This radio show is a quarterly reflection of the global network of artists and thinkers gathered through the New School of the Anthropocene’s hybrid learning environment, a seasonal almanac-like montage of creative responses to the interdisciplinary thinking of the school and the discussions, collaborations and systems solutions being nurtured there.

The seasonal transmissions follow the sun-earth movements, each year beginning at the December solstice, moving through March equinox and June solstice and ending with September equinox. This episode is created for the December solstice, a time of extreme dark or light in either direction, a hunkering down in the wet earth or restoration beside a crisp winter sun

Scholar contributions:
Pearl Fish - ‘FORGIVEN’ written by Pearl Fish on vocals and guitar. Bozard on resonator guitar. Sam Crookes on mandolin. Ben Swan on Harmonium. Francis Booth on bass. Captured by Gus White 

Dougal MacArthur - This is an excerpt of a round table discussion as part of a days workshop we hosted as Project Common Space at The Field in new cross just before it sadly shut down. We did a morning walk around the local area meeting eachother and the plants that grow through the cracks in the street, under trees and along the parks path. Discussing the relationships and complexities of human and more-than-human co-excistence within these urban spaces, often arranged to suit capital rather than livelihoods. @projectcommonspace

Sara McCrea In “The Orb Weavers”, a writer sets out to tell a story of spiders, but she gets caught in her own web. This piece was produced by Sara McCrea and sound designed by Hannis Brown for AudioFlux (@audiofluxing), which is a home for short-form experimental audio that asks makers to respond to a series of prompts. The theme of this last circuit was “creative tension”.

Simon McClelland Morris The Mistrust of Winter by The Neon Valley - Piano Voice Clapping Organ Echo Re-verb Mud Frost Mistrust.

Skye - Palestine Demonstration

Michael Timmermann - Sanctus4 - Erratic dark percussion introduces another darkness, and another. Sound is on the verge of total despair, but somehow the crossing scream is hardly ever to complete dissonance. I want to pay homage to Fauré’s work as if he foresaw our tortured times and, still, fought it - with beauty.

Simon McClelland Morris - A Flicker of Sunlight

Natalie & May Silk - Vasilia

Chris de Sel - Interview with John Crow

Meleah Moore - Things I want to remember from the farm. Recorded after the first day working a piece of land growing food, 2023. 

Natasha Speets - Cicles

Chris de Sel - As the Cold Winter Loomed (recorded at the Out of the Ordinary Festival on the Sussex Downs near the vale of the Long Man of Wilmington with the Mystery School Ensemble) In loving memory of Lee Harris - foot soldier to the counter-culture and shop-counter Alchemist.

Blanc Sceol - W-A-S-T-E (2025), a tape-looped cyclical meditation on the nature of waste.

Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell & Hannah White)

Pascal Sleigh field electric - Pascal Sleigh, the Free Range Orchestra, ants/improvisation/electromagnetic interference/birds. Recordings taken by Pascal Sleigh, Freja Chisholm, and Miles Irving

Josh Tucker - -Veins of Resistance. KBOO show notes - now, certain smells remind me of the primera linea. I remember how the city center filled with easy smiles, more than ever before. I smile, remembering how we came together - overcoming the fear of the shameless vigilantes to dispute the future. Now, I feel grateful for having felt a call to return to Santiago de $hile as a journalist in the struggle during the estallido social.

Chris de Sel - Hum

(Intro: Rhona Eve Clews)

(Outro: Chris De Sel)