VBW Justice Archive: ((Keep Your Head Held High))

For more information on ((Keep Your Head Held High)) please view the track information at the Soundcloud post: click here

About the VBW Justice Archive

The Voices Behind Walls (VBW) Justice Archive is a collection of audios, artworks, photographs, and writings archived on the following:

VBW Research Network Blog: vbwresearch.blogspot.com
VBW YouTube: youtube.com/voicesbehindwalls
VBW Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/vbehindw
VBW Website: voicesbehindwalls.blogspot.com

The purpose of the archive is to document VBW program history, specifically the creative expression of its participants and program partners.  Files of the VBW Justice Archive are resources for educators, youth, and the public to share.  We hope these files inspire new ideas and other creative expressions in all learning spaces.  The archive is especially to acknowledge the existence of its participants, a majority incarcerated youth,  who recorded into the VBW microphone between the decade of 2004 to 2014.  Hopefully you all find your way back to our page to reflect on your contribution to the VBW program.

The VBW Justice Archive began documenting its program history in 2014.  Audios will be posted periodically.  Updates will be posted at the links above including twitter.com/vbehindw.

Keywords + Tag = Keep Your Head Held High | Blues | juvenile prison | beats | keyboard | piano | Zoom R12 Controller Interface | New Mexico | Las Cruces | music | outreach | Hip Hop | creative expression | Dona Ana County | life | Soundcloud | Voices Behind Walls | VBW | adolescent | original | thought | experience | struggle | poetry |New Mexico State University | Social Justice Award 2014

VBW Justice Archive: ((Mysterious Minds))

For more information on this track featuring VBW participant Sam aka Mousey, please view the track information at the Soundcloud post: click here

About the VBW Justice Archive

The Voices Behind Walls (VBW) Justice Archive is a collection of audios, artworks, photographs, and writings archived on the following:

VBW Research Network Blog: vbwresearch.blogspot.com
VBW YouTube: youtube.com/voicesbehindwalls
VBW Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/vbehindw
VBW Website: voicesbehindwalls.blogspot.com

The purpose of the archive is to document VBW program history, specifically the creative expression of its participants and program partners.  Files of the VBW Justice Archive are resources for educators, youth, and the public to share.  We hope these files inspire new ideas and other creative expressions in all learning spaces.  The archive is especially to acknowledge the existence of its participants, a majority incarcerated youth,  who recorded into the VBW microphone between the decade of 2004 to 2014.  Hopefully you all find your way back to our page to reflect on your contribution to the VBW program.

The VBW Justice Archive began documenting its program history in 2014.  Audios will be posted periodically.  Updates will be posted at the links above including twitter.com/vbehindw.

Keywords + Tag = Mousey | Sam | juvenile prison | beats | keyboard | piano | New Mexico | Las Cruces | music | outreach | Hip Hop | creative expression | Dona Ana County | life | Soundcloud | Voices Behind Walls | VBW | adolescent | Boyz in the Hood | Ricky | thought | experience | struggle | mystery | mind

VBW Justice Archive: ((Honey))

For more information on the ((Honey Instrumental)) by Avoid the Lyricist please visit the Soundcloud and read the track information: click here


About the VBW Justice Archive

The Voices Behind Walls (VBW) Justice Archive is a collection of audios, artworks, photographs, and writings archived on the following:

VBW Research Network Blog: vbwresearch.blogspot.com
VBW YouTube: youtube.com/voicesbehindwalls
VBW Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/vbehindw
VBW Website: voicesbehindwalls.blogspot.com

The purpose of the archive is to document VBW program history, specifically the creative expression of its participants and program partners.  Files of the VBW Justice Archive are resources for educators, youth, and the public to share.  We hope these files inspire new ideas and other creative expressions in all learning spaces.  The archive is especially to acknowledge the existence of its participants, a majority incarcerated youth,  who recorded into the VBW microphone between the decade of 2004 to 2014.  Hopefully you all find your way back to our page to reflect on your contribution to the VBW program.

The VBW Justice Archive began documenting its program history in 2014.  Audios will be posted periodically.  Updates will be posted at the links above including twitter.com/vbehindw.

Keywords + Tag = Avoid the Lyricist | Avoid | Bird | ¡Aqui Se Puede! | Wanderer's with a Cause, Our Words, Beats and Rhymes | New Mexico State University | NMSU | El Paso | Metatron | beats | instrumental | Hip Hop | VBW Justice Archive | Texas | soul | Soundcloud | Voices Behind Walls | VBW

VBW Justice Archive: 'Wordsworth'

VBW Justice Archive: 'Wordsworth' by Carlos Andrés Gómez
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VBW Justice Archive ((Audios)): click here

When Mr. Acosta aka Groove asked for recommendations of poetry, song, or literature related to tone & mood for his class at Jefferson High School, the first recording that came to mind was one I recorded years ago with award winning poet, actor, and writer Carlos Andrés Gómez.  The recording was conducted over a lanline phone at Cervantes Village for rotation on KRUX 91.5FM at New Mexico State University.  

I got the opportunity to do the recording thanks to poet activist & journalist, Monte Smith.  Having also conducted recordings & interviews with Monte, he had an army of other voices to recommend for our radio program.  As we continue to archive, recordings & interviews with Monte Smith will also be posted.  Much respect and thanks to Monte for his support during our radio dayz.

We've archived the 'Wordsworth' poetry recording on our VBW YouTube which you can listen to by clicking on the embedded player above, or the links.

For more information on Carlos Andrés Gómez please visit carloslive.com. 

About the VBW Justice Archive

The Voices Behind Walls (VBW) Justice Archive is a collection of audios, artworks, photographs, and writings archived on the following:

VBW Research Network Blog: vbwresearch.blogspot.com
VBW YouTube: youtube.com/voicesbehindwalls
VBW Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/vbehindw
VBW Website: voicesbehindwalls.blogspot.com

The purpose of the archive is to document VBW program history, specifically the creative expression of its participants and program partners.  Files of the VBW Justice Archive are resources for educators, youth, and the public to share.  We hope these files inspire new ideas and other creative expressions in all learning spaces.  The archive is especially to acknowledge the existence of its participants, a majority incarcerated youth,  who recorded into the VBW microphone between the decade of 2004 to 2014.  Hopefully you all find your way back to our page to reflect on your contribution to the VBW program.

The VBW Justice Archive began documenting its program history in 2014.  Audios will be posted periodically.  Updated will be posted at the links above including twitter.com/vbehindw.

Keywords + Tag = Carlos Andrés Gómez | Voices Behind Walls | VBW Justice Archive | archive | justice | words | Wordsworth | Monte Smith | creative expression | spoken word | performance poetry | KRUX 91.5 fm | Jefferson High School | New Mexico State University | NMSU | powerful | tone | mood | lessons

VBW Justice Archive: ((4 A.M. Cody Brown Remix))

VBW Justice Archive: ((4 A.M. Cody Brown Remix)) by Cody Brown
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Original Post / Cody Brown Soundcloud: click here

Cody Brown is an alumni of Voices Behind Walls.  He brought a lot of creative ideas to VBW with his knowledge of music production, not only as a Hip Hop beat maker, but also someone who knows how to play instruments.  He's also a brilliant song writer and lyricist MC/poet.  In many ways, like key players before him, he changed the course of our workshop and opened up the technical possibilities for how we recorded and what we could do with the limited equipment and software we had available.  Through Cody we were able to dream big in what was our goal for the youth themselves to have input along with others on the development of a studio inside of the detention center.

Upon his release from incarceration Cody continued with his music including the instrumental project featured above that Cody produced and uploaded onto his Soundcloud.  It is a remix of the Melanie Fiona single 4 A.M. off of The MF Life released in 2012.

Along with our own recordings, the VBW Justice Archive will feature audio downloads from participants and affiliates of the program.  You can download the 4 A.M. Cody Brown Remix by clicking on the links above or by clicking on the following: MP3.

About the VBW Justice Archive

The Voices Behind Walls (VBW) Justice Archive is a collection of audios, artworks, photographs, and writings archived on the following:

VBW Research Network Blog: vbwresearch.blogspot.com
VBW YouTube: youtube.com/voicesbehindwalls
VBW Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/vbehindw
VBW Website: voicesbehindwalls.blogspot.com

The purpose of the archive is to document VBW program history, specifically the creative expression of its participants and program partners.  Files of the VBW Justice Archive are resources for educators, youth, and the public to share.  We hope these files inspire new ideas and other creative expressions in all learning spaces.  The archive is especially to acknowledge the existence of its participants, a majority incarcerated youth,  who recorded into the VBW microphone between the decade of 2004 to 2014.  Hopefully you all find your way back to our page to reflect on your contribution to the VBW program.

The VBW Justice Archive began documenting its program history in 2014.  Audios will be posted periodically.  Updated will be posted at the links above including twitter.com/vbehindw. 

Keywords + Tag = Cody Brown | Lyric | remix | Melanie Fiona | mp3 download | download | mp3 | Trap | Hip Hop | Rap | 4 A.M. | alumni | Voices Behind Walls | beats | Las Cruces | New Mexico | The MF Life | soundcloud | VBW | audio archive | VBW Research Network | Moose    

VBW Justice Archive: ((I Write))

VBW Justice Archive: ((I Write)) by Will Roy feat. Avoid the Lyricist
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VBW Justice Archive ((Audios)): click here

Most recently, all audios posted on VBW's YouTube page were removed for editing to re-post under the VBW Justice Archive.  ((I Write)) is a recording conducted in 2003 of Will Roy.  Roy is an alumni of The Beat Within who I interviewed back in 03'.  Later I'd transcribe the interview which you can view, download, and print here TBW Will Roy Interview.  At the time Roy also agreed to record a few poems he wrote.  The poetry recording was digitized from the cassette tape and sent to producer Avoid the Lyricist of Metatron from El Paso, Texas who revised the audio by adding effects to the vocal and his own original beat production.  Another instrumental produced by Avoid closes the video titled ((Honey)) which was a beat donated to the VBW program for community programming.

This is the first of many audios I look forward to adding to the archive in effort to document the history of the program and to share these files as resources that maybe will inspire new ideas, writing, or overall creative expression in detention and everywhere.  This recording also embodies how folks like Avoid could work around the imperfections of quality to prioritize the delivery of a message.  For us at that time, it didn't have to sound perfect, it just needed to be heard.

Peace.

About the VBW Justice Archive

The Voices Behind Walls (VBW) Justice Archive is a collection of audios, artworks, photographs, and writings archived on the following:

VBW Research Network Blog: vbwresearch.blogspot.com
VBW YouTube: youtube.com/voicesbehindwalls
VBW Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/vbehindw
VBW Blog: voicesbehindwalls.blogspot.com

The purpose of the archive is to document VBW program history, specifically the creative expression of its participants and program partners.  Files of the VBW Justice Archive are resources for educators, youth, and the public to share.  We hope these files inspire new ideas and other creative expressions in all learning spaces.  The archive is especially to acknowledge the existence of its participants, a majority incarcerated youth,  who recorded into the VBW microphone between the decade of 2004 to 2014.  Hopefully you all find your way back to our page to reflect on your contribution to the VBW program.

The VBW Justice Archive began documenting its program history in 2014.  Audios will be posted periodically.  Updated will be posted at the links above including twitter.com/vbehindw.