day 11,103
episode 03



builder’s delight.
by ALYH ABOVE


dispatched Oct 18, 2025













Everything is always creating.

ALYH ABOVE defines worldbuilding as ‘the sacred creative practice by which we actualize our humanity into an intentional living experience.’ It’s an experience in which all of life becomes a creative process, and every movement is art. Day 11,103 explores the creative impetus and ways in which black existential artistry has been a form of self-making and declaration.

This episode also takes space to honor new black musical ancestor, D’Angelo — may he rest in in love and soul.



THREADS + THEMES


✷ creating [blk] worlds/created [blk] worlds
✷ creative power
✷ creative process as spiritual journey
✷ the art in everything



✴︎ 01 INTRO — CREATIVE DESIRE AS MAP

  • Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Robert Glasper feat. Lalal Hathaway + Common // Tears for Fears; Poetry,  The RH Factor feat. Q-Tip + Erykah Badu (Mixed by ALYH ABOVE)
  • Collaged excerpts from ‘The Wiz’, feat. Diana Ross + Lena Horne
  • OPENING CEREMONY: The Makings of You (Live at the Bitter End, NYC) Chopped by ALYH ABOVE; words by ALYH ABOVE


✴︎ 02 — BUILDER’S AFFIRMATION

  • fire chant, ALYH ABOVE
  • The Story, KING; gummy vamix, VAYDA; words by Esperanza Spalding (mixed by ALYH)
  • man at the garden, Kendrick Lamar; Garden of Peace, Lonnie Liston Smith (mixed by ALYH)


✴︎ 03 — AN ODE from the IN-BETWEEN

  • turns, ALYH ABOVE (beat samples Power Fantastic, Prince)
  • Last Dance (Live on the Tonight Show, 1978), Donna Summer


✴︎ 04 — IT’S ALL ALREADY ART

  • Masterpiece, SAULT (chopped by ALYH ABOVE)
  • excerpt: There It Is (Live in San Francisco), Jayne Cortez
  • Mascara, Jazmine Sullivan


✴︎ 05 — REFRAME

  • Donna Summer on Creative Legitimacy; The Tonight Show, 1978
  • time matters, ALYH ABOVE


✴︎ 06 — BLACK FOLKS HAVE ALWAYS…

  • Miss B talks about Johnny, 2024
  • smile (remix), Spring ‘15 Initiates from the Theta Nu Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota Int’l Music Fraternity


✴︎ 07 — MY SOUL’S GOT A NAME

  • hvnli, keiyaA (chopped by ALYH ABOVE)
  • complexities, ALYH ABOVE
  • “I AM HIPPOLYTA”, from Lovecraft Country S1 E7


✴︎ 08 — ENERGY FINDS A WAY (aka NEW ANCESTORS)

  • Fire, Deitrick Haddon and Voices of Unity
  • Believe In Yourself (Reprise/The Wiz), Lena Horne
  • Ain’t That Easy (Live from North Sea Jazz Festival, 2015), D’Angelo & The Vanguard
  • ALYH speaks on loss


✴︎ 09 — REAL NIGGAS NEVER DIE

  • Time is Precious, SAULT
  • excerpt: won’t you celebrate with me, Lucille Clifton