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Kindling
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...
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Breathing in
It’s been a strange and busy year… and we’re only in week two. Of course, I’m determined not to be one of those “I’m so busy!” people, but I do rather a lot of things. Fortunately, most of them are...
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I read an awful lot. You’d expect that to be the case. I am a professor, and reading is part of the job description. I read a lot, and I read quickly. 500 words per minute is comfortable. I can manage...
View ArticleThe line between the digital world and the physical one is imaginary
There have been some really interesting projects spring up recently that make use of physical objects in three-dimensional space to negotiate or interact with digital media. This seems important. It’s...
View ArticleNothing ever happens
I’ve written pretty much every day for well over 20 years. On average, somewhere around 1500 words a day. Often much more. I’m not talking about emails or text messages. I mean stopping, sitting down...
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New literacies in the physical internet
Photo credit: #MTFLabs: Body and Performance at #MTFBerlin 2016 ©Peter Kolski Digital Art I tend not to duplicate what I write for Music Tech Fest here on my blog – but I’m making an exception in this...
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Michela explained
I was asked to provide a summary of Michela’s recent work for a magazine journalist. The journalist in question had conducted a 3-hour interview with Michela, but had not really been able to...
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Curriculum Vitae – Verbis Pluribus
The subject of my career has been under discussion of late. Not that I have any plans to change it – but rather the conversation has concerned how I might wish to communicate what it is that I do, and...
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The Jura Project
A decade or so back, alongside a burgeoning academic career in a Media and Cultural Research centre as well as a fair bit of international travel giving keynote speeches at music industry events...
View ArticleWetlands documentary
Late last year I spent some time in Aveiro, Portugal filming a short documentary, which was released officially last month. Wetlands has already been accepted to three major international film...
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