Tag: art
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Modfest 5 at AudioFoundation
Now I’m in Auckland I finally get to go to AudioFoundation! I’ve been following this place with interest from afar. They put on interesting events, workshops, sounds, publish Soundbleed journal, and generally push the frontiers. Also they have supported some of my music on AFM 🍻 Modfest, now in its fifth year, is a collective…
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National Art Gallery, Malaysia
Today I walked about an hour, in ridiculous humidity, to a wonderful contemporary gallery in Kuala Lumpur. The journey there was an adventure – Google had me walking under and over motorways. I got there very hot but relatively quickly! Before I had a chance to find the toilets and cool off / shake my tshirt…
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The best live electronic act in the world
…is Chemical Brothers. I just got home from Electric Avenue festival in Christchurch and it was superb. The crowd was young and old; there were 4 stages of a wide range of music; the day was well organised and low stress overall. I thoroughly enjoyed myself all day, but the reason I went was to…
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It Was Coming On
It Was Coming On is built around a public domain sample of a journalist interviewing people on the street, after the Pearl Harbour attack that kicked off World War Two. I flipped this somewhat dark sample material into a vocal for a playful, energetic and surreal tech-house tune with a bouncy groove. Today I celebrated…
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Hamburger Bahnhof
It’s way too hot here. Today we sought refuge in a contemporary art museum: Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart at Hamburger Bahnhof. In the cavernous ex-railway station main hall is Eva FĂ bregas‘ Devouring Lovers. Definitely the spectacle, it’s good that it subtly jiggles occasionally. After exploring that we exited back to the ticket desk and wondered how…
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Laurie Anderson’s tiny tales
In Stockholm I visited the local contemporary art gallery: Moderna Museet. Lucky for me the feature exhibition was a Laurie Anderson retrospective. The first room celebrated a tiny “origin story” of Anderson’s grandad with a series of … photographs. He moved (from Sweden to USA) at age eight, started a business at nine and married…
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Leopold Museum
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mumok
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Daniel Crooks – time & space from a different angle
In 2019 I gave a talk at my first ever WordCamp (in Brisbane). Looking back I’m feeling lucky to have travelled and attended in person. Like so many other communities, WordCamps are now pretty much 100% online & distributed. Whenever I find myself in a new place there are a couple of things that I’ll…