A DJ plays while people gather nearby at 620 Jones

A living series in Black electronic music

TheRhythmofResilience

A sequenced journey through Black electronic music. Live in San Francisco since 2002.

Step into the room ↓

R of R archive · Photo: Ruben Navarro

01 / The people

The room is made together

The room is made by people.

Artists and listeners make the night together. Faces in the crowd, hands on the mixer, bodies moving in time: everyone gives the room its shape.

From the R of R archive · Photos: Ruben Navarro

02 / The dance floor

The DJ is a composer

Listen with your whole body.

The DJ is a composer. The drum machine is an instrument. The dance floor is a listening room.

Black electronic music deserves to be heard with care. Here, that attention happens in motion, together, on the floor.

Three people smiling together at a Rhythm of Resilience night
R of R archive · Photo: Ruben Navarro

03 / The next chapter

The rhythm carries forward

The rhythm carries forward.

The Rhythm of Resilience has made space for this music and the people who move it forward since 2002. A new chapter is being built now.

From a Rhythm of Resilience archive night