Writing and ideas

Come On, Let’s Go: Farewell to Broadcast’s Trish Keenan

Posted by on January 15, 2011 at 10:46 am

It was with sadness I read through the Twitter-vine that Trish Keenan from the seminal electronic band Broadcast passed away yesterday.  For a musician who is taken before her time (she was just 42) the outpouring of tributes reveals how much the band’s music meant to those whose hearts it touched. I met Trish several [...]

Space age music and the Moog essay

Posted by on August 1, 2003 at 1:33 pm

This is a slightly updated (in 2003) version on an essay I wrote in 1999 for my undergraduate music degree.  Although the writing isn’t brilliant, I’m still really proud of this, particularly as Bob Moog and Jean-Jacques Perrey, two of the main subjects of the writing, I later went on to become good friends with.  [...]