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just pushed out a new tune/sketch on soundcloud, i'm trying to tune back in to the way I used to experiment with making music - part of which was just pushing stuff out on soundcloud for fun and not being too preious.
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gary-martin is a sound artist, designer, and electronic musician. he is interested in systems of production and consumption, and their ecological entanglement. his social practice spans participatory art, critical making, and practice research.
for over a decade he has facilitated creative projects with young people across Wales, and partners like Cadw, The King's Trust, Shakespeare’s Globe, and Tate.
he is a Pervasive Media Studio resident and a designer with pyka, where he develops interactive sound tools and experiences. he is also a lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire where he manages releases on Parkland Records and his teaching focuses on critical practice in relation to networked cultures and political ecology.
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Parkland.FM
i've been thinking about how to develop Parkland Records and there's been interest and ideas forming around its potential with radio-based projects. currently, some students are working on their own 20-minute mixes based around the NTS Supporter Radio theme 'Your Specialist Subject', and some other students are working on a radio documentary spotlighting people who make music happen in Cheltenham/Gloucestershire.
in a recent staff meeting the theme of 'culture, place, and displacement' was discussed in relation to research activity of the school (i think) - and it got me thinking about Fruitful.FM, a 'temporary radio station housed inside a greenhouse'.
ambitiously, i'm wondering if there is a project here that could combine a number of courses to produce things like a temporary (maybe permanent) structure to house a radio station, and a radio series that explores the place and displacement of the plant life in the Park Campus, as 'there are some 900 trees in The Park which are native and non-native species... obtained from different parts of the world including the United States of America and Europe'.
hello world!
hello reader, this post marks the return of me using a blog to track professional/creative/(some)personal actvities, keeping all my actvitiy on my site. this site/blog is a single html file that I will update via Github desktop app. I spent hours looking into various CMS systems and external/3rd party apps with different interfaces, but to be honest, I found them all to be that tiny bit too much effort to use regularly. what I really wanted was the ease of posting on Tumblr circa 2010, but without the fear of my blog disappearing if it went through another acquistion or MySpace style cull. so after trialling a few systems, I've gone for what feels like the option that offers the least friction for me to post updates and thoughts, and that's just editing this little html file on my laptop.
