this is rather fun - got interviewed for a bass podcast but delved into all kinds of music economy/industry/creative practice/audience studies stuff: 90-odd minutes of me running my mouth 😃
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEchYDpD_So
Make The Music The Thing: Steve Lawson on Art, Audience & Authenticity
today's the 28th anniversary of my launching a website, so I wrote a blog thing about it, looking a little at the history of blogs and algorithms...
https://www.stevelawson.net/2026/04/28th-anniversary-of-this-website-now-updated
28th Anniversary of This Website, Now Updated!
Using the anniversary of the start of my website as an excuse for a bit of a history lesson in websites, blogging and algorithms. I suspect this is part 1 of a series ;) Today (April 20th) is the 28th anniversary of me starting my website: As you can see here...
What Does It Mean To Do Your Own Thing?
Light and Shade High and Low Fast And Slow Loud and Soft Harsh and Mellow Tension and Resolution Inside and Outside Sound and Silence ...the spread of options can be seen both in a micro and macro senses. It's OK (caveat - of course, anything's OK, it's your creative practice here...
put the whole of my Bruno Mars Marry You reharm on YouTube, largely to see if they take it down or not 😂
Enjoy! I'm pretty proud of this, tells a whole other story with exactly the same vocal recording (pitch shifted and slowed, but otherwise, the original track)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXgTJxNfmi8
Steve Lawson - Marry You (Bruno Mars reharm)
Digging through my PhD notes for ideas that might be useful. Here's a little thing on the distinction between "user generated content" and what I've called "community originating context" :
https://www.stevelawson.net/2026/01/from-ugc-to-community-originating-context/
From UGC to Community Originating Context
Alongside putting my longer Facebook posts on here this year, I'm also going to dig into the notes I took during my PhD and share any insights that might be hidden in there.
Happy New Year, friends. 2025 has been a complex year of a few highs coupled with a whole lot of soul searching and uncertainty. Here's hoping that some of those things find their joyful resolution in 2026, alongside a whole lot of music making, teaching, writing and working what on earth to do with this PhD 😂
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Spending NYE solo, catching up with a few friends far away and working on my New Year's Evolution plans. 💜
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Mike Smale
