Surroundscapes

This episode covers Theon Cross’s musical beginnings, the Tomorrows Warriors project and how this changed his musical style and aspirations leading to Guildhall School of Music and Drama and then Sons of Kemet.

Imogen Heap is uniquely positioned to talk about new ways of composing and presenting music with her work on the MiMu gloves and the Listening Chair as well as different ways of making albums whilst staying sane and balanced.

In this episode, Zoë talks about the San Francisco arts warehouse scene, hosting unique performance events, being discovered by NPR at an event reproducing the experience of a nuclear explosion and developing a multi-stranded career as a performer, technologist, composer and film scorer.

We talk about the feeling of hearing your song being played in a public space, realizing that you are not making any money out of that and founding a company to do something about that.

In the first episode of series 4 we cover the feminist history of computing, albums as research projects, using Google Magenta AI as a compositional tool on YACHT’s album ‘Chain Tripping’, the changes in the platform economy as seen by musicians, making a living as a musician in pandemic times and more.

Music and video festivals – in-person to streaming, and the future. Claudia and her husband Stefan founded the Digitalanalog experimental music and video festival in Germany 20 years ago.

The future of corporate events, conferences and trade shows. Dena runs operation for a very large global events company who do some of the most high-profile corporate conferences, product launches and trade-show booths.

The use of technology to rekindle events. James has supplied cutting-edge technology solutions for events such as the Super Bowl, CES exhibition booths, fashion shows, product launches and more.

The use of video holograms for next-generation events. Liz has had an incredibly successful and varied career as a moving-light technician, lighting designer and creative director, and more recently video holography expert and manufacturer of Holonet.

Pivoting your business during COVID and new forms of livestreaming. Julien and Kevin have a very successful film production company but pivoted due to the pandemic as film sets were shut down to form a now highly successful company providing COVID monitoring and testing and PPE for film sets.