Armond (They/he) is a world-builder and interdisciplinary artist-researcher who synthesizes storytelling across artistic mediums with research to deeply inquire “why not be free?”. Their creative work builds dream-like worlds as rituals for healing, social spaces fostering interconnection, and sites of fugitivity away from global antiBlackness. Armond immerses audiences into live performance, installation, and theater settings to experience these worlds otherwise. They suspend audiences in these Afrosurrealist sites where Black joy and Black life are uninterrupted using poems expanded into narrative soundscapes and plays. Born and raised in Prince George’s County, MD, Armond amplifies intergenerational memory within their Black communities and the African diaspora at-large by drawing from archives and field recordings of the narratives Black folks have lived and continue living. Deeply listening to these narratives grounds their practice as a performer-composer, poet, and theater artist. Through his arts intervention praxis, Armond merges his creative practice with research across Black feminist and Womanist thought, music cognition, and public health not only to develop music interventions and research methods against stress but also to foster collective well-being in Black communities.