Concrete Listening Show | ILYICH

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

This show is special in that it suggests deeper ways of hearing. It listens to the apparent silence of the archives and the potential of prison abolition, reminding us to stay whimsical, to add sugar to the broth, and to remember that listening is the simplest form of meditation.

In this stream of appearances, this show is joined by the voices of John Gillmore, an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and percussionist; and Ruth Wilson Gilmore, a prison abolitionist and prison scholar. Vaginal Davis, a performing artist, painter, independent curator, composer, filmmaker, and writer, and Samaneri Jayasara a Buddhist nun in the Theravadin Forest Tradition.

In this great company, this show will transmit the sound and music of Kham Meslien, Andrii Barmalii, Binker and Moses, Yoni Mayraz, Sun Ra, and many more.

Convinced that listening is a generative practice, the Concrete Listening Show points to challenges and solutions that are at once practical and theoretical, empirical and conceptual, literal and metaphorical, mystical and material, political and spiritual, collective and individual, everyday and extraordinary.