Delia returned to the intimate By Our Own Hands We Make Our Way for its Fourth Happening. The evening began with ambient bliss from C5&C6, followed by a fascinating talk from Caroline Locke about her sound artworks. Headliners, The Low Drift, performed an evocative set of songs about land and place. As ever, host Simon Rudkin tied things together with poetry and storytelling. I love being a part of this community gathering around art and music, and it was fun to see friends old and new and chat about new possibilities.

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We finally watched Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, an ode to solitude starring Koji Yakusho as a toilet cleaner finding happiness in doing things his way.

Wenders told Frieze: “The spirit of the film is in the fact that everything feels almost holy because that’s how he looks at everything.” We’re encouraged to embrace life’s simple pleasures and routine, to leave the past behind and appreciate the current moment — life as a simple philosophy.

Of course, I particularly loved the movie’s appreciation for cassette tapes, and I'd love to browse Hirayama’s shelves. I wonder if he’s been to Waltz?

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I’m honoured that Tokyo-born, Berlin-based artist Tot Onyx included my song Paper Cranes in her deeply moving Hiroshima/Nagasaki mix, an hour of “Nuclear Age” music remembering the devastating events of August 1945 while also contemplating the present.

Making this mix gave me a quality of time to reflect the ongoing genocide and atrocities that are taking place right now. It proved to me that sometimes music can tell stories better than the language.

It’s also my first play on NTS. Alongside regular shows and guest playlists, the station excels at deep-dives into specialist topics and archive material. But I discovered I’d appeared via Apple Music for Artists’ new Radio Spins feature. Random Shazam spikes always made me curious but the data only offered a broad location (e.g. “Bellingham, USA”). Now, I can cross-reference with a list of stations that’ve played my stuff (mostly college radio, in my case). I’ll look one up, say KUGS 89.3FM, see that it broadcasts from Western Washington Uni — in Bellingham — and satisfy that curiosity.

I do love that something I’ve made can have this free-floating existence outside of my control, occasionally sending back little bits of data about its travels.

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