teaching
has been good this week so far and its only Tuesday - solid tutorials at Camberwell, supporting the
thinking behind the research and a full-on mind warp drawing sound and reading images session at NUA. Tomorrow is Book-Art-Family-Tree-Symposium-1 so we get to hear book story starting points. Working on the presentations for the teaching I'm involved in - Dr Tadashi Tokieda has become my go-to
person when thinking about making topology accessible and meanwhile still
thinking about Keith Albarn's
tessellation http://patternandbelief.com/
Noel
Gallagher on hot ones - it was
interesting to see after all the Americans that Englishness was so evident....
dourness and irony to the fore, we really are a different race. Listening to The Rapture an episode of Melvyn Bragg - In Our Time explains a
little more why America is like America https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008p2k.
In the Shadow of the Moon https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8110640/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
was a quirky time travel lesson about living in the now.
My
experience of Sound City Ipswich had a bad start with Greater Anglia cancelling
another train (this is now obviously some form of policy so going to the
station has become a sad lottery) But an hour late I managed to see Peaness - soft indi guitar band, Plastic Mermaids - knob twiddling
radiohead, Girls of the Internet -
excellent samples and dance in the great venue that is the Smokehouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qPU_pWK13o&list=PL0gmWNnsmaDchNuxIU4dcg_TOScpdI5Wg&index=1,
Emma-Jane Thackray - a really
interesting sound - tight Sun-Ra-afro-beat-reggae-2-tone-house- inspired
mournful rock jazz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jle9v6JZzAE,
Novelist - ok'ish' grime-lite. meanwhile
all this terrible weather and the start of Autumn has got me 1- thinking about
the Summer and 2 - planning for next year!!
