In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Soosan Lolavar about entangled cultures, autoethnography, the art of making alongside working and the value of rest.

References: santoor, composer Reza Vali, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Ruthless Jabiru & conductor Kelly Lovelady, ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music), her book 'Embodied Research through Music Composition and Evocative Life-Writing: Disrupting Diaspora' and her new album 'Girl' (released on Nonclassical on 15 March).

Soosan is a guest speaker in the eavesdropping festival forum, giving a talk on failure at Cafe OTO on Saturday 23 March 2024: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/eavesdropping-festival-2024-forum/