Lullaby Machine

Lullaby Machine is a digital rest-stop dedicated to sharing lullabies in a world where it can be hard to fall asleep. Officially launched in March 2025, our website hosts a growing library of .mp3 lullabies and a quarterly e-magazine featuring meditations on lullaby, rest, dreams, grief, capitalism, ecology, and the internet.

Lullabies have long been ways of opening doorways into dreamworlds. As we've tended this project over the past year, our hope has been to open such a portal on the internet—a liminal place that can also feel like a dream. We imagine Lullaby Machine as a site of emergent conversation on radical rest amid capitalism and the sharing of connection and presence—a small but public network of digital care. Our current collection of sonic, written, and experimental contributions includes published and forthcoming work by Maria BC, Mary Eliza, Ellayo, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Amanda Hawkins, Saba Keramati, Martha Langford, Jane Schoenbrun, Bailey Sneed, and kai velázquez, among others.

This project is a labor of love shared between Maia Sauer and Olivia Q. Pintair. So far, tending to it has been a grounding practice amid transitional periods of our lives, as well as an inspiring reminder that people are as eager for connection as we are. It's been a joy for us to pour ourselves into this project and an additional gift to feel it received and expanded by many artists we admire.

Currently, Lullaby Machine is an entirely unfunded project. We're actively applying for funding, but for now are very much flying by the seat of our pants.

We've got big dreams for what Lullaby Machine could become. Meeting this fundraising goal would allow us to realize a few of those dreams; we'd be able to compensate all contributors to our next e-magazine issue, hire a web developer to streamline the website, pay ourselves for a fraction of the unpaid hours we've worked, and host at least one in-person event later this year in New York.

We're excited for the future of this growing creative community and so grateful for any and all support in bringing it to life.

With gratitude and an eye toward warmer nights of good, deep sleep,

Maia & Olivia