Radia #1085 - When We Bow Down Our Heads by John Roach - 18 June 2026

Members of **http://radia.fm**, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

This episode is a contribution by Rádio Zero.

This 27 minute radio version of When We Bow Down Our Heads was created by John Roach specifically for radia.fm. The work celebrates the resonance of wind and its promiscuous and borderless nature by combining 10 years of spatialized field recordings, live intervention of performers Wolf Robert Stratmann (double bass) and Inbal Hever (voice), and fragments of interviews that provide contextual turbulence. Two voices are heard in this edit, the interdisciplinary artist and composer Raven Chacon and the Geophysical Scientist Joonsuk Kang.

John Roach is an interdisciplinary artist with a particular interest in sound and multisensory experience who builds environments that blur the line between what we see and what we hear. His work moves fluidly between intermedia installation, radio transmission, p