Solobasssteve @Solobasssteve@mastodon.social
The UK's leading solo bass guitarist, but don't let that put you off. Journalisting, teaching and PhDing too see stevelawson.net for more
hello all :) Thought I'd check in and see what's up... Facebook is getting me down again ;)
Lego star wars have apparently added a Trump Klansman figure to their collection... https://mastodon.social/media/rmds820RT_KTu19k7EA
what's been happen here then? Not checked in for a while. Been in PhD reading/writing mode, so cutting down on social browsing.
On a #music tip, the new Public Enemy album is amazing, and they're giving it away on #Bandcamp - https://publicenemy.bandcamp.com
going through the Archive.org version of my early website to check dates/quotes/details for my PhD. It's like looking at baby photos. Properly extraordinary to think how far we come in 20 years (my website first went live on April 20th 98)... Also, archive.org is a researchers DREAM! I have no backed up copy of any of this (wasn't really thinking about web ecology back in the late 90s :( )
in a diversion from politics and tragedy, I wrote a thing about learning #music, albeit via an extended metaphor:
http://www.stevelawson.net/2017/05/decorating-tips-for-musicians-how-to-learn-like-a-painter/
I just chipped in $1 a month to keep #Mastodon going, via Patreon - maybe you'd like to too :)
If you like #Mastodon, maybe consider supporting financially, even a little bit, say $1 per month?
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=619786
LOADS of volunteer-run stuff dies due to lack of funding, and a reliable regular income makes a huge difference. Plus @gargron and co. work really really hard on this! https://cybre.space/media/VaK4zt6hxspYUinrVi4
Damn. Chris Cornell :(
voting day. West Midlands Mayoral Election. two decent-sounding candidates (Lib Dem/Green) one wasted opportunity (The communist dude isn't particularly clued up on the various creative far left responses to the mess we're in, sadly) and then the Tories and Labour who are fighting it out - Tory is obviously a bellend, the Labour guy has a rubbish manifesto but needs to win to keep the Tories out. Over version of democracy is nonsense...
Howdy! just released a new album - Intersect is a live electro-jazz-improv-experimental-hip-hop-funk-ambient project with saxophone genius Pete Fraser - stream/download here: https://stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/intersect #music #bass #sax #bandcamp #album #newmusic #electronica #ambient #jazz #livelooping
just found this video of me in conversation at Aston University about Art and Tech, economics, culture, the development of music cultures and the affordances of cheaper, accessible technology, the role that ubiquity plays in our understanding of value... a shitload of ideas ratting around here :)
watching this amazing gig on #Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZM3vHVjYzQ - #DavidTorn #MickKarn #BillBruford #MarkIsham #Music
for those of you that are #writing or #coding, here's a super mellow soundtrack for your day :) http://music.stevelawson.net/album/everything-is-possible-in-this-best-of-all-possible-worlds #music #ambient #mellow #instrumental #amwriting #work
Mastodon is clearly not an American thing.
Who’s on the U.S. Military’s Defense Innovation Advisory Board?
• Eric Schmidt (chair), Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc. (Google, etc.) His companies read the emails, private documents, and conversations of over a billion people.
• Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. His devices see and hear you in your own home.
• Milo Medin, Google Fibre (VP of Access Services at Alphabet, Inc.)
• Marne Levine, COO Instagram (Facebook, Inc.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Innovation_Advisory_Board
here's a thing about #music #nostalgia #celebritydeaths art discover, and culture that I wrote on this day last year - "It's 2017 and we're looking for magic in all the wrong places" - http://www.stevelawson.net/2016/04/its-2016-and-were-looking-for-magic-in-all-the-wrong-places/ :) enjoy x
When one of the band wasn't at the impromptu photoshoot... Fun with cut-outs :)
(The gig is in #Birmingham on May 14th - more info at www.stevelawson.net/upcoming_gigs :) ) #music #jazz #improv #bass #guitar #drums #electronica
A few years back, I released a 10 album live set with a multi-instrumentalist in california - every time I listen to any of it, I have to remind myself that it was all live, all improvised, and was every single note we'd ever played together up to that point - no rehearsal, no compositions, no prior jamming, we didn't even soundcheck together :) here's one http://music.stevelawson.net/album/the-new-normal
#music #bass #improvisation #live #bandcamp #jazz #ambient #electronica
musical magic by Canadian Bass Maestro Rich Brown - https://rinsethealgorithm.bandcamp.com/album/between-heaviness-here #music #bass #canada #bandcamp
