Earlier in October, along with a great number of other people from my research group, I went out to the ISMIR 2012 conference in Porto. (I was helping to present a tutorial; you can watch a screencast of my segment of the tutorial here, though I warn you, in this format, it even sends me… Continue reading Porto
Category: Places
A Watery City
A striking thing about the venues for the 2012 Olympics in London is that their locations make more sense when seen as connected by water rather than by road. The Olympic Park sits on the River Lea and a couple of its former working branches, and is bounded on one side by the Lee Navigation… Continue reading A Watery City
Journalist’s First-Person Plural
Mark Easton for the BBC: Do we have a completely mistaken view of what our landscape is like? ... The lesson might be that we need to celebrate the truth about our green and pleasant land. Or perhaps it simply tells us we really should get out more. This is a great example of what… Continue reading Journalist’s First-Person Plural
Japan
I've just come back from a conference in Kyoto. I've never been to Japan before, so although this was a very brief visit—the four-day conference wasn't quite enough to get over the jet lag—it was always going to be an interesting one. Inevitably my perception was coloured by comparison with Taiwan, a place I've been… Continue reading Japan
Running around London
During the past few months, for very boring reasons, I've been spending a bit of time running relatively long distances around London. It's been quite a revelation. London is, as every Saint Etienne fan knows, a very big place1. It's hard to find the time to walk around very much of it, just because the… Continue reading Running around London
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