Voidwave features Juicebox P. Burton! This episode includes a conversation between Juicebox and Liz Roberts, the album Demarcation by She-Nut (Juicebox P. Burton), audio from a live She-Nut performance at Outfest in 2023, and audio from a performance by SKANTCH (Juicebox P. Burton and Alli Logout) a rhythmic noise duo at Slut Island Festival in 2018.

Juicebox P. Burton (They/She) is a black, gender-fluid, multi-disciplinary artist living in New Orleans. They are world-builder who frames narratives of trauma in the context of horror and sci-fi in order to heal the collective spirit of the black community. Their work gains its power from its self-taught nature, fostering the collaboration of other creators of color/Black creators whose collective story combats the aristocratic gatekeeping of the mainstream art industry. In 2017 Juicebox became co-owner of Studio Lalala, a Black and trans mixed media production company that utilizes a DIY philosophy to collectively produce the visions and voices of their community. In 2024 they were awarded the Foundation of Louisiana Worldmakers Grant, Trans Justice Funding Project Grant (Studio Lalala), Platforms Fund Development Grant, and Black Feminist Artist Fellowship Grant. They were participants in the FORUM RIDM Doc Lab Montreal the Black Led Movement Fund.

My practice weaves together the rich threads of afrofuturism and abolition, crafting a tapestry where imagination, technology, future visions, and liberation intersect. Afrofuturism guides my art as both a shield and a compass—a protective response to ancestral trauma and racism, and a tool for illustrating the depth of love and pain in the Black experience. This framework allows me to tell stories free from the crushing weight of white supremacy, giving voice to narratives that soar beyond the constraints of history and oppression, blending fantasy, allegory, and surrealism to break the confines of oppression and unlock new worlds of possibility through imagination. I use film, music and movement as an act of grassroots organizing, rooted deeply in the pursuit of Black liberation. My work seeks to deconstruct the automatic politicization of Black bodies on screen while refusing to perpetuate the trauma of white supremacy that saturates the media. Black people deserve to see themselves reflected in ways that celebrate their beauty, their families, and their loved ones without the burden of harmful stereotypes or the shadow of death. Everything I created is penned as a love letter to black folks honoring their beauty and truth in a world that often disregards them. –Juicebox P. Burton

Skanch photos by @twisted_fire_starter

Voidwave is a web of experimental voices, sounds, and interviews with a focus on work by femme, gender non-conforming, and queer people. Embedded in these sound practices are rebelliousness and longing, hunger for new subversive futures, irreverence, determined perseverance, political potency, uncompromising processes, and includes a celebration of lineages that spans across time and the globe. Voidwave is a 2-hour radio show that features work from artists who use experimental sound and music, performance, field recording, spoken word, sound art, sound poetics, and other disobedient audio speculations – adventures into sound and conversations with the people who made them.

Voidwave is a collaboration by multidisciplinary artists Melissa Vogley Woods in Ohio, Liz Roberts in San Francisco, and Kim Zumpfe and Katya Urban in Los Angeles, with occasional guest collaborators and hosts. Voidwave was formed by Melissa, Liz, and Gina Osterloh.