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Introducing ‘Amplify’
Since I returned to work, my focus has been mainly on a European project called Amplify, which aims to develop innovative technological tools to support musicians at a time of extraordinary change. Working with music organisations in Scotland, Portugal, Italy and Spain, we are experimenting with ways of making digital technology serve the creative and…
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Creative Altruism – A Welfare State principle
The latest episode of the podcast that I co-host with Arlene Goldbard is available today from miaaw.net and all the usual places. This episode is a tribute to a key English arts company, Welfare State International (1968-2006) and in particular to their remarkable handbook, Engineers of the Imagination. The book appeared in 1983, when I was a…
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Might be of interest…
For various reasons, I feel rather out of touch with the art world, even that community-oriented part of it that has been my home for so long. I suspect it’s a permanent change as our paths gradually diverge: we have different concerns nowadays. The art world will continue to develop new worries, ideas, practices and…
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Finding the good
In a recent article about children’s books, Katherine Rundell quotes Coleridge as writing that in criticism it is vital: never to lose an opportunity of reasoning against the head-dimming, heart-damping principle of judging a work by its defects, not its beauties. Every work must have the former – we know it a priori – but every work has not…
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Singing about the darkness
Yesterday, I recorded the next episode of A Culture of Possibility with Arlene Goldbard. I’d stepped back from the podcast last year, when I got sick, so this was our first recording for four or five months and I was anxious about how it would go. We’d actually planned to do it last week, but…
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For John Fox
In October, the post brought a small packet from Cumbria with familiar handwriting. The cards, prints and poetry chapbooks sent from The Beach House over the years have been precious gifts but none had quite the punch of John’s latest offering, Rehearsing a Future. On the back cover, I read: Following a diagnosis of terminal cancer…
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François Matarasso 