Kamusta, I'm MaryCarl. Along my path I'd become a student of traditional Manuvu and Moro kulintang gong music, which are indigenous to the area that the Westernized know as the Philippines. I'm a daughter of the Maharlikan lands, birthed from a lineage of dedicated carpenters, land-tenders, kitchen goddesses, Sinawali purveyors, and so many more guides that I cherish. I have great gratitude for having had recieved mentorship from members of the Obo Manuvu tribe, Danongan Kalanduyan, and more humble hearts carrying on precolonial sounds and language. The arts are a spiritual practice and my interartistic work is focussed on spiritual improvement through healing and detoxing from industrial civilization and its roots.

I wish to contribute to precolonial cultural regeneration, with emphasis on helping preserve Obu Manuvu and Moro culture through creating soundscapes using primarily Manuvu and Moro kulintang instruments, like the dabakan, agung, babendil, sarunay, kubing, the gandingan a kayo. 

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My intention is to help spread appreciation for sacred energy and ways through sound as these traditions have been dwindling. Such traditions are a part of humanity's ancestral ways. I strive to bring humanity's struggles with undoing both colonial mentality and Our colonized hearts to the forefront of social awareness as a means to elicit constructive change. 

A significant amount of relentless bottom-up community organizing and advocacy work, namely with the now defunct im/migrant suport group Fuerza/Puwersa, has instilled in me interconnected insights on the genuine stories and realties of people from all walks of life, and on humanity's struggles against inner, interpersonal and wider perceptions/dynamics/systems of abuse that result in a myriad of sufferings such as nature-adoring spiritual amnesia, ecocide, cruelty to animals, and many other forms of injustice. Channels for my healing have also  included years of locally-based collaborative hosting of social-conscience-fueled community radio shows.