The first iteration of Always Coming Home took place at Iklectik, London and was supported by the RKEI Research Costs Fund in 2023. This was the starting point for ambient sensorial experimentation, as a threshold for furthering the ideas of immersion, speculative world and conscious listening. Considered as a small A—-Z festival, this all day event revolves around speculative landscapes from the synthetic to the sensual and otherworldly. Mainly V Sets and live performances will explore embodied practices through sound and visual sensories, the acts will expand on affective elements shared together. *Always Coming Home is a “title-hommage” to the 1985 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. Its written style alternate a narration, pseudo-textbook and pseudo-anthropologist’s record. It describes the life and society of the Kesh people, a cultural group who live in the distant future long after modern society has collapsed.