Tony Roe from Tin Men and the Telephone discusses which comes first: the integration of technology, or the musical compositiona???
Tin Men and the Telephone perform at the Bimhuis at the opening of the Rhythm Changes conference in Amsterdam, this Thursday, 1st September.
Drummer Bobby Petrov explains where the relationship between music and technology started for Tin Men and the Telephone…
Tin Men and the Telephone perform at the Bimhuis at the opening of the Rhythm Changes conference in Amsterdam, this Thursday, 1st September.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 recent Jazzahead convention in Bremen offered the perfect opportunity to talk to promoters, festival directors, national jazz agencies and policy makers about the value of jazz in Europe. I spent two days interviewing some key industry professionals about their work and gathering case study materials for the Rhythm Changes project and our ongoing collaboration with the Europe Jazz Network (more on this soon).
In seeking to establish how jazz is valued within the national settings of our partner countries, I interviewed Sverre Lunde from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The interview touched on a lot of important issues from the relationship between cultural policy and artistic product to the continued need for investment in jazz. We discussed the way in which Norwegian culture has been transformed into an export activity (and how jazz supports this) and how concepts such as national sounds are constructed, cultivated and feed into broader social and political agendas.
Listen to an edited version of the interview here:
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.
Tony chaired a discussion session about Knowledge Transfer (and exchange) as it relates to the HERA-funded projects (of which Rhythm Changes is one). It was an interesting philosophical discussion – particularly with respect to the ways in which the web allows for engaging different audiences and stakeholders in conversation.