We create and consume lots of music.
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Stim Listening
In the Stimpunks community, we have a lot of playlists spread across various accounts and platforms. We’ve started syncing them to our Youtube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@stimpunks/playlists
We have playlists for all kinds of moods.
We listen alone.
We listen together.
Listening together facilitates co-regulation, body doubling, and parallel play.
We pick a song, an album, a playlist, and play it over and over and over.
We need our auditory samefoods.
Jim Irion calls this “stim listening”.
stim listening = listening repetitively to a single song, album, or playlist
I often start, or while writing the bulk of, a composition will do what I call stim-listening. Or, listen repetitively to a single song. It helps get me started or gives me the dopamine(?) that seems to maintain my focus.
Here are some of our go to playlists.
Chronic Neurodivergent Depressed Queer Punk
Neuroqueer Is a Noun and a Verb
🌈♿️ Take Them Together: Neurodiversity and Disability Justice
Unabashed Pleasure and Righteous Inclusion With Chappell Roan
Wandering Star
Dark Side of the Heart’s Windowpane
Music We Made
Here’s some music made by our community.
Josephmooon: Neurodiversity rocks! We make rock ‘n’ roll and inclusive education.
Teenage Stimpunk Ronan is lyricist for Josephmooon.
Josephmooon is a neurodiverse, multi-age, distributed musical collaboration featuring the work of two teenagers and their mentors. The greater Stimpunks community helps the band with websites, lyrics transcription, art, marketing, e-commerce, fulfillment, tax collection, and everything else that goes into hanging your shingle, running a business, and releasing music on every platform. Stimpunks is rich with learning curves and constructionism.
Many of the songs on Josephmooon’s first album directly relate to the neurodivergent experience.
The Neurodivergent Experience in Josephmooon’s “So Far So Good” – Stimpunks Foundation
Neurodiversity rocks! We make rock ‘n’ roll and inclusive education.
Floats Boat
Floats Boat is about special interests.
Up All Night
Up All Night is about autistic insomnia.
Out of Tune
Out of Tune is about dysregulation.
Busybodies
Busybodies is about behaviorists.
High in the Sky
High in the Sky is about disembodiment and distancing from an often cruel world.
Captolea
Captolea is just a good old-fashioned murder ballad.
One Word
One Word is a rocking love song that’s a bit of a tease.
Cost Time
Cost Time is about crip time and coping in a capitalist society.
Long Ago
Long Ago is about how the past is often present and being in solidarity with both.
Check For
Check For is just a fun song with cool turns of phrase.
Reusable Money
Reusable Money is fantasy of living large on Reusable Money.
So Far So Good
And, closing things out, is So Far So Good, a hopeful reflection as dark times approach.