January 2010

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• Concerts

  BOS, MIT, TEI

  01.24.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I arrived in Boston last night and went straight to my favorite local curry house. I really love Boston, and always look forward to coming here.
  This trip is no exception.
  I spent this morning at the new, shiny MIT Media Lab. I have spent time in their old building (right next door), but this is just [...]

• News

  Travel Day.

  01.23.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m heading off to LHR now; bags are packed, passport is ready and my noise-canceling headphones have been charged. I even have change for my en route coffee.
  Next stop, Boston! The TEI conference should be really interesting, and also, I get to spend a week in one of my favorite cities… it’s a hard life.

  If [...]

• Thoughts

  A New Age. It’s the answer.

  01.21.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Today it was my birthday, and I’m now 23. Hurray!
  I’ve been thinking about new beginnings recently; we’re at a really exciting time in the music industry where the old rules are being questioned for one reason or another, and nobody can say with any real clarity what’s happening.
  Surely we should be making interesting stuff? Stuff [...]

• Concerts, News

  The week ahead, ending with TEI

  01.17.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  As some of you know, last week I made a quick jaunt to Nottingham to do some preparatory work Sarah Kettley and Yann Seznec ahead of going to Boston next weekend for the TEI conference at MIT, Boston.
  Basically, it’s a project involving stretch sensors weaved into a shirt that I wear to play; it maps [...]

• Thoughts

  What if…

  01.15.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  How can an event, planned and set months, maybe years in advance, remain relevant at the time of performance?
  What if concert programming matched audience buying trends?
  Some audience members buy tickets when the programme is printed several months before it happens. Most, it has to be said, buy within the week of the concert. RIghtly or [...]

• Concerts

  Programming

  01.08.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m currently programming 10 concerts for this coming year - some of these will be done more than once, but I have 10 concert programmes this season. (When I say it out loud, that seems like an awful lot…)
  For those of you that don’t know what this means, it’s basically choosing pieces of repertoire that [...]

• Thoughts

  2010: how are you going to respond?

  01.01.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Happy New Year! Only 364 days left of this one, so let’s get cracking!
  It’s well established now: business as we knew it is over. Get over it - the halcyon days are not coming back, and frankly, it’s for the best. As I sit and write this at 2.44am on January 1st, 2010, I’m genuinely [...]