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Playing with Imogen Heap
So, yesterday I got a bizarre series of DMs and emails from Ms Imogen Heap.
It turns out that she had no cellist lined up for the first night of her UK tour, and could I jump on a train and go and play?
Um…
Yes. What else was I going to do? Watch Scotland lose at rugby? [...] -
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BOS, MIT, TEI
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 [...] -
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The week ahead, ending with TEI
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 [...] -
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Programming
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 [...] -
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Concert kickoff tomorrow
Early tomorrow, I leave for Manchester - I’m playing at another Classic FM Live at the Bridgewater Hall with the Enchanted Voices, Nicola Benedetti, Hayley Westenra and the Philharmonia.
I then rush back to London to record the second Enchanted Voices album, whilst concurrently doing the Kings Place Festival and the Proms…! As soon as the Proms [...]
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Concerts, New Things, News
#cellotweetup SF
08.27.09 | Permalink | 2 CommentsYou might have seen it on Twitter, but alt-cellist Zoe Keating and I are planning to do an impromptu cello concert in the heart of San Francisco when I’m there next month!
We’re asking you, the lovely public, to decide where and when we should play. We will then perform an Eno-esque ‘Music for….’ that place. [...]
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I have this idea…
I have this idea for a concert that some (maybe many, if my readership has gone down..) of you will have heard me talk about at some event or other.
It involves the audience doing stuff. Stuff that results in sound and the overall experience changing for themselves and their fellow audience member.
What I’m wondering is: [...] -
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Concerts this week.
On Thursday, I’m playing, interviewing and paneling at the getambITion roadshow and then on Friday, doing the same at ‘Art of Digital’ symposium. Both events are held at Sadlers Wells, London, and should be really interesting.
More details about the events can be found here and here, but the hot news (!) is what I’m going [...]
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Concerts, News
Playlists for the next few concerts.
In the next two concerts, I’m doing entirely electric “sets”. This was initially borne out of necessity (ease of travel), but quickly turned into a really interesting framework to play with.
Of course, I’ve done electric concerts before, but putting together enough content for it to be interesting and varied is a challenge at the best [...] -
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Sold out Albert Hall
Last night, I was fortunate enough to be a part of Classic FM Live at the Albert Hall - not only was it a sell-out (5,500 people!) but it was a really great fun evening to play in! Dry ice, balloons, pyrotechnics, mood lighting… it had it all!
We’re touring the Enchanted Voices programme in the [...]
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Concerts, News
Working on the road.
I’m sitting in my (lovely) hotel room in Boston, preparing for tomorrow’s concert at Trinity Church. We visited this morning, and we’re all really excited now!
Over the past fortnight, I’ve been perfecting my hotel “regime”, so now it’s dead simple to actually get a lot achieved when traveling. It makes a huge difference, and actually, [...]
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Concerts, News
Live in San Francisco.
I’m excited to announce the first concert on my current US tour! It has been shrouded in secrecy… until now!
Performing live at 13.30 PST/16.30 EST/20.30 GMT tomorrow, Thursday March 19th over the web from Coffeeloop and right here on my own site, I will be performing in front of a maximum audience of 25 at Twitter HQ in San [...] -
Concerts, New Things
Playlisting
Here’s a tricky question: If you could make a 20 minute playlist of your favorite music, what would you put there? Maybe you have an iTunes playlist you really like, or something came up on Last.fm that surprised you… However, this time you’re in control!
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Concerts, New Things
Video
Some exciting news for you today - Coffeeloop has just gone into an exciting partnership with Mogulus!
We will be rolling out a new exciting series of fully HD micro-concerts from around the world (starting, of course, in the UK and then in the US when we’re there in March/April) and then.. who knows! [...]
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Concerts
Playing with Jeff Buckley… (repost)
Is it perfect? No.
Is it better than anything you’re going to hear in a very long time? You bet.
Read Philip Sheppard’s blog article about playing with Jeff Buckley. Astonishing… -
Concerts, Thoughts
After the wall
Billed as a solo cello recital with an all contemporary programme and no seats in an art gallery, it is with great pleasure that I can report that we were just a little shy of 200 at the Ingleby Gallery on Friday night. Add this to the various other “rule breakages” that went on (the [...]
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Concerts
Twestival
As many of you know, I am a huge fan of Twitter, the microblogging platform. The Words on The Wall uses Twitter, and it’s just incredible the things you can do with it (if you know how..)
One of it its other, less obvious uses, is charity. People frequently set up “charity tweets” and raise astonishing sums [...] -
Concerts, News
It’s getting close, and close means exciting.
After an absolutely fantastic meeting at Outside Line today and Howard Goodall’s recording is done, I’m really excited and focussed about The Words on The Wall.
The programmes are back from the printers, the music is ready, the venue is going to be stunning and the interaction interface is going to be incredible. It’s going to [...] -
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Some New Year Newness
Happy 2009!
Sorry for radio silence - things have been utterly manic here, what with The Words on The Wall publicity push starting and all the things that go with presenting a concert where all of the new exciting component parts are, well, new and exciting!
On top of all this, I am also learning twelve new pieces for [...] -
Concerts, News
The Words on the Wall
Writing on the wall. Cavemen did it over 12,000 years ago and the Egyptians were at it 6,000 years ago. It’s a well established means of communication and documentation.
So, writing on wall is nothing new.
In modern terms, this act has been often stigmatized negatively as graffiti but, sometimes, it is celebrated; think Banksy or Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol’s protege:
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Concerts, New Things
YouTube Symphony
I think this is utterly amazing: http://ben.am/P
The idea of a downloadable symphony, complete with conductor video for public vote and selection resulting in a concert at Carnegie Hall is absolutely fantastic. It creates long term excitement throughout the project, and looks to be a great event.
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Concerts, New Things
SoundWIRE
This is a new project for me, but one that has been going on at CCRMA / Stanford for a while now: using the internet as a medium for concert performance. Check it out here.
I am to be trying it out from here in Edinburgh and in London from December, so will look forward to [...]
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It’s all changing at the NY Phil
The last world premiere at a Philharmonic gala opening night was for the inaugural concert at the new Philharmonic Hall, as it was then known, in 1962. Leonard Bernstein conducted Copland’s “Connotations for Orchestra.”
This comes from a really interesting article in the NY Times about the Philharmonic’s new season and, more importantly, their soon to be new [...] -
Concerts, Thoughts
Generational Differences
The world beats to a different drum these days. There are very few things that are the same as they were two hundred years ago… one hundred years ago… fifty years ago… twenty five years ago… you get the picture.
If I can put it another way, our expectations and aspirations are geared towards what is [...]
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