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 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.