I’m giving an academic conference paper tomorrow at the Rhythm Changes jazz cultures research conference at Media City in Salford. My presentation’s centred around the Auckland jazz scene in the mid to late 1990s. There are some interesting aspects to that scene: the cross-pollination between local hip hop and jazz, the influx of Australian musicians, [...]
Categories: Research
Sometimes the cool and interesting things that my colleagues do at work spill over and I get some of the benefits. As a result, I was in Budapest last week for the European project that Paul Long & Jez Collins run out of our research office. It’s about innovation in popular music heritage and its [...]
Categories: Research,Travel,University
Halfway through my first day using the iPad as my sole computer and seeing how that affects what I do and how I do it. Right now, I’m typing on the screen rather than using the Bluetooth keyboard, which is not ideal, but not a problem particularly. I was concerned that there might be things [...]
Categories: Research,Technology,The Internet
I’m toying with the idea of trying to do the work I do using only the iPad and an external keyboard. From the point of view of portability and convenience, it would be worth attempting. There are a few workarounds I’ll have to adopt and I’m sure there will be some niggles (like not being [...]
Categories: Research,Technology,The Internet
