Lost & Found: Finding The Power In Your Voice

A New Book by Pyeng Threadgill

Bring The Lost & Found Experience To You

Growing up in the 1980s, in the heart of New York City's downtown music and art scene became fertile ground for seeds of creativity, doubt, and eventual empowerment for Pyeng Threadgill—as expressed through Lost & Found: Finding the Power in Your Voice, a collection of personal essays, poetry, and prose. Threadgill offers the reader various entryways to witness the magnificence and fragility of our voices and of our lives. As a performing professional vocalist, songwriter, recording artist, and bandleader, she began Lost & Found during the pandemic—born from many years of teaching voice, the Alexander Technique, and practicing meditation and meditative movement.

From motherhood to travel, from ancestry to the body—evolving from a passionate performer to injured performer, from voice student to voice and movement teacher—Lost & Found examines the visceral and ephemeral experiences of the voice, for the body and for oneself in the world, as both a spiritual and political act.

What Readers are Saying

“First off, I love the way Pyeng can turn anything into a song! After a weeklong retreat with friends in the woods, listening to her greeting “Mr. Hedgehog” with her own sweet song is a memory I will cherish. In Lost and Found, Pyeng challenges readers to find their own sweet songs and to discover that perhaps finding one’s voice has more to do with changing one’s inner monologue and less with what one says aloud. “—Alicia H. Hines, MASK Consortium

"If you are curious how artists live & create or if you are an artist looking for inspiration & community, this book is for you!" —Hjørdis Linn-Blanford, Theater Consigliere/Mariner

“Pyeng’s “Lost & Found: Finding the Power in your Voice” is a beautifully structured book that spoke to me about listening and hearing, with fresh and honest prose and poetry about herself, her family, friends, ancestors and mentors.”—Valborg Fletre Linn, Artist/Designer

“As a black woman, artist, and thinker, Pyeng’s writings make me feel seen. The imagery and storytelling is a sweet deep dive into the twists and turns of becoming. Each page invites a recipe for finding your own superpowers with curiosity and tapping into the divine spiritual connection of sound in the body.  A beautiful read and a compelling journey”. —Tendayi Kuumba, Dancer, Vocalist, Performer, & Teaching Artist