Episode 1: Quietness Recording
Frieze’s Autumn Sessions will be hosted by the poet, performer, jazz archivist and frieze columnist Harmony Holiday and poet, cultural theorist and 2020 MacArthur Fellow Fred Moten.
In a series of three online Listening Sessions broadcast from their living rooms in LA and New York, respectively, the pair will continue their longstanding, free-flowing exchange of words and music. In each of three monthly episodes, they will share new, old and unexpected records, read from their own work and writing that inspires them, and discuss how poetry and music can help us make sense of the world around us.
In Episode 1: Fred & Harmony reflect on records and readings that help us find quietness when we need it and abandon it when we need to be loud.
Read Harmony Holiday on finding quietness in a loud world.
Episode 1 Track List:
Billie Holiday Studio Talk
James Baldwin on Black Speech
Marvin Gaye Cleo's Apartment
Carmen McRae Don’t Explain
Amiri Baraka Dark Lady of the Sonnets
Willie West Greatest Love
Al Green Simply Beautiful
Mary J Blige PMS
Ornette Coleman Beauty is a Rare Thing
Ellington & Coltrane In a Sentimental Mood
Thelonius Monk Ask Me Now
John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn (read by Ralph Richardson)
Sun Ra Quiet Ecstasy
Listen to Harmony's 'Quietness' playlist here and Fred's playlist here
Future Autumn Sessions
Episode 2
Thursday 19 Nov
7pm BST/2pm EST/11am PST
Episode 3
Thursday 17 Dec
7pm BST/2pm EST/11am PST