An update for Spring

Hello? Hello. I'm never quite sure how to greet the many people that read this great blog but I think once in a while a bit of politeness never goes amiss. And so on to the update...

It's been a busy couple of days but good ones and so I thought I would share them. On Monday I travelled to Nottingham to do a guest lecture to BA Music Tech students at Confetti/De Montfort Uni on sound to picture. I've delivered the lecture regularly for the past few years and it's great fun being able to talk about sound for a few hours to (hopefully) some interested people. This time I had the amazing luxury of delivering the lecture in Screen 3 at the Broadway cinema which was quite funny as it wasn't too full! However it was great having a very good quality digital projector and some great speakers in which to show some examples (2001, Die Hard etc). Being in Nottingham also gave me the chance to catch up with some old friends and so a few hours were spent tasting some of the delights of the Broadway bar. Sadly I then had to leave to go back to Manchester. For all of its problems (crime, pigeons, weird accents etc) Nottingham is a good place and I do have some very good friends there.

Now to yesterday where I attended an event at (NW?) Vision and Media about music synch which was delivered by Rachel Wood from Woodwork Music. It was an incredibly intensive day and definitely odd to be on the other side of some education but every single topic that was covered was incredibly interesting and insightful. There are going to be some changes on this site as a direct result of the day but there will be more news on that soon.....

And to finish off yesterday I was working on a couple of mixes for the very good people at Space Digital which took me until the early hours this morning. I'm sure I'll put up some of that work very soon.

And to make this post worthwhile; some music. Spring is sort of here and so I've put together some music. Thanks Spotify. You can hear it HERE.

Four Tet - Harmony One
The Avalanches - Two Hearts in 3/4 Time
Bibio - haikuesque (when she laughs)
Efterklang - Collecting Shields
Grizzly Bear - Easier
Apparat - It's Gonna Be A Long Walk
Boom Bip - Last Walk Around Mirror Lake (Boards of Canada Remix)
Bjork - Sun in my Mouth
Colleen - The Happy Sea
Helios - Halving the Compass
Claude Debussy - Images: Reflets dans l'eau

There's clearly a pattern forming with the same artists regularly being included in these playlists but hopefully you'll enjoy the music. And to finish off, here is just a glimpse of some of the scenery from the train between Manchester and Sheffield.