come together spontaneously in April 2015 at “Musicians Against Police Brutality” in Brooklyn. Each studio album since — Who Sent You? (2020) and Open The Gates (2021) — has developed their legend further. In 2023, IE signed to Impulse! Records and released Protect Your Light, a collection of eight examples of their collaborative composition strategies and Ayewa’s in-communion verses, landing on numerous year-end best-of lists. Recently, IE returned to Van Gelder to record their most accomplished work to date, Future Present Past, due March 27, 2026 — an album standing on the shoulders of the healers, alchemists, rebels, and ancestors who have fought and invented new ways of being, seeing, and balancing the frequencies of the planet toward trans-dimensional liberation and universal understanding.