Minor Compositions Podcast explores the unruly intersections of art, politics, and social struggle, tracing lines of flight through music, performance, literature, sport, and everyday life. Across its episodes, the podcast dives into avant-garde experiments, militant aesthetics, and radical practices — from surrealism to squatting, feminist antifascism to free jazz, football to revolutionary love.
Each conversation maps the ways creative and collective practices resist commodification and open space for joy, refusal, and possibility. Guests include artists, musicians, writers, activists, and thinkers engaged in shaping counter-histories and emergent futures: discussing topics as varied as anarcho-punk provocations, the politics of logistics, mutual aid in disasters, the Surrealism of Bugs Bunny, feminist anti-fascism, and the deep commons.
Whether examining the cracks in capitalist realism or celebrating the minor, the fugitive, and the improvised, Minor Compositions invites listeners to think and feel with those who refuse to be shaped for mediocrity — and who dance to rhythms of refusal instead.
You can listen to the podcast on the Firefly Frequencies website. It is also available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music / Audible, Deezer, Podcast Addict, and Podchaser.
Episode 32: States of Divergence
Episode 31: Take This Refusal and Dance To It
Episode 30: Penny as Producer
Episode 29: Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues
Episode 28: Band People with Franz Nicolay
Episode 27: Free Jazz, Revolution and the Politics of Peter Brötzmann
Episode 26: We Don’t Need More Heroes with Scorpio
Episode 25: Shaping for Mediocrity
Episode 24: Jobs, Jive, & Joy
Episode 23: No Authority No Self, or, Penny Rimbaud at the Substation
Episode 22: Subversive Performance in the Age of Human Capital
Episode 21: Feminist Antifascism v Contemporary Microfascism
Episode 20: The Arts of Logistics
Episode 19: Emergent Assemblages of Relationist Football
Episode 18: Anxiety as Vibration with Ana Minozzo
Episode 17: Militant Aesthetics with Martin Lang
Episode 16: Sports & the Avant-Garde
Episode 15: Class, Disasters, and Mutual Aid
Episode 14: Revolutionary Love & the Deep Commons
Episode 13: Up Against the Real
Episode 12: The Subhumans & Punk Historiography
Episode 11: Italian Operaismo
Episode 10: Autonomia and Art
Episode 9: Compound Lyricism
Episode 8: After the Internet
Episode 7: Feminism, Punk and the Avant-Garde
Episode 6: Nomadic Machines
Episode 5: Squatting, Art, and Gentrification
Episode 4: The Weight of the Printed Word
Episode 3: Surrealism and the War on Work
Episode 2: Football and Radical Politics
Episode 1: Communizing Publishing
The Minor Compositions Podcast is produced in collaboration with Firefly Frequencies