After the previous night of Matthew Shipp and Evan Parker, which was unexpectedly dissapointing, this evening was incredibly refreshing. Perhaps too much so at time, the intensity with which the quartet pounded forward left them with little time to explore the subtle interactions they could have with each other. Inbetween the frenetics all too brief fragments of duos shone out, illuminating the interactions between each instrumentalist, which were often lost in the rest of drive forward - not that they were not there, just lease easy to discern.

This clip catches the last few minutes of the second set. 

Posted by Dorian on Friday, September 9, 2011 at 01:05 GMT

I've not actually been listening to this lately, but when I first came across it in 2004 I was really taken by cut up the narrative through it, the snippets of conversation pasted together, the place, the references.

Today I had a meeting, and I was reminded of it; I believe I may have been in the space the two gents featured in this track were lunching, laughing and learning in.  

I'm not sure if this came out anywhere else, but I came across it in Issue No.1 of Vibro - the Inside Out Issue

Tags : laughing learning, lunching, the slade, trio cutty sark,
Posted by Dorian on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 23:58 GMT
Last modified Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 00:15 GMT

I've had to implement comment moderation on the website, it seems like mentioning 'cinema','film','video' and 'baby' is all too much for some [insert string of expletives] spammer and they have decided to try and use this to promote porn. So I've upped the spam checking, and put some moderation in place for anything that doesn't seem that spammy.

The best filters are human. 

[WOW this post managed to get hit with spam within seconds of it being posted...]

Tags : code prevention,
Posted by Dorian on Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 19:55 GMT

the floating cinema, www.floatingcinema.info, 2011

Website styling, design and build with content management system.

The Floating Cinema was commissioned by UP Projects as part of their Portavilion series of mobile public event spaces. For the 2011 Portavilion somewhere and Studio Weave decided to create a cinema on a converted barge that would roam the waterways of East London, including areas around the new Olympic Development.

somewhere wanted a website to better reflect what they were trying to achieve than the existing portavilion website, that would offer them a space to document their process as well as the events, and give them a space to post films of the events thereafter. From this I developed the idea of orientating the site around a map of the waterways involved, styling it to give visual emphasis to this oft overlooked back bone of London's past. This also created a spatial snapshot of events and where the influences for the project come from. Blog posts come via mobile phone allowing the embedded GPS data to used to attach the images to the map.

Over the course of the project an additional record of the events will be created, turning the site from a promotional tool and booking mechanism into a full archive of the events.

http://floatingcinema.info

Posted by Dorian on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 01:00 GMT
Last modified Friday, September 23, 2011 at 22:00 GMT

I've just launched a new website for The Office for Contemporary Arts Norway, you can see it at oca.no.

Posted by Dorian on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 10:33 GMT
Last modified Friday, September 23, 2011 at 22:00 GMT

office for contemporary arts norway, www.oca.no, 2011.

Website styling, design & build with Content Management System.

The Office for Contemporary Art Norway was founded by the Norwegian government with the aim of promoting visual arts and production in Norway to an international audience, and to stimulate international exchange in the arts.

I was commissioned to help OCA transition from a flat file, hand maintained website to something 'more modern' which better reflected the scope of their work, whilst reflecting their established, restrained, aesthetic, and help to improve their publishing workflow.

My aim in the redesign of OCA.no was: to improve the ability for the various audience demographics to find the information they are looking for; to provide a framework for richer documentation of their projects; to better emphasise the wide range of international connections OCA has and is developing; to provide an improved channel for communicating their multiple activities.

The OCA.no website is part publishing platform, part database, the goal of which is to link together the various practitioners and organisations OCA work with with how they work with them, to present a transparent picture of OCAs activities at all levels. As new relationships are established, and new documentation is created, the site will unfold into it's full potential creating an evolving document of OCAs field of influence.

http://oca.no/

Posted by Dorian on Monday, May 23, 2011 at 01:00 GMT
Last modified Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 14:01 GMT

rip it up and start again, www.ripitupandstartagain.org, 2011.

Website design & build with Content Management System.

Rip It Up and Start Again is a series of lectures on architecture and the city, curated by Robert Mull and Kieran Long of London Met Architecture and Spatial Design to place the work of the school in relation to broader debates about the city.

The Useful Arts Organisation were engaged to develop a living archive which documented the talks and presentations in a dynamic way, whilst keeping the strong visual identity that had been developed for the print materials promoting the lectures, and providing a space where visitors could leave their own annotations to the talks.

http://www.ripitupandstartagain.org/

Posted by Dorian on Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 00:00 GMT
Last modified Friday, September 23, 2011 at 22:00 GMT

Early in December 2010 - just before I went on paternity leave - we launched a new website for Portland Works, an integrated metal works in Sheffield which is fighting for it's survival as a space for craftspeople, artists and small business to thrive. The tenants of Portland Works are attempting to raise funds to buy the building, run it as a co-operative, and restore it to it's former glory, whilst keeping it as a working building. We are happy to have been commissioned by Sheffield University to build this website to try and keep local crafts alive and developing.

Posted by Dorian on Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 00:48 GMT
Last modified Friday, September 23, 2011 at 22:00 GMT

portland works, www.portlandworks.co.uk, 2010.

Website styling, design & build with Content Management System.

Portland Works (Sheffield, UK), built in 1877, is one of the earliest surviving examples of an integrated metal trades complex Nowadays it plays host to a wide range of crafts and arts. In 2008 the owners decided to attempt to sell it, displacing many of the tenants and risking the survival of some of the skills acted out there. The tenants decided to group together and now plan to buy the building and run it as a co-operative.

In 2010 The Useful Arts Organisation were commisioned by Sheffield University to re-design their campaign website to better present the story and to act as a platform for fund raising and promotion. The site is built to be easily managed by the team there and to be able to provide a rich document of a space with a rich history and a hopeful future.

http://www.portlandworks.co.uk/

Posted by Dorian on Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 00:00 GMT
Last modified Friday, September 23, 2011 at 22:00 GMT

Our daughter, born 5th of December, giving it some wiggle on Christmas Eve.

Posted by Dorian on Friday, December 24, 2010 at 20:14 GMT
Last modified Saturday, December 25, 2010 at 14:54 GMT