Rhythm Changes commission
Award-winning photographer Paul Floyd Blake has been commissioned to undertake a project that feeds into the core themes of Rhythm Changes. Floyd Blake describes himself as a mixed race, Jamaican-English photographer who explores identity through documentary and portraiture. He won the prestigious Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in 2009 for his picture of Rosie Bancroft (pictured above) and, over the past few years, has been working on several projects linked to the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. In undertaking the Rhythm Changes commission, Floyd Blake will attend a number of festivals and events throughout 2012 in order to engage with the cultural dynamics of jazz and the relationship between music and its social settings. Floyd Blake’s work will be exhibited as part of the next Rhythm Changes conference in March/April 2013, and the team hopes to secure an additional exhibition in London in June 2013. Watch this space!
Online jazz survey
Tom Sykes is launching his online survey today! If you are a jazz enthusiast and you would like to contribute to Tom’s research and to the Rhythm Changes project, Tom invites you to participate in a short survey, which should take no longer than 15 minutes to complete (closing date 31st October). For more information please go to:
http://kwiksurveys.com?u=onlinejazz
or if this link doesn’t work, try:
http://www.kwiksurveys.com?s=OJMLHL_abb6500
Tom can be e-mailed at T.G.Sykes@edu.salford.ac.uk
Some highlights of the conference
The Rhythm Changes conference has come to a close, and this website is now full of excerpts, photographs, video and audio recordings of the event. Not just the panel sessions and keynotes, but also some of the conversations, the music and the context as well.
There’s a lot more to read, look at, watch and listen to if you go back through the blog (start here and just keep scrolling), but I thought it might be nice to compile a few pieces together into this one post – just to give you a flavour of what went on.