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[joandjulian]

Hi all,

First off...

My wife and I would like to say thank you so much for the gig we attended with our kids in Middlesbrough UK (Matchbox Cabaret Festival, The Waiting Room, August 27th 2012).

Quite amazing show and the time that Jeff spent patiently signing and chatting to our girls (Eva, Ruby & Ellie) was something they still go on about endlessly. We got the posters that Jeff doodled all over with various birthday wishes and the like framed recently and they look lovely. So yeah, big thanks for that.

We would also like to draw attention to a paper we wrote recently that makes some use of the lyrics from 'Time Trades'. We wrote the paper over Dec/Jan 2011/12 but as is the way of these things it's about to be published in the next couple of weeks through the 'Journal of Music Technology and Education'.

The paper is addressing the use of FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) and its attendant philosophies from within live laptop experimental music performance practice (bit of a mouthful, it's honestly not that complex or scary).

The articles titled 'Across the great divide' and the full text is available here:

http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/15006/

The papers abstract is also here to hopefully give a clearer idea of what it's about:

Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) is licensed to allow users the freedom to copy, reuse, study and develop the software. As a term which efficiently encompasses both ‘free software’ and ‘open-source’ models, FLOSS may offer music practitioners and researchers the opportunity to develop and use such software without becoming mired in a particular stance. In this article, parallels between FLOSS and experimental music are explored, with a view to highlighting their compatibility. Through reflection on the recent composition, recording and distribution of three text scores, this article examines how the application of a FLOSS framework may assist with such work in an academic setting and how FLOSS tools might be utilized in such settings in the future as they become more prevalent, more reliable and more stable.

We would be delighted to get some feedback on this and looking forward to the next gig in Hebden Bridge.

And yes, we too decided recently to try and trade more decently:)

Very best wishes,

Jo and Julian