Michael Jackson suffered a heart attack last night (European time), and could not be resuscitated. Wacko Jacko he may have been, but it’s the end of an era. Love or hate him or his music, he’s the biggest selling album artist of all time. His music, his pop videos and his dancing have influenced pop [...]

I’ve been influenced by a number of piano players. My paternal grandfather and my father both played a lot when I was a child – my father still does. A few of the schoolteachers I admired played a mean piano. Billy Joel, Elton John and Stevie Wonder are musicians I appreciate who sing and accompany [...]

Here is a set of a few clips I took with my mobile phone yesterday. They were edited together using Avisynth and processed with Virtualdub (both free). Since my mobile phone records in 3gp format, they also needed converting via a piece of free software. Here’s the result.

Three related photos are on FlickR.

This was shot a while back, thought I’d share it with you. A performance at the office. Cathaly is singing, I do a bit of backing vocals & play the guitar (um… obviously).

Nobody is going to buy a video recorder based on the VHS format this Christmas. Everything will be MiniDV (camcorders), DVD and hard drive based.
In the US, the VHS format was recently declared dead. That’s perhaps a bit premature, it’s rather more of a retirement. VHS tapes will still be active for some years to [...]

I stumbled upon this site and found the concept to be particularly innovative. Imagine pitching a film that is just 24 frames long, composed of 12 frames that repeat themselves twice each. The one second film did just that. You can even be a co-producer…
THE 1 SECOND FILM is a 70mm non-profit collaborative film bringing [...]

In Letchworth, the town where I grew up, there was sometimes a busker in the town centre. Maybe an organ grinder, maybe a one man band with a guitar, a kazoo, cymbals on his head and a drum on his back. In the Paris metro on visits to the French capital, sometimes a couple of [...]

I thought I’d share a brief history of my musical background. So why not get comfortable and listen to my instrumental keyboard piece, “A Trip to Nowhere” while reading?
At junior school, we pretty much all learned to play the recorder. I was always much more interested in figuring out the tunes on the piano that [...]