Nabihah Iqbal | Dream Space – Factory International

In the latest episode of Dream Space, Nabihah Iqbal transports us to Egypt – where a calm oasis is waiting on the banks of the Nile and a golden sunset is frozen in time. Birds are singing, grandma is cooking and Jeff Buckley, Cleopatra and Bruce Lee wander past in conversation.

Nabihah Iqbal is a musician, DJ, writer and broadcaster. In 2023, she has been busy curating Brighton Festival and touring her latest album DREAMER – a record she created during the early months of 2020, after her studio was burgled and long-awaited album lost.

For Factory International, Nabihah Iqbal produced the music for Factory Works – an audio artwork created by artist Neville Gabie in collaboration with construction workers and manufacturers involved in the creation of Aviva Studios.

Photo: Shahir Iqbal

About the Series

What does art have the power or potential to do, when we allow ourselves to dream?

Gemma Cairney poses this questions to some of the world’s most exciting artistic minds in a new podcast from Factory International.

In each episode we get to know our guest, find out what makes them tick, what brings them joy and inspiration. Together we create a new vision, pushing the boundaries of what is possible and ask what kind of art the world needs now.

Contributors

Gemma Cairney (she/her)
Host
Gemma Cairney is a multi award-winning broadcaster, author and activist. Gemma’s documentary radio series include The Leisure Society for BBC 6 Music and The Sound Odyssey for BBC Radio 4. Previous radio credits include: Island Sounds, Dolly, Dylan or Daft Punk, and Mali Music (BBC 6 Music). Tempted By Teacher and Bruising Silence (BBC Radio 1) garnered two Sony Golds and her interview with Grace Jones, Amazing Grace, (BBC 6 Music) won the Best Music Show Rose d’Or. Her latest book, The Immortal Sisterhood, will soon be published by Canongate.
Katie Callin (they/she)
Producer
Katie is a producer at Reduced Listening and produces Late Junction for BBC Radio 3, Dream Fuel for BBC 6music and Ultimate Calm for BBC Sounds. They also produce Serpentine Podcasts and co-produced Arthur Cares for BBC Radio 4.
Tess Davidson (she/her)
Producer
Tess is a freelance researcher and producer. Her recent projects include research work on A Life in Music for BBC Radio 4 and producing the Destination USA podcast series for Index Ventures.
Femi Oriogun-Williams (they/them)
Sound Designer
Femi Oriogun-Williams is a musician, writer, audio producer and educator born at 00:00 under a Taurus moon to a room of laughing people. They have produced audio for Somerset House, Serpentine Gallery, Radio 4 and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts. They have also composed original music for Jay Bernard’s theatre piece Joint, and Crystals of this Social Substance, a 32-Channel sound installation exhibited at the Serpentine Pavilion. They have received ACE funding and been commissioned by the Goethe Institut to create two original pieces of radio: both the cyberspace punk opera OK Galexa, and the radio drama My Friends Nina+James. They are currently an Associate Lecturer of Audio production at Goldsmiths.
Carmel Smickersgill (she/her)
Composer
Carmel is a Manchester based composer working predominantly within electronic DIY, classical and theatre music. She released her debut EP We Get What We Get and We Don’t Get Upset in 2022 with PRAH recordings. She was a 2021 recipient of the Jerwood Live Art Award, a 2020 nominee for the Ivor Novello Rising Star Award and a 2019 recipient of the Rushworth Composing Prize with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
Dan Jackson (he/him)
Exec Producer
Dan is the Head of Production at Reduced Listening with twenty years' experience making TV, Radio and Podcasts at ITV, the BBC and indies. He works across all Reduced Listening productions, to support directors, staff and freelancers and takes care of business affairs, contracts and production planning. Dan is also an Executive Producer working in factual and video content with visual oversight of Pod Save the UK.
Scott Smith (He/Him)
Head of Digital Content
Scott heads up the Digital Content team at Factory International and Exec Produces content-led projects.
Alex Mannion-Jones (he/him)
Digital Content Producer
Alex is the Digital Content Producer at Factory International where he produces our video and audio content.

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