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...
Mar 11, 2021
I put most of this Lives in Music podcast
episode together on the fifth anniversary of the death of a mutual
friend, the great Paul Murphy, who both introduced me to Renny
Jackson, and encouraged us in our different projects.
One of the things Paul had me do on his Thursday Song Writers Cafe
nights was to interview...
Mar 5, 2021
In this edition of Live in Music, I'm
talking with Loz Kingsley and Vo
Fletcher, Mandolin and Guitar players of great skill and
experience. I met this pair, I think, back in 1974, when they were
doing a session at the old BRMB Radio. They were no slouches then,
and they've only got better since. Vo plays with a...