Dunia Shawty,

The Sound FreQ

Interdisciplinary Sound Steward at the intersections of Performance, Design, & Healing

Dunia Shawty is a singer, composer, and sound artist who works with sound the way some people work with light ; shaping atmosphere, feeling, and memory. Raised in a creative family, she learned early that music could say what words couldn’t. Her relationship to sound deepened after her little cousin was diagnosed with autism, sparking a desire to understand how vibration, tone, and rhythm can soothe, ground, and create safety.

Dunia is currently studying Interdisciplinary Music Studies at Berklee College of Music, focusing on music therapy, composition, and how the brain experiences sound. She has performed at Denver’s Juneteenth Festival, led sound baths, and collaborated with visual artists to bring sound into installations across Manhattan and Brooklyn. She was also the first artist of the residency hosted by Love Machine based in Detroit.

Rooted in Black diasporic ways of listening, her work is whimsical, afrofuturistic, and deeply human, inviting people to slow down, feel, and remember themselves.


Artist CV

DISCOGRAPHY & RECORDED WORK

Sound Design

  • UJAAMA Lighting Company — commercial for a black owned lighting company Youtube

  • Diana Rosa Short Film - sound design for website promo Youtube

  • Life and Death – DFW — experimental sound work for fashion designer (SoundCloud release, 2024)

  • Hibiscus (Plant Music) — original plant-music composition (SoundCloud release, 2024)

  • Showey Milkweed (Plant Music) — original plant-music composition (SoundCloud release, 2023)

WORKSHOPS, HEALING & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

(sound healing, plant-music workshops, youth and accessibility work)

  • Singing Brown Bodies — City Forest Day (Art of Trees exhibition and performances), 6/15 Green Community Garden, Brooklyn, NY (2025) Sound and music performance with crystal singing bowls, voice, and improvised sonic layers activating Jasmine Murrell’s sculptural installation in dialogue with the forest.

  • Nothin But Islands — Betty’s Garden, Brooklyn, NY (2025) Composer and music director for YaYa’s harvest gathering performance; created a grief song guiding dancers’ movement within a ritual cacao ceremony and communal activation honoring fall harvest cycles.

  • Black Becoming: Shaping Our Afro-Futurism into Thriving — Soul 2 Soul Sisters, Denver, CO Retreat sound bath for a collective of black women practitioners

  • Black Bodies Float: Aquatic Sound Bath – Water Signs — live aquatic sound bath, Aquis Wellness Art, Fort Collins, CO

  • If Plants Could Hum: A Sound Healing & Plant Music Workshop — Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (2023) Workshop exploring plant music technology, sound healing, and collective listening practices.

  • Sensory Friendly Sunday — Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (2022–2023) Adaptive sound experiences designed for neurodivergent audiences and families.

  • The Sound Workshop for International Women’s Month — Girls Athletic Leadership Schools (GALS), Denver, CO (2023) Sound exploration and empowerment workshop with middle- and high-school students.

  • TheRAPy — Kaleidoscope Project, Aurora, CO (2022) Collaborative music and healing space centering youth, storytelling, and sound.

RESIDENCIES

Love Machine Residency — Detroit, MI (April 2026) Artist residency focused on sound, vibration, and community practice.

PRESS & FEATURES

COLLABORATIONS & PARTNERSHIPS

  • Love Machine — Detroit, MI (2026)

  • YaYa / Betty’s Garden, Brooklyn, NY — Nothin But Islands (2025)

  • Jasmine Murrell / City Forest Day, Brooklyn, NY — Singing Brown Bodies (2025)

  • Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO — sound healing workshops, Sensory Friendly Sunday programming, If Plants Could Hum (2022–2023)

  • Blackadelics, Denver, CO — Plant Music Sanctuary installation and live activations (2022–2023)

  • The Freq Sound Agency, Denver, CO — Dunia’s Room and other sound performances (2022)

  • Aquis Wellness Art, Fort Collins, CO — Black Bodies Float: Aquatic Sound Bath – Water Signs (2023)

  • Soul 2 Soul Sisters, Denver, CO — Black Becoming performance (2023)

  • Kaleidoscope Project, Aurora, CO — TheRAPy music-therapy-inspired space (2022)

  • Girls Athletic Leadership Schools, Denver, CO — International Women’s Month sound workshop (2023)