So I messed around with the iPad some more. I recorded things and I blogged. I also did a bit of editing.
Here’s a link to a video of the class I gave to my Music Programming students today – recorded on a Flip camera, and edited on the iPad. It’s nothing special, but it’s probably not something I would have done had I not been using different equipment than usual.
Above is another video experiment. Not a very good one, I’ll admit, but it’s something I can perhaps improve of.
Note to self: do video recordings in daylight. Grainy is not a good look. Also – get longer arms.
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 that I would have to stop doing until I’m back on the laptop – but it hadn’t occurred to me that there might be things that I would start doing as well. But it immediately turns out that there are.
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 organisers, Teresa, kindly sent around this video.
I missed this when it came out a year or two back, but I just found it on the superb NZ On Screen site and I think it’s kind of remarkable. It’s a public service anti-crime song featuring popular New Zealand artists, that miraculously comes off without being utterly cringeworthy in the way that so many of these things are.
These guys are the absolute royalty of New Zealand hip hop – Che Fu, Scribe, P-Money, Savage, Mareko – guys with some genuine cred doing what essentially amounts to a “don’t do murders, kids” community police promo – and yet it still manages to be cool.
Not sure whether the question is “How did they pull off this incredible feat?” or “How come everyone else makes such a complete, embarrassing hash of this sort of thing?”
I arrived in Budapest last night and was taken to a concert put on by students of the local music school. There were some amazing performers, a lot of songs in Hungarian, and quite a few in English too.
I thought I’d give you a taste of my new friend András Petruska‘s performance. He played some originals, some real bluegrass-y tunes and even a Sting cover – but I really loved his James Taylor-ish take on Moonlight In Vermont and I happened to capture it on my Flip camera.
I'm an author of books about technology, culture, music and radio. I'm also an award-winning broadcaster and filmmaker, a public speaker and lecturer, record producer and festival director. I am closely following developments in emerging technologies and the cultures and ethics surrounding them, and my projects typically focus on issues of justice, inclusion, and sustainability.
Most of my work involves surrounding myself with incredibly smart and talented people who would have no other reason to ever be in the same room as each other. That's when amazing things happen.
I tend to talk a lot about music (often jazz-adjacent and particularly on vinyl, but also playlists and mixtapes). I'm enthusiastic about food and cooking, the intersection of art and science, new technologies, vintage technologies, education, social progress, silence, innovation, narrative, data commons, culture, sound art and the spoken word. This blog will continue to reflect those diverse and shifting enthusiasms. I may also digress.
I'm from Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand, I have Scottish ancestry, I've spent a decade in the south of Birmingham UK, and another in a forest in the north of Sweden.
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