An academic podcasting community open to all arts & humanities researchers. Each month takes a new theme, where Felix Clutson, Edwin Gilson, Morag Thomas, Olivia Aarons and Isabel Sykes invite different guests to speak about their work. Kindly supported by techne AHRC doctoral training partnership. Thanks for listening!If you'd like to get in touch, please email technecaster@gmail.com, follow us on twitter at @technecast or on Instagram @technepodcast
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Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp and Edwin Gilson: Nature - Nonhumans and the arts
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In this episode Edwin Gilson and Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp, both researchers exploring works of art involving nonhumans at the University of Surrey, join Felix for a conversation about our relationship with the flora and fauna around us. We discuss different approaches to art based on nonhumans, the social lenses humans look through at nonhumans,…
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Rosalind Holgate-Smith: Senses - Deep Touch
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In our latest instalment of our series on 'Senses', we hear from Rosalind Holgate-Smith. Rosalind is an AHRC-funded doctoral researcher whose work looks at touch, particularly in the field of dance and contact improvisation. In this episode, Rosalind talks to Morag about her conceptualisation of 'Deep Touch', and how this conceptualisation informs …
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Jennifer Doveton: Work and Labour - I work in the kitchens
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Jennifer Doveton - whose lovely music you hear every time you listen to the technecast - is a postgraduate researcher in her third year at Brunel University. Her research is on middle-class subjectivity and moral value in British screen fantasy. At the moment she's looking at the Harry Potter film series and the His Dark Materials television series…
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Julia Pond: Work and Labour - Dancing Degrowth
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In this latest episode of our Work and Labour series we hear from Julia Pond, a transdisciplinary dance artist, teacher and researcher working with political economy. She works with choreography, improvised movement and text, humour, and, sometimes, bread dough, often siting work in public space. Currently, this takes shape in her performance proje…
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Unit 38 (Part 2 of 2): Work and Labour - A people's design service
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David McEwen, a co-founder and director of Unit 38, joins Felix to continue their conversation about architecture and community. Unit 38 is an architecture practice working on community projects in east London, in particular Wards Corner in Tottenham. In this part we hear about Unit 38’s involvement with Clapton Community Football Club, as well as …
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Unit 38 (Part 1 of 2): Work and Labour - A people's design service
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David McEwen, a co-founder and director of Unit 38, joins Felix for a conversation about architecture and community. Unit 38 is an architecture practice working on community projects in east London, in particular Wards Corner in Tottenham. The discussion explores questions of community resources, privilege and design focused on people not materials…
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Emma Mitchell: Senses - Scenting story: unlocking olfactory memories of Georgian London
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In this latest instalment of our 'Senses' series we hear from Emma Mitchell. Emma is an AHRC-funded Creative Writing doctoral researcher at Brunel University London whose work uses archival research and experimental literary forms and practices to reclaim the voices of marginalised women from History. Her project focusses on Georgian sex workers an…
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It's the final Technecast of the year! We've had some lovely new members join the Technecast team this year, so we thought we'd take this opportunity to do some introductions. In this casual epsiode, each member of the team answers some questions about themselves and their research. We also discuss our favourite epsiodes from the past year, so it's…
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Isabel Sykes: Work & Labour - From Benefits Broods to Tradwives: Media Narratives of Domestic Labour
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In the first episode of our 'Work, Labour and Protest' series, Isabel introduces us to her project which explores media representations and lived experiences of working-class women’s unpaid domestic labour in the UK.Isabel is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on the intersections of class, gender, and labour under neoliberal capit…
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Felix Clutson: Narratives of Nation - Football in the Globalised Age
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In our last episode on the theme 'narratives of nation', our very own Felix Clutson shares his research into football in the age of globalisation. Felix discusses the ways in which football transcends borders (for better or worse), the modern phenomenon of sportswashing, and the plight of his beloved Reading FC. After his presentation he joins Edwi…
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Beth Williamson: Narratives of Nation - The Problem of Orthography at the Royal Geographical Society
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Beth Williamson is a PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London working collaboratively with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). Her research explores how the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) tackled the problem of ‘orthography’ when recording and mapping place names in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, revealing how geo…
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Gareth Hughes: Narratives of Nation - The Power of Poetic Spaces
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Gareth Hughes is in the second year of his PhD in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway. His thesis explores spatial transformations in contemporary French and multilingual poetry.In this episode of the ‘Narratives of Nation’ series, Gareth talks about the multilingual poems of Michèle Métail, the power of poetry to loosen the bind b…
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Rosie Knowles: Narratives of Nation - In Search of Therapeutic Landscapes
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In the latest instalment of our ‘Narratives of Nation’ series, Rosie Knowles, a PhD researcher at Royal Holloway, tells Isabel about her research into the health geography concept of therapeutic landscapes. In this episode, Rosie shares how her family connections with the steelworks town of Port Talbot inspired her to locate her research here, wher…
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Lili Toitot: Narratives of Nation - Alsace and Identity
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In the first episode of our new theme, 'Narratives of Nation', Lili Toitot, PhD researcher at Brunel, tells Edwin about her work on the mixed national identity of the French region of Alsace. An Alsatian herself, Lili examines the documentation of the region's history through the lens of gender and war memorials. The question that emerges from this…
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A Congress Cancelled and the Humanities in Calamity
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We interrupt our scheduled programming to bring you this special episode in light of recent events. Techne's summer congress this year was cancelled due to the on-going industrial action taking place at the University of Brighton. In this episode, the Technecast team explore why industrial action is taking place at Brighton, and the position of the…
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Al Meggs: Life Writing - 5, 6, 7, Academia! (Jazz hands included)
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Finishing up our theme of life writing, Olivia chats to Al Meggs about his work on reclaiming cabaret.Al trained in dance and went on to a long career through the 1980s and 1990s as performer in cabaret, theatre, T.V. and film, before taking on various guises ‘behind the scenes’. Roles that ranged from stage crew to stage manager to production mana…
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Gemma Turner: Life Writing - Writing the Lives of Early Modern 'Carers'
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Returning to our theme of life writing, Olivia chats to Gemma Turner about her research on early modern carers. Gemma discusses how the early modern gentlewoman Elizabeth Isham reconceptualised her difficult spiritual relationship with caring after writing her autobiographical Booke of Remembrance.Gemma works for the University of Southampton withi…
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Samuel Hertz: Senses - The Sound of Environmental Change
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Continuing our theme of senses, researcher and sound artist Samuel Hertz shares his work on the sound(s) of climate and environmental change. More specifically, Samuel examines the ways in which acoustic sound-capturing methods alter human perspectives on space and time. After his presentation, Samuel joins Edwin for a discussion about all things s…
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Viveca Mellegård: Senses - The Embodied Practice of Indigo Dyeing
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In our latest installment of our 'Senses' series, Isabel chats to Viveca Mellegård about her fascinating research into the practice of indigo dyeing in West Bengal.Viveca is a researcher and filmmaker and started her career making science and arts programmes at the BBC. She integrates film and photography as research methods with a particular inter…
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Rachel Holmes: Senses - The Language of Birds
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In this episode, Morag chats to Rachel Holmes about her research to kick off our theme on senses. Rachel Holmes is a practicing artist and writer currently completing her doctorate project The Language of Birds at Kingston School of Art, supervised by Professor Scott Wilson. Influenced by the work of Georges Bataille, Silvia Federici, Eduardo Kohn …
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Karen Hanrahan: A Change of Habit - Life Writing
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Welcome to our first episode in our new series on Life Writing. In this epsiode, Morag chats to Karen about her fascinating research.Karen’s doctoral research explores the lives of former Irish nuns, one of whom is her mother. Her work is located at the interface between a number of disciplines (history, sociology, narrative psychology and Irish St…
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Archives: The sounds of botanical desire - Anushka Tay
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During her artist-residency at the Archive of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, Anushka Tay composed a series of music inspired by 19th century plant collection in China. She created four multi-layered, textured pieces which range from an instrumental piano solo evoking Orientalism, to a spoken-word poem collaged with field recordings that she to…
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Rudy Loewe: Archives - Black Power in the Caribbean
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Continuing our theme of archives, Rudy Loewe (researcher and artist at University of the Arts London) shares their research on the Black Power movement in the English-speaking Caribbean, and the ways in which the British government suppressed it. Rudy also discusses their experience digging into recently declassified Foreign and Commonwealth Office…
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In this special podcast for the Techne January Congress 2023 - which is based around the craft of writing - the Technecast team share some advice and experiences on writing for a podcast. In addition to input from Felix, Morag, Julien, Olivia and Edwin, we also hear from former contributor Mary Dawson, who gives her tips on scripting and recording …
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Eimhin Daly: Archives — Place & Performance
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This is the second episode in our series on Archives. Artist-researcher Eimhin Daly discuss the entangled sites of their research to consider what constitutes an archival relation. Seeing place itself as an archive, they are concerned with practices of relation, specifically with unlearning relations to place and pasts that are produced by imperial…
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The contributor for this episode is Holly Antrum.This episode was recorded during the exhibition ‘Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Intersections in Theory, Film and Art’, at Camera Austria in Graz (11 June - 14 August 2022). Final-year techne researcher Holly Antrum staged her paper-based artist multiple from within the show, Markéta’s Notes, as a po…
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Cultivate 2022: There Are More Spaces Still To Come
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This special episode of Technecast was made for the Techne-funded 'Cultivate' conference, hosted at Kew Gardens, London, on November 10. The episode, 'There Are More Spaces Still to Come', is a 'Cultivate' special feature produced by Techne student Judah Attille, one of the conference organisers. In conversation with Judah, multidisciplinary artist…
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In our final instalment of our theme looking at genre, Sarah Richardson joins us on the Technecast to talk about inclusive satire. By examining reactive characterisations of the archetypal fantasy ‘monster’ in satirical fiction, this project aims to make the argument that these textual strategies demonstrate a broader trend of empathetic storytelli…
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Genre: climate fiction, speculative fiction and blurring boundaries (part 2)
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In the second episode of our focus on climate fiction and speculative fiction (part of our 'genre' theme), University of Surrey researchers Frances Hallam and Edwin Gilson participate in a roundtable discussion led by Technecast's Felix Clutson.Frances Hallam (they/them) is an AHRC-funded PhD researcher at the University of Surrey. Their doctoral t…
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Genre: climate fiction, speculative fiction and blurring boundaries
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A two-parter this week. In the first part, Edwin Gilson introduces the literary label of climate fiction and investigates its usefulness, as well as the blurring of realism and science fiction, through the prism of a number of literary works set in California. Following on, Frances Hallam asks "What is cli-fi without sci-fi?". Their presentation gi…
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Jennifer Doveton is a postgraduate researcher in her second year at Brunel University. Her research is on middle-class subjectivity and moral value in British screen fantasy. At the moment she's looking at the Harry Potter film series and the His Dark Materials television series for markers of class in characterisation and narratives of upward mobi…
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This is the second episode celebrating Beyond Human Symposium, which was organised by Rachel Holmes, Rachel Hopkin, Liz K. Miller, Jon Mason and Simon Aeppli. Beyond Human was a techne-funded symposium held at Royal Holloway, University of London on the 26th and 27th May 2022, with keynote speakers the writer and researcher, Gyrus, and the filmmake…
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Planning a Successful Symposium: Rachel Holmes & Rachel Hopkin
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This month we’re excited to celebrate the Beyond Human symposium, organised by Rachel Holmes, Rachel Hopkin, Liz K. Miller, Jon Mason and Simon Aeppli. Beyond Human was a techne-funded symposium held at Royal Holloway, University of London on the 26th and 27th May 2022.Leading us through the process of creating, organising and facilitating this sym…
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Imaginative Confrontations with Shakespeare
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Welcome back to the technecast! Today’s episode features a conversation between Beth Palmer, Robert Shaughnessy and Alicia Barnes reflecting on a series of seminars and workshops called ‘Imaginative Confrontations with Shakespeare: Truth, Reconciliation, Justice’. The series tackles questions such as how do we forgive the unforgivable, and who gets…
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This second of two episodes produced by Outside/rs 2022, themed around Vision, Perception and Outside/rs looks gets stuck in the watery fenlands of the East Midlands, travels through time and speculates on queer futures.Can art, and particular use of media, be a speculative mode of engaging with utopian models of queer reproduction and community? I…
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Seeing Things Queerly: Moving Queerness from the Outside to the Inside of the Science Museum
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In the first of two guest episodes, curated by the Outside/rs 2022 conference, we’re exploring the unseen, emotional and sometimes smelly aspects of museum collection work. In recent years, an increasing number of institutions in the heritage sector have begun to recognise their significant role in including queer history and in battling the LGBTQ+…
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Christina Heflin: The Authenticities of the Ceremonial Hat for Eating Bouillabaisse
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Today we hear from Christina Heflin for the final episode on surrealism.Eileen Agar’s wearable sculpture, The Ceremonial Hat for Eating Bouillabaisse , has a peculiar story that has never been acknowledged by scholars. In each of its images – from either archives, catalogs, publications or film footage – the hat appears to be a different object. Di…
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We start a new theme this episode with Shakespeare, presented by Dr Kate O'Leary. Surrealism and Shakespeare are rarely connected in contemporary discourse, despite André Breton’ s admiring references to the Bard and interest in his plays shown by Leonora Carrington and others. This is a pity, as they are more closely linked than is often suspected…
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Daniela Georgieva: Leonora Carrington & Her Surrealist Animals
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We're delighted to be starting our March theme of Surrealism off with a talk by Daniela Georgieva on the writer and artist Leonora Carrington.A sophisticated game of table tennis in which Hummingbirds take the role of the ball, preparing a meal with vegetables that throw themselves into a cauldron filled with boiling water, a dinner table rich with…
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“Where is home for you?” The question can be laden with hidden meanings and, often, with assumptions about identity. In this episode, writer and doctoral researcher Julien Clin reflects on place as a source of community. Dismantling both identity and the nation as imagined, probing the concepts’ discourse-theoretical limitations, giving up identity…
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Abbie Cairns: Exploring the identity of an artist-teacher
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This month on the Technecast, we're exploring identities, and in this episode we're joined by Abbie Cairns. Abbie introduces her research, 'Interrogating Artist Teacher Identity (Trans)Formation in Adult Community Learning (ACL)'. An educational sector often delivered by local authority, for learners aged 19+ (Department for Education, 2019). Centr…
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Congress Special Part 2: Re-enchantment, Magic, Attention & Escaping Time
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We follow on from last week's episode, in which Rosalind Holgate-Smith and Jon Mason explored re-enchantment through their dance and storytelling practices respectively.This episode brings you a recording of the conversation Rosalind and Jon had at the Congress on 10 January 2022. Answering questions from the Technecast's Felix Clutson and the audi…
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Congress Special Part 1: Re-enchantment, Dance & Folklore with Jon Mason & Rosalind Holgate Smith
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As part of the Techne January Congress hosted by Kingston University, we are delighted to share this special episode of the Technecast! Centred around the congress’s theme of Re-Enchantment, two techne researchers join us to share their work while we reflect on the power and potential of imagination, fantasy, touch, movement and connections to enac…
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Joe Jukes: Look & Look Again - Surprise, Affect & Queer Rurality
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In this, our second episode on Affect, queer theorist and cultural geographer Joe Jukes asks, "What is ‘rural’?" Joe notes how the British countryside can be thought of, and has been produced, in multiple different ways and in many different forms. They suggest that ‘rural’ is an affect, or feeling, that is aligned with a queer mode inquiry. This c…
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Mary Dawson: Affect & Ageing in Barbara Pym’s ‘Quartet in Autumn’
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Welcome back to the Technecast! Our theme for this month is ‘Affect’, thinking about feelings, forces, and in-between states. Since the affective turn in the early 1990s, the humanities and social sciences have witnessed a profound and renewed interest in how feelings function, how they move, stick to, and shape bodies (both human and non-human) an…
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Invitations IV: Therese Henningsen with Juliette Joffé
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Technecast is hosting the Invitations Series: four conversations by Judah Attille, Therese Henningsen, Mark Aerial Waller and Astrid Korporaal. Each episode is based on a research encounter with a creative practitioner connected to the field of sound & moving image. Together, the episodes question the relationships between audience, screen, maker &…
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Invitations III: Judah Attille with Taylor Le Melle
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Throughout November, Technecast is hosting the Invitations Series, which is made up of four conversations by Judah Attille, Therese Henningsen, Mark Aerial Waller and Astrid Korporaal. Each episode is based on a research encounter with a creative practitioner connected to the field of sound and moving image. Together, the episodes question the rela…
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Invitations II - Mark Aerial Waller with Donald Kunze
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Throughout November, Technecast is hosting the Invitations Series, which is made up of four conversations by Judah Attille, Therese Henningsen, Mark Aerial Waller and Astrid Korporaal.Each episode is based on a research encounter with a creative practitioner connected to the field of sound and moving image.This week, Mark Aerial Waller is in conver…
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Invitations I — Astrid Korporaal & Sophie Hope
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In November, the Technecast is hosting the Invitations Series, a series of four conversations by Techne PhD students Judah Attille, Therese Henningsen, Mark Aerial Waller and Astrid Korporaal. Each episode is based on a research encounter with a creative practitioner connected to the field of sound and moving image. Together, the episodes question …
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Lizzy Buckle: Practice Makes Perfect? How to Be a Musician in C18
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Shortly before his arrival in London in 1704, composer and conductor Johann Sigismund Cousser recorded some important advice in his notebook. Under the heading ‘What a virtuoso should observe upon arriving in London’, Cousser wrote down thirty-three tips given to him by fellow German and musician Jakob Greber. While some instructions are clearly ai…
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