Apr 15, 2021
This third series of Lives in Music
doesn't just concentrate on peoples' music journeys.
It also has one consistent thread running through everyone's lives:
that of Covid 19, the resultant lockdown, and the effect it's
had on people's activities. My guest in this edition is someone you
will almost certainly have seen if...
Apr 8, 2021
I first
met Tom Hyland, when he was strutting his guitar
stuff with an early version of the now long gone but much-loved
Alternative Dubstep Orchestra. I've followed Tom
since, first on my blog about the risky steps of
going fully pro with Electric Swing
Circus, as he dove head-first into Electro
Swing. From the band...
Mar 30, 2021
This is a chat with Kris
Halpin, who also trades as Dyskinetic.
It's about making music solely by gesture and movement. An
extraordinary new way to create, using Imogen Heap's magical Mi.Mu
gloves. Disabled himself, Kris explains this with disarming
frankness. The gloves are extraordinary things, and there's a
sample in...
Mar 25, 2021
This third Lives In Music series
concentrates not just on peoples' music journeys... it also has a
consistent thread running through everyone's lives: that of Covid
19, the resultant lockdown, and the effect it's had on people's
activities.
This episode is no exception, but there is a difference. We recorded this talk...
Mar 18, 2021
Ross Grant is putting together –
pure lockdown creativity at its best – an amazing series called
Around The World in 80 Plays, collaborating at
distance with musicians worldwide to produce some compelling joint
work.
Normally I tend to court some of our more senior music citizens as
guests in this series, on the...