This man took an impression of my face. Not something you do every day. As part of UnConvention Factory, there was an art project in which ten people’s faces were made into a sort of circuit board mural thing. Still not quite sure why, but it was very cool. Weird experience, of course. My face [...]
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Tagged: Photo, unconvention
As they set up the venue for Unconvention Factory, Saskia takes my photo – and I happen to catch it just as the flash blasts. Never done that before. Utter fluke.
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I’m in Macclesfield for the next couple of days attending Un-Convention Factory. It’s the 30th anniversary of (Joy Division lead singer) Ian Curtis’s death, and we’re marking that with a special event unlike any other we’ve ever done. There’ll be 8 bands, 100 invited delegates from across the creative industries and 300 attendees who have [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: Conference, Seminar, unconvention
This is much more important than it looks I quite often speak about Music as Culture, and it’s the title of a panel session I’m going to be hosting in Colombia at Un-Convention Medellin next month. I was asked to write a short piece to explain the concept, to be put into a conference booklet, [...]
Tagged: Medellin, Music as Culture, unconvention
I’m going to be speaking at this event – though not in Spanish, I suspect. Really looking forward to it…
Tagged: Colombia, Medellin, unconvention
I’m off to Medellin, Colombia with Ruth (above), Jez and a few other friends in May, for an Un-Convention event. Really looking forward to it. Should probably learn a bit of Spanish before I go though…
Categories: Music
Tagged: Medellin, unconvention
Categories: Music,New Music Strategies
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I met Corijn – a singer/songwriter from here in Groningen. He played a few numbers at the beginning of Un-Convention, and he graciously let me upload one of them here. I really loved his playing – and particularly his voice. See what you think: [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Categories: Music,Musician,Travel
Tagged: Groningen, Music, unconvention
This is Sofie. I met her at UnConvention Groningen and she gave me her CD. She’s the singer for Le Titre, who are starting to make waves here in Holland. She describes the music as inhabiting a space broadly in the Fiona Apple / Amanda Palmer territory. I asked her if I could play you [...]
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Tagged: Groningen, le titre, unconvention
