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-sculpture
Rie will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Sunday 22 March 2026: www.eavesdropping.london/activity/2026/
6 Mar 2026
eavesdropping conversation 52: siwan rhys (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-set
Siwan 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/
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