Hughie's PhD

Sending out the promos

OK, I've prepared copies to be sent to Nova 106.9 (addressed to Kate Casey, who my former student, Kate Young, tells me is Music Director in Brisbane (and a Google search confirmed this), Ison Live Radio (who have previously supported...

Little catching up to do ...

Ok, so, here's where we're at: Recording: The album is made, being reproduced at home and pre-marketing has begun. I currently have 70 saleable copies sitting on my kitchen table and could have more except that the supplier of the...

Heading overseas ...

Now that the album is mostly done (I'm taking a few days away from it and will get back to it next week) I've started planning my data collection. This was mainly going to consist or interviews with various artists...

Musicology

At Steve's suggestion, I've sent the following abstract and bio to the people at the Combined Australian and New Zealand Musicological Conference: Third Legs, Tentacles and trust: anatomy of a 21st Century music business Digital technologies have created unprecedented opportunities...

Developments

Several things to report. 1) Response to my requests for a programmer were varied. Ian Pirrie from Advanced Database said the project was not really suited to them as they only use Access to migrate it to something larger and...

Notes on Songs of Resilience seminar

Yesterday was, once again, inspirational. Met a lot of lovely, dedicated, ideologically motivated people who care about making music creation central to the lived experience of as many people as possible - not mindless consumption. Matt was researching the health...

Beyond the Soundbytes

Found this conference and organisation via an interview with Peter Jenner in The Register. Peter is a pretty high-profile manager (Pink Floyd, Billy Bragg) and the Music Tank is based at the University of Westminster. It seems to be pretty...

Catching up a bit

Thought I'd post the stuff from my presentations, just for future reference. I essentially gave the same talk to the AoIR colloqium and the QUT Postgrad conference, so I've uploaded the most recent version here. I'll be discussing posting the...

Getting there slowly

Spent most of yesterday tidying up loose ends like marking, looking after kids on a day off and paying family bills and that sort of thing. Very frustrating, that. This morning I have reworked my QUT Postgrad conference presentation (an...

AoIR conference rocks!

Blogging by laptop via a wireless network in the Hilton Hotel! Does it get any better? Seriously, though, this conference has provided plenty of interesting and relevent new research, and I've made contact with some really interesting people working in...

Lacking progress

Between my son's birthday and a funeral in Tewantin for my dad's oldest friend and a pillar of my existence, I got very little done yesterday. I did, however, manage another draft of the ACID funding application thingy, which is...

Interesting event, that

Went to a seminar at QUT yesterday for my funding body, the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation. Great stuff! Met lots of interesting and enthusiastic people, which is something I miss a lot when I'm stuck working at home....

Interesting developments

Site stats for July show something great: podcasting works! At the suggestion of my host, I set up a little podcast of the theme song "I long for the day", and posted it to Podcast.net. The xml document has since...

Studies of Popular music

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) is pleased to announce its 14th biennial conference: Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City, Mexico June 25-29, 2007 http://www.iaspm.net/start.html Looks interesting as a source but may not get there this time. I've...

AoIR 2006

Have to go to this - good exercise in getting stuff out of the faculty ... mentions some pre-conference workshops that may be useful but are organised separately. Home Page: http://conferences.aoir.org/index.php?cf=5 Where: Brisbane When: September 27-30 2006....

Wedelmusic

Not called Wedelmusic any more, but Web Delivery of Music was what caught my attention when I found it. Home page: http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2006/index.html When: Dcember 13-15 Where: Leeds, UK Proceedings available via IeeeExplore database. 2005 not yet available?...

Disappointments and promising things

Right. Still haven't knocked over the AIRS assignment. It's fiddly and time-consuming. Simple, but time-consuming. Of course, it's probably going to help turn up lots of great literature on various subjects, but right now I'm swimming in good stuff to...