My friends Steph and Julian (aka the band Georgia Wonder) have been making their new album in a musical instrument store called Nevada Music in Portsmouth. This is the first video to come out of the project.
Note the price tags still on the equipment…
The plus side for the band is they get carte blanche [...]
Tagged: Bands
Photo by aneye4apicture
Today’s idea is based on an idea I had about three years ago – about making it easier to convert your vinyl collection to digital files, so that you can listen to them on an mp3 player.
Flatbed vinyl scanner
The idea is very simple. Rather than play the record on a turntable and convert [...]
Categories: 30 Days, Idea, Music
Tagged: Recordings, Records, Vinyl
Dave teaches a class on rhythm
Predictably, given the fact that I’ve pretty much done nothing other than the Dave Holland project for the past four days, my photo today would be of something from that project.
This was taken during a really interesting class that he taught this morning in which he talked about the relationship [...]
Tagged: jazz
Photo by Illinois Springfield
Today’s idea is about sound. Specifically, acoustics and recorded music. Simply put, my idea is for people to turn up to a concert hall, sit down, and listen to a record.
There are a few ways you could approach this, but ideally, the listening experience would be curated and explained track by track [...]
Categories: 30 Days, Art, Music, culture
Tagged: Audio, Concert, Concert Hall, Recordings
Jake and Hannah join me for the Dave Holland gig
I asked Jake and Hannah to join me to come and see the Conservatoire students led by Dave Holland in a performance at the Adrian Boult Hall this evening. I’m so glad they came.
It was a great performance, and there was some inspiring drumming (my [...]
Tagged: Conservatoire, Family, Photo
Tempest Records is closing down
I think you could probably now count the number of independent record stores in Birmingham on the hand of one arm.
Categories: 365, Birmingham, Music
Tagged: Photo, Record Store
Jazz musicians at the Conservatoire come face to face with Media students
I went to the Birmingham Conservatoire this evening. Now that they’re part of the same faculty as us, we’re finally allowed to do collaborative stuff. I was there with our Music Promotions and PR second year students, whose job it is to select an [...]
Categories: Music, University
