Latest writings
Here you’ll find links to my latest musings, media posts, musical adventures and so on. Recent pieces have been for EM Guide, Kaput Magazine and the Monheim Triennale festival.
Progressive flickers
Life-shaping technologies come and go, without us ever understanding how they worked. And we expect to retain a handle on something as complex as society?
Who d’you think you are, a rock and roll star?
What does the Gallagher brothers’ return tell us about the state of yer actual rock and roll bands?
All hail the musical bohemians
Link to my full round-up of 2025’s Monheim Triennale – just published on Kaput-Mag.com
Behind, around and somehow before the notes
Germany’s eclectic and inspiring Monheim Triennale 2025 is underway, bringing together a wide range of contemporary musicians to a little bend in the river Rhine…
YouMeBumBumTrain: six months in the world’s biggest doll’s house
What exactly is it like to be part of a show that everyone wants to experience but no one can talk about? 🧐
Library music: soundtracks to a strange if familiar world
What it’s like to make music whose exact purposes remain to be determined… yes, library music! 🎶
Surprise, then a sense of liberation - Monheim Festival 2024
Reflections on Monheim Festival 2024 - The Prequel. A wild week of musical experimentation and collaboration in a kink in the Rhine…
Everything is, as it turns out, romantic
In a world where pop stars increasingly seem to want safety, aristocracy or status, here comes BRAT.
If the champagne could speak
Back in 2022, I had to endure the unfathomable horror of writing a poem about champagne for the Savoy’s Christmas campaign…