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The Ninjas at the bottom of the garden 24 Jul 2013 | 07:37 am
“Things have changed,” said Felipe Altenfelder as we pulled out of the airport carpark. “You’ll notice some differences.” I’d arrived in São Paulo to start work on a documentary film about Fora do Ei...
Occupy Music: behind the scenes 18 Jul 2013 | 10:37 pm
As I write this, I’m on my way to Brazil to shoot a documentary film called ‘Occupy Music‘ (working title). It’s about Fora do Eixo – a cooperative and collaborative system for independent music that ...
Sunday Photo Walk 16 Jun 2013 | 07:27 pm
I’ve been doing a beginners photography course recently at Matt & Pete’s Photo School, which has been loads of fun and I feel like I’m learning lots and improving rapidly. Tomorrow night that comes to...
Crowdsourcing the archives 15 Jun 2013 | 11:17 pm
I interviewed Matt Mason, author of the book ‘The Pirate’s Dilemma’ and he talked about the idea of a crowdsourcing project that could both make sense of and preserve large commercial music library ar...
Deleting Music revisited 15 Jun 2013 | 04:21 am
Peter Jesperson inspects the tape vaults at New West Records A few years ago, I was obsessed with an idea. This is nothing unusual. It happens a lot. It had to do with music, copyright and technology ...
Serious academics discussing serious matters 2 Jun 2013 | 08:15 pm
I’ve been in London the past few days, attending a conference to mark the end of the first round of HERA-funded research projects. HERA stands for Humanities in the European Research Area, and it’s a ...
Finishing touches on the radio book 27 May 2013 | 05:20 pm
For the past few weeks, I’ve been working with a copy editor by the name of Manuela on preparing my Radio in the Digital Age book for print. She’s been brilliant – making suggestions, corrections and ...
Kindling 25 May 2013 | 07:27 pm
Apparently, the Japanese have a word for buying books and leaving them to pile up unread. It’s ‘tsondoku‘. I’m certainly guilty of that. This week, I finally bought a Kindle. I’ve wanted one for a whi...
Age theory 22 May 2013 | 06:46 pm
I recently overheard a student of mine complain to friends that she was going to be old soon and it worried her. Her 20th birthday was coming up. This seems absurd, but the fetishisation of youth as a...
The paperless dream 16 May 2013 | 07:29 pm
I’ve been using Evernote, on and off, for over three years now. And while it seems like a terribly clever thing, it just wasn’t that useful in my life. I take lots of notes, and I write a lot of thing...
