Concrete Listening Show | ILYICH

Concrete Listening Show traces ways of listening through words, jazz, and electronic music.

Today's show is special in pointing towards the practice of decolonial listening, sounding its margins with Candice Hopkins, a Carcross/Tagish First Nation independent curator, writer, and researcher. On this journey we are also joined by Joanna Brouk, pioneering American electronic music composer, author, and playwright, sharing with us a methodology of being led by a note and learning to play the piano. Also tuning in is Mr. Paul Hegarty, a professor of French and Francophone studies, an author and experimental musician known for his writing on noise music and listening. Last but not least the one and only Wayne Shorter, American jazz saxophonist, composer, and one of ILYICH's personal gurus joins the flight reminding the listener that nothing ever starts and nothing is ever finished.

On this beginningless journey the show is carried by sounds and rhythms of ... couple of jazzed-out tributes to MF Doom and Yassin Bey and a couple of tunes by yours truly ILYICH playing some of the unreleased, and barely mixed material from the upcoming album afterlife and some of the already existing classics.

Aligned with listening as a generative act, sharing thoughts on silence, resistance, sovereignty, and spaces in between, the Concrete Listening Show points towards the challenges and resolutions that are simultaneously practical and theoretical, empirical and conceptual, literal and metaphorical, mystical and material, political and spiritual, collective and individual, mundane and extraordinary.