Riffs

In the mid-1990s, I was the London Project Co-ordinator for Drake Music, a charity pioneering the use of technology to …

Is it possible to detect the meaning of a song from its sound? And what if the song is written …

Dan Wilson’s lyrics draw attention to the creative and artistic diverse stream of meanings and stories associated with popular music …

For my submission to Riffs Journal, I created a graphic music score for solo voice, using fragments from 12 different pop songs, ranging …

Many beloved or obscure psychedelic songs seem to adopt the image of a bicycle, silently yet persistently recurrent, as a …

The prompt for the second issue of Riffs declares that a song can be about anything. I agree. But should …

For a response to this brief I have composed this short work with three parts. Rather than exploring and extrapolating …

A song can be about anything, and a single song can be about (can mean) many different things to many …

The second issue of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music is out tomorrow – but here’s our front cover to keep you …