Every year The Creative School’s Rubix conference includes a Pecha Kucha evening, hosted by me and Ashley Jane Lewis, and so each year it’s an invitation to condense some recent thinking into the Pecha Kucha format – 20 slides which are displayed for 20 seconds each, auto-advancing, so that your talk lasts precisely 6 mins and 40 seconds, whether you like it or not.
This time around I set myself the question: “When is making music research-creation, and when is it just making music?”.
At one point I say: “One of the ways that you know you’re doing research-creation, and not just having fun, is when there’s a tense relationship between what you’re doing, and the context that you’re in”.
Also: “How do you balance the process and the product? We all like outcomes, but we have to keep an emphasis on process, because all the struggles that we are engaged in are process, and we don’t actually arrive at the promised land, but it’s important what we do when we are trying“.
And other things like that. Here’s the video:
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