Photo by Tomas Whitehouse I travel a lot, and I do a lot of public speaking. Mostly about Music in the Digital Age, but also about other things – from creative enterprise to time management, the music industry to radio. Whisky too, on occasion. I’m NOT going to be travelling in June, for various reasons [...]
Categories: The Internet
Tagged: Skype
Music in the Digital Age – Part 1 by Andrew Dubber I’ve spent this weekend (so far) working on the audiobook version of Music in the Digital Age, and you can get it at Bandcamp. Each section of the book has been released as an album. Part 1 is the overview, which I call ‘Understanding [...]
Categories: Book
I gave a keynote presentation at the Fremtidens musikalske entreprenører conference, which was held at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen yesterday. My topic was ‘Musicians are Media Producers’ and I spoke for about half an hour with about 15 minutes of questions afterwards. A couple of people asked if my slides would be available, [...]
Categories: Travel,University
Tagged: presentation, Seminar
For the past few years, I’ve been running a whisky blog with my friend Clutch. We’ve visited some lovely places (mostly in Scotland), tasted some wonderful whisky, met some fascinating people – and even made some music as part of that little venture. Plus, people sent us whisky to try. Bonus. This year, we’ve kind [...]
Tagged: writing
Photo by stevendepolo 06. FOOD Big topic today with lots of scope for inventiveness. I want to hear your idea about food. Whether it’s about solving world hunger or preventing food wastage, creating home gardening kits, halting the obesity epidemic or creating ways in which kids can get more nutritious lunches at schools, I want [...]
Photo by Rupert Brun 05. COLLECTING Today’s call for ideas is about accumulating things. Whether it’s an idea about how to shelve and display a DVD collection, thoughts about archiving or cataloguing, ways to start and keep a collection of interesting things, or perhaps you have new ideas about collectible products that will see you [...]
Photo by Telstar Logistics 04. TIME Here’s an opportunity to get creative. You might have an idea for saving time, or for a time-management technique. You may want to think about keeping time, or doing something that involves altering the tempo in a piece of music. You might come up with a new type of [...]
Photo by bies 03. HOUSEWORK This time, let’s think about something completely mundane. Everyone has to do it, and I think there’s room for it to be a lot less onerous, more environmentally friendly, more fun and more fairly distributed. Whether you have an idea for a service that takes care of chores, delivers household [...]
Photo by Trondheim Byarkiv 02. EDUCATION Today’s challenge is to come up with ideas about the learning process. It might be something to do with how to learn things, ways in which testing could be improved, innovations in the classroom, ideas for topics that should be introduced, ways of getting smarter or tools for managing [...]
