BARCELONA - BERLIN - LISBON - March tour

I'm off on a brisk traipse across Europe -  to chat about hauntology, ArchivFieber, the art of music criticism -  in three wonderful cities. 


BARCELONA - FRIDAY MARCH 22

Sons de la memòria, El Born Centre de Cultura i Memòri

18.30 hrs - Conversation about hauntology with Arnau Horta

More information about Sons de la memòria events, including a live performance by Philip Jeck and Janek Schaeffer on March 23. 

BERLIN - SATURDAY MARCH 23

Find the File, Haus der Kulturen der Welt 

16:30-18:00  "Piles of Files: The Infinite Archive" - panel discussion with Elodie A. Roy,  Pelle Snickars, and Florian Sievers

More information about Find the File events

LISBON - FRIDAY MARCH 29 

MIL - Lisbon International Music Network

10.00 am to 11.30 am - Masterclass: Music Journalism

Main Hall, Palacete do Marqueses de Pombal, Rua das Janelas Verdes, 37, Lisbon

information about the class and about MIL - and a preview interview 

MAY EVENTS:  BERLIN AND ESTONIA

Later this week I’ll be giving a talk in Berlin as part of the Apocalypse Now (And Then) festival. The week after, I’ll be in Tartu, Estonia, to give a talk as part of the Prima Vista literary festival

1/ BERLIN 

Apocalypse Now (And Then): The End of the World in Pop Culture (Thursday 3 May — Saturday 5 May 2012)

My talk - “The Endless End, or, Better To Burn Out Than To Fade Away” - is at 7-30pm, Thursday 3 May. 

It is followed at 9pm by a discussion with myself, Jens Balzer, Falko McKenna and Tobias Rapp.

Apocalypse Now (And Then) is curated by Christoph Gurk and Tobias Rapp. Other festival participants include Greg Tate, Kodwo Eshun, Kode 9, The Caretaker, Diedrich Diederichsen,  Christina Striewski, Jens Balzer, Tracey Rose, Aethenor...

Location:  HAU 1 theatre, Stresemann Strasse 29. Hebbel am Ufer,  10963 Berlin

Telephone +49-(0)30-25900427 and website 

More information 

 2/ TARTU

Prima Vista literary festival (April-May)

I’ll be giving a talk about the concept of space in pop (and unpop) music

Date: Monday May 7th

Time: 4pm

Location: Conference Hall of the Tartu University Library, 1 W. Struve Street, Tartu 50091 

Admission: Free

More information

(The next day I’ll be heading on to Tallinn, and the day after that, making sure to rise at 5-AM so I can see what it looks like at dawn)