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Clarion Call
I was a guest at Spill Festival and had the honour to experience one of their commissions, Clarion Call. Clarion Call is a large scale sonic artwork which plays out on the Ipswich waterfront and drifts...
View ArticleOnline Nation
Ofcom’s Online Nation was released yesterday. It offers a useful insight into how and why people in the UK use online tools and resources. And the findings may surprise some. They should. Check out the...
View ArticlePoem Portraits
Poem Portraits is brought to you by Google. It’s an art experiment, part crowdsourced, and part AI driven, learning as it goes. Donate a word to become part of an ever evolving collective poem and...
View ArticleNatacha Atlas – Strange Days
I heard a live preview of Natacha Atlas’s album STRANGE DAYS at an intimate gig in Blackheath earlier this summer. It was an extraordinary experience, hypnotic, transporting, musically accomplished,...
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Kenya
A fascinating country, Kenya. I was last there in the winter of 2014. Famed for its wildlife what’s often forgotten about Kenya is its active participation in global trade for hunderds of years...
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Be future friendly
I’m usually one for silver linings to dark clouds. I’m also someone who has worked in the digital space for 20+ years. I know that ‘clean, streamlined and paperless’ communication isn’t really...
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Theatre, arts and culture
Theatre, arts and culture are under attack. Creatives, artists, institutions and structures which foster theatre, arts and culture are facing down the immediate effects of the Coronovirus pandemic...
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Erasing TV and Film
Erasing TV programmes like Little Britain, League of Gentlemen, The Mighty Boosh, Fawlty Towers, or films like Gone With The Wind and others seems very of the moment. Let’s look at who is doing the...
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Millennials, Elections, and Change
plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose The more things change, the more they stay the same. Really? For the first time since the end of World War 2, almost longer than living memory, there is a...
View ArticleTelling It Like It Is: Technology
As an observer of life and as a human being, I’ve been living and working through the Covid-19 pandemic as many others have. Life and work has become increasingly in thrall to technology, and...
View ArticleHome: Telling it like it is
Home is a complex subject, and that’s why it makes a good topic for conversation. Home shapes us, it holds and nurtures us. Home can be somewhere we want to escape to, or escape from. The last year...
View ArticleMusic and Life: Telling it like it is
Plato had it right: “Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” Nietzsche was more succinct:...
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Youth 100: What 18-24 Year Olds think about Brands
What do YouTube, Amazon, Google, BBC, Ben & Jerry’s, Cadburys, Facebook, Pringles, Wikipedia and Channel 4 have in common? They all feature on the Youth 100 list, which highlights brands...
View ArticleMusic and Life: Telling it like it is
Plato had it right: “Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” Nietzsche was more succinct:...
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Ben Okri: Lines in Potentis
I love words. I love words because they carry meaning. Meaning is as much about detatched and conceptual responses as emotional ones. Here, the Booker prize winning writer Ben Okri brilliantly...
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PUPPETS, FEMINISM AND MUSIC …
The vocal is a sample from Blossom Dearie’s ‘It Amazes Me’ recorded in 1958. Reinterpreted here by Les Balayeurs du Desert it assumes a feminist stance, never more so that when seen with this amazing...
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