Contemporary Connect

Contemporary Connections is now mainly tweeting through @LauraSeddonMJM until we percolate the next project idea. Happy summer from the North!

Of a totally unsentimental disposition but just received the most epic leaving card - thank you all my lovely UoP colleagues Xx @UoP_SLAS_lsts @jennifer_sizer @UOPSLAS

Complex, moving and intense - what a way to spend a Sunday morning @VincentDT @ONCAnetwork great programming from onca gallery #brightonfestival onca.org.uk/whats-on/next/vi…

“Not melancholy but intensity” the fabulous @GiselaJoao fado singer extraordinaire at @UnionChapelUK last night - so many links with sea shanties and lamentations of the sea youtu.be/SojjkkWCBG8 brilliant programming from @LaLineaFest

This week company cat has been thoroughly enjoying researching the great white shark rumours in Portsmouth from last summer as discussed by #portseasound amazing participants - any more fish-based musical research - send his way! #haylingshark #dinnythedolphin

Brilliant to see musicological work beautifully curated by @CTackley for history of British jazz exhibition Rhythm and Reaction @TwoTemplePlace - favourite part? Got to be Pathe films of playing jazz to elephants at London Zoo and the dancing chefs!

Last chance to see the good ship Mudlark - our community sound installation @IBTCPortsmouth Boathouse4 Historic Dockyard - thanks so much for hosting this collaborative work since October! Ends next Friday. Sound piece lives on: portseasound.org/#/listen-1/

Amazing physicality from @WayneMcGregor dancers in Portsmouth tonight but intricacy of layers in score ruined by poor sound system and volume misjudgment please sort @newtheatreroyal - dance programming this season been fabulous and supportive audience brilliant to see!!

Company cat has stolen orange highlighter in a bid to stop incessant note-making and get us to actually start the business of writing...#felineproductivity

Just visited the mudlark sound boat @BoatHouse_4 and someone has put the loveliest rope mats inside for listeners to sit on (suspect Knotty had something to do with it!) thanks guys! Also adorned with fairy lights from the Xmas fayre 😊

So pleased the fantastic older black female artist #LubainaHimid had won #TurnerPrize2017 - deserved just for the exquisite Lancaster dining set alone - a humorously powerful reflection on Britain’s inglorious role in the slave trade

Company cat realises he doesn’t understand irony in the context of mourning practices in music or even irony generally - resorts to attacking pens!

Thank uni Portsmouth language across borders research group for listening to #Portseasound sparking new ideas today - much appreciated 😊

Ingredients for disseminating a sound piece? Sunny room, coffee and company cat to ‘assist’ - hoping for a lucid moment 😉

Our final sound piece for #portseasound project now available to listen online at your leisure - portseasound.org excitement!

Amazing singing from #jesuis dancers tonight - privileged to be in the audience - great to see this work in Portsmouth thanks @JourneysFest

Writing final activity report for #portseasound making us realise great people we got to work with - company cat unimpressed with paperwork

The Mudlark (or soundy mcsoundface) is up and running @BoatHouse_4 free entry come over to hear sounds of Portsea - tell us your thoughts 😊

Great conversations with Portsea residents in mudlark sound boat today @JohnPoundsCtr moving to @BoatHouse_4 Monday for whole new audience!!

Only one day left to submit ideas to name our sound boat @JohnPoundsCtr great suggestions so far portseasound.org/#/new-page/ #portseasound