From the Archive Putting Music on the Map Our songs are trapped in time. They’re chronologically fixed. Even “Longplayer” — a piece of music written by Jem Finer that’s designed to last for one thousand years — has an ending. Why? What’s so great about time that music has to have a duration? I’m not saying
Writing Telling Stories With Data & Music I've just published an article for Nightingale, the Journal of the Data Visualization Society, on the new approach to sonification that we're taking with Loud Numbers. Here's an snippet: Our goal is to create something that not only tells a series of compelling data stories, but is also a pleasure
Music In My Head A few weeks back, I appeared on a local radio station for a show called "In Your Head". It's a bit like Desert Island Discs - they invite someone on the show, and get to know them through a playlist that they've chosen. Now my episode has been posted online.
Music Dymaxion Rotation Discovering new music has become more difficult for me in recent years, for two key reasons. The first is that I've had less time to spend reading the music press, which was always my favourite source of recommendations. The second is that music itself has splintered into zillions of microtrends
