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Adrift
Och, it's hard, it's hard. Time is a valuable substance and it's hard to hold it. Activity swells up and sucks it in like a dry sponge, and this writer's life is rather desiccated at the moment. I...
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At Long Last!
I probably should have mentioned this sooner, but there are two events coming up in the next week which you may or may not be interested in.Firstly: tomorrow, the 23rd of February, there will be a...
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The Ally Pally
I've been busy lately. One job, two jobs, three jobs at certain times. The book is now 'launched': thanks to all who came out to see me, either in London or in Oxford, they were both great nights with...
View ArticleIn the Park
Well, if you ever wanted to know what I look like, here's me talking for a short film that Frieze made about the Olympics and art.
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More Olympic cash in tie in nonsense
Some more stuff relating to the Olympics then, which I'm just sure you're pleased to hear. The Olympics seems to be taking up much of my writing life at the moment, with at least three Olympic...
View ArticleNachtmusik
Struggling along with musical things.I've previously transcribed a small section of Beethoven's Heiliger Dankgesang, which as you probably already know was put to great use by Keiller in 'London'.But...
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The Kibble Palace
I was recently back up in Glasgow for a wee bit, so I thought I'd share one of its treasures. Not exactly a hidden gem, this, but it's actually better than you might think: The Kibble Palace.(This is...
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PEDANTRY
This has been really annoying me.You know that this...... is "The Tallest Building in Europe"?Well this...... is a good 20m taller, and is in Yorkshire.So do shut up.
View ArticleSome Préludes
I finished transcribing a few more Chopin préludes recently; here they are:So that's 8 out of the 24...
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The Greenock Cut
I'm not quite sure what I'm driving at here, and I certainly won't be able to convey the feeling to you with these rubbish, over-saturated iPhone photographs, but I want to discuss a strange sensation...
View ArticleRaining in Neukölln.
I was recently in Berlin after an old friend's wedding (see what I was telling you about yesterday?), and found myself, after returning from a long long weekend, lying in a friend's flat in Neukölln...
View ArticleSome announcements...
First off, how bloody strange is this?I haven't the foggiest idea how on earth this occurred, and what it means... For example, one could begin with the fact that even within my tiny little field, I...
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A brief visit to Park Hill
I recently had occasion to visit Sheffield again, albeit just an overnight stay. I was giving a talk up at the University's Arts Tower, a fantastically refined Miesian block, famous for its paternoster...
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Chopin - Prélude No.21 in B flat, op.28
Another prélude; this time the slinky and oceanic No.21.This is the ninth I've 'finished'. I think the transcriptions themselves are alright, but obviously my technique isn't really up to scratch for...
View ArticleOh! The Huge Vanity!
A double dose of me talking bolognese. The video above is me giving a lecture in Zagreb, about a year and a half ago. It is regarding monuments and olympic architecture, with a special focus on (you've...
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A Trip to NW3
Another brief wander was gone on. This one was certainly not a drift, as it was guided by a certain Mr. Pevsner, whose guide to North London (not yet updated in the latest round of re-edits) was given...
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Chopin - Prélude op.28 no.13 in F sharp
Another installment in one of my slowly moving background projects.This is perhaps the most sentimental of the préludes: if we're being a little harsh we must admit that it's pretty saccharine....
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Doughnuts on Spikes
Well how about this then? Apparently it was the BT Tower's birthday yesterday as well, but let's look a little bit beyond the nostalgia for a second, I think there's something worth considering here.A...
View ArticleMahler - Kindertotenlieder 1/5
It's about time I tried to squeeze one of these out.Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, (Songs on the Death of Children), have to be the apotheosis of a certain conception of Romanticism in music; there's...
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Concrete and Longing
I'm literally running out of London avant-garde council estates to visit now; I've probably been past most of them, and after this post I'll have written something about all but one of the classic...
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