Selected tracks composed by Axel Kacoutié for the Today in Focus The Pegasus project Mini-Series

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02 Pegasus CUE - Numbers

01 TiF Pegasus CUE - Paris

The Guardian: Today in Focus Theme (Pegasus Remix)

TRANSCRIPT: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/transcripts/A_Mother_Tongue_Transcript.pdf

WATCH: https://vimeo.com/704623806/102f8798d3

What is the etymology of your being? 

Axel Kacoutié offers a vivid personal essay reflecting on language, bilingualism and the curated gaps they have to navigate in order to access their culture and sense of self.

“Your language is a spell, an invocation speaking you into existence, rediscovering the contours of your morality, the fabric of your race and gender and how you relate to others and the world…”

Featuring the voices of the poet Raymond Antrobus and performance artist Rachel Cheung, Axel weaves together the thoughts of a number of multilingual people - including Derick Armah, Irina Niculescu, Mauricio Loseto, Olivia Melkonian, Radhika Viswanathan and Rosel Jackson Stern - into a reflection on living between languages and finding yourself in the gaps.

Illustration: Erin Tse

Produced by Axel Kacoutié
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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A Mother Tongue by Axel Kacoutié

The new theme song for The Guardian's Science Weekly podcast

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The Guardian: Science Weekly Theme

The theme song for The Guardian's Comfort Eating with Grace Dent Podcast

The Guardian: Comfort Eating with Grace Dent Theme

The Guardian: Politics Weekly America Theme

The Guardian: Politics Weekly UK Theme

The Guardian: Weekend Theme

It’s 2020. New Orleans. The most incarcerated city, in the most incarcerated US state. The city has elected a progressive Black district attorney, Jason Williams, who promises to change the system from within.

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01 The Division- New Orleans Main Theme

Written in collaboration with Ioana Selaru. An Afonica Sound production for BBC Radio 4

About: Alternative reality drama. Extended Life Syndrome (ELS) is a rare genetic condition that makes some people live twice as long. But would you want it? Now think again. Would you?

LISTEN: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09hbsqb/episodes/guide

One Five Seven Years Main Theme

All the Names Given as it's meant to be heard, narrated by Raymond Antrobus

Original Music by: Axel Kacoutié

Produced by: Eleanor McDowall

Mixed by: Eloise Whitmore

All The Names Given - Title

Can I Tell You A Secret - a Guardian podcast series about obsession, fear, and the lives we lead online. 

Original Music by Axel Kacoutié

Can I Tell You A Secret? Main Theme

CITYAS - Throwback Noughties  (Preview)

CITYAS - Matthew Hardy Main Theme

CITYAS - Digital Or Analogue

CITYAS - Dawn Of The Net (Preview)

making the invisble, visble by conjuring thought forms about the practice of magic and what it can mean for all of us and especially artists. 

Full episode here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001cpbs

Short Cuts: The Magician By Axel Kacoutié [CLIP]

Theme music composed for the new BBC Earth Podcast series

BBC Earth Podcast Ident Opening:Closing

Every week, Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph digs deep into the stories we can’t stop talking about.

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Pop Culture With Chanté Main Theme

“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

Lights Out: Gatekeeper by Axel Kacoutié

A memoryscape of fatherhood woven between three generations.

from the Fatherhood Short Cuts episode produced by Axel. Series 33.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hfc2

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Short Cuts: Are You Here? 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
Originally Broadcast 10th April 2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kwz3

No Need to Say Goodbye by Axel Kacoutié

Deep within the mind and psyche, this is a psychological and spiritual withdrawal from the toxic workplace culture founded on white supremacy. No Black mind is safe. This piece is a potent concentration of morale erosion that climaxes into a release to the wilderness of autonomy and the freelance world.

Original image by Irene Tønnessen

From the Fugitive Episode. Series 34

Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Produced by Axel Kacoutié
Executive Producer: Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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WHITE NOISE By Axel Kacoutié

It's the first time I've gone into this much depth exploring who I am in front of a mic and I hope you find a bit of yourself in my little (re)discoveries.

FULL EPISODE: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0007wvz?fbclid=IwAR2HuSUbv7eEI3GPFo6vHG687gRFW7NBggFcKRHzLAYrulDRF4Bp_B28i44

Short Cuts: How to Remember by Axel Kacoutié

Five radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay to offer a series of Radio 3's innovative Between the Ears features in miniature, in response to Emily Dickinson's poem 'Hope is the thing with feathers'.

In this edition, Axel Kacoutié offers a story about a man's journey home, which interweaves with the discovery of a lesser-known truth about hope.

LINK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dzwy

Between The Essays: Paradise by Axel Kacoutié

My take on MNEK's awesome White Noise edit: https://soundcloud.com/mnek-1/mnek-white-noise-disclosure-x




White Noise (Axel Kacoutié Remix)

We are wrong to look for uniformity and objectivity. We have all mapped associations to what our subjective experience is like.

My experience of the colour red is different from yours. Our brains light up the same way when hearing water but our relationship to its sounds will never be the same.
Because of this, I wanted to illustrate how I've mapped mine using abstract terms like solitude, sunbathing, patricide etc. All as an attempt to say, "you don't have to understand, I just want to connect and have you see (listen) how I relate to the world."

Also featuring on Radio 4's Short Cuts Episode, Silent Symphonies: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q3p9

A Sound Poem by Axel Kacoutié

The original theme music for Today in Focus by Axel Kacoutié

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The Guardian: Today in Focus Original Theme

The nautical remix of the original Today in Focus theme for the Freshwater Five mini-series:

You can listen to the series here: https://www.theguardian.com/law/audio/2021/feb/23/freshwater-part-5-the-appeal-podcast

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