2025-11
AUDIO-VISUAL.JOURNAL RADIO is where I’m releasing playlists as journal entries, curated through embodied listening.1 Each entry offers a way to tap into a combination of my music taste, sounds I’m momentarily interested in, and different ways I’m building awareness of my participation in media culture through music.
The playlist for November (2025-11) is now updated on [audio-visual.journal radio], which is where these journal entries rotate. You can listen to the playlist that is currently live, as well as check out any of the songs’ music videos.
Below are the tracks from the previous playlist that was live.
2025-10:
Tujiko Noriko. “ハエ — Fly.” Hard Hi Sasete (Make Me Hard), MEGO 062, 2002.
Tangerine Dream. “Charly The Kid.” Firestarter (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), 1984
Roy Ayers Ubiquity. “I Don’t Know How To Love Him.” He’s Coming. 1972
Aphex Twin. “Korg Funk 5.” Music From The Merch Desk (2016 - 2023), Warp Records, 2024.
Hope you encounter something that resonates with you.
- Paris ★
Jenny Odell is a writer and artist who has theorized about doing or making ’nothing’ as a creative, resistive act. In her 2020 speech to Harvard School of Design graduate students (later published in print as Inhabiting the Negative Space), she gave the most accurate description I’ve heard thus far of the particular ‘listening’ that i’ve been journaling: “…being surprised by a song I liked for reasons I can’t actually explain… [When] something I don’t know feels like it’s talking to something else I don’t know, through me.” She mentions noticing this particular feeling while listening to music as a contrast to algorithmic music curation that uses data to constrict a person to a stable, marketable ‘brand’ of listener. ↩