https://www.akriza.com/writing Essays and journal entries from Akriza — on remembering, renaming, ritual, and the making of ancient future music. en-us Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://www.akriza.com/writing/names-are-spells https://www.akriza.com/writing/names-are-spells Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Why a producer renamed himself, what remembering means, and what it cost. Akriza is an anagram of Zakari. Zachary means "God remembers" — on names as spells, dissolving an identity, and what remembering sounds like.