eavesdropping conversations

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/

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/

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-ondes

Nathalie 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/