• From ‘A Selfless Art’

  • 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…

  • From ‘A Selfless Art’

  • 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…