hello. It is Saturday evening and I have been awake since 03:30 AM. I am writing to you in a daze. My phone just buzzed to tell me that there is a call for PSS at my local station, but I’m not in the right space to go. This used to fill me with shame, but I am trying to practice the importance of seeing beyond the current moment. There will be calls for PSS next week / next month / next year, and I have to make sure I am around to meet them.
I woke up at 03:30 AM because at 04:30 AM I met with Grant Smith to mix Radio With Palestine, Radio With Iran #40. Moving sounds from the Palestine Land Day protest in Shibuya to Radio Alhara in Bethlehem, WaveFarm in Acra, Radio Patapoe in Amsterdam, Radio Worm in Rotterdam, and Muito Radio in Buenos Aires .
Despite it being the early hours of the morning and bitingly cold, the streets of South London were surprisingly busy with friday night’s congregation. It made me glad.
Radio With Palestine, Radio With Iran #40 was in collaboration with Voice and Sound Archive. The streamer is a very skilled field recordist and he was very good at translating the texture and variation of the protest space. We met though instagram last year.
By the time the broadcast ended the sun had risen in London. This type of early working is a hallmark of Soundcamp. I enjoy the spacey feeling of dawn broadcasts, of being out of sync with the city and in sync with all the city suppresses.
On my way home I spent some of the last money in my account on two croissants from Pret, for Sam and I to enjoy as a special breakfast. Like I said, I am *trying* to practice the importance of seeing beyond the current moment, but hungry and on 3.5 hours sleep I was only thinking of Sam’s smile when I would crawl back into bed and tell him I had bought us a special breakfast.
I didn’t sleep once I was home. I dozed in bed with Sam, and on the sofa after our breakfast, but I had a few things to prepare before the next broadcast at 12:00. I wasn’t home long, and by the time I left the flat I was in a bad way.
Earlier in the week a friend asked us to help them broadcast the Feminist For Jina bloc of the Together march which took place in the London today. Grant went to the protest to stream from the Palestine bloc, along with Paula and their friend Carolyn who I have not met.
At 11:30 AM I was back in the Work Shop. Only this time I was alone, and hungry, and thin skinned.
Radio With Palestine, Radio With Iran #41 was two hours long. Moving live sounds from two blocs of the protest in London to Radio Alhara in Bethlehem, WaveFarm in Acra, Radio Patapoe in Amsterdam, and Chercán Radio in Quilotta.
I ate stale almond biscuits, drank ginger tea, and cried as crowds sang Iranian protest songs.
Sometimes when I am mixing, especially activist radio, it feels as though the edges of my body have dissolved. Situations are present. Listening to undetermined futures as they come into existence.
I am very proud of Radio With Palestine, Radio With Iran. It’s important to me. Not as individual broadcasts, not as documents of protests or direct actions, but as a product of legitimate connections and care. Radio With Palestine, Radio With Iran only works through mutual collaboration. I think I might have to write more on this later.
I am so tired now the words on the screen look fuzzy. As I have been writing you, Sam and I have been listening to CDs. We are currently listening to the 2025 remastered rerelease of ‘The Durutti Column Return Of…Fact 14’. I couldn’t find you an exact rip of the CD but this the track playing as I say goodbye.
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