Concrete Listening Show | ILYICH

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

This show is special in celebrating the second anniversary of ILYICH's residency at Refuge Worldwide.

This show listens to "that fine space between desire and always the grave" and recalls the moment of finally being able to hear Sun Ra. It listens to the wind as music, cosmology, and architecture, and reminds us to listen to our inner voice while keeping our intent intact.

In this stream of appearances, this show will be transmitting the voices of the writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist Audre Lorde; jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and percussionist John Gilmore; filmmaker, writer, literary theorist, composer, and professor Trinh T. Minh-ha and last but not least the infamous extraterrestrial, musician and poet Col. Bruce Hampton from the Aquarium Rescue Unit will join the show.

This anniversary episode is also special as it celebrates the release and first collaboration between ILYICH and celebrated African House DJ and Refuge Worldwide Resident Floyd Lavine. In keeping with this soulful and jazzy track with a highlight feel, this Concrete Listening Show will focus on sharing songs filled with poetry and voices including Laura Mvula, Khadja Bonet, and Emma-Jean Thackray among many others.

Convinced of listening as a generative practice, the Concrete Listening Show points towards the challenges and solutions, which are simultaneously practical and theoretical, empirical and conceptual, literal and metaphorical, mystical and material, political and spiritual, collective and individual, mundane and extraordinary.