• Moving out

    Ten years ago, give or take, I started this site as a working space to support what eventually became a book of the same name, published in 2019. I’ve added almost 450 posts and 110 pages over the decade, and made available many publications, my own and others. But for several years, the force of…

  • Music and relationship

    Geoff Baker is a musician and academic specialising in the music of Latin America, with a particular focus on education, community music and questions of social impact. He has just published Musicking in a relational key: music education and community music for a time of metacrisis, which, in his words,  Questions the dominant model of “social action…

  • Guest post: ‘Scaffolding Hope’

    Arlene Goldbard continue our monthly podcast, A Culture of Possibility, as part of MIAAW. NET. The latest episode is about the work of Restoke, which we featured 5 years ago. much has changed since then, through hard times, but with courage and creativity, as Arlene explains below. You can find it and all episodes in…

  • 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…

  • 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…