Twitter is a visual medium

Twitter, the micro-blogging site famous for its brevity and the punchy attitude of many of its cohort, is often at it’s best as a visual distribution system. Ignoring the character limitations, it’s artists and poets fuse image and words into sparkling captions that liberate emotion and a trigger the affective response of followers. Friendships form […]

Twitter is a visual medium

Losing my religion

Do you let social media accounts whither and die, or should you make a proclamation and strike your accounts dead? What effects the system more, or does any action have minimal effect. Do you transfer from active to shadow profile? Does Amazon continue to sell you nappies and wet wipes long after your toddler passes […]

Losing my religion

I.C.E.

A broken ankle and a series of changes to the University department I have been part of for the best part of the last decade have triggered thoughts of personal productivity. I am easily distracted. In the period since I finished the doctorate, I have produced a series of recordings, mainly extended singles, with three […]

I.C.E.

1948 and all that

Over the last month or so, I have had the great pleasure to curate the music for a conference hosted by Prof Janice Winship for the School of Media, Film, and Music, University of Sussex. Focusing on the last seventy years of the United Kingdom, this was a conference that looked back at the era […]

1948 and all that

A Quiet Hello

Welcome to blog and archive of ruse glasson. This will become the home for everything: digital music archive, images and film, thesis and future writing. There will be a book in due course, and my thesis will be available in ePub and pdf formats. Finally, this will be a scratchpad, so some of the ideas […]

A Quiet Hello