I went for a walk today and saw, for the first time, a guy propose to his girlfriend (well, I assume… proposing to a stranger is a pretty big call).
It set me thinking – a proposal, an engagement, they’re all promises of more to come. They are events in their own right, but they aren’t the end goal. The end goal in this case is marriage, which is in itself a process leading to a better relationship… and so on it goes. (more…)
In this digital landscape, it is entirely possible to attend a play in Sydney, view and exhibition in Bilbao and hear a concert from San Francisco without ever leaving your home. In London.
This has a clear impact on content, and importantly, content production.
There is a lot of nay-saying about the state of the music industry at the moment, and how it’s in the worst shape it’s been in since records began. But I think this misses the point. In politics, dictatorships have been proven time and time again to fail; a monopoly in any context exists to benefit the minority. What we’re seeing now in the music industry is the great democratic movement; anyone can record an album, anyone can make a film and you can send it anywhere. The best stuff will still exist and the worst stuff will still exist; there’s just more of both.
I don’t see the problem.
Well, first please let me apologize for the blog silence since being at Twitter all that time ago. Things have been absolutely crazy here in the Coffeeloop cave with all sorts of things (including some more travel, more recording and some more coffee).
So, what’s up?
Well, as you probably know, the Twitter concert was a great success and is currently leading to a few very exciting things. More soon. The video can be found at our vimeo page here: Twitter Concert
We’ll be posting much more here in the coming months, but if you’d like to get in touch about anything (ideas, comments, recipes etc), then drop me a line to pg @ coffeeloop.com
Cheers!
I’ve just put up the streaming page, which will host the video of today’s live concert from Twitter HQ. (Oh you hadn’t heard? About the live concert from Twitter HQ? Live concert from Twitter HQ! Live!)
Head on over there. You can read our twitter updates, and talk back using Twitter. Peter is currently tweeting from his Virgin flight to SF!
Or if you’re the adrenaline junkie type, sit tight on this page and wait for the countdown timer to hit zero to be taken straight there.
Watch this space.
Stand by. Our top secret launch location will be…
Wait. First, some background.
We’ve consistently pushed the boundaries with our events. Presenting new & pioneering classical music, from Benjamin Britten’s Corpus Christi Carol (as brilliantly covered by Jeff Buckley) to Milton Mermikides’s Barack Obama Megamix, is at the centre of that. But an array of technical innovations – web streaming, interactivity, Twitter, SMS and email integration – have made it happen.
Now, it’s time to take everything we’re learning on the road. That’s Microconcerts in a nutshell: bringing short, sweet concerts to never-before-seen venues worldwide. Concerts you can enjoy in your coffee break. They’re our newest product, and the most important yet. We think there’s a revolution waiting to happen, and it’s about to begin. Live. From…
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A few months ago, Peter asked me to write a short bio for the then-hypothetical Coffeeloop website. His reply when I emailed these rambling thoughts to him a fortnight later:
Absolutely *not* what I was expecting yet, curiously, this was precisely what I suppose I should have expected.
Delighted that just this evening I wrote “Coffeeloop is the tidal wave to blow away the ripples” and there you are writing about your seaweed… and sea urchins and… Music Television.
I forget what Music Television had to do with that early version. Here is the final one.
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Hello from Coffeeloop, and welcome to our new site!
It’s a redesign from the ground up, and in-keeping with our thoughts about interactivity we’ve made the whole thing into one big blog. Obviously we’ll be putting our events here — even hosting some from this very site — but as time goes on we want to use it more and more to interact, with critics and performers, and with you. We like you. (more…)