Tony demonstrates ‘piano to text via midi’ technology…
Tin Men and the Telephone perform at the play online pokies Bimhuis at the opening of the Rhythm Changes conference in Amsterdam, this Thursday, 1st September.
Author: Dubber
Rhythmic samples of football commentary
Tony explains his use of a sample as a rhythmic cue in one of the Tin Men and the Telephone compositions.
Tin Men and the Telephone perform at the Bimhuis at the opening of the Rhythm Changes conference in Amsterdam, this Thursday, 1st September.
Jazz in layers
Tony Roe talks about the concept of “layering” within music and video performance.
Tin Men and the Telephone perform at the Bimhuis at the opening of the Rhythm Changes conference in Amsterdam, this Thursday, 1st September.
Why use video in jazz?
Tony Roe from Tin Men and the Telephone explains why he uses video in his performances.
Tin Men and the Telephone perform at the Bimhuis at the opening of the Rhythm Changes conference in Amsterdam, this Thursday, 1st September.
Introducing Tony Roe
I’m in Amsterdam a few days early to prepare for the upcoming Rhythm Changes conference. One of the first events of the conference is a performance by Tin Men and the Telephone.
Bandleader Tony Roe is a PhD student who is researching the relationship between technology and improvised jazz music performance, so we thought it would be a good idea to spend a bit of time with him this week and learn a little bit about his research and his approach to the music.
I met him in a cafe in Harlemmerstraat and asked him to introduce himself…
The Australian Real Book
Australian scholar and musician Tim Nikolsky has compiled the Australian Jazz Real Book, and was hoping to present it at the Rhythm Changes conference. Unfortunately, he has been unable to make it, but sent us this message to explain the project.
This conference will be Dubberised
As you may well know, next week the first Rhythm Changes Conference ‘Jazz and National Identities’ takes place in Amsterdam. There will be jazz performances, keynote speakers, panel presentations, and the usual stuff that takes place at academic conferences – especially those academic conferences that happen to be about jazz.
But this conference will be Dubberised.
Don’t look it up. The verb ‘to Dubberise’ does not, to our knowledge, appear in any dictionaries. But it’s a word that has become common parlance among the members of the Rhythm Changes project.
Kitchen Orchestra web project completed
In the second week of May, we conducted an online practice-based research and knowledge transfer project to explore the online mediation of jazz and improvisational performance.
As part of the Mai Jazz festival in Stavanger, Norway the members of the Kitchen Orchestra collaborated with visual artists Testuya Nagato and Hiraku Suzuki to create a performance that blended composed and improvised elements.
The Kitchen Orchestra project
Over the next week, several of the Rhythm Changes team members are working together on a web and performance project. There will be a performance at the Maijazz festival in Stavanger featuring the Kitchen Orchestra and two Japanese visual artists. Leading up to that event, I’ll be live-blogging, using video and other online tools to provide an insight into the process and the thinking behind that event.
I’ve explained it in a little more detail in the above video.
Follow the project at http://kitchenorchestra.tumblr.com or here on Twitter.
Jazzahead 2011, Bremen
Tony and I spent the past few days in Bremen at the Jazzahead 2011 conference. It was a really productive as well as a really enjoyable event. Great music, food and people of course, but we also managed to get an incredible amount of work done.
One of the things I’m working on for the Rhythm Changes project is an analysis and report on the ways in which national jazz agencies use the internet. I’m interested in the extent to which they engage with social media, how they conceive of and implement their communication role, whether they think of the internet as anything other than promotional, and what experiences they’ve had with online media.
The great thing about being at Jazzahead was that as a jazz trade fair, so many European national jazz agencies were present, so I was able to interview the heads of fourteen different organisations (out of sixteen attending) in the space of two days. To try and get these people for the research any other way would have been close to impossible, but as everyone was in the same place and all enjoying themselves, everyone was happy to chat and they were all very interested in the project, which is encouraging of course.
I’m transcribing the interviews now, and have started work on writing a report to circulate. The aim of the report is to share best practice among these agencies and also to make suggestions and recommendations based on my analysis of their websites and the developments and strategies they discussed in our conversations.
Tony was also busy interviewing at the conference, but we managed to see a bit of live music, meet some fantastic people, sample some very nice wine and eat some great food while we were there.
A very worthwhile trip in every respect.