IIIStudio
A second pair of eyes, a second pair of hands.
Photography, music, and historical dance. Three disciplines that share the same instinct: pay attention to structure, then inhabit it.
Photography
I photograph because the world rewards careful looking. One of my images, taken inside SLAC during a 2015 photowalk, was among the winners of Stanford's competition that year. Since I had entered no other photography competitions before or since, this gives me a 100% career success rate in the medium.
The full archive is on Flickr; a selection follows below.
Music
I am a working pianist. Music is, for me, the closest cousin of metascience: a notation, a structure, a body of work transmitted through centuries.
I serve on the Council of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians — one of Scotland's oldest and most respected musical institutions, founded in 1884. The Society maintains a beautiful Georgian concert room in Edinburgh's New Town, runs a regular programme of recitals and chamber music, and hosts a community of professional and amateur musicians who keep the practice of live performance alive.
A short list of repertoire, recordings, and forthcoming concert dates will appear here in due course.
Historical dance
A more recent obsession. I dance the Renaissance balli of Caroso and Negri, baroque court forms after Beauchamp-Feuillet notation, and the English country dances first set down by Playford in The English Dancing Master (1651). It is an unexpectedly rigorous practice, half archive and half body — and it scratches exactly the same itch as the rest: a structure to read, and a structure to inhabit.
A proper archive of figures, sources, and recordings is in preparation.
