Subliminal State Archivist, Carrie Dashow premiered the Archive of Lost Thought featuring the Lost Rooms collection at the NADA street fair in NYC this July.

Society Member Matt Bua’s rendition of the society headquarters as will be in his b-home project, proposals welcome. For more information visit the b-home web site.

We are very excited to announce the Society for a Subliminal State’s first annual members party, on no other day than March 4^th. Including: pot-luck, trip to the Subliminal State, shape note singing, and two Society member bands.

You must be a member to attend: join now! Read more about the party »

The Society has published a hardcover tunebook featuring all 53 shape note songs written during our summer tour of the Erie Canal with the Subliminal History of New York State.

Each song is accompanied by texts written by Carrie contextualizing the words and music, as well as occasional illustrations of how the poems were performed as participatory readings during the tour.

Order copies through our new store »

Artist Carrie Dashow and shape note singer and composer Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg of the Society for a Subliminal State will bring their touring community art, video, and music project, the Subliminal History of New York State to six towns and cities along the Erie Canal this June and July.

Locations & dates (See our CALENDAR):
Troy, June 12; Rome, June 17; Palmyra, June 22; Lockport, June 28; Lily Dale, July 13; and Schenectady, July 21.

Read more about the project, or listen to an example of shape note singing.

The Society, with Gigantic ArtSpace, has released a limited edition Under Island CD, featuring 11 songs from the Under Island song poem book. The CD features a screenprinted cover and a hand-printed booklet with scores for the songs on the disc.

The CD costs $40 and you can order it online through the Society’s web site.

This July 30, the Society held a singing school workshop and performance/assembly at the Widow Jane Mine in Rosendale, NY. The day mixed instruction on how to sing shape note music with the first ever presentation of the Rosendale edition of the Subliminal History of New York State, a narrative about living land and history being developed by Carrie Dashow and Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg.