104. Efficiency is an anathema to curiosity
These newsletters, regrettably, have become a little less regular this year - I’m sorry about that! There’s been a lot going on, at a pace that has exceeded...
103. Data view
This has turned out to be a double-episode it is so long. So pace yourself. This time there’s a lot of (idea) threads being pulled all at once. And a little...
102. Adventures in Boston
Next stop Boston with more chance meetings and music
101. Adventures in Michigan
Reflecting on my last week at visiting University of Michigan
100. But it's not all darkness
Reflecting on the FACT symposium's insights while enjoying breakfast in Ann Arbor.
99. Six vignettes
Hello 2025. I know it’s almost the end of January already but it’s summer vacation down this part of the world and time moves a little more slowly. We all...
98. Sound, media and art adventures in South Korea
Like previous ‘overseas trip recaps’, this is a long read, and there are lots of photos too - so click that ‘load images’ button. I’ve written parts of this...
97. It’s been an (even) long(er) time, I shouldn’t have left you (again)
False starts, false hopes. All those things have been in full effect down here as the first warm flickers of summer peeks through an unsatisfactory Melbourne...
96. Books and music, and music books
(continued from Episode 95 …) The last days of the (now fading) European trip were spent in London and Brighton over the UK Bank Holiday weekend. If I had...
95. Travels in the ultraworld
It’s now been more than five years of occasionally writing this newsletter. I missed the fifth anniversary which would have fallen in January sometime. Time...
94. Mediation and some art things
Last episode was long delayed, and also quite lengthy. This one probably is quite long too. It’s the long weekend, Easter and the autumnal equinox. Brew up a...
93. It’s been a long time, I shouldn’t have left you without a …
This was meant to be written in the first week of the new year but life has had a tendency to get in the way. Then I was on a plane heading to Singapore -...
92. Slow and slow it grows
Apologies if you got the last episode twice. There turned out to be a rare ‘plumbing problem’ at Buttondown that delayed and then sent Episode 91...
91. Wolves and lambs
It must have been about six months ago when I first started getting adverts for Malthouse Theatre's The Hour of the Wolf in my social media feeds. It felt...
90. Radical flourishing
Every time I send one of these newsletters I have to go on to my social media channels and tell people to check their spam filters for the episode. It’s...
89. Text to text
A huge box arrived at my post office box recently. In it was Aaron A Reed’s 50 years of Text Games, a massive hardcover volume expanded from his excellent...
88. Short sights and sounds
For the first time I had to skip a talk because of sickness, so big apologies to everyone who I had hoped to catch up with at Remix Summit in Sydney on...
87. Time passes
Another delayed newsletter, sorry! Recently both and K and I entered a new age demographic, one more list item to scroll down to when filling out government...
86. Blackbox complexity
i feel bad for neglecting this newsletter! The recent months have been a flurry of activity - I barely get to come up for air. A two day symposium, a board...
85. Delays expected
Happy new year. 2022 is over. Finally. Gung hei fat choi. Welcome to the Year of the Rabbit! 🐇 This one has been written in discontinuous chunks, aborted...