Despite the ubiquitous media-wank copy, Mapping Creativity by bTWEEN is a very interesting project seeking applications for a £25,000 grant to commission an "interactive project that drives Manchester's collective creativity".
In short, this has given rise to some interesting (and some more hackneyed) proposals for interactive projects that engage different social groups in Manchester. There are some clever ideas and some things I have seen done before but I really hope the judges fulfil their own remit and commission something that facilitates and forges "links between disconnected communities" using technology. It's a very worthy but slightly dubitable ask.
Showing posts with label Manchester. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manchester. Show all posts
Friday, 12 September 2008
Friday, 22 August 2008
A Season of Song
Bandmoreagain has done sterling work and created a compilation of some of the highlights of the up-coming gig season.
Find it here.
It's a testament to the fact that there are now some really good live music venues in Manchester pulling in some excellent acts that this mix is an unprecedented two hours long. Feel free to skip a few tracks:
1. Spiritualized - Take Your Time
2. The Black Seeds - The Answer
3. Jeru The Damaja - Whatever
4. Tricky - Christiansands
5. The Notwist - Pilot
6. David Cronenberg's Wife - I Couldn't Get Off
7. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken
8. Ladytryon - Destroy Everything You Touch
9. The Roots - I Don't Care
10. Ferrer & Sydenham - Timbuktu (Âme Beatless Mix)
11. Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles Dub)
12. Reverend & The Makers - 18:30 (Elektrons Data Transfer)
13. Busy P - Rainbow Man
14. TTC featuring Modeselektor - Une Bande de Mec Sympa
15. The Whip - Muzzle #1
16. High Contrast - Nobody Gets Out Alive
17. Aeroplane - Aeroplane
18. Crazy Penis - I Think I Like You
19. Wu Tang Clan - Shame On A Nigga
20. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt (Massive Attack Remix)
21. Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire
I'll post my autumn listings presently.
Find it here.
It's a testament to the fact that there are now some really good live music venues in Manchester pulling in some excellent acts that this mix is an unprecedented two hours long. Feel free to skip a few tracks:
1. Spiritualized - Take Your Time
2. The Black Seeds - The Answer
3. Jeru The Damaja - Whatever
4. Tricky - Christiansands
5. The Notwist - Pilot
6. David Cronenberg's Wife - I Couldn't Get Off
7. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken
8. Ladytryon - Destroy Everything You Touch
9. The Roots - I Don't Care
10. Ferrer & Sydenham - Timbuktu (Âme Beatless Mix)
11. Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles Dub)
12. Reverend & The Makers - 18:30 (Elektrons Data Transfer)
13. Busy P - Rainbow Man
14. TTC featuring Modeselektor - Une Bande de Mec Sympa
15. The Whip - Muzzle #1
16. High Contrast - Nobody Gets Out Alive
17. Aeroplane - Aeroplane
18. Crazy Penis - I Think I Like You
19. Wu Tang Clan - Shame On A Nigga
20. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt (Massive Attack Remix)
21. Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire
I'll post my autumn listings presently.
Thursday, 3 April 2008
Not Part Of
Since the Manchester International Festival proper was such a damp squib (taking it's cue from the rainy summer in the rainy city) it's heartening to see that Manchester's more left-field entertainment elements have embraced it in their own inimitable style, choosing to launch a fringe festival - Not Part Of - during the official festival's second outing.
In all honesty, I doubt this will draw bigger crowds that last year's festival which had empty seats in all performances (apart from Monkey - thank you the BBC) but it will serve to engage the people of Manchester in this Manchester festival, something the last event utterly failed to do.
In all honesty, I doubt this will draw bigger crowds that last year's festival which had empty seats in all performances (apart from Monkey - thank you the BBC) but it will serve to engage the people of Manchester in this Manchester festival, something the last event utterly failed to do.
Sunday, 20 May 2007
International-e Festival-e
So the Manchester International Festival has arrived, or at least it will do at the end of June. For now we are all to be heartily excited by the Guardian's MIF Guide which, unlike any of the other press given to the event so far, actually makes sense of this somewhat sprawling month-o-culture.
I've always been slightly concerned by the extremely wide remit of the festival. While I wholeheartedly approve of the idea of a festival "of original new work" I have been more than a little curious about how such a concept can be executed. In reality the festival consists of a small number of new works commissioned for the event and a lot of talks and one-off gigs by acts not currently touring; all of them interesting (if you like that sort of thing - The Orchestral Suite by William Orbit, anyone?) , most of them suitably "new".
My grumble comes when you consider and compare what is happening in Manchester when compared with the cities it's aspiring to stand alongside.
Flicking through the festival Guide and all the other press around it you'll find that Berlin, New York, Paris, Madrid and Sydney all crop up (and London, occasionally, begrudgingly gets a mention) as the cities Manchester should be rivalling in the great cultural arena.
The problem being - the big great white elephant in all these lofty ambitions - London and New York and Berlin and all the other great cultural destinations will also host new commissions this summer and rare appearances from world class artists. The difference being they don't have to have an International Festival to bring them there.
Anyway, enough criticism - it turns out my company is sponsoring the festival as an Official Supplier, no less (becuase what the culturatti flocking from around the globe to see the dazzling lights of Manchester will surely need a corporate finance guide to help them make sense of it all) so I will post any freebies here...
I've always been slightly concerned by the extremely wide remit of the festival. While I wholeheartedly approve of the idea of a festival "of original new work" I have been more than a little curious about how such a concept can be executed. In reality the festival consists of a small number of new works commissioned for the event and a lot of talks and one-off gigs by acts not currently touring; all of them interesting (if you like that sort of thing - The Orchestral Suite by William Orbit, anyone?) , most of them suitably "new".
My grumble comes when you consider and compare what is happening in Manchester when compared with the cities it's aspiring to stand alongside.
Flicking through the festival Guide and all the other press around it you'll find that Berlin, New York, Paris, Madrid and Sydney all crop up (and London, occasionally, begrudgingly gets a mention) as the cities Manchester should be rivalling in the great cultural arena.
The problem being - the big great white elephant in all these lofty ambitions - London and New York and Berlin and all the other great cultural destinations will also host new commissions this summer and rare appearances from world class artists. The difference being they don't have to have an International Festival to bring them there.
Anyway, enough criticism - it turns out my company is sponsoring the festival as an Official Supplier, no less (becuase what the culturatti flocking from around the globe to see the dazzling lights of Manchester will surely need a corporate finance guide to help them make sense of it all) so I will post any freebies here...
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