https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/voicings--4742770enBooksCopyright firefly frequencieshttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/03807925717cce7f3e87f7c80d7761e0.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/voicings--4742770Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:44:31 +0000firefly frequenciesfirefly frequenciesfeeds@spreaker.comSituated readings and performances of texts of all genres chosen for their urgency, singularity and poetic force. Writers sharing passages from their work. Words and silences coming to voice...cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e36-8-2-2024-essi-pellikka--63727827
Here is a short extract:

“so-called future”
stands on the “Semiotics of The End”
fiction as feed-backed into theory
the feedback of future into the present
exploitation of simulation
the haze of theory and the information melting into nothingness
warfare melting down into simulation
a semiotic war as in:
the soft combat zone of culture and language
the all burning hell blaze of capitalism
in which light
“it is almost impossible to shut the eyes anymore
it is almost impossible to blink”...

Thank you so much Essi!







]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63727827Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:11:12 +0000firefly frequenciesArtist and activist Essi Pellika performs a text she wrote as a process towards her MFA thesis... Here is a short extract: “so-called future” stands on the “Semiotics of The End” fiction as feed-backed into theory the feedback of future into the...
Here is a short extract:

“so-called future”
stands on the “Semiotics of The End”
fiction as feed-backed into theory
the feedback of future into the present
exploitation of simulation
the haze of theory and the information melting into nothingness
warfare melting down into simulation
a semiotic war as in:
the soft combat zone of culture and language
the all burning hell blaze of capitalism
in which light
“it is almost impossible to shut the eyes anymore
it is almost impossible to blink”...

Thank you so much Essi!







]]>546cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e35-searching-for-a-voice-nabil-himich--63716788
Thank you so much Nabil!

Image: Unsquared, Nabil Himich, 2021
]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63716788Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:50:31 +0000firefly frequenciesArtist Nabil Himich reads passages from his ongoing diary in dialogue with a splintered body of collected thoughts from authors such as Fathi Elmaskini, Etel Adnan, Dionne Brand, Hakim Bey, Adana Shibli… Thank you so much Nabil! Image: Unsquared,...
Thank you so much Nabil!

Image: Unsquared, Nabil Himich, 2021
]]>1568cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e34-siempre-by-ixiar-rozas--60967788
Words, voices - Ixiar Rozas
Guitar, recording and mix - Rafael Martinez del Pozo

Thank you Ixiar for this wonderful piece!

Ixiar Rozas is a writer and researcher who works at the threshold between voice, language and sound. Her narrative and poetry works, stage texts, reviews and short essays have been published in different countries and languages. Some of her titles include “Negutegia” (2006, Pamiela; 2009, Itaca), “Ejercicios de ocupación. Afectos, vida y trabajo” (2015, con Q. Pujol, Polígrafa), “Beltzuria” (2014, Pamiela; 2017, Enclave), “20.20” (2016, con M. Salgado), “Unisonoa” (2020, Pamiela; Bandcamp), and “Sonar la voz. 9 ensayos y 9 partituras” (2022, Consonni).

https://ixiarrozas.bandcamp.com/album/unisonoa]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60967788Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:37:54 +0000firefly frequencies"Siempre" is part of "Unisonoa", a project by Ixiar Rozas which is both a collection of poems made up of a single line and a sound work. These were born and grew at the same time, somewhere on the horizon, and each one follows its own path together...
Words, voices - Ixiar Rozas
Guitar, recording and mix - Rafael Martinez del Pozo

Thank you Ixiar for this wonderful piece!

Ixiar Rozas is a writer and researcher who works at the threshold between voice, language and sound. Her narrative and poetry works, stage texts, reviews and short essays have been published in different countries and languages. Some of her titles include “Negutegia” (2006, Pamiela; 2009, Itaca), “Ejercicios de ocupación. Afectos, vida y trabajo” (2015, con Q. Pujol, Polígrafa), “Beltzuria” (2014, Pamiela; 2017, Enclave), “20.20” (2016, con M. Salgado), “Unisonoa” (2020, Pamiela; Bandcamp), and “Sonar la voz. 9 ensayos y 9 partituras” (2022, Consonni).

https://ixiarrozas.bandcamp.com/album/unisonoa]]>478cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e33-natural-resources-by-adrienne-rich-carmen-jose--60425599Activists, artists, carpenters, refugees, and bike recycle enthusiast got together under the crowns of a unique forest of Arneo. 
We’ve used this occasion to collect some Voicings and Recepies for Disaster. As part of Ecoversities Alliance we fully support the struggle of Arneo people against Porsch industry enlargement in the area.

*artowork on the cover for this episode is by Shahzia Sikander. 
Portrait of Adrienne Rich (2019)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60425599Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:51:24 +0000firefly frequenciesIn the late June early July of 2023, a European regional Gathering of the Ecoversities Alliance took place in a very particular place – Arneo, South-East of Italy – a land where peasants struggled for the right of their land since 1950s, being...Activists, artists, carpenters, refugees, and bike recycle enthusiast got together under the crowns of a unique forest of Arneo. 
We’ve used this occasion to collect some Voicings and Recepies for Disaster. As part of Ecoversities Alliance we fully support the struggle of Arneo people against Porsch industry enlargement in the area.

*artowork on the cover for this episode is by Shahzia Sikander. 
Portrait of Adrienne Rich (2019)]]>254cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e32-klagegedicht-by-r-m-rilke-chiara-bockstaller--60411592Activists, artists, carpenters, refugees, and bike recycle enthusiast got together under the crowns of a unique forest of Arneo. 
We’ve used this occasion to collect some Voicings and Recepies for Disaster. As part of Ecoversities Alliance we fully support the struggle of Arneo people against Porsch industry enlargement in the area.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60411592Mon, 17 Jun 2024 13:38:25 +0000firefly frequenciesIn the late June early July of 2023, a European regional Gathering of the Ecoversities Alliance took place in a very particular place – Arneo, South-East of Italy – a land where peasants struggled for the right of their land since 1950s, being...Activists, artists, carpenters, refugees, and bike recycle enthusiast got together under the crowns of a unique forest of Arneo. 
We’ve used this occasion to collect some Voicings and Recepies for Disaster. As part of Ecoversities Alliance we fully support the struggle of Arneo people against Porsch industry enlargement in the area.]]>151cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e31-a-livella-by-toto-alessandro-paolo--60410159Activists, artists, carpenters, refugees, and bike recycle enthusiast got together under the crowns of a unique forest of Arneo. 
We’ve used this occasion to collect some Voicings and Recepies for Disaster. As part of Ecoversities Alliance we fully support the struggle of Arneo people against Porsch industry enlargement in the area.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60410159Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:21:34 +0000firefly frequenciesIn the late June early July of 2023, a European regional Gathering of the Ecoversities Alliance took place in a very particular place – Arneo, South-East of Italy – a land where peasants struggled for the right of their land since 1950s, being...Activists, artists, carpenters, refugees, and bike recycle enthusiast got together under the crowns of a unique forest of Arneo. 
We’ve used this occasion to collect some Voicings and Recepies for Disaster. As part of Ecoversities Alliance we fully support the struggle of Arneo people against Porsch industry enlargement in the area.]]>518cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e30-speech-before-the-last-by-the-red-indian-mahmoud-darwish--57509500https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/speech-of-the-red-indian/


All our solidarity to the Palestinian struggle!
Thanks to RADIO ALHARA for the amazing program UNTIL LIBERATION. https://soundcloud.com/radiokara]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/57509500Sat, 04 Nov 2023 11:06:30 +0000firefly frequenciesFor English translation please go to https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/speech-of-the-red-indian/ All our solidarity to the Palestinian struggle! Thanks to RADIO ALHARA for the amazing program UNTIL LIBERATION. https://soundcloud.com/radiokarahttps://www.poemhunter.com/poem/speech-of-the-red-indian/


All our solidarity to the Palestinian struggle!
Thanks to RADIO ALHARA for the amazing program UNTIL LIBERATION. https://soundcloud.com/radiokara]]>772cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e29-letter-from-gaza-ghassan-kanafani-john-berger--57435884
A warm thank you to Radio Al Hara
https://www.radioalhara.net/]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/57435884Sun, 29 Oct 2023 23:10:16 +0000firefly frequenciesIn an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature, English writer, art critic and long-time supporter of Palestine John Berger gave a moving reading of Palestinian writer, Ghassan Kanafani’s “Letter from Gaza”. Kanafani was assassinated...
A warm thank you to Radio Al Hara
https://www.radioalhara.net/]]>986cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e28-nicht-versohnt-for-jean-marie-straub--51980659Merci Jean-Marie and Danièle, you and your films will live with us forever!]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51980659Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:35:41 +0000firefly frequenciesIn homage to one of the most uncompromising figures in the history of cinema, Jean-Marie Straub, this remix presents an assemblage of film fragments by Huillet/Straub including "Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene",...Merci Jean-Marie and Danièle, you and your films will live with us forever!]]>3601cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e27-sea-etel-adnan--51844174
Voice: Graeme Thomson
Recording and mix: Silvia Maglioni]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51844174Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:51:52 +0000firefly frequenciesA reading of the first part of Etel Adnan's poem SEA, from the book "Sea and Fog". Voice: Graeme Thomson Recording and mix: Silvia Maglioni
Voice: Graeme Thomson
Recording and mix: Silvia Maglioni]]>950cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e26-if-my-words-rafeef-ziadah--51230992https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51230992Mon, 12 Sep 2022 16:34:25 +0000firefly frequencies"If My Words" by Canadian-Palestinian poet and performer Rafeef Ziadah, from the album "We Teach Life".334cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e25-la-escucha-pauline-oliveros-valeria-muledda--50888135La ringrazio. Ti ringrazio Pauline.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50888135Thu, 11 Aug 2022 18:00:19 +0000firefly frequenciesHo sognato Pauline Oliveros. Era dicembre, vicino al mio compleanno. Era lì, con me. Allo stesso tempo da qualche parte. Come terra nella terra. Dentro. Le palme delle mani. Ascolta. Il silenzio un respiro che diventa. Ovunque. La ringrazio. Ti...La ringrazio. Ti ringrazio Pauline.]]>144cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e24-viet-cong-adrian-mitchell-kirill-medvedev-nikolay-oleynikov--50887998https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50887998Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:44:08 +0000firefly frequenciesAdrian Mitchell from Out Loud, 1968 (translation to Russian by Kirill Medvedev)193cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e23-ridarsi-al-sogno-per-rubarsi-al-presente-anna-martinatti--50887949
Un immaginario post-apocalittico si aprì davanti ai miei occhi: dalla penombra di una stanza angusta vidi una metropoli di edifici grigi, abbandonati e divorati dalla vegetazione, rovine di una civiltà ormai scomparsa e forse mai rimpianta. Ma all’alba di un nuovo giorno, entità inedite si raccolgono per scacciare con le nude mani il male del mondo.



This text is an attempt to render into words a mysterious dream that I had during the period of the first Italian lockdown. At that time, I spent four months in an uninhabited flat and the only relationships I had were with the authors of the books I took with me. These readings profoundly influenced my dreams. For these months, my dreams had the taste of an immanent revolution and the hope for a radical transformation that could slowly make its way.

In this dream, a post-apocalyptic imaginary opened before my eyes: from the dim light of a cramped room I saw a gray metropolis of abandoned buildings, overgrown by vegetation, ruins of civilization that has now disappeared and perhaps never not be mourned. But at the dawn of a new day, unprecedented entities gather to chase away the evil of the world with their bare hands.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50887949Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:26:26 +0000firefly frequenciesQuesto testo è il tentativo di trascrivere e fissare attraverso le parole un sogno misterioso che feci durante il periodo di primo lockdown in Italia. Ho trascorso quattro mesi in una casa disabitata e le uniche relazioni che intrattenni erano con gli...
Un immaginario post-apocalittico si aprì davanti ai miei occhi: dalla penombra di una stanza angusta vidi una metropoli di edifici grigi, abbandonati e divorati dalla vegetazione, rovine di una civiltà ormai scomparsa e forse mai rimpianta. Ma all’alba di un nuovo giorno, entità inedite si raccolgono per scacciare con le nude mani il male del mondo.



This text is an attempt to render into words a mysterious dream that I had during the period of the first Italian lockdown. At that time, I spent four months in an uninhabited flat and the only relationships I had were with the authors of the books I took with me. These readings profoundly influenced my dreams. For these months, my dreams had the taste of an immanent revolution and the hope for a radical transformation that could slowly make its way.

In this dream, a post-apocalyptic imaginary opened before my eyes: from the dim light of a cramped room I saw a gray metropolis of abandoned buildings, overgrown by vegetation, ruins of civilization that has now disappeared and perhaps never not be mourned. But at the dawn of a new day, unprecedented entities gather to chase away the evil of the world with their bare hands.]]>144cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e22-experiments-in-imagining-otherwise-chara-stergiou--50887826
Voice: Chara Stergiou]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50887826Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:19:31 +0000firefly frequenciesAn extract from "Experiments in Imagining Otherwise" by Lola Olufemi Voice: Chara Stergiou
Voice: Chara Stergiou]]>117cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e21-devenir-vivants-severine-kodjo-grandvaux-viola-berlanda--50887910
Voice - Viola Berlanda]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50887910Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:06:32 +0000firefly frequenciesLa mia vita e cambiata inaspettatamente: da fotografa viaggiatrice sono diventata la custode di un nuovo bosco. Ma cosa ha mosso questo cambiamento di rotta? Leggendo le parole del libro di Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux, "Devenir Vivant" ho trovato la...
Voice - Viola Berlanda]]>256cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e20-orsa-maggiore-ingeborg-bachmann-sergio-atzeni-valeria-muledda-christoph-pennig--50888150

Orsa maggiore was born as an encounter between two sound artists in the plane of the poetic word. The piece is composed in the exploration of poetry as an experience of mysterious pronouncing and language as sound. The shared text creates its own space between fragments of field recordings and sound composition, entering in the night in the words of the poem Orsa Maggiore by Ingeborg Bachmann, in those of a speech she gave on the occasion of the awarding of a prize for one of her radio plays, and in those by Sergio Atzeni taken from his "Passavamo sulla terra leggeri” (We passed over the land lightly), where poetry is the founding sound of the relationship between a human community and the earth. Together they give life to a physical vision, where sound, poetry and being in the world are together earth and cosmos.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50888150Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:06:25 +0000firefly frequenciesOrsa maggiore nasce come incontro tra due artisti sonori nel piano della parola poetica. Il pezzo si compone nell’esplorazione della poesia come esperienza di un pronunciare misterioso, del suono di lingue diverse, e della lingua come suono. Il testo...

Orsa maggiore was born as an encounter between two sound artists in the plane of the poetic word. The piece is composed in the exploration of poetry as an experience of mysterious pronouncing and language as sound. The shared text creates its own space between fragments of field recordings and sound composition, entering in the night in the words of the poem Orsa Maggiore by Ingeborg Bachmann, in those of a speech she gave on the occasion of the awarding of a prize for one of her radio plays, and in those by Sergio Atzeni taken from his "Passavamo sulla terra leggeri” (We passed over the land lightly), where poetry is the founding sound of the relationship between a human community and the earth. Together they give life to a physical vision, where sound, poetry and being in the world are together earth and cosmos.]]>618cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e19-le-citta-invisibili-italo-calvino-cinzia-di-meglio--50887945Voice - Cinzia Di Meglio]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50887945Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:53:35 +0000firefly frequenciesTesto visionario onirico a episodi: Marco Polo narra a Kublai Khan, vecchio malinconico le città attraversate nei suoi viaggi. Voice - Cinzia Di MeglioVoice - Cinzia Di Meglio]]>218cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e18-incubatio-emilio-fantin--50888201https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50888201Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:49:26 +0000firefly frequenciesfrom "Dreaming Is Common to All" by Emilio Fantin165cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e17-we-lit-this-flame-with-a-candle-zapatista-women-alessandra-pomarico--50888166Voice: Alessandra Pomarico]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50888166Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:48:08 +0000firefly frequenciesAn excerpt of the Words of the Zapatista Women at the closing ceremony of the Encuentro de las Mujeres en Lucha, from the book "When the Roots start moving: To navigate Backwords/ Resonating with Zapatismo" eds Alessandra Pomarico & Nikolay Oleynikov...Voice: Alessandra Pomarico]]>233cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e16-listening-without-ends--50885975https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50885975Thu, 11 Aug 2022 13:11:18 +0000firefly frequenciesExcerpt from an unfinished essay by Oe, 2006894cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e15-van-gogh-the-man-suicided-by-society-antonin-artaud--50603579At the invitation of Harut Simonyan, Knar Khudoyan reads passages from Antonin Artaud’s “Van Gogh, le suicide de la société” in Armenian for firefly frequencies.

Voice: Knar Khudoyan
Music and mix: Graeme Thomson (All sounds taken from the voice recording and Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu)

To read the whole text in English
http://www.dougashford.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Van-Gogh.pdf]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50603579Sun, 17 Jul 2022 16:21:17 +0000firefly frequencies“And what is an authentic lunatic? He is a man who has preferred to become what is socially understood as mad rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. In its asylums, society has managed to strangle all those it has wished to rid...At the invitation of Harut Simonyan, Knar Khudoyan reads passages from Antonin Artaud’s “Van Gogh, le suicide de la société” in Armenian for firefly frequencies.

Voice: Knar Khudoyan
Music and mix: Graeme Thomson (All sounds taken from the voice recording and Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu)

To read the whole text in English
http://www.dougashford.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Van-Gogh.pdf]]>664cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e14-chaos-hakim-bey--50023486https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50023486Wed, 01 Jun 2022 08:49:46 +0000firefly frequenciesAn episode in memory of Peter Lamborn Wilson/ Hakim Bey, visionary poet and theorist of the Temporary Autonomous Zone, featuring Chaos from the album T.A.Z.379cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e13-waiting-for-the-sybil-william-kentridge--49674567
Cinema De Seta, Palermo - May 3rd, 2022
An event organized by Accademia di Belle Arti Palermo and curated by: Daniela Bigi, Marcello Faletra, Stefania Galegati, Rosa Persico.
Translation: Dominic McElwee

A big thank you, William Kentridge!]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49674567Thu, 05 May 2022 12:14:04 +0000firefly frequenciesIn this extract from a recent talk he gave in Palermo, South African artist William Kentridge reflects on some of the inspirations behind his recent chamber opera "Waiting for the Sybil" - from Somerset Maugham's story "Appointment in Samarra" to the...
Cinema De Seta, Palermo - May 3rd, 2022
An event organized by Accademia di Belle Arti Palermo and curated by: Daniela Bigi, Marcello Faletra, Stefania Galegati, Rosa Persico.
Translation: Dominic McElwee

A big thank you, William Kentridge!]]>1477cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e12-are-you-one-of-these-motherfuckers-fred-moten--49054666
Are You One of These Motherfuckers?
Yeah, yeah you are.
And you don’t seem to be tired of this suspension,
which is falling, whirling and unworlding storm for precision in mourning.
We really don’t respond to these motherfuckers.
The discipline is our imagination, the whorl is our yardbird school, a choir of uncertain azure in scratch galaxy, the violent measure of a gleam in her eye. You can stop calling here for some kind of response to these motherfuckers.

What we got for y'all is precision in mourning and turbulence.
We got a way of taking substance away in circling and surfacing, the slow obliteration of pain in pleasure, a release of coffle on dusty highway, an ongoing unravelling of quilting.
We always got to be killing these motherfuckers in the edge of morning after morning of absolute, uncountable new remembering.

The immediate breathes through us before anything, but these motherfuckers can’t understand that.
We are instruments of clinical ecstasy and if you want to listen you got to give up everything, you got to give up listening to sharing in folding
in the bottom in oceanic engineering in the ungrammatical suffering of scourge and smile and babies in the nonresponse.

When we salvage our surfacing and circling from your savage enclosure, it will be this miracle, right now, singing through can’t breathe forever in this world and we ain’t talking to you, motherfucker. It’s gon’ keep on being this miracle, our praise, our right xxxxxxxx, and all the thickened kitchen anarchy of our phrasing, the denotative detonation of am I blue sometimes I’m blue, bye and burn before y'all everything burning.

Recording and mix: Graeme Thomson]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49054666Mon, 14 Mar 2022 09:36:06 +0000firefly frequenciesWe recorded Fred Moten in Paris, at the Cité internationale des arts, on the 17th of February 2022, when he gave a warm and generous reading "Perennial Fashion (Presence Falling)". This is one of the poems he read. Thank you Fred! Are You One of...
Are You One of These Motherfuckers?
Yeah, yeah you are.
And you don’t seem to be tired of this suspension,
which is falling, whirling and unworlding storm for precision in mourning.
We really don’t respond to these motherfuckers.
The discipline is our imagination, the whorl is our yardbird school, a choir of uncertain azure in scratch galaxy, the violent measure of a gleam in her eye. You can stop calling here for some kind of response to these motherfuckers.

What we got for y'all is precision in mourning and turbulence.
We got a way of taking substance away in circling and surfacing, the slow obliteration of pain in pleasure, a release of coffle on dusty highway, an ongoing unravelling of quilting.
We always got to be killing these motherfuckers in the edge of morning after morning of absolute, uncountable new remembering.

The immediate breathes through us before anything, but these motherfuckers can’t understand that.
We are instruments of clinical ecstasy and if you want to listen you got to give up everything, you got to give up listening to sharing in folding
in the bottom in oceanic engineering in the ungrammatical suffering of scourge and smile and babies in the nonresponse.

When we salvage our surfacing and circling from your savage enclosure, it will be this miracle, right now, singing through can’t breathe forever in this world and we ain’t talking to you, motherfucker. It’s gon’ keep on being this miracle, our praise, our right xxxxxxxx, and all the thickened kitchen anarchy of our phrasing, the denotative detonation of am I blue sometimes I’m blue, bye and burn before y'all everything burning.

Recording and mix: Graeme Thomson]]>149cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e11-xinjiang-tilek-yrysbek--48182517
Communism is your heaven –
Darwin, Duchamp, and Gerhard, too.
In the name of heavenly communism,

you must scribble your name on paper a thousand times.

Tiananmen, who said you were more valuable than Tibet?
Maybe, Hai Zi† died for this and became India under the wheels.

(translated from Russian by Olga Mexina)

full poem in english, kazakh, and russian can be found here
https://www.angime.com/tilek-xianjiang-eng]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48182517Wed, 05 Jan 2022 21:53:53 +0000firefly frequenciesan exerpt from a poem: Communism is your heaven – Darwin, Duchamp, and Gerhard, too. In the name of heavenly communism, you must scribble your name on paper a thousand times. Tiananmen, who said you were more valuable than Tibet? Maybe, Hai Zi†...
Communism is your heaven –
Darwin, Duchamp, and Gerhard, too.
In the name of heavenly communism,

you must scribble your name on paper a thousand times.

Tiananmen, who said you were more valuable than Tibet?
Maybe, Hai Zi† died for this and became India under the wheels.

(translated from Russian by Olga Mexina)

full poem in english, kazakh, and russian can be found here
https://www.angime.com/tilek-xianjiang-eng]]>132cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e10-if-you-are-not-rain-my-dear-mahmoud-darwish--45186132Be tree
Sated with fertility, be tree
And If you are not tree, my dear
Be stone
Saturated with humidity, be stone
And If you are not stone, my dear
Be moon
In the dream of your beloved one, be moon
[So spoke a woman
to her son at his funeral]

Excerpt from Mahmoud Darwish - "A State of Siege"

READ MORE
https://www.arabworldbooks.com/en/e-zine/a-state-of-siege]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45186132Sun, 06 Jun 2021 13:50:48 +0000firefly frequenciesIf you are not rain, my dear Be tree Sated with fertility, be tree And If you are not tree, my dear Be stone Saturated with humidity, be stone And If you are not stone, my dear Be moon In the dream of your beloved one, be moon [So spoke a...Be tree
Sated with fertility, be tree
And If you are not tree, my dear
Be stone
Saturated with humidity, be stone
And If you are not stone, my dear
Be moon
In the dream of your beloved one, be moon
[So spoke a woman
to her son at his funeral]

Excerpt from Mahmoud Darwish - "A State of Siege"

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https://www.arabworldbooks.com/en/e-zine/a-state-of-siege]]>54cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e09-questioning-women-alexandra-kollontai-daniela-attanasio-dora-garcia-maria-rosa-sossai--43897356
Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary who was appointed commissar of social welfare after the October Revolution and later one of the world’s first woman ambassadors. She fought for abortion rights, secularized marriage, and paid maternity leave—and considered “comradely love” to be a political force.
Daniela Attanasio is an Italian poet and literary translator based in Rome.

Kollontai’s fragment, "Marriage and the Problem of the Family”, is taken from "The social basis of the woman question” - you can find the English translation here:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1909/social-basis.htm

Image: Dora Garcia, “Red Love” (photo Jean-Baptiste Beranger)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43897356Mon, 15 Mar 2021 14:21:16 +0000firefly frequenciesA long-distance, sonic correspondence between artist Dora Garcia and researcher Maria Rosa Sossai through the words of Alexandra Kollontai and Daniela Attanasio, between Spanish and Italian. Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary who was...
Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary who was appointed commissar of social welfare after the October Revolution and later one of the world’s first woman ambassadors. She fought for abortion rights, secularized marriage, and paid maternity leave—and considered “comradely love” to be a political force.
Daniela Attanasio is an Italian poet and literary translator based in Rome.

Kollontai’s fragment, "Marriage and the Problem of the Family”, is taken from "The social basis of the woman question” - you can find the English translation here:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1909/social-basis.htm

Image: Dora Garcia, “Red Love” (photo Jean-Baptiste Beranger)]]>554cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e08-radio-brutal-anarcorporeos-giorgia-frisardi-mattia-pellegrini--43560573In questa traccia inveisce e si nutre tra e con Brecht, Pasolini, Nina Cassian, Vivian Lamarque, Antonia Pozzi...

CHE MONDO IN DESERTO GIORNO IN SOGNO MUTA:
http://bit.ly/manifestobrutal]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43560573Sat, 20 Feb 2021 18:18:18 +0000firefly frequenciesRADIO BRUTAL nasce come proseguimento radiofonico-visivo di MANIFESTO BRUTAL. Ricerca balbettante, viaggio poetico-sonoro attraverso le parole di tante e tanti. In questa traccia inveisce e si nutre tra e con Brecht, Pasolini, Nina Cassian, Vivian...In questa traccia inveisce e si nutre tra e con Brecht, Pasolini, Nina Cassian, Vivian Lamarque, Antonia Pozzi...

CHE MONDO IN DESERTO GIORNO IN SOGNO MUTA:
http://bit.ly/manifestobrutal]]>468cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e07-transit-in-the-house-of-cancer-camila-marambio-barbara-saavedra-ariel-bustamante-preview--43460538To transit in the House of Cancer as a visitor it is essential to be guided:
The sound artist Ariel Bustamante is the guide. How to enter? How to exit? How to be within the breathing of others? How to sustain breath, life and language beyond the life/death divide? What to take or leave in the House? These are some of the questions that will structure the architecture of the transit.
"Transit in the House of Cancer" is an extension of the forthcoming book "Sandcastles: Cancerous Bodies and their Necro/powers", co-authored by gender scholar Nina Lykke and Camila Marambio.

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https://www.gessnerallee.ch/en/event/530/Transit_in_the_House_of_Cancer]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43460538Sun, 14 Feb 2021 15:06:50 +0000firefly frequenciesBuilt from an unwieldy conversation about cancerous embodiments, "Transit in the House of Cancer" is a breathing exchange between the curator Camila Marambio and the ecologist Bárbara Saavedra – who for years have worked together as part of Ensayos, a...To transit in the House of Cancer as a visitor it is essential to be guided:
The sound artist Ariel Bustamante is the guide. How to enter? How to exit? How to be within the breathing of others? How to sustain breath, life and language beyond the life/death divide? What to take or leave in the House? These are some of the questions that will structure the architecture of the transit.
"Transit in the House of Cancer" is an extension of the forthcoming book "Sandcastles: Cancerous Bodies and their Necro/powers", co-authored by gender scholar Nina Lykke and Camila Marambio.

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https://www.gessnerallee.ch/en/event/530/Transit_in_the_House_of_Cancer]]>166cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e06-moloch-allen-ginsberg-george-caffentzis--43010424
Recorded by Jesal Kapadia]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43010424Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:28:09 +0000firefly frequenciesGeorge Caffentzis reads Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" Part II, evoking through the figure of Moloch the ravages of capitalism, the military industrial complex and corporate state power. Recorded by Jesal Kapadia
Recorded by Jesal Kapadia]]>266cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e05-the-low-road-marge-piercy-silvia-federici--42914262
TESTING ASSEMBLING
http://centreparrhesia.org/assembling/]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42914262Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:54:01 +0000firefly frequenciesThis poem of hope, solidarity and togetherness was shared by Silvia Federici during the Assembling of January 3, 2021 - a collectively constructed "ceremony" welcoming the new year hosted on zoom by 16 Beaver Group and friends. TESTING ASSEMBLING...
TESTING ASSEMBLING
http://centreparrhesia.org/assembling/]]>166cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e04-je-suis-une-voix-off-anne-creissels--42899478https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42899478Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:20:17 +0000firefly frequencies“Je suis une voix off” assumes an agency and embodiment of what is absent, playing on various metamorphoses of a voice recorded on a dictaphone. Interrogating different modalities of presentation, enunciation and knowledge transmission, language...155cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e03-in-the-beginning-was-the-firefly-mick-taussig--42079597
More info about "Mastery of Non-Mastery":
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo46980359.html]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42079597Fri, 20 Nov 2020 19:04:27 +0000firefly frequenciesMick Taussig reads "In the Beginning was the Firefly!" from his recent book "Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown"... as a good omen for Firefly Frequencies! More info about "Mastery of Non-Mastery":...
More info about "Mastery of Non-Mastery":
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo46980359.html]]>673cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e02-the-place-is-lit-by-memory-widad-nabi-sara-naili--42075431
(To our homes in our absence after war and abandonment)

Sadness is
visiting the ruins of your house in dreams
and coming back without dust on your hands.

Delicacy is
watering the wilted flowers
in your neighbour’s garden
because yours have perished under the bombs.

Distance is
the geography of domination
that separates cities a thousand miles apart.
In one you leave your laundry on the clothesline
in the other you stretch out your hand to the wind
and try to take it in.

To the hand that hovers over the doorbell of the old house
who can say:
“Homes do not belong to those who have had to leave them”.

CROSSING THE WATERS 2
Voice: Sara Naili
Sound and mix: Graeme Thomson & Silvia Maglioni

Widad Nabi is a Kurdish-Syrian poet born in Kobani. She lives and works in Berlin.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42075431Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:52:33 +0000firefly frequencies* Read by Sara Naili (To our homes in our absence after war and abandonment) Sadness is visiting the ruins of your house in dreams and coming back without dust on your hands. Delicacy is watering the wilted flowers in your neighbour’s...
(To our homes in our absence after war and abandonment)

Sadness is
visiting the ruins of your house in dreams
and coming back without dust on your hands.

Delicacy is
watering the wilted flowers
in your neighbour’s garden
because yours have perished under the bombs.

Distance is
the geography of domination
that separates cities a thousand miles apart.
In one you leave your laundry on the clothesline
in the other you stretch out your hand to the wind
and try to take it in.

To the hand that hovers over the doorbell of the old house
who can say:
“Homes do not belong to those who have had to leave them”.

CROSSING THE WATERS 2
Voice: Sara Naili
Sound and mix: Graeme Thomson & Silvia Maglioni

Widad Nabi is a Kurdish-Syrian poet born in Kobani. She lives and works in Berlin.]]>142cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e01-a-short-tale-about-the-closure-of-the-sea-najwan-darwish-fateh-hamdan--42075378
If you go down that road, at the city's edge,
the one that leads to the refugee camp,
if you run into a bunch of kids at the gate of that school that looks like a prison,
if you come across seven who stare at the threshold of silence,
if you see a lithe little boy with eyes that spark with the intelligence of the entire world,
you can be sure you've found my friend Taysir.

His family had a country that was stolen in broad daylight.
In his restless eyes you will glimpse the vibrancy of the birds of the stolen land.
The cement houses,
the memory of zinc,
the scary crackle of the occupying army's radios during the weeks of curfew,
none of it has dimmed the spark in his eyes.

Only once has he seen the sea.
Nothing will convince him not to return.
During the long days of curfew they would say : ”Once curfew is over, we will take you to the sea”.
One night, when the curfew was over, they told him: ”The sea is closed at this hour. Go to sleep!”

He didn't sleep that night, he imagined an old man
closing up the sea with an enormous zinc slab that stretched from star to horizon to sandy beach,
and securing it with a big padlock, bigger than the one his father’s shop had in Omar al-Mukhtar Street.
Then he imagined the old man heading off home.

So if you go down that road, at the city's edge,
the one that leads to the refugee camp,
if you glimpse two eyes that spark with the intelligence of the entire world,
would you please ask if the sea of Gaza has been opened
or if it's still shut.

CROSSING THE WATERS 1
Voice: Fateh Hamdan
Sound: Graeme Thomson & Silvia Maglioni
Music & mix: Graeme Thomson

Najwan Darwish is a Palestinian poet. He lives between Jerusalem and Haifa.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42075378Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:50:38 +0000firefly frequencies* Read by Fateh Hamdan If you go down that road, at the city's edge, the one that leads to the refugee camp, if you run into a bunch of kids at the gate of that school that looks like a prison, if you come across seven who stare at the threshold...
If you go down that road, at the city's edge,
the one that leads to the refugee camp,
if you run into a bunch of kids at the gate of that school that looks like a prison,
if you come across seven who stare at the threshold of silence,
if you see a lithe little boy with eyes that spark with the intelligence of the entire world,
you can be sure you've found my friend Taysir.

His family had a country that was stolen in broad daylight.
In his restless eyes you will glimpse the vibrancy of the birds of the stolen land.
The cement houses,
the memory of zinc,
the scary crackle of the occupying army's radios during the weeks of curfew,
none of it has dimmed the spark in his eyes.

Only once has he seen the sea.
Nothing will convince him not to return.
During the long days of curfew they would say : ”Once curfew is over, we will take you to the sea”.
One night, when the curfew was over, they told him: ”The sea is closed at this hour. Go to sleep!”

He didn't sleep that night, he imagined an old man
closing up the sea with an enormous zinc slab that stretched from star to horizon to sandy beach,
and securing it with a big padlock, bigger than the one his father’s shop had in Omar al-Mukhtar Street.
Then he imagined the old man heading off home.

So if you go down that road, at the city's edge,
the one that leads to the refugee camp,
if you glimpse two eyes that spark with the intelligence of the entire world,
would you please ask if the sea of Gaza has been opened
or if it's still shut.

CROSSING THE WATERS 1
Voice: Fateh Hamdan
Sound: Graeme Thomson & Silvia Maglioni
Music & mix: Graeme Thomson

Najwan Darwish is a Palestinian poet. He lives between Jerusalem and Haifa.]]>355cleanfull