Sebastian Siren aka SSIREN (he/him)

SSIREN joined Momma on March 30, 2026 for a live Q&A via Twitch and YouTube to talk about Music as Somatic Release & Emotional Processing

About SSIREN

Sebastian Siren, known artistically as SSIREN, is a New York–based DJ, producer, and creative director shaping a distinct lane in electronic music. His sound blends indie dance, house, and trance influences into something that feels both high-energy and deeply intentional, designed not just for movement, but for connection.

At the core of SSIREN’s work is a belief that music is a vehicle for transformation. His sets are immersive and emotionally charged, inviting people out of their heads and into their bodies, where presence, release, and shared energy take over. Whether in the studio or behind the decks, he approaches his craft with a balance of discipline and intuition, treating each moment as an opportunity to create something honest and alive.

Beyond the music, Sebastian brings a thoughtful perspective to the evolving identity of the modern artist. His work explores themes of growth, self-awareness, and creative integrity, often challenging the industry's noise in favor of something more grounded and human. Through SSIREN, he is building more than a sound. He is creating a space where people can feel, connect, and remember what it means to be fully present.

Socials / Links for Guest Connection

• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ssiren.sounds

• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@ssiren.sounds

• Sound Cloud - https://soundcloud.com/ssirensounds

• LinkTree - https://linktr.ee/ssiren.sounds

References / Things Mentioned During the Stream

• Book Recommendations:

  • All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks 

  • Anne Rice books 

  • Sunshine by Robin McKinley 

  • No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz, Alanis Morissette  (Foreword) 

• Little Free Library Program

• https://brenebrown.com/

• Movie Recommendation: Blade 

• https://davidlohlein.com/

• rekordbox Software 

• PLUR 

• Higher Love

• Neural Nostalgia

• Parts Work Therapy

• Favorite Poem: Enivrez-vous (Paris Spleen, 1864) 

Episode Summary

This one's for anyone who's ever cried to a song and had no clue why, and wants to stop being weirded out by it.

Sebastian Siren is a DJ, producer and creative director out of New York who blends house, indie dance and trance into what he calls techno temple ritual. He joined MommaFoxFire on Even Tacos Fall Apart to talk about music as somatic release and emotional processing, and the conversation went way past the decks.

Sebastian started sharing his story after a bad breakup sent him into therapy in 2019, which led him down a rabbit hole of books on mindfulness and interpersonal relationships that eventually became part of his brand. He talks openly about researching sound healing and metaphysics, and about how electronic music is genuinely primal, built on frequency and beats per minute that sync with the human body. He points out that house music sits around 128 BPM, close to an elevated heart rate, and that when a room full of people move to the same rhythm their brain waves start to sync up too.

The two dig into how Sebastian builds a set as an emotional journey, opening either hard and fast or slow and ethereal, moving through waves of energy, and always ending on something euphoric so nobody leaves in what he calls the underworld. He explains why he wants people crying, laughing or feeling something real by the end of a night, and shares a story about eight straight hours of dancing curing six months of lower back pain.

They also get into the parts of the scene people don't always talk about honestly. Sebastian speaks candidly about drug use in the rave community, the difference between intentional occasional use and losing yourself in it, and why balance matters more than the reputation the scene gets. He talks about burnout, about being an elder millennial figuring out who he is as an artist now versus who he was ten years ago, and about learning to just be, something his first therapist asked him that he says cracked his brain wide open.

MommaFoxFire shares her own experience with music and depression, including a moment her therapist helped her understand about crying to songs as a sign of moving out of emotional numbness. Sebastian gives practical advice too, like building a music toolbox for hard days, when headphones help you go deep versus when a speaker filling the room does more, and why intention matters more than genre.

This episode is honest, funny and grounded, covering everything from vampire novels to psychedelic therapy to what it actually means to let a song move through your body instead of just listening to it. Sebastian leaves listeners with a reminder that mental health doesn't always look loud, and that the people who seem like they have it together are often working through just as much as everyone else.