[Glice]

Something that I've been thinking about a lot lately is architecture. As an improvising musician, I've come to realise that the space is really important. I've played quite a few gigs in shitty rock dives and it's only recently I noticed that it affects my playing quite badly. I played in a gallery recently where the promoter put loads of effort into getting projections and the aesthetics of the stage as right as possible, and it made for a much more interesting, enjoyable gig. I'm playing in a disused toilet on the weekend, and I'm really excited about that - more than I would be playing to a more 'conventional' (and bigger) audience. The acoustic is utterly beautiful in there.

But yeah, more generally I find books about architecture to be much more enjoyable than most other sorts of art books. I tend to think that gallery art doesn't really work in brochure form, and there's a limit to how many IRL exhibitions I can get to. Luckily, the local library has a fairly large architecture section.