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2007 PEIMAs on Video (...more)
Music PEI, Radio@UPEI, and IMAC teamed up once again to bring you some great highlights from the PEI Music Awards. Patrick Ledwell did the opener and I helped a little behind the scenes, but full credit should go to the...November 21, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Surrealist view of the 2007 ECMA Gala (...more)
One of the highlights of last month's Centered screenings was this surrealist view of the recent East Coast Music Awards gala ceremonies video'd and edited by the force that is the Island Media Arts Co-op's tireless director Mille Clarkes. Or...May 2, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0)
ECMA 2007: Video Highlights and more... (...more)
It's taken a week for me to recover from a great weekend in Halfax for the 2007 East Coast Music Awards. It was fun, exhausting,....and very rewarding. Once again Radio@UPEI was called upon to bring our arsenal of online goodness...March 1, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Video Highlights of 2006 Prince Edward Island Music Awards (...more)
Radio@UPEI's extensive coverage of the 2006 Prince Edward Island Music Awards continues. On the heels of a series of artist profiles comes select highlights of the Gala Awards Show itself. The Radio@UPEI team itself led the way in recording the...November 26, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Great Island Musicians + New Media Artists = (...more)
The multi-faceted media exhange and distribution service we created called Radio@UPEI continues to grow steadily in richness and diversity. Music PEI, the industry association for musicians on Prince Edward Island, recently held a very successful annual awards gala. Back in...November 19, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0)
From the Archives (...more)
Over the course of the past couple of years Radio@UPEI has been both seeking out and attracting archival media of significance to our region. Back in May we began sharing...starting with these samples drawn from a large cache of CBC...September 20, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Stanfest 2006 (...more)
At Courtenay's insistence I left her at the IWK for a half day to take in a bit of the tenth annual Stan Rogers Folk Festival.July 11, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Play in the Park: The Tempest (...more)
If you know Laurie Murphy you know that she is the type of person that is so difficult to say no to. So when she asked me to take part in this year's Play in the Park production, Shakespeare's The...June 21, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Birthday Booty (...more)
Turning a year older a couple of weeks back I have to brag about my awesome gifts. My wife and family got together to give me a mandolin (just like this one). I've known a few chords on mando since...June 19, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Radio@UPEI does the Junos (...more)
Building on the success of ECMA 2006 the Radio@UPEI team is packing up its gear and hitting the streets of Halifax for Juno 2006, Canada's Music Awards. You can check out published content here. Or just visit Radio@UPEI this weekend...March 30, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Reflections on ECMA 2006 (...more)
Select ECMA Podcasts Radio@UPEI continues to issue select highlights of the volumes of content we captured over those four or five days. There is so much there to listen to it's hard to know where to start. It depends what...March 13, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Why it's all worth it (...more)
Well, Radio@UPEI's "big" weekend streaming and recording the Prince Edward Island Music Awards Celebrations didn't quite go to plan. First, Lennie Gallant, or Lennie's people, wouldn't let us record or broadcast Friday Night's Songwriter's Circle for which he was the...November 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Busy weekend for Radio@UPEI (...more)
This weekend promises to be a busy one for Radio@UPEI. We're broadcasting the PEI Music Awards and two Panther Hockey road games. To listen live, just visit http://radio.upei.ca and launch a web stream.November 9, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Open Culture in Milan Wraps (...more)
Well my presentation went just fine and I got a lot of really great feedback from everyone here. Stay tuned for an audio transcript. In spite of the heat I enjoyed the conference, especially presentations by Graham Atwell and Alexandra...June 29, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Ospedale Maggiore (...more)
I'm presenting in a conference room here (see 1 - via Festa de Perdona) at University of Milan's Sede Centrale. The building was originally a hospital and is known as Ospedale Maggiore. The building was architected, for the most part,...June 28, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Holland College Digital Media Showcase 2005 (...more)
Oriented to Output Catch a glimpse of the creative process behind new media. Don't miss the upcoming Holland College Design Showcase May 9-13th, 2005 at the Atlantic Technology Centre. Get out and encourage these promising students and check outout some...May 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Tweedy and Lessig (...more)
"art is not a loaf of bread" I've been eagerly anticipating this dicussion between Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Digital Culture Freedom Fighter Lawrence Lessig. Jeff isn't known for his patient articulate discourse and Larry isn't known for a poetic form...April 7, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Julie Doiron on the Internet and its role in distributing her music (...more)
Julie Doiron on the Internet and its role in distributing her musicFebruary 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Introducing Radio@UPEI (...more)
Over the course of the last few months our BEAT team, in partnership with a student organization known as UPEI Independent Student Media, has been involved in reviving independent media on the campus of the University of Prince Edward Island....February 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Matt Mays on the Internet, the Media, and the Maritimes (...more)
Matt Mays on the Internet, the Media, and the MaritimesJanuary 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Motorcycle Diaries (...more)
We finally got a chance to go see The Motorcycle Diaries (view trailer). I thought it was incredibly well done. It's the type of movie that Hollywood could never pull off, and one that makes you glad to have a...January 9, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
DMC2 (...more)
On Wednesday night we enjoyed another meeting of Dave's Music Club. This time I actually showed up with music. Here's my contribution. Again, I had visions of an elaborate theme --the Legacy of Gram Parsons, the musical progression of Jeff...May 6, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Karen Gallant's Painting (...more)
As The BUZZ shows us every month, for a small Island we have no shortage of talented artists here on PEI. On the weekend we had the pleasure of visiting Island artist Karen Gallant at her farmhouse near Hunter River....April 28, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Musicplasma (...more)
Here's another interesting visual thinking tool. Musicplasma attempts to give a visual representation of like-minded or like-sounding bands and artists. Here's how Musicplasma depicts Wilco's musical neighborhood for instance. Neat. And sorta useful. But, this tool also provides an example...April 23, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
Ryan Adams featuring Elton John (...more)
It was Thanksgiving weekend 2001. Gold had been out for all of two weeks. Ryan Adams & the Lax were playing at a Lee's Palace in the heart of the Annex where I lived most of my years in Toronto.April 12, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
10 years ago (...more)
From the pages of our university house "registre" comes my journalistic record of the day Kurt Cobain was found. What does it mean when the symbolic icon of your generation kills himself?April 8, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Steve Earle at Mariposa (...more)
It was in July 2002 that I caught Steve, appearing by himself, at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Orillia, Ontario. He had just announced that, rather than taking time off as planned, he just finished a new record which, at...April 5, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Starry Starry Night (...more)
From Mark Federman's 'Mind, Media, and Society' course blog comes this flash tribute to Van Gogh.March 31, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Greatest Canadian (...more)
Beginning April 5th, CBC asks: Who is the greatest Canadian? There are a lot of great Canadians though some of the faces thrown up on that television commercial are sorta laughable. It baffles me why we continue to mistake fame...March 30, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
The Hip in Hamburg (...more)
A memorable Tragically Hip show in Hamburg seems like a good place to start. I'm not sure the under-20 crowd get the Hip quite as do my generation. And, you can say what you want about their last couple of...March 28, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Mark's Memorable Concert Experiences (...more)
Mark's Memorable Concert Experiences Last week I showed up to the inaugural meeting of Dave's Music Club empty handed. My last minute planning, some unexpected responsibilities, and technical difficulties conspired against me. I had a great time anyway. And, to...March 25, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Toronto investing in cultural assets (...more)
Over the next few years the ever expanding city of Toronto will enjoy a flurry of investments in cultural institutions. Here are a few of the more prominent development projects currently underway. Art Gallery of Ontario Inspite of its fiscal...February 27, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Does anyone care about campus radio? (...more)
Since I've returned to the Island, I've been telling anyone around campus who'll listen that the University lost something when campus radio station CIMN died. I thought I was the only one who felt this way. But, last week I...February 12, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (10) | TrackBack
Ricky, Bubbles, and Julian look out (...more)
What wears blue, is in the red, and lives in a trailer park? The new Ricky, Bubbles, & Julian. Courtesy of a student.January 15, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Sorry, no culture today (...more)
Around the corner from OCAD I visited the AGO. I recently enjoyed reading Moncrieff Williamson's excellent biography of legendary Island artist Robert Harris (1849-1919). He rubbed shoulders with some amazing cats! Anyway I was gung ho to see the AGO's...January 11, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
OCAD Building aka Sharp Pavillion (...more)
Having just returned from the t-dot I was able to capture a recent pic of what Daniel refers to as the worst building ever. You may have caught the article 'Extraordinary, whether you like or not' in a recent edition...January 8, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
The Engine of Consumer Distributing: TV (...more)
I've been formulating a thesis of sorts on Canadian TV. Mark Starowicz has some interesting things to say here: Commercial television is part of the marketing and distribution system of the manufacturing economy, not part of the cultural production system....December 9, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Passion of the Western Mind (...more)
In an attempt to ground myself in Western philosophy I have just finished reading a fascinating book by Richard Tarnas called 'The Passion of the Western Mind'. The lavish praise heeped on this epic retelling of epistimological history now seems...December 2, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Tulse Luper Suitcases (...more)
I just discovered this ambitious project - from what I can make of it a film trilogy, experiment in multimedia, television series, and dvd set all loosely tied together. The project tracks filmmaker Peter Greenaway's alter-ego hero Tulse Luper through...November 26, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
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