If you don’t subscribe to these already I really do implore you to start. Little Chris is one of the region’s best champions of new music. Here’s Brumcast 114:
Thanks to Peter Bacon for emailing me about this – the Cobweb Collective is “a voluntary organisation promoting innovative live improvised music in Birmingham” and they have a website that I rather like:
They put on regular live events and also put out a monthly podcast called the Cobcast (downloads coming soon). They’ve also made a short documentary with bits of interviews, live footage and so on that’s worth a gander:
Nic Treadwell wrote (bloody ages ago actually – sorry!) about his Homegrown Podcast where he’s been featuring artists form Birmingham and elsewhere for a couple of years now. He’s interested in doing interviews / features with folk in his Rowly Regis studio. Get in touch at nic [at] homegrownpodcast.co.uk
Over on the Ikon site there’s a 1hr45m recording of a symposium on printmaking that took place on Feb 20th.
Ikon and Birmingham City University School of Art co-hosted a lively roundtable discussion about the nature of contemporary printmaking. The implications of digital technology were considered not just in terms of production, but also its possible impact on the meaning of printed artwork.
Ikon’s Director, Jonathan Watkins was joined on the panel by artists Tim Maguire and Christiane Baumgartner, Tessa Sidey (Curator, Prints and Drawings Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery), Frank Bordas (studio Frank Bordas) and Jeremy Lewison (Independent Curator).
Can’t find a download link so you’ll have to listen to it from your computer but this is a fantastic development for Ikon.
Pic taken from Ikon, labeled “Tim Maguire Studio. Work in progress”
The fifth and final edition of Antonio Gould’s New Media 4Casts is online covering how engaging with the blogging community can help creative types reach new customers across the world. The core example, which I’d encourage you to check out, is Emily Malcom’s Black Apple blog. Subscribe on the site or listen here:
[audio:http://www.channel4.com/4talent/media/midlands/new_media/audio/socialmedia4cast.mp3]
Brumcast 79 is up:
[audio:http://ipodnetworks.com/podcast/363/2023_hifi.mp3]
One hour of local music featuring Wrapped in Plastic, Phluxm, Miles Hunt, One Dead Groove, Wurlitztraction , The Drowners, Crashdown!, Rebel Territory, The Detrimentals, The Courtesy Group, Understar, Death05, Doom Patrol, The Skeleton Cartel, The Legatos, Terrorform, The 21cm line, Murdoch, Intelligenazia, Paisley Riot and Relay.
Brumcast 75 is up.
[audio:http://ipodnetworks.com/podcast/363/2005_hifi.mp3]
Just in case that didn’t hit home, Little Chris has now collected seventy five hours of local music and released it to the world. For free. Off his own back. With no renumeration for his time.
