François Matarasso

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  • Still standing

    My good friend Hugo Seabra sent me this photo of the Portuguese edition of A Restless Art at the Lisbon Book Fair. It is he, with Isabel Lucena, his erstwhile colleague at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, that I have to thank for the chance to write and publish this book, and I’m glad to do…

  • The Future of AI in Live Music

    Although I’ve been working on the AMPLIFY project for nearly 18 months, I have written about it here, partly because of other priorities and partly because its relation to co-creation is somewhat ambiguous. The project is mainly focused on the development of new digital technologies that can support live music, especially in small creative and…

  • Usefulness (from ‘A Selfless Art’)

    Here is the latest post from my new project, A Selfless Art, which I’m publishing here because it has a bearing also on A Restless Art. I mostly post on the new website now, so please go there to read about my current ideas. In 1997, I published a study of the social impact of…

  • First thoughts after ICAF

    It will take time to process my thoughts and impressions of ICAF 2026. If I do have something coherent to share about current practice, I’ll add it here in due course. But the question that has been most insistent since I got back from Rotterdam is about the future: But that has more to do…

  • International Community Art Festival 2026

    At the end of day two of the Rotterdam festival, some images of a few of the events, by turn inspiring, frustrating, joyous and intriguing. I know no better way of getting a feel of the field’s current preoccupations, desires and anxieties that immersing myself in the diversity of work, even if, at times, there…

  • The Social Impact of Music Making (SIMM)

    The SIMM Platform exists thanks to the vision and tenacity of Lukas Pairon, a musician, activist and researcher who has worked for many years at the interface of music and social change. One of its primary actions is bringing together people working in the field to share ideas and explore new ways forward. Lukas asked…