JUSTIFYING DATA

Could Facebook be putting words in your mouth? One of the questions at the centre of this project is Do we need to change our attitudes to publishing online? The term ‘publishing’ tends to create thoughts of the gatekeepers of the printing press, with ability to transform you into the next JK Rowling.  The reality is we all publish every single day, submitting an array of media from text and images to audio and video, in the form of tweets, posts and statuses. If you so much as post a comment on social media, you are publishing online. Arguably the most prominent social media platform is Facebook. With over two billion active monthly users , it has rapidly transformed over the past decade or so from a directory of your friends, to a source of news, entertainment and much more. Its success is founded upon the idea that everything is better with friends, as well as several definitive innovations, most famously the News Feed. Once upon a time, Facebook’s New...

The Natural Aggregate is a project that has taken a back seat in recent times. The evidence for the decline is clear, with the last release a single assembled from a shortfilm OST in September 2015, and the only other follow-up to the May 2014 EP being a contribution to the Red.Soul remix EP in December of the same year.                       Although these two satellite releases, which equate to a mere three tracks, do take the opportunity to express some different ideas that came since the EP, nothing has come close to becoming a holistic, coherent body of work. It’s around four years since I began the process of producing the 10,000 Little PopstarsEP . And in the time since its release, I’ve felt the pathetic obligation to release music fall away and in its place, has emerge out-and-out guilt at not following-up this EP effectively. I’ve thought a lot about whe...