Unforeseen: Improvising Life and Music draws on an archive of my earliest memories, field recordings, and conversations with Polish, Ukrainian, and Roma migrants — some close friends, others I met while making this work. As we shared memories and experiences of migration and life in Eastern Europe in the 1980s and 90s, unexpected commonalities began to emerge: buried memories, feelings, smells, and sounds. The sound of swallows flying low before summer rain and thunder. Watching them from the concrete balcony of a flat in a multi-storey block. The smell of pavements after rain. The hazy, polluted sky in low summer light. Maternal voices, lullabies, birdsong, and the migration of birds became closely intertwined. Through these stories and memories, I became increasingly interested in how we navigate life's uncertainty within larger social, political, and ecological systems, and in the similarities between our lives and those of migratory birds. Questions of belonging, identity, and home brought new realisations to light, redefining these concepts through the collective lens of the communities we build as migrants. Improvisation lies at the heart of my musical practice, and this work explores how we improvise our lives in much the same way: responding to unforeseen circumstances, adapting to change, and finding our way between instinct, memory, and possibility. The music itself follows a similar path, combining structured compositions with improvisation, field recordings, found sounds, electronic processing of my cello, and beats created in Ableton Live.