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Gatekeeper perceptions on adopting environmentally sound Information and Communication Technology enhanced live performances to improve the sustainability of music festivals.
Get PDFThis paper considers perceptions of sustainability, ICT enhanced performances, authenticity, COVID-19 and performance futures in relation to digital content for use on-site and off-site at music festivals/events. It responds to the UN Sustainable Development Goal 9 - Industries, Innovation & Infrastructure. The research analyses existing literature to inform a dialogue music festival organisers, consultants and performers. It addresses the thesis that: Industry gatekeepers’ opinions on the authenticity of environmentally sound ICT generated live content will influence it’s adoption at music festivals.
Primary research was carried out using purposive sampling of 50 live music industry professionals to collect and interpret expert empirical evidence through informed narrative. Using a mixed methods approach, respondents completed a structured e-mail questionnaire comprising closed questions, a five-point Likert scale and additional qualitative open questions.
Predominantly positive quantitative responses relating to the live music industry’s role in advocating sustainability contrasted with negative responses to virtual festivals. Responses adopting and rejecting environmentally sound ICT for live content were evident in qualitative results, with significant proportions of undecided or uncertain respondents. The prevalence of postponement and rejection responses around authenticity may prevent adoption at some music festivals.
The limitations of this research include the relatively small sample size and limited scope in terms of artform.
The ‘snapshot’ of digital aspects of sustainability at music festivals within this research is of particular value due to the paucity of research in this area, rapid change in virtual music festival provision prompted by COVID-19 and its narrative from varied industry professionals. The paper makes recommendations to artists, music festival organisers, consultants, academics and public funders; to attempt to advance sustainability
Reconfiguring an Established Wine Tourism Destination: A Dynamic Capabilities Approach
Get PDFThis study examines how an established wine tourism subarea continues to adapt to an increasingly competitive wine tourism destination market from the perspective of wineries in Spain’s Rioja Alta subarea. Furthermore, aligned with the chosen inductive approach, the study develops a reflective model through considering the dynamic capabilities approach as a theoretical foundation to examine the various dimensions affecting wine tourism. Semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with predominantly winery managers, on-site observations were conducted. In addition, wineries’ archival information was examined. Strong alignment between wineries’ strategies and reconfiguration/transformation were revealed. This dynamic capabilities-related cluster was manifested through “customisation,” where wineries offered unique product/service elements, thereby adding value to the winery visitation. The developed model highlights important implications for the long-term competitiveness of a region’s wine tourism
Better the Devil You Know
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Fractured and Elliptical Sensibilities: An interview with Steve Taylor
Get PDFThis interview contextualises the work of Steve Taylor, within and without the Christian music industry, as solo musician, band member, producer, video artist and film-maker. The discussion touches upon faith, satire, performance, controversy, the music business, influences and the craft of songwriting
William Knox, the only Black supervisor in the Manhattan Project
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A material future for fusion?
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Formula 1: 5 exciting new technologies for the 2022 racing season
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Creativity Begins With You
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Can creativity be 'taught'? Or is it simply innate? This book will help you find your creativity through your own unique identity and experience, challenging you to fight those negative voices, get out of your habitual comfort zones and - most importantly - play. Part practical workshop and part provocative guide, Creativity Begins With You is an invaluable companion for any student working across the creative disciplines
Machines Dreams & Fabulations: On Time After Time & The Wild Ones
Get PDFThis essay was written to accompany an exhibition entitled Time After Time & The Wild Ones by Nick Berkeley, Bridport Art Centre, Dorset, October 2022. It concerns two series of Berkeley's work: Time After Time, involving the printing of found images made with a slit-scan camera, and The Wild Ones, a suite of C-Type photographic prints of found images captured from low-quality online video content. The essay places these photographic projects in relation to recent and current discourses on so-called 'operational images', discussing how they work through careful and strategic displacements, the confounding of expectations, and the mobilising of the viewer's faculties of non-conscious cognition