I’m going to be speaking at Un-Convention Voices at the Roundhouse in London on Saturday the 11th of February. It’s a joint event running in parallel with The Museum of Modern Art in Medellin, Colombia, that features a day of panels, conversations, debates, performances and interactive sessions on the theme of political voices and social [...]
Categories: Music,New Music Strategies,Politics
Tagged: London, unconvention
I took a train all the way to Leeds yesterday to take part in an event that’s happening almost exclusively on the internet. The event’s called AmpNMS – a New Music Strategies knowledge event that’s being facilitated by an organisation called Amplified. There are four seminars in AmpNMS – two in the UK, moderated by [...]
Categories: New Music Strategies
Tagged: AmpNMS
Had a great meeting in London today with Toby Moores (aka @sleepydog on Twitter). Steve Lawson and I popped along to have a chat with him about an idea we’ve been kicking around for an online event, and as the power behind Amplified, Toby knows a good deal about such things. In fact, it’s fair [...]
Categories: New Music Strategies
Tagged: nms, Steve, Toby Moores
I’m presenting a lecture at the University of Westminster tomorrow morning. Unfortunately, the trains from Birmingham are stupidly expensive first thing in the morning, so I’ve come down the evening before and the university has provided some on-campus accommodation for me, which is very handy. But rather than sit alone in a room in student [...]
Categories: New Music Strategies
From Brass Bands to Colombian Hip Hop. This year’s national Un-Convention event promises to be the biggest and best yet. Taking influence from Un-Convention events around the world and inviting some of the most inspirational and influential figures from the global grassroots music scene – this year will use Un-Conventional spaces – including a barge, [...]
Categories: Music,New Music Strategies,Technology
Tagged: Music, Seminar, unconvention
Before we start, could you please clap, so I can take a photo for my blog? A bit of a rushed presentation this morning at XMediaLab’s Sounds Digital – with almost no voice left at all – but I think I managed to make the main point I was trying to make: that music in [...]
Categories: Music,New Music Strategies,Technology
Tagged: Seminar, Sounds Digital, xmedialab
One of the things I wasn’t expecting when I came to the Sounds Digital conference in London was that the person I have the most in common with in terms of understanding of music, culture and media would be a Vice President of Global Digital Operations for Sony Music. I’ve actually had to reconsider what [...]
Categories: culture,Music,New Music Strategies
Tagged: Matthew Hawn, Sounds Digital
Born to be Wide seminar in Edinburgh, as seen from the panel [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This is a recording I made of the panel I was on with Steve from Music Ally, Ruth from Fat Northerner and Un-Convention, Scott from The Orchard and the BPI, and Will from PRS (who was [...]
Categories: Music,Musician,New Music Strategies
Categories: Music,New Music Strategies
Tagged: unconvention
Man, I talk fast.
Categories: Music,New Music Strategies
