Category: Audio

A bold, dynamic re-imagining that’ll transport you to the centre of the Harlem Renaissance. Gatsby In Harlem is a love story, a Jazz story and the quintessential American Dream story.

Gatsby In Harlem is available now on BBC Sounds

Cast:

Malachi Kirby (Nick Carraway)

Ncuti Gatwa (Jay Gatsby)

Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Daisy Buchanan)

Chiké Okonkwo (Tom Buchanan)

Michaella Moore (Jordon Baker)

Ako Mitchell (George Wilson)

Harmony Rose Bremner (Myrtle Wilson)

Moya Angela (Stephanie St Claire)

Sam Dale (Dan Cody)

Tom Glenister (Klipspringer)

Vigs Otite (Catherine)

Joseph Mydell (Mr Greene)

Other parts played by:

Tom Alexander, Tayla Kovacevi-Ebong, Finlay Paul and Romario Splatt

Director & Casting: Celia De Wolff

Executive Producers: Tom Billington and Nathan Freeman

Assistant Producer: Eleanor M.

Runner: Greg Birks

Sound Design: Andreina Gomez Casanova, Axel Kacoutié and Nathan Freeman

Dialogue editor and engineer: Matt Bainbridge.

Additional editor: Lucinda Mason-Brown.

Original music: Emily Tran

Music Supervisor: Ben Burrell

Musical Director: Gary Crosby OBE

Performers for Tomorrow’s Warriors:

Gary Crosby OBE and Tom Sheen on Bass

Will Gibson on Sax and Clarinet

Mark Kavuma on Trumpet

Sarah Tandy on Piano

Rod Youngs on Drums

Arrangements by Mark Kavuma and Emily Tran

Producer for Tomorrow’s Warriors: Fish Krish

Music sound-engineer: Luc Saint-Martin

All dialogue and music recorded at Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies London, part of Nottingham Trent University.

With special thanks to Head Of Operations Glenn Middleditch

🎥 Making Of Video

Videographer: Aaron Rauf Qureshi

Editor: Clint Trofa

Art Director: Jay Stephen

Social Assets: Tom Davies

When James Baldwin died at his home in the South of France in December 1987, the world lost a towering intellect and one of America’s literary giants. He was buried in New York a few weeks later. But what remained in France, and still to this day, are thousands of personal and professional effects connected to Baldwin. Journalist Tony Phillips travels to Provence to discover why these items are stored in an Englishwoman’s home on the Côte d’Azur.

Produced by Tony Phillips and Axel Kacoutié
Sound Design by Axel Kacoutié
Original TX: 30/07/2024

The police tell us they are here to protect us. But what if their original purpose was something else altogether? Peabody Award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika takes listeners on a journey to uncover the hidden history of the largest police force in the world – from its roots in slavery, to rival police gangs battling across the city, to everyday people who resisted every step of the way. As our society debates where policing is going, Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD explores where the police came from.

From Wondery, Crooked Media and PushBlack.

Welcome to Wandering. A four part series of immersive podcast gallery walks, brought to you by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié.

Sponsored by Bloomberg Connects.

Interludes: Black Balloons is a new sound installation by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié now showing at Tate Gallery. Responding to Liz Johnson Artur’s display Time don’t run here, the piece references Artur’s Black Lives Matter protest images and works from her ongoing Black Balloon Archive documenting people in Africa, and of the African and Caribbean diasporas.

Experience Liz Johnson Artur’s work with the ear and body. How does sound change how you see the works? What pulses through you when you see the images, braille and thread?

The soundscape features the voices of Liz Johnson Artur, artists Imogen Faires and Jamel Alatise from Theatre Peckham, and Research and Interpretation Artist Resident, Marie Smith. It includes extracts from Poetry as Protest, Protest as Poetry, a poem by Faires and Alatise responding to the display and performed live at Tate Modern in April 2023.

Visit the installation at Tate Modern, Natalie Bell Building, Level 2 West Room 4, Artist and Society. Black Balloons will play in the gallery at the following times: 11.00am, 12.00pm, 1.00pm, 3.00pm, 4.00pm, 5.00pm.

Interludes is an ongoing sound collaboration between Lou Mensah of Shade Podcast and the audio artist Axel Kacoutié.

Produced by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié

It’s not always in a romantic relationship where a heart can break.

How do we grieve in a culture that champions one love over the rest?

Axel Kacoutié attempts to language loss after reuniting with the person who inspired this documentary. Guided by the thoughts and wisdom of friends and an end-of-life practitioner, we hear what happens when we let grief speak.

Featuring the voices of Claire Galligan, Ivor Williams, JN Benjamin, Tej Adeleye, Weyland McKenzie-Witter and Zachary Cayenne-Elliott.

Special thanks to End of Life Doula UK, Tony Phillips, Natasha McAnea-Hill, Jeff Monteen and Maz Ebtehaj

Artwork: Erin Tse
Development Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Sound Design, Music and Mixing Production: Axel Kacoutié
Produced by Axel Kacoutié

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

A memoryscape of fatherhood woven between three generations.

From the Fatherhood Episode. Series 33.

Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Produced and mixed by Axel Kacoutié
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

“Somewhere between the narrow entry of Who I am and What I seem to be, lies a vast and nameless place.”

In this transmission, Axel Kacoutié discovers a new sense of self in the cosmologies, concepts and realities of queer and indigenous folks. What are the links between gender expression and our relationship with the Earth? How does it destabilise colonial and capitalist imaginations of what we’re told a gender binary is meant to be?

Featuring the voices of:
Opaskwayak Cree Nation Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Dr Alex Wilson
Artist Buitumelo Kotekwa
Afro-Taino Two-Spirit change-maker Cleopatra Tatabele
Scholar and Research Assistant Karyn De Freitas
Transmasculine, non-binary scholar and Founder of the Free Black University, Melz Owusu.

Artwork by Erin Tse

Development Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Assistant Producer: CA Davis
Additional Recording: Heidi Chang and Israel Ramjohn
Sound Design, Music and Mixing Production: Axel Kacoutié
Produced by Axel Kacoutié
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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