Poetry magazine presents Wake, Butterfly, a series of intimate portraits that invite listeners to keep creating. The series is produced by Rachel James with sound design by Axel Kacoutié.

A Non-Playable-Character (NPC) pays the ultimate price after getting locked out of his livestream.

“Ecce Homo” is written, produced, and directed by Axel Kacoutié

The executive producers are James Kim and Taylor Chicoine

Erica Huang is the producer

Diego Perez is the lead sound designer

Daniel Martinez is the sound mixer

Matthew Wang is the composer

Theme music by Ryo Baum and Robert Garrova

Podcast artwork by Justin D. Lee

The episode was recorded at Sonica Studios, UK

Robbie Swan plays Timothee Smith

Alexander Lester plays the Sentinel

The Recording Engineer is Paul Clark.

You Feeling This 2 is a production of iHeartRadio and Overtones Media

Modern | Smooth | Cool | British English | French

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Ecce Homo (Narration)

Grace Dent | Comfort Eating Live (Announcer)

A Mother Tongue (Documentary, Narration)

Upon my Skin (Poem, Narration)

“Could we create in a community rather than an industry? Could we truly be free, where we are liberated from content production, deadlines and profit margins? Could we rewild audio making, where we no longer produce a dominant crop but symphonies that are good for you?”

“As a young man in Birmingham, dealing with the violent, racist and oppressive realities not only of the UK government but also the National Front, he refused to turn the other cheek. Instead he declared that ‘self-defence is no offence’ – a slogan made popular during the fight against the Front in the early 1980s – in his reggae album Back to Roots (1995). This moral and philosophical clarity enabled him to embody a political rage that didn’t fade with age.”

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Artists and writers remember ‘the people’s poet’, whose prolific career foregrounded the power of the pen in engaging meaningful social commentary

What art thou?

Please do not touch the paintings or other exhibits, and do not cross barriers.

“A frenzy exultations she commands with soft vibrations
that induce a meditation
from her touch, ah! from her vivifying touch upon my skin.”

“All that’s drunk and high, All that’s sexy and clots. All that’s loose and tight, all that withers and rots, Let them in, let them in.

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Waking in the Temple by Axel Kacoutié (the signal house edition issue #5)