Episodes
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In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Sandra Kazlauskaitė about tactile memories of sound, how we listen and what we listen for, and how we can shape new futures from hidden pasts.
References: Extra Sonic Practice research group, Sounding Borders project, SISU collective, GUYZ, DJ Bleed, Jurango, Livity Sound, TraTraTrax, Astrid Sonne and Enya.
Sandra will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Friday 22 March 2024: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/eavesdropping-festival-2024/ -
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Dafne Vicente-Sandoval about repetition and transformation, volatility, and the boundaries between a private and a public practice.
References: composers Éliane Radigue, Phill Niblock & Jakob Ullmann, and her recent release exploring feedback, 'Minos Circuit'.
Dafne will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Sunday 24 March 2024: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/eavesdropping-festival-2024/ -
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In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Soosan Lolavar about entangled cultures, autoethnography, the art of making alongside working and the value of rest.
References: santoor, composer Reza Vali, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Ruthless Jabiru & conductor Kelly Lovelady, ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music), her book 'Embodied Research through Music Composition and Evocative Life-Writing: Disrupting Diaspora' and her new album 'Girl' (released on Nonclassical on 15 March).
Soosan is a guest speaker in the eavesdropping festival forum, giving a talk on failure at Cafe OTO on Saturday 23 March 2024: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/eavesdropping-festival-2024-forum/ -
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Anna Dennis about the spectrum of creative input, the potency and potential experimentalism of opera, and its wigs.
References: composer Elena Langer, Almeida Theatre, Futurism, Dada, Barbara Strozzi & Hildegard of Bingen.
Anna will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Saturday 23 March 2024: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/eavesdropping-festival-2024/ -
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Tonia Ko about composition as a coping mechanism, being a worm in an apple and becoming (perhaps) the world's only bubble wrap virtuoso.
References: composer Donald Reid Womack, Giacinto Scelsi, George Crumb and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, American Composers Orchestra, video artist Alexandra Cuesta and the Non-Piano/Toy Piano Weekend in Hamburg.
Tonia's new work will be premiered by Eliza McCarthy in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Thursday 21 March 2024: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/eavesdropping-festival-2024/ -
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Ellie Wilson about her chance encounter with a violin at school, finding her own soundworld, exploring layers of history, and moths.
References: André Previn conducting and narrating Benjamin Britten's 'Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra', Stephen Hough playing Grieg's piano concerto, All Tomorrow's Parties, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Ellie's albums 'Echoes: Unearthing Stories of the Forest' (2019) about Epping Forest and 'Memory Islands' (2023), NMC Recordings, composers Linda Buckley and Donnacha Dennehy, and Oxford Contemporary Music's BOOM scheme.
Ellie will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Friday 22 March 2024: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/eavesdropping-festival-2024/ -
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Mariá Portugal about labels vs tools, improvising across traditions and the comfort of collaboration.
References: Moers Festival, her album Erosão (2021), her soundtrack to the film '1976' (released 2023), Soundtrips NRW.
Mariá will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Thursday 21 March 2024: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/eavesdropping-festival-2024/ -
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Eliza McCarthy about mindful choices, defining weirdness, the sheer impossibility of failure and the adventure of commissioning new music.
References: Donnacha Dennehy, Harry Styles, Gabriella Smith, Linda Catlin Smith, Tonia Ko, Cassandra Miller.
Eliza will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Thursday 21 March 2024: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/eavesdropping-festival-2024/ -
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Isa Otoya about being a rebel, multidisciplinarity as a feedback loop and the power of positivity.
References: RETAMA Collective
Isa composed our new jingle and RETAMA will present an online provocation as part of this year's festival forum on 2 April 2023. -
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Fathima Zahra about girlhood, a liminal space of belonging and writing as a permission slip.
References: poets Tishani Doshi, Raymond Antrobus, Safia Elhillo and Sarah Kay, and movies Joyland and Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam.
Fathima will speak in the eavesdropping festival forum at Cafe OTO on Saturday 1 April 2023.
Our new jingle is by Isa Otoya. -
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Letty Stott about being a really curious horn player, the inherent rebelliousness of being a musician and the recent discovery of a Roman mouthpiece on Hadrian's Wall.
References: Dr Peter Holmes (The Horns and Trumpets of the European Iron Age), John Kenny, her project Gender and the Large and Shiny Instruments, and ancient horns including the carnix, the salpinx, the cornu, the sambec and the lituus.
Letty will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Friday 31 March 2023.
Our new jingle is by Isa Otoya. -
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to NikNak about the stacking of many hats, her mum's vinyl connection, the value of not fitting into boxes and thinking in frequencies.
References: Dennis Brown 'Get to Love in Time', Omar, King Tubby, Loraine James, Space Africa, Nwando Ebizie, Philip Glass 'Metamorphosis' and Orange Mountain Music. You can explore NikNak's radio show 'Melanin' on WorldwideFM (https://worldwidefm.net/collection/melanin-niknak)
NikNak will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Sunday 2 April 2023.
Our new jingle is by Isa Otoya. -
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Christine Abdelnour about sound as a plastic material, the defiance and precarity of being a musician and the importance of talking about music.
References: improvisors Peter Brötzmann, John Butcher and Keith Jarrett, electro-acoustic composers Éliane Radigue and Alvin Lucier, artist Sarah Lucas, and record labels ECM and FMP.
Chris will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Friday 31 March 2023.
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In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Silvia Tarozzi about unconventional paths, finding the freedom to make her own music, and the power of songs.
References: Ensemble Dedalus, cellist Deborah Walker and composers Pascale Criton, Tom Johnson, Éliane Radigue, Philip Corner and Pauline Oliveros.
Silvia will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Thursday 30 March 2023.
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In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir about sound sculptures, the unhelpful idea of a finished product, and making room for other ways of making music.
References: Inês Zinho Pinheiro (dancer)
Lilja will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Saturday 1 April 2023.
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In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian about storytelling, playful notation and getting women on wikipedia.
Cevanne will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Thursday 30 March 2023. **DATE CHANGE: Cevanne will now perform Saturday 1 April**
Our new jingle is by Isa Otoya. -
In 2023 we commissioned a new jingle for our 'eavesdropping conversations' podcast. We love this track that Isa Otoya made for us!
https://www.instagram.com/isa.otoya/
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In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to violinist Angharad Davies about improvising, collaborating, composing and what lies ahead.
Angharad's performance was broadcast as a YouTube premiere on 20 April 2021. -
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to cellist Khabat Abas about hidden corners and errors, problems and possibility, and the mutual agency flowing between her and her cello.
Khabat's performance will be broadcast as a YouTube premiere on 21 April.
Reference: https://space21.nu/ -
In which special guest Jennie Gottschalk* talks to eavesdropping founder Juliet Fraser about what drove her to create eavesdropping, what drives her to keep it going and how this tiny venture intersects with her practice as a singer.
Juliet's performance will be broadcast as a YouTube premiere on 20 April.
*Jennie Gottschalk is a composer of and writer on experimental music, a researcher of beans and an eavesdropping alumnus, having presented in the first season's symposium. - Show more
