Our last day at Un-Convention – and it’s spent in Petare, known as the most dangerous barrio in Venezuela. We went there to pay tribute to a murdered political activist from the neighbourhood, watch basketball, listen to a performance by Symbiz, visit the place of work and the home of a community worker (with an [...]
Tagged: unconvention, venezuela
In which Jez loses control of the lower half of his body, I use all my Spanish, Symbiz reveal their Machiavellian plans, a community newspaper quizzes us on political philosophy for over an hour, we get invited to a Caribbean island paradise, and then we dance.
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Time for Jez and I to take a turn on a panel – this time about Digital Archives. We also shared the session with Buddy & Christian, the brothers from Symbiz, whom we quickly got to know and like. Our panel was flooded in, so we had to keep talking for an extra hour; Symbiz [...]
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The start of Un-Convention itself. I get to do a bit of an introduction, Jez has something in his throat, there is music and dancing (of varying levels of skill and complexity), we get to see a model of what Tiuna el Fuerte will eventually look like… and I get to be on the telly.
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In which we share an unusual breakfast, Jez and Ruth present at a bi-lingual press conference, Alex explains Cameraboy Will’s patented two-step ‘Vengabus then text’ dating technique, and we witness the strict discipline of the Tiuna el Fuerte hip hop school.
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Adventures in Venezuela continued… in which we go up a mountain in an unsafe vehicle, hang out in unsafe places, have accidents, and present a danger to ourselves and others, all in the name of grassroots and independent music.
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I’ve started going through the hundreds of video clips that I took in Venezuela last week, and have started editing them down to a manageable size for general consumption. Here’s the first video from our first day in Caracas. I’m also going to (eventually) upload all of the unedited videos so you can get Jez’s [...]
Tagged: unconvention, venezuela
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 spent the past week in Buenos Aires, speaking at the 19th Un-Convention event. I was part of a whole bunch of different panels – about live music, copyright, building local music scenes and the relationship between visual aesthetics and music. Un-Convention formed the music part of a larger trade fair conference about the creative [...]
Categories: Travel
Tagged: Argentina, unconvention
Ruth Daniel and I were interviewed about Unconvention on Tom Robinson’s show on BBC 6Music. If you’re quick, you can listen to it on iPlayer from about 44mins in.
Tagged: London, unconvention
