Links

I’ve stripped the links list down, and I’m also rethinking this enterprise. In this day of Web 2.0 and social bookmarking sites, I suspect that this kind of links page has had its day (and I don’t really have the time to keep it synced with what’s really out there). Please let me know what you think.

comrades & partners in crime
Bruce Coates MySpace page of the improviser, saxophonist and cofounder of the Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra and FrImp.
De Daders Jan Langedijk’s mime company based in Amsterdam.
Peter Elsdon Pianist, improviser, electronic music guy, and Keith Jarrett expert.
Alex Fiennes Ubergeek and the most incredible sound engineer/sculptor that I’ve had the pleasure of working with.
Paul Harrison Pianist, organist, improviser and composer.
Mike Hurley Fantastic pianist, improviser, musical curator and club-runner, and a nice guy to boot.
io 0.0.1 beta If io could enact a relationship and embody an identity, I imagine it would be a friendly machine improviser. However, io cannot enact or embody anything.
Edward Kasparek You see, if I could get Koen, Murray and Ed together, we’d take over the world ;-)
laut = Pedro Rebelo and Franziska Schroeder. laut is a “context for research and creation of extended performance interaction”.
Melanie L Marshall Musicologist based at the Department of Music, University College Cork …and my best friend.
Claudia Molitor A composer “gaining national recognition”… apparently ;-)
Elspeth Murray Edinburgh based poet, playwright, my former boss, and a generally nice person.
Koen Nutters The improviser. If they remember the rest of us, it’ll be as a footnote to mijnheer Nutters.
Sarah O’Halloran Composer, performer, musicologist and installation artist.
Peter O’Doherty Sonic artist based in Ireland and Holland.
Stu Ritchie Hyper-energetic drummer, percussionist and improviser.
tinpark.com = Martin Parker—composer, electronic artist, improviser (maybe it would have been more efficient to point out the non-improvisers on this list) and cofounder of dialogues.
religious organizations
The Church of Sonology The very best in faith-service delivery! The Church of Sonology is a growing, evolving, non-theist faith-organization devoted to the exploration of the liberating properties of sound.
venues, festivals & organizations
Classic Anxiety Dream Edinburgh, Scotland. (RIP)
Cork Music Collective Cork, Ireland. (RIP?)
dialogues festival Edinburgh, Scotland.
dorkbot “People doing strange things with electricity.”
FrImp Birmingham, England.
Grind Sight Open Eye Edinburgh, Scotland.
Improvisation Birmingham Birmingham, England.
Umbrealla for the Invention Convention, Fizzle, Frimp and the activitied of the Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra.
The Klinker London, England.
London Musicians’ Collective London, England.
Safehouse Brighton, England.
Sonic Acts Festival Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Stet Lab Cork, Ireland.
You Are Hear Magz Hall and Jim Backhouse’s pod- and web-cast show.
teachers, mentors & models
Clarence Barlow = Klarenz Barlow = Clarens Baarlo.
Richard Barrett
Anthony Braxton
Nicolas Collins
Marilyn Crispell
Bill Frisell
Fred Frith
Alison Knowles
Steve Lacy
George E Lewis
Annea Lockwood
Chick Lyall
Nam June Paik
Sara Roberts
David Rosenboom
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith
Laetitia Sonami
Laurie Spiegel
Mark Trayle
theory (science & technology studies)
Actor Network Resource Annotated bibliography on actor-network theory hosted by Lancaster University’s Centre for Science Studies.
Donna Haraway The European Graduate School pages of Donna Haraway—a thinker who I find always mesmerizing and partially frustrating. See also the pages at Voxygen and the History of Consciousness Program.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy With wikipedia’s development (albeit an inconsistent one), the shelf life of such things as this are probably numbered. Anyway, despite being run by volunteers (with apparently no funding), this encyclopedia has a slightly broader coverage than some other online sources… sometimes.
Bruno Latour Extensive and exhaustive site of the smart, articulate, fascinating and persuasive, but often conservative, writer on all things technoscientific. Includes abstracts, articles, bibliography, etc.
John Law Smart and imaginative ethnographer and theorist at Lancaster University’s Centre for Science Studies. Some of Law’s publications are also available online.
Bryan Pfaffenberger The techno-anthropologist (if that’s the word for it) and originator of the term ‘technological dramas’.
Martin Ryder A hub to resources on, for example, constructivism, actor-network theory and social construction of technology.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Much better than it used to be, but nonetheless permanently incomplete, but still occasionally useful for those confusing and/or alien terms. There’s an emphasis on metaphysics and the intersections of philosophy with the natural sciences, but less on the literary and sociological branches.
guitar
Overwater Just a big thanks to everyone at Overwater for the guitar rescue (they saved Esprit from some ham-fisted fret work that passed for ‘repair’). Also thanks to Chris May for recommending…
Chris Larkin Custom Guitars Luthier based on a peninsula of a peninsula in Ireland, Chris recently setup Esprit, and thanks to him, I got introduced to linen-plastic composite as a nut material, and now know that my preferred action is 1mm on the treble side and 1.3mm on the bass.