In early February 2012 I interviewed John Akomfrah, film maker and co-founder of the Black Audio Film Collective. We spoke mostly about his new film, 9 Muses, his film making methods (unsurprisingly for the man who made Handsworth Songs, he takes an improvisational and musical approach) and his experiences making films for TV in the [...]

TV by artists, for artists you say? Well, why not?! Saturday 24 September, 8pm at an artist-run project space near you!. Come down to the Magick Old Kentish Road on the night or watch live online at the above link.

My research has been running off of the vague idea of ‘edutainment’, that being a mixture of entertainment with education, a kind of sugar coated pill to help people learn more effectively; going by the reasoning that if one enjoys an experience, one will remember it more effectively. This term is used predominantly for television [...]

Alasdair Roberts performing at the Kit & Cutter folk music night, Deptford Arms public house in South East London. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get any useable footage of the regular Deptford Arms patrons, who are probably the most completely pissed people I have ever seen (tying place with the average Serbian on Summer holiday). [...]

Exclusive footage of Maja Ratkje and Kathy Hinde’s collaborative work, Birds And Traces. The composition was created during a week long residency at Aldeburgh Music as part of Faster Than Sound, a series of residencies set up to promote crossover between classical composers and artists working with electronic media. Inspired by the themes of bird [...]

Footage of Marina Rosenfeld’s composition Cannons, created specifically for the space at Aldeburgh Music’s Hoffman Building at Snape, Suffolk during a one week residency leading up to the performance. Cannons features a custom built sound system comprised of four large resonating ‘bass cannons’ made out of steel pipes fitted with subwoofers, along with two steel [...]

Footage of the Lucky Dragons hosting one of their collaborative Sumi Ink Clubs and subsequent (and also collaborative… or would you call it interactive?) performance at Auto Italia gallery in South East London. It’s almost a promotional video for Southwark Council!

Video footage of musician and artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s installation of electric guitars and zebra finches at London’s Barbican Curve gallery, 23 February – 23 May 2010. Shot with the kind help of Tim Ivison…

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A ‘newsflash’ advert from survivalistseeds.com, a company which sells non-gm, NWO-free heirloom seeds to people interested in self sufficiency and preparation for the imminent Apocalypse['s]. The histrionics of the narrators voice (not to mention the hard selling content) along with the use of hard stereo pan delay effect which sounds as if the voiceover artist [...]

A great part of Cath & Phil Tyler gig at Dalston’s Café Oto on Friday (20 March) was hearing their version of the trad tune “Courting Is A Pleasure” one of my favourite recordings by the guitarist/vocalist/fiddler Nic Jones – a tune he recorded in 1981 as part of his excellent Penguin Eggs album of [...]