http://blog.whi-music.co.uk improvised music in Liverpool Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:37:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Firstly, apologies, as i seem to have neglected at least some of my online duties in 2011. I got an android tablet recently, and when i pulled up the whi music site as a test i was horrified to see it hadn't been updated for a year. Now rectified! It's ... http://blog.whi-music.co.uk/2012/01/16/and-still-they-keep-coming/ I'm not coping well with Winter these days. January and February finds me brutally depressed, which is kind of the reverse of how things used to be - Winter used to be my favourite season. But the worst part is Winter Fingers. Not cold or chilblains, Winter Fingers just don't ... http://blog.whi-music.co.uk/2011/03/17/winter-fingers/ Happy New Year! Like a lot of musicians, i'm not over busy at this time of year, in these latitudes the nights are long and the temperatures are low – but time for taking stock and making plans. I'd have to say that 2010 was a good year for me, ... http://blog.whi-music.co.uk/2011/01/06/happy-new-year-2/ I've been curating the Liverpool Gathering for roughly 18 months now, and i have to tell you - it's a blast. Once a month we throw open a room the Bluecoat Arts Centre, and whoever turns up makes music for two hours. Every time is different, each one is rewarding; ... http://blog.whi-music.co.uk/2010/07/09/the-infinite-monkey-orchestra/ Some recordings are documents of particular gigs or moments - often the line-up is drawn together for a gig or two, someone might only be in the country for a short time, whatever. Whi 011, Graculus (name of the band and the CD, so its eponymous. Great word.) isn't like ... http://blog.whi-music.co.uk/2010/03/31/graculus/ Hello! and welcome to 2010! A bit excitable perhaps, but there's a lot of stuff to look forward to for the forthcoming year, so i though i'd update you a touch: Firstly, the album i've been working on with Maggie Nicols is now Done, and sometime this year it'll be Out and ... http://blog.whi-music.co.uk/2010/01/07/happy-new-year/ Spring has very definitely sprung, and green shoots (ie the real ones, rather than politicans' wishful thinking) are all around us. It's a time for things to grow themselves into being, so it's entirely appropriate that i'm in the middle of a new recording project. Of course, the 'Spring' analogy is ... http://blog.whi-music.co.uk/2009/05/04/new-recording/ On Monday 13th Jan 2003 i got up and began practising. I'd had a good layoff over New Year, and should have been keen to get back to it, but i found it hard to fill only an hour, which was odd. The following day ... http://blog.whi-music.co.uk/2008/11/29/clinical-depression/ I'm working around an idea that most times when you play, there's someone else in the room. Not in the physical sense of playing with other people, though that may well be the case, but you invite an invisible other in with you. Someone to watch ... http://blog.whi-music.co.uk/2008/11/13/the-invisible-other/ OK, i'm a little late on the blogging bandwagon, i know, but up to now i didn't really feel that i had anything worth sharing with the wider world, other than the music that you can find here, and that has been public for some ... http://blog.whi-music.co.uk/2008/11/11/giving-it-away/