Culture
Microtonal explores the endangered tradition of the borindo, bringing together 200 handcrafted instruments, technology and the knowledge of the musicians and craftspeople keeping its legacy alive. We talked about this work with Invisible Flock in this interview
Travel & Food
ChatGPT said: Creative Director of sova Restaurant — an Eastern European wine and vinyl bar in Notting Hill — creates a list of perfect drink-and-music combinations that you’ll love trying for yourself.
Personalities
Best Pizza was created around the idea of reviving the neighbourhood pizzeria. What do you think makes a pizzeria feel like a genuine part of its neighbourhood rather than simply another restaurant? I think a pizzeria feels like part of the neighbourhood, especially when someone who lives in the neighbourhood
Personalities
It’s not spooky season yet, but the ghosts are already back. They’re not here to scare us; instead, they make us reflect on death, grief, and the small, unseen stories of big cities — stories we may not see, but can somehow feel. An interview with Simon Wroe, author of Ghost Month.
Personalities
How does artists react on AI era? What shapes museums in modern technology shift? And how can digital mediums be preserved? We talked about that with Tamar Clark-Brown, arts technologies curator at Serpentine
Personalities
A conversation with Jon Link, co-founder of Modern Toss
Personalities
The range of possibilities music offers for conveying emotions and sensations is constantly expanding. We spoke with composer Benjamin Squires about the process of creating a musical work, his experience in film, and what it’s like to compose a piece inspired by a cruise.
Travel & Food
What is the first dish you remember truly loving? My mum’s rice and curry - which in reality was rice and then 5 or 6 curries and sambols. It is also probably fair to say that it was the leaping off point for everything that eventually became Lury. What ingredient
Travel & Food
We spoke with Ella Williams, chef at No. Forty Nine, about her associations with cooking, food as a language, and the connection between cooking and heritage.
Art
We talked about working with glass, preserving knowledge and skills, and how to collect glass artworks
Personalities
Over the past 18 months, the group has quietly turned into one of Britain’s most unexpected cultural success stories. They gained over 40,000 followers online, performed on BBC Radio 3 (twice), ITV, Channel 5, and more and started appearing everywhere from garden shows to festivals across the UK.
Culture
London, February 1976. Former drama teacher Geoff Travis had left his job, weary of a life spent encouraging students to pretend they were trees and speak from the diaphragm. The UK music charts were boring. Country and western yodeller Slim Whitman’s collection, ‘The Very Best of Slim Whitman’, was