Milo Thesiger-Meacham’s Audible Heat is an extended documentary, a fitful academic essay, a mass-media probe, an idiosyncratic piece of travel writing, a densely illustrated sound-art montage, and a deep dive into man’s complex relations with the seemingly eternal sound of the cicada as ‘audible heat’ in human consciousness. With original music and field recordings, and spoken contributions by writer and translator Cristina Viti and filmmaker Ahmed Yassin Aldaradji, here this climatic sound acts as a conduit between ecology, identity and mortality, and as a means of teasing out the sensorial limits of human understanding. Audible Heat was written and read by Milo. It was first commissioned as a work for radio by Radiophrenia, 2023; shortlisted for the Prototype Prize, 2024; and is published as a book by Tenement Press, 2025. Its audio counterpart will be released on CD by World Service, 2025. https://tenementpress.com/Audible-Heat https://tenementpress.com/Audible-Heat-World-Service
