A song originally by Step Up Jack (or whatever) - the band I was in during the 1980s. This version is a remake by Rhodri Marsden, sung by Nic Prowse commissioned as a sort of nostalgic gift to myself on the occasion of my 50th birthday.

Shadowlands

In the hotel I stayed at in Caracas, the bathroom taps made an odd noise when you turned them on. German electronic artists Symbiz turned the noise into this short ambient performance piece, declaring the hotel plumbing to be the "world's most analogue synthesiser".

Caracas Taps

Some audio snippets from the first day of jamming and rehearsing at the Culture Shock event in Birmingham, which brings together musicians of a range of different faiths and cultural backgrounds - who have never met before - to compose 90 minutes of music, leading towards a free live performance in just five days time...

Culture Shock - day 1 excerpts

A preview of the latest section of my ebook and audiobook 'Music In The Digital Age'. It's an introduction to a section on Copyright, which originally wasn't going to get a section all to itself. But I've reconsidered that...

Music In The Digital Age - Part 3 introduction: Copyright

I was bored and had a couple of hours to kill at Copenhagen airport. I had my Zoom H1 microphone with me, and I've been missing making radio programmes recently. I thought that it would be nice to just find some people and capture their stories. 

And although it took a while for me to get my nerve up to go and talk to complete strangers (harder than you might think), I actually really like doing that. People are interesting. Might do some more of this sort of thing in future.

The song playing is Duke Ellington's 'Clouds in my Heart'. 

Meeting people at the airport

Thought I might have a lovely nap. Thought wrong. This is the sound of my hotel room in Sao Paulo right now.

Hotel room, Sao Paulo

I presented an explanation of my Brazilian research to the 2nd Cultura de Red convention in Brasilia on 25 July 2012. The purpose of my presentation was to invite discussion and explain how long it takes for academic research to get underway. The contributions that followed from Felipe, Fabricio, Frank and Artur were recorded and are available here for further reflection and discussion. 

I wish I had recorded my presentation that led to this discussion - but essentially, it just outlined the research project (http://andrewdubber.com/brazil), the process of getting funding from the AHRC and FAPESP, what a 'Case for Support' is, and also why I find this such an important project worthy of research.

Discussion about Fora do Eixo research

Raw interview with Zane Lowe for a New Zealand radio programme called Musical Chairs. The final version will have a good deal of music and a lot of interviews with some of the people who get mentioned along the way. Since the target audience for this programme will be New Zealanders, there are quite a few references that aren't going to make a lot of sense for anyone else - but I thought there might be some people who would find the interview of interest - and that the overlap with people who are going to hear the fully produced radio show on Radio New Zealand National is probably quite slim.



Caution: there are one or two swears along the way. I haven't bleeped them out because we're all grownups.



Dubber vs Lowe

An anecdote about doing live sound for the Warners in the late 90s.

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

Letter to Kermode and Mayo

Author of New Music Strategies, Knowledge Transfer Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Music Industries at Birmingham City University.

Andrew Dubber