Lovely to finally visit @FilmLeigh last night at @SpinnersMill@LeighFilm! A labour of love to be sure, but great to see what has become of the bare space I saw in March 2020; little did any of us know then what was just around the corner! Banshees of Inisherin hit the spot too!
βThe creative element in [humans] is the root both of [their] personality & [their] society; it can neither be confined to art nor excluded from the systems of decision (i.e. politics) and maintenance (i.e. economics).β - Raymond Williams, The Long Revolution [1/2]
A song I wish Iβd written because it does all the things I love: @PorcupineTreeβs .3 β¦
The most beautiful song about a tragedy: Heart Attack in a Lay-by β¦
All round superb suite of music: In Absentia
Just sayinββ¦
Todayβs sun-drenched musical inspiration before some more @blackopalband new-song remixing is the beautiful inspirational soundscape of @TimBowness & @giancarloerraβs Memories of Machines! Perfect music for shafts of sunlight sneaking through the blindsβ¦ at the centre of it all
Hey, @Indiefangurl & @154wire! After a bit of polishing, tidying, tweaking and editing, No Pressure turns out to be one hell of a epic @blackopalband track!! π€π»#theonethatnearlygotaway
Warming up for the next batch of @blackopalband new song remixing today in a sun-drenched room with arguably the finest album of the year so far, @slowreadersclubβs Knowledge Freedom Power
In between doing some stereo remixes of @blackopalbandβs 12 new post-lockdown demos -Kick & Breathe- I have been listening to @OfficialOMDβs groundbreaking Architecture & Morality (1st LP I bought) & Dazzle Ships, @Sian_Kosheenβs timeless Kokopelli & the new Depeche Mode album
'Everything we see & do, the whole structure of our relationships & institutions, depends, finally, on an effort of learning, description & communications. We create our human world as we have thought of art being creative' - Raymond Williams, *The Long Revolution*
'The emphasis that matters is that there are, essentially, no '"ordinary" activities, if by "ordinary" we mean the absence of creative interpretation & effort. Art is ratified, in the end, by the fact of creativity in all our living.' - Raymond Williams
On my way to The House of Lords to chair a panel discussion for the launch of the @ecnetwork22 with @NickEwbank @CreativeLivesCL bigging up #everydaycreativity every day!!! π β€οΈ
The first thematic blog post about the research network has just been posted on the ECRN website, on the importance of place for everyday creativity. It is inspired by Gaston Bachelard's book The Poetics of Space (1958) #place#everydaycreativity#poetry - blogs.brighton.ac.uk/everydaβ¦