The Listening Field: Creativity as Navigation is the new post on The Polymath.
A luminous, subtle guide to creativity as navigation. Learn how artists, polymaths, and creators can open, listen, and translate inspiration without forcing output. Presence, resonance, and subtle alignment guide the process. You can read it here.
The Listening Field: Creativity as Navigation pairs with The Listening Field: How Men Heal When They Are Truly Heard at The Listening Room HQ.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 88 – We’re in Autumn edition is now on mixcloud. Amazing Songs & Other Delights airs new editions the first and third Monday of the month, 3-4pm (London time), respective repeats second and fourth Monday of the month, same hour, on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
We’re in Autumn in a simple, mostly gentle an autumnal programme, mixing genres, but essentially staying with songs of the indie-alternative and folk universe. You can read more about the programme here.
Tracklist: 01: Bill Callahan – The Man I’m Supposed to Be 02: Citizen – Yellow Love 03: Duncan Browne – A Dwarf In A Tree (A Cautionary Tale) 04: Guns N’ Roses – November Rain 05: Iron & Wine – Autumn Town Leaves 06: Karen Dalton – How Sweet It Is 07: Moe Bandy – Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life 08: New Order – Blue Moon 09: The Greenhorns – There Is An End 10: R.E.M. – So. Central Rain 11: The Kinks – Autumn Almanac 12: The Tears – Two Creatures 13: Xico Gaiato ft. Rossana | Roda da Máscara 14: Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
The Listening Field: How Men Heal When They Are Truly Heard is the new post on The Listening Room HQ.
The Listening Field: How Men Heal When They Are Truly Heard is about deep listening, emotional clarity, and grounded presence, how men heal when they are truly heard. You can read The Listening Field: How Men Heal When They Are Truly Heard here.
I’m on the radio, and not on my radio show. One of my electro-acoustic pieces will air Monday 24 November, 4-6pm (cest/Paris time) on Toneshift radio show/podcast: https://listen.camp. Tuesday, November 25 the show will be at: https://www.tjnorrisart.com/toneshift
I’m on a show that features music by my long time friend, and source of inspiration since 1986, Rafael Toral, and people like Holger Czukai and Z’Ve. Not bad for a home creation and recording. 🙂
Toneshift’s November 2025 show artists:
Rafael Anton Irisarri Holger Czukay Mark Spybey Jasmine Guffond & Robin Storey Mark Hjorthoy Euphotic Sonologyst Raquel Pinheiro Trod Kallevag Rafael Toral Annette Vande Gorne Giuseppe Ielasi + Jack Sheen @C Sandor Valy Illusion of Safety + Z’Ve Rushab Nandha Doris Dana Ma Estrella Peter Wullen Brandon Auger
The Week When The Field Changes – The Dark Moon of Transformation is a threshold-week reflection on descent, transformation, and the Scorpio New Moon on The Polymath. A personal field-shift, felt in the body, the heart, and the unseen.
The Week When The Field Changes – A Dark Moon Moment for Men in Transition a clear guide for men navigating inner change during the Scorpio New Moon. Grounding, insight, and the week when your field shifts without breaking at The Listening Room HQ.
Claude Monet, Les Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, 1891
The Sieve Year – Quiet Alchemy the new post at The Listening Room HQ pairs with The Sieve Year – Field Notes a reflection The Polymath on 2025 as a sieve year. However The Sieve Year – Quiet Alchemy is addressed as guidance for men in the sieve year, a season of filtering, listening, and quiet recalibration, while The Sieve Year – Field Notes is a broader reflection. You can read The Sieve Year – Quiet Alchemy here.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 88 – We’re in Autumn edition and Monday 17 November 2025, 3-4pm (London time), repeat November 24, same hour on Yé Yé Radio: http://yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
We’re in Autumn in a simple, mostly gentle an autumnal programme, mixing genres, but essentially staying with songs of the indie-alternative and folk universe. Including the, for me, new Duncan Browne.
Although it’s November, and it’s raining, therefore Guns N’ Roses’ ballad November Rain makes an appearance. And a nudge to the mighty Hank Williams with Moe Bandy’ Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life.
Tracklist: 01: Bill Callahan – The Man I’m Supposed to Be 02: Citizen – Yellow Love 03: Duncan Browne – A Dwarf In A Tree (A Cautionary Tale) 04: Guns N’ Roses – November Rain 05: Iron & Wine – Autumn Town Leaves 06: Karen Dalton – How Sweet It Is 07: Moe Bandy – Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life 08: New Order – Blue Moon 09: The Greenhorns – There Is An End 10: R.E.M. – So. Central Rain 11: The Kinks – Autumn Almanac 12: The Tears – Two Creatures 13: Xico Gaiato ft. Rossana | Roda da Máscara 14: Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 87 – The To Remember Who I Am is now available on mixcloud.
This edition title is both a reminder to myself and a words play with Tracy Vandal & John Mercy’s song. You can read more about this programme here.
Tracklist: 01: Lammergeiers – ITB 02: Alicia Edelweiss – Leonie 03: Ruth Lyon – November 04: Sugar – House of Dead Memories 05: Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter – Dead End Pools 06: Guided By Voices – (You Can’t Go Back To) Oxford Talawanda 07: Miranda – I Wish 09: Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires – Might Have, Might Not Have 10: Oliver Sim – Telephone Games 11: Bela Noia – Não quero mais 12: AUA Drop – Painkiller No. 2 13: Leatherette – Hey There (x) 14: Tracy Vandal & John Mercy – To Remember Who You Were feat Alex Kapranos 15: Cass McCombs – Missionary Bell
The Sieve Year – Field Notes is a reflection on The Polymath on 2025 as a sieve year, a time of refinement, release, and recalibration. Observing what passes through the hand of time, what remains, and how to move with clarity amid the sifting currents of life. You can read it here The Sieve Year – Field Notes.