On Friday I had a pleasant hour talking locative media in the company of fellow lecturers Ben Dalton and Marc Fabri, blogger Irna Qureshi, Ben Halsall and Megan Smith. It was great to hear other people’s takes on this area and talk binaural sound, GPS and the like before having to cut my part short to collect the kids. Speaking of the kids, here’s the first page of the daughter’s magnum opus:
And… speaking of magnum opuses, Peter Forshaw was on Radio 3’s Night Waves programme a couple of days ago with Jennifer Rampling talking about alchemy to promote the Science Museum’s new exhibition Signs, Symbols, Secrets. This reminded me that Forshaw had a piece entitled Oratorium-Auditorium-Laboratorium: Early Modern Improvisations on Cabala, Music, and Alchemy in Brill’s Aries journal a couple of years ago.