eavesdropping conversations: Recent Episodes
Juliet Fraser for eavesdropping.london
eavesdropping is a platform for the sharing of new music and new ways of thinking about music. Our activity includes a festival, a forum, a podcast, and artist development opportunities. In our podcast, eavesdropping conversations, Juliet Fraser chats to the artists featured in the festival.
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Rie Nakajima about trying to make sculpture, trying to be a human being and never mastering the spirit of objects. References: O YAMA O (Rie's duo with Keiko Yamamoto), vital materialism, Beaux-arts de Paris and Cafe OTO.Recommended listening: Rie's album with David Toop, 'Is Spring a Sculpture', released 2025 on Room 40.https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/is-spring-a-sculptureRie will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Sunday 22 March 2026: www.eavesdropping.london/activity/2026/
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Siwan Rhys about her best laid plans to become a Welsh scholar, the teachers that changed everything, and the wonderful wide web that is contemporary classical music. References: GBSR duo, Explore Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, Riot Ensemble, Colin Currie Group, Ensemble intercontemporain, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, composers Bartók, Ligeti, Adès, Charles Ives and his Concord Sonata (Piano Sonata No. 2), Marco Stroppa, Catherine Lamb, commissioning Oliver Leith, Angharad Davies, Beatrice Dillon and Sarah Davachi for GBSR, and solo repertoire by Lara Agar, Barbara Monk Feldman and Galina Ustvolskaya. Recommended listening: Morton Feldman box set on Another Timbre https://www.anothertimbre.com/products/morton-feldman-trios-box-setSiwan will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Saturday 21 March 2026: www.eavesdropping.london/activity/2026/
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Lucy Humphris about asking the wrong questions, the importance of keeping a sense of play and the danger of underestimating our audiences.References: Ensemble Musikfabrik, Bethan Morgan-Williams, Claire Cope, Nneka Cummins, Louise Drewett and Kirsten Milenko.Recommended listening: Obscurus, with pianist Harry Rylance, released 2023 on Rubicon.Lucy will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Friday 20 March 2026: www.eavesdropping.london/activity/2026/
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Nathalie Forget about being everywhere and nowhere with this hypersensitive instrument, and the importance of taking time to experiment with composers.References: teachers Tristan and Michèle Foison, Pascale Rousse-Lacordaire and then Valérie Hartmann-Claverie at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris, artist Joseph Beuys, Maurice Martenot, Pascale Criton, Olivier Messiaen, Radiohead and Jacques Brel, Ana-Maria Avram and Iancu Dumitrescu.Recommended listening: from album 'Echosplitter' (2023) https://antemanha.bandcamp.com/track/hinein-in-die-nacht-ondesNathalie will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Thursday 19 March 2026: www.eavesdropping.london/activity/2026/
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Zosha Warpeha about falling in love with the Hardanger d'amore and finding there a sense of space, about learning and forgetting tunes, and using intonation as an entryway into new worlds. References: Scottish Fiddle Orchestra, Cristina Seaborn, Bobby Vee, Salve Håkedal, Dan Trueman, Eyvind Kang's album 'Riparian', Zosha's new album, 'I grow accustomed to the dark', recorded during a residency at ISSUE Project Room and released on Outside Time. Recommended listening: Zosha's album 'silver dawn', released in 2024 on Relative Pitch Records. And the new album drops on 27 March: https://zosha.bandcamp.com/Zosha will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Sunday 22 March 2026: www.eavesdropping.london/activity/2026/
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Émilie Škrijelj about practising the sport of the accordion, working with a (con)fusion of timbre, and the political dimension of touring.References: Lores Binot, her trio BRUINE, percussionist Tom Malmendier, poet/rapper Mike Ladd, turntablist Otomo Yoshihide, clarinettist Michael Thieke and improviser Phil Durrant. Recommended listening: https://euxsaem.bandcamp.com/album/bruineÉmilie will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Saturday 21 March 2026: www.eavesdropping.london/activity/2026/
as a window of possibility, being happy in the creative fog and memories of Enya blasting in the bathroom. References: Enya, Cats (the musical), Garth Brooks, Madonna, Paula Abdul, Boyz II Men on tape, composer Francois Sarhan (and Juliet mentions composers Kristine Tjøgersen, Clara Iannotta, Jessie Marino), the Berlin Philharmonic (hearing Daniel Barenboim conducting Beethoven's 7th Symphony and Vasily Petrenko conducting Stravinsky's Petrushka), bell hooks, and Inga Margrete Aas.Recommended listening: https://youtu.be/LKQIjP7tzKsJen will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Friday 20 March 2026: https://www.eavesdropping.london/activity/2026/
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Audrey Chen about the voice as a filter for life, the existential question of finding a way to her own elemental language, and courage vs survival. References: Suzanne Fiol at ISSUE Project Room in NYC, her band Mopcut, and collaborators Phil Minton, Nick Klein, Hugo Esquinca and trombonist Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø.Suggested listening: Runt Vigor, released 2018 on Karl Records.Audrey will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Thursday 19 March 2026: https://www.eavesdropping.london/activity/2026/
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Anna Zaradny about finding inspiration in the grey times of censorship, the paradox of deficit, and the magic and responsibility of intuition. References: Musica Genera festival and record label, co-founded with Robert Piotrowicz, conducting the 'Dies Irae' from Verdi's Requiem (!), DDR (GDR in English), MTV, Bronski Beat, Monty Python, and her pieces 'Carbonado as a hex' and 'The Sound of A Distanced Body'.Anna will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Friday 28 March 2025: https://www.eavesdropping.london/activity/festival-2025/
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Isidora Edwards about the human-like quality of sound, how we can reassess our notions of time, and the improvisatory qualities of research. References: city of Rancagua (Chile), ACÉFALO festival, improvisers Marcio Mattos and Marilza Gouvêa, mopomoso series, London Improvisers Orchestra, John Russell, composers Éliane Radigue and her notion of infinitesimal sound, Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire.Isidora will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Saturday 29 March 2025: https://www.eavesdropping.london/activity/festival-2025/
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Sarah Saviet about the value of curiosity and confusion, the vulnerability of co-writing music and the steadfast companionship of magical hairy pigs. References: teacher Rebecca Henry, Webern 'Vier Stücke', duo with Joseph Houston, ensemble mosaik, works by Arne Gieshoff, Liza Streich, Liza Lim, Lawrence Dunn & Evan Johnson on her disc SPUN, Feldman's 'For John Cage', Riot Ensemble who commissioned a piece by Soosan Lolavar and all that dust.Sarah will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Thursday 27 March 2025: https://www.eavesdropping.london/activity/festival-2025/
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Hyelim Kim about the role of nature in traditional Korean music, cutting her first bamboo flute and finding the groove. References: her monograph 'Tradition and Creativity in Korean Taegŭm [or daegeum] Flute Performance’ published by Routledge in 2021 and recent album 'Songs of the Forest Calm' with Danish jazz instrumentalists Kasper Staub and Torben Westergaard.Hyelim will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Sunday 30 March 2025: https://www.eavesdropping.london/activity/festival-2025/
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Aya Metwalli about Cairo's soundscape, feline metamorphosis, the joy of listening from the outside and the magnetism of a good performance. References: John Cage, György Ligeti, Diamanda Galás, John Coltrane, Merzbow and Throbbing Gristle. I can recommend Aya's album 'Al Saher' with Calamita. Aya will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Thursday 27 March 2025: https://www.eavesdropping.london/activity/festival-2025/
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Rachel Musson about the hazy space between composition and improvisation, the magic of a flow state and imagining an industry that can sustain musicians. References: jazz course at Porthcawl (South Wales) with Tony Oxley, Norma Winstone, John Taylor, Steve Argüelles, sound artist Jobina Tinnemans, composer Tony Dudley-Evans, Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists, bassist Olie Brice and Bridgend Music Service (petition now closed but viewable here: https://democratic.bridgend.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?ID=26&RPID=0&HPID=0).Rachel will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Saturday 29 March 2025: https://www.eavesdropping.london/activity/festival-2025/
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to soprano Stephanie Lamprea about recontextualising the 'operatic' voice, technique as a set of muscles, and the joy of going to shows. References: Colombian dance styles cumbia, bachata and salsa, Georges Aperghis 'Récitations', composer Amble Skuse, MiMU gloves, misophonia (selective sound sensitivity syndrome), The Old Hairdresser's in Glasgow, actress & BSL performer Yuki Neoh, BSL interpreter Megan McArthur, Keepers of Sound residency run by Anne Kjær, composers Erin Thomson & Lisa Robertson. Transcription available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l6u43NzveSwcT1TcpzYW7JxqOUUuy-a7/view?usp=sharingStephanie will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Friday 28 March 2025: https://www.eavesdropping.london/activity/festival-2025/
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Madison Greenstone about exstatic resonances, UPPER CASE music and the importance of live performance. References: Raymond Scott, Don Byron, Esquivel!, Éliane Radigue, Luigi Nono's term 'il suono mobile', TAK Ensemble and their festival SWOONFEST, the 2023 iteration of which featured anarchist punk band Sour Spirit, composers Michelle Lou & Natacha Diels and the trio gabby fluke-mogul, Tcheser Holmes & Mara Rosenbloom. Madison will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Sunday 30 March 2025: https://www.eavesdropping.london/activity/festival-2025/
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/
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 CollectiveIsa 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.Our new jingle is by Isa Otoya.
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.Our new jingle is by Isa Otoya.
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.Our new jingle is by Isa Otoya.
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 AprilOur 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/https://www.youtube.com/@isaotoyamusica
'One Day' by Juliet Fraser.
A little song made with the TC Helicon VoiceLive 3 in March 2021.
'the snow falling faintly through the universe' by Megan Steinberg.
Workshop performance by Juice Vocal Ensemble in Glasgow (2018). Text by James Joyce.
'Before the world ends' by Megan Steinberg.
A fixed media piece from Megan's free-to-download album, Polar Realities.
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.
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to oud player Rihab Azar about growing up with an oud in her lap, smashing glass ceilings and bringing all of herself to a project.
Rihab's performance will be broadcast as a YouTube premiere on 22 April.
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to turntablist Megan Steinberg about experimental music, advocating for equality and diversity and being an architecture nerd.
Megan's performance will be broadcast as a YouTube premiere on 23 April.
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to percussionist Angela Wai Nok Hui about how cool percussion is, the political versus the personal and how to offer our ears to a project.
Angela's performance will be broadcast as a YouTube premiere on 21 April 2021.
In which eavesdropping host talks to composer Lucie Treacher about interactive sound experiences, telling women's stories and writing for the oud (in eavesdropping's first commission!).
Lucie's performance will be broadcast as a YouTube premiere on 22 April 2021.
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to gestural performance artist Winnie Huang about embodied performance, calling oneself a composer and how in giving we receive.
Winnie's performance will be broadcast as a YouTube premiere on 23 April 2021.
Juliet Fraser 'these things at least' from 'My Adventures with the TC Helicon VoiceLive 3', recorded 8 April 2020 and dedicated to Lisa Illean.
When lockdown began and I began panicking about how on earth I was going to practice 'properly' at home in this tiny flat, I decided to take the plunge and buy the TC Helicon VoiceLive 3, a piece of kit I had been thinking about for ages, and make this a lockdown project that might save morale and sanity. Here is one of the spontaneous little experiments that have emerged as I get to know the beast, fiddling around with the several hundred preset vocal effects, the manifold possibilities of individual effects (such as harmony and hardtune) and the loop function. The text was chosen at random and is taken from Canto IX of Wallace Stevens's 'Notes toward a Supreme Fiction'.
Romina Lischka plays the Prelude and Sarabande from Suite in G minor by Sainte-Colombe.
The Fringe and Underground Music Group at Goldsmiths launched a pamphlet/printed edition series entitled Spaces of Making on 11 May 2018.
Based broadly on themes of physical, digital, social and conceptual/ideological space, the first run of pamphlets featured contributions from artists and musicians Charles Hayward, Marlo De Lara, Sharon Gal and Richard Phoenix.
The launch event for the pamphlet series, co-hosted by The Lumen Lake, was held in the Lewisham Arthouse. www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=11547
Georgina Derbez 'Forca d´Amor in quel uccel' (2007) for clarinet & accordion
Zöllner-Roche-Duo: Eva Zöllner, accordion & Heather Roche, bass clarinet Live recording, Mexico 2019
Holy week on Thassos, an island just south of the Eastern Macedonian mainland. Since congregating is forbidden, religious services are held behind closed doors, delivered by two or three priests and amplified via megaphone speakers mounted on the outer walls of the church.
On Good Friday, the bells perform an exquisite work of durational performance art, pealing out the three tones of a minor triad, one tone every four seconds, for six hours.
On Easter Sunday, a shortened version of the liturgy, roughly one hour long, resounds throughout the village.
On Monday, I go to the hills.
Andrea Young 'The Voice Index' (excerpt)
'The Voice Index' (2015-16) is a fixed sound installation with four live voices, which investigates the fine detail an intense listening experience inherent to the spectral manipulations made possible through voice resynthesis.
An experience of increased sensitivity to each partial within the harmonic spectrum is achieved by slowly departing from and returning to the recognition of a human voice. The resynthesized, monophonic voice becomes a polyphonic instrument with dynamic musicality in its micro inflections. This work aims to suggest that human interaction, the act of listening and the imagination constitute the full spectrum of the human voice.
Technical research and the compositional possibilities afforded by independent and algorithmic control of each individual partial within the harmonic spectrum of a single vocal utterance is counterbalanced with critical studies in literature surrounding the meaning of voice from philosophical, psychoanalytical and technological perspectives. The “voice-index” (Alice Lagaay, Free University, Berlin) suggests that a plurality of voices – including those in positive and negative aural space – may account for the variation of psychological and physical voices from others and from within.
Andrea performed this piece live for us on 16 March 2018, with Jessica Aszodi and Juliet Fraser.
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to violist Raghad Haddad about starting again, music as a safe space and her many community music projects.
References: Damon Albarn & The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians; I Speak Music programme (Surrey Arts Music Hub); UP! Orchestra (Surrey Arts Music Hub); Journeys of Destiny (Derbyshire Virtual School); Stories of Sanctuary (with Sam Slatcher); 'Together Is Beautiful' by The Earth Orchestra.
Recorded 28 April 2020 in London and Birmingham.
- Alap - Raga Yaman (voice + tanpura)
- Prelude & Sarabande from the Suite in G minor by Sainte-Colombe (viol)
- Jod - Raga Bhairavi (voice+viol)
- Jhala - Raga Bihag (voice + tanpura)
- Yaman improvisation (viol)
In lieu of a live performance on 24 April 2020 (cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic), this is the audio from a special performance Romina recorded for eavesdropping during lockdown, which was broadcast on our new YouTube channel.
- Alap - Raga Yaman (voice + tanpura)
- Prelude & Sarabande from the Suite in G minor by Sainte-Colombe (viol)
- Jod - Raga Bhairavi (voice+viol)
- Jhala - Raga Bihag (voice + tanpura)
- Yaman Improvisation (viol)
In lieu of a live performance on 24 April 2020 (cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic), this is the audio from a special performance Romina recorded for eavesdropping during lockdown, which was broadcast on our new YouTube channel.
- Alap - Raga Yaman (voice + tanpura)
- Prelude & Sarabande from the Suite in G minor by Sainte-Colombe (viol)
- Jod - Raga Bhairavi (voice+viol)
- Jhala - Raga Bihag (voice + tanpura)
- Yaman Improvisation (viol)
In lieu of a live performance on 24 April 2020 (cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic), this is the audio from a special performance Romina recorded for eavesdropping during lockdown, which was broadcast on our new YouTube channel.
- Alap - Raga Yaman (voice + tanpura)
- Prelude & Sarabande from the Suite in G minor by Sainte-Colombe (viol)
- Jod - Raga Bhairavi (voice+viol)
- Jhala - Raga Bihag (voice + tanpura)
- Yaman improvisation (viol)
In lieu of a live performance on 24 April 2020 (cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic), this is the audio from a special performance Romina recorded for eavesdropping during lockdown, which was broadcast on our new YouTube channel.
- Alap - Raga Yaman (voice + tanpura)
- Prelude & Sarabande from the Suite in G minor by Sainte-Colombe (viol)
- Jod - Raga Bhairavi (voice+viol)
- Jhala - Raga Bihag (voice + tanpura)
- Yaman improvisation (viol)
In lieu of a live performance on 24 April 2020 (cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic), this is the audio from a special performance Romina recorded for eavesdropping during lockdown, which was broadcast on our new YouTube channel.
In lieu of a live performance on 20 March 2020 (cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic), we are sharing some substitutes.
This is the audio from Rie's performance at Cafe OTO on 19 March 2020. The whole concert was live-streamed on YouTube and can be found here: https://youtu.be/f9MWwpfsojE (Rie's set starts at 1:37:00).
Huge thanks to Cafe OTO for letting me share this recording.
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Marlo De Lara a.k.a. marlo eggplant about origin stories, the roles of technology, embodiment and vulnerability in feminist art practices, and the power of a name (or a vegetable).
References: Riot Grrrrl movement; Kelly Jayne Jones; Sonic Cyberfeminisms; Wysing Arts Centre; Tara Rodgers's book and website 'Pink Noises'; Ladyz in Noyz.
Recorded 14 April 2020 in London and Los Angeles.
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Romina Lischka about crossing musical genres, multiple identities and rediscovering a childish creativity.
Recorded 9 April 2020 in London and somewhere near Leuven.
In which special guest Heather Roche* talks to eavesdropping founder Juliet Fraser about old music, new music, turkeys and these strange times.
Recorded 20 March 2020 in our respective Telegraph Hill and Stepney homes using technology that we don't completely understand.
*Heather Roche is a clarinettist and eavesdropping alumnus, having performed in season one.
In lieu of a live performance on 20 March 2020 (cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic), we are sharing some substitutes.
This piece was to be the encore of Juliet's set at eavesdropping on 20 March 2020: a short extract, featuring a goat, a swine, a cicada, an owl, an eagle and a nightingale, from Richard Ayres's 'No. 42 (In the Alps — an animated concert)'.
Performed here on 9 February 2020 with the Hartley Loop Orchestra c. Benjamin Oliver at Turner Sims, Department of Music, Southampton University. Costume by the MA students of the Fashion Department of Winchester School of Art. Music and Text by Richard Ayres. By kind permission of Schott Music Ltd.
Juliet's set was also to include a work-in-progress performance of a new module of the 'Tracery' project with composer Cassandra Miller. And old but little-known (and very strange) module, 'Tracery : The Slits' can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/267407136.
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Rie Nakajima about O YAMA O (the accidental pop band), the healthy way of one line of constant change, and documentation and ephemerality.
Recorded 24 February 2020 in Juliet's dining room in Stepney Green.
Live recording of a performance by Raghad Haddad (viola) and Hanen Kiwan (percussion) at eavesdropping on 21 February 2020.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to accordionist Eva Zöllner about being a nomad, commissioning and reviving repertoire, and performers as curators.
Recorded 21 February 2020 in the chapel at Oxford House.
Live recording of a performance by Eva Zöllner (accordion) at eavesdropping on 24 January 2020.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
Live recording of a performance by Raghad Haddad (viola) and Hanen Kiwan (percussion) at eavesdropping on 21 February 2020.
'Ala Moj Elbahr' (Sea Waves) is an ancient Syrian song.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
Live recording of a performance by Raghad Haddad (viola) and Hanen Kiwan (percussion) at eavesdropping on 21 February 2020.
This begins with an improvisation on the hijaz makam scale, and then features folk songs from Aleppo, including 'Wasla Hijaz'.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
Live recording of a performance by Eva Zöllner (accordion) at eavesdropping on 24 January 2020.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
Live recording of a performance by Raghad Haddad (viola) and Hanen Kiwan (percussion) at eavesdropping on 21 February 2020.
This begins with an improvisation on the nahawand makam scale, and moves into 'Lama Bada Yatathana'.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
Live recording of a performance by Raghad Haddad (viola) and Hanen Kiwan (percussion) at eavesdropping on 21 February 2020.
This begins with an improvisation on the bayat makam scale, and moves into 'Saalouni elnas', a song by the Lebanese singer Fairuz.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
Live recording of a performance by Raghad Haddad (viola) and Hanen Kiwan (percussion) at eavesdropping on 21 February 2020.
'Samaee Saba' uses the saba scale.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
Live recording of a performance by Eva Zöllner (accordion) at eavesdropping on 24 January 2020.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
Live recording of a performance by Eva Zöllner (accordion) at eavesdropping on 24 January 2020.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
Live recording of a performance by Jennifer Walshe at eavesdropping on 24 January 2020.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
Live recording of a performance by Jennifer Walshe at eavesdropping on 24 January 2020.
From her imminent cassette release, 'A Late Anthology of Early Music': Track 2 — Anonymous: Gregorian Chant, Mass for Christmas Day, Introit: Puer Natus Est Nobis Track 4 — Adam De La Halle: Robins M’Aime, from Jeu de Robin et de Marion Track 11 — Johannes Ockeghem: Missa Prolationum, Kyrie Track 13 — Jacob Arcadelt: Il bianco e dolce cigno, Madrigal Track 15 — John Dowland: Flow, My Tears, Air
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
Live recording of a performance by Sophie Fetokaki at eavesdropping on 24 January 2020.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
Live recording of a performance by Sophie Fetokaki at eavesdropping on 24 January 2020.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
Live recording of a performance by Sophie Fetokaki at eavesdropping on 24 January 2020.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
Live recording of a performance by Sophie Fetokaki at eavesdropping on 24 January 2020.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
Live recording of a performance by Sophie Fetokaki at eavesdropping on 24 January 2020.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
Live recording of a performance by Sophie Fetokaki at eavesdropping on 24 January 2020.
Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to composer-performer Jennifer Walshe about AI, models of composition and a late anthology of early music.
Recorded 20 January 2020 in the chapel at Oxford House.
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to singer, poet, performance artist and maker-of-things Sophie Fetokaki about islands and edges, desire and departure, and the healing power of song.
Recorded 12 December 2019 in the chapel at Oxford House. Sophie has published a beautiful written statement in response to one of the interview questions here: https://sophiefetokaki.com/text
Live recording of Agostino Di Scipio's 'Audible Ecosystemics No. 3b' (for voice and live electronics)performed at eavesdropping on 16 March 2018.
Live recording of Andrea Young's 'The Voice Index' (for three solo voices and fixed electronics, with Jessica Aszodi and Juliet Fraser) performed at eavesdropping on 16 March 2018.
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to clarinettist Heather Roche about blogs, basset horns and the woman thing.
[Apologies, dear listeners, for the poor sound quality. Technical hitch.]
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to French cellist Séverine Ballon about commissioning, collaborating, composing and community.
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to composer/vocalist Eleanor Cully about words, process, notation, tweets, and things between and around.
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to singer-songwriter Naala about how she makes her music, how she describes her music, the female experience and what's inspiring her.
Live recording of a work-in-progress of 'Music for Five Boxes' by Mira Benjamin (violin) and Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad (electronics), given at eavesdropping on 8 December 2017.
Live recording of a performance of 'Shadows' by Alba Cabral (on water calabashes, udu and voice), given at eavesdropping on 8 December 2017.
Live recording of a performance of 'Congado' and 'Lua Cheia' (lyrics by Lizzie Ogle) by Alba Cabral with Bea Shantifa, Lizzie Ogle & Tuca Milan of Let Drum Beat, given at eavesdropping on 8 December 2017.
Live recording of the UK premiere of Séverine Ballon's 'Cloches fendues I & III', given by the composer at eavesdropping on 3 November 2017.
Live recording of a work-in-progress performance of Rebecca Saunders 'O' (2017), given by Juliet Fraser at eavesdropping on 3 November 2017.
In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Canadian violinist Mira Benjamin about her music-making, her current work, recent collaborations and the state of new music.