The month of September is usually when things get moving, but especially this year a whole bunch of exciting events with great people have lined up. In the hope that I won’t jinx them by listing them here, I wrote this post to convince myself that they’re actually happening!

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First of all, as with every year, we are accepting candidates for our wonderful interactive technologies MA program. It’s always a gamble how many people will apply, and I always get nervous around this time although we’ve always had awesome applicants. If you think it’s for you, don’t hesitate and go for it! You have until 9 September to apply online.

I’m now getting ready to fly to Linz with our ITPMA students for Ars Electronica, where we will once again be part of the Campus exhibition.

Then a few days later I’ll be in Madrid with Simona Deaconescu performing our Collective Cadence show at the FIVER’25 festival in Madrid.

If that wasn’t enough, when I come back I’ll have a couple of days to prepare for the new piece by Constantin Basica, where I’m developing a reactive music system for the opening section. As always with Constantin, expect the unexpected! It’s gonna be great, I just hope my contribution will be up to snuff.

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Finally, the one thing in September I’m most looking forward to has nothing to do with me. It’s the release of the long-awaited final (?) album from my favourite band, Cardiacs. If you don’t know them, my obsession started with these two videos.1 I’ve been hopeful but quite nervous about what this new album would turn out like, but much of my apprehension was put to rest when it was revealed that Mike Vennart (ex Oceansize) sings on it. It looks like they’ll be touring with him on vocals, which judging by his performance singing Dirty Boy, should be an unmissable gig!

  1. I got into Cardiacs in early 2008, a few months before leader Tim Smith fell ill, putting all band activities on indefinite halt. Including, obviously, the November ‘08 London show which I’d already got my ticket for… I can’t express how much Tim’s music has meant for me, and it’s so wonderful that many others have been keeping it alive. ↩