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
Auditório Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been in Brazil. First, in a town called Goiania, and then Sao Paulo. I’m over here for Unconvention, which is a grassroots and independent music conference and event that started in Salford a couple of years ago, but which has expanded dramatically, and has [...]
Tagged: brazil, unconvention
[Video link] Basically, it’s this. I’m off to Brazil next week to do more of this sort of stuff.
Categories: Music
Tagged: unconvention
Over the past few days I’ve been in Salford (that’s right next door to Manchester) at an Un-Convention event. As usual, some amazing people talking about some really cool stuff – great music in the evenings (and through the day, actually) and good times with some of my favourite people. There were a few missing [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: salford, unconvention
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
[Video link] My friend Saskia (from New Music Strategies) sent me a link to this trailer for a Dutch-made documentary film about young people in South Africa using music to escape or improve their situation. It’s not all in English, of course – but you’ll get the idea from the video above, and there’s a [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: South Africa, unconvention
[Video link] We’re in a home studio. Lupa (in the baseball cap and black t-shirt) runs it as a drop-in recording and music workshop facility for the local kids, as well as the headquarters of his crew, FB7. Bibiana translates as rapper Fly So High explains why Un-Convention in Medellín is so important to them. [...]
Tagged: Medellin, unconvention
The next Unconvention event is in Medellín, Colombia. I’ll be on my way there first thing Saturday morning. In the meantime, I’m preparing myself for what we’re going to encounter when we get there. In particular, we’ll be doing some work in the barrios with hip hop artists – and so one of the Unconvention [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: unconvention, Video
