SAP is a pre-recorded radio show collaging African-diasporic musics around the world, field recordings, short-form interviews, and oral histories of black music by time and place. This project seeks to contribute to the de-genre-fication of global music that developed after the transatlantic slave trade by blending styles across rhythms, tempo, melody, and place. This includes Blues, Jazz, Afrobeat, House, Techno, Dub, Jungle, Juke, Folk, Spirituals, Hip Hop, R&B, Reggae, Funk, Samba, and more. SAP is an acronym for Something At Play; Socialize, Act, Process; Spirit As Power; Sounds Affirming Presence; Soul, Art, Passion; And sap is the lifeblood within trees that supports new growth.

Corey Sherrard Jr is an interdisciplinary artist, radio host, musician, and designer born and based in Houston. He is a School for Poetic Computation and University of Houston alum. He is a recipient of the 2023 Jones Artist Award and since then, Sherrard has exhibited visual and sound works at Sanman Studios, Sabine Street Studios, Cleve Carney Museum of Art, Basket Books and Art, the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center, and the Houston Endowment. He performed at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, DiverseWorks, CAMH, and Blaffer Art Museum. Sherrard is a resident DJ and archivist for internet radio station Ice House Radio, releases music under the alias Yaajé, and is a member of experimental music group Essex Moor.

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