When Authority Collapses But Structure Remains is a new post at The Listening Room HQ my men’s practice site. vision on masculinity, structure, and responsibility when authority collapses, without therapy language, rescue narratives, or fixes. It can be read here.
The Round Irregular Jigsaw – On Finishing Without Forcing my new post on The Polymath site is a reflection on creative intelligence, finishing without force, and how alignment allows work to complete itself. Without striving, proof, or performance. It can be read here.
Mine, Greg Chapman and Peter Wullen’ A SÊance Of The Table – The Phenomenological Wasteland (French) will be played tomorrow Monday January 5 at Kate Bosworth’s radio show The Dark Train broadcasted at Warminster Community Radio: https://www.wcrfm.org.uk/ and Minerva Radio: https://www.radiominerva.be/ at 10pm gmt/6pm art.
A few months ago Peter had the idea to make a sound piece as a remembrance for Tom Smith of TLASILA who passed away 4 years ago on January 20 2022. One version of A SÊance Of The Table – The Phenomenological Wasteland (French) is in French, the one read by me. The other in English read by Leslie Keffer.
You can listen to A SÊance Of The Table – The Phenomenological Wasteland (French) read by me here, and to Leslie Keffer’s English reading here.
A SÊance Of The Table – The Phenomenological Wasteland (French) a concept by Peter Wullen with undertones by Greg Chapman for which I read an excerpt of Jacques Derrida’s Spectres de Marx was played at David Warmbier’s Spectra Sonic Sound 1.3.2026
Previous note note on A SÊance Of The Table – The Phenomenological Wasteland (French). You can listen to it on Peter Wullen’s soundcloud and get an MP3 or on Peter’s audius and get a wav or flac.
The first Full Moon of 2026, January 3, is in Cancer. I have written about in on The Polymath.
With a Full Moon in Cancer care becomes structural. You can read my post here.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 90 – The Turning Light: To The Solstice edition is now available on mixcloud.
In the Northern Hemisphere we’re on the pathway to Winter Solstice, the beginning of the return of the light. We’re also in Hanukkah – the festival of lights – season (sundown of Sunday December 14 to nightfall of Monday December 22). And, of course Yule that coincides with Winter Solstice and Christmas. You can read more about the programme here.
Tracklist:
01: The Zombies – This Will Be Our Year
02: The Altons – Your Light
03: Todd Rundgren – I Saw The Light (2015 remaster)
04: The Offline РLa belle en lumi̬re
05: Damh the Bard – On Midwinter’s Day
06: Popol Vuh â Aguirre I (L’Acrime di Rei)
07: The Sound – Winning
08: Tom Hiddleston – I Saw The Light live in the Wittertainment studio (Hank Williams cover)
09: Nick Drake – River Man
10: The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (2011 Remaster)
11: Aztec Camera – Wall Out To Winter (extended version)
12: Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
13: Love & Money – Winter
14: The Stone Roses – I Am The Resurrection
All previous shows on mixcloud: YÊ YÊ Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
Nothing Is Being Asked of You Right Now the new post at The Listening Room HQ concerns guidance for men in stillness. Practising coherence, restraint, and presence when no action or decision is required and can be read here.
Art and Music That Knows When to Arrive, a new post on The Polymath site is about art and music that arrive at the right time, including my electroacoustic work Europa with saxophone, and A SÊance Of The Table, Derridaâs on my voice for Peter Wullen and Greg Chapman meeting sound and concept. You can read Art and Music That Knows When to Arrive here.
When the Arrow Becomes a Body – The Art of Listening the new post at The Listening Room is about embodied listening in men’s and as presence: when the body holds truth, attention, and awareness, reorganising what matters without narrative or fix and can be read here.
The Week When the Arrow LandsNew Moon in Sagittarius | Capricorn Solstice, December 19-22, 2025 the new post at The Polymath speaks of the Sagittarius New Moon meeting the Capricorn Solstice. A week of consolidation, settlement, deciding what can truly endure as a long cycle nears completion and can be read here.
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