Welcome to Lullaby Machine
a digital rest-stop dedicated to the lullaby
Hi there, and welcome to Lullaby Machine’s Substack. Lullaby Machine is a digital rest-stop dedicated to sharing lullabies in a world where it can be hard to fall asleep. Growing from the idea of lullabies as portals into dream and potential tools for collective care, our website hosts a library of .mp3 lullabies and a quarterly e-magazine featuring meditations on lullaby, rest, dreams, grief, capitalism, ecology, and the internet.
Lullabies have long been ways of opening doorways into dreamworlds, and our hope with this project is to open such a portal on the internet—a liminal place that can also feel like a dream. We imagine Lullaby Machine as a site of emergent conversation on radical rest amid capitalism—a small but public network of sonic gift-giving that we hope informs embodied life in digital and AFK spacetime.
At lullabymachine.com, which just went live today, you can visit our growing library of .mp3 lullabies and read our quarterly e-magazine as it comes out over the coming weeks. In this issue, we’re excited and honored to feature work by Maria BC, Ellayo, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Amanda Hawkins, Saba Keramati, Martha Langford, Jane Schoenbrun, Bailey Sneed, and kai velázquez.
We hope you'll explore lullabymachine.com. Here on Substack (and on Instagram), we’ll be posting periodic updates to announce new e-magazine content, submission periods, in-person events, and more. Subscribe to get updates delivered directly to your inbox.
With gratitude and an eye toward warmer nights of good, deep sleep,
Maia & Olivia
