Delighted to have discovered the quite incredible work of sound artist, performer and the sad dj Marco Donnaruma scudding into my inbox via those lovely French digi-aesthetes at Digitalarti.com this morning. Doubly delighted to discover that having performed in over 15 countries from Europe via India and the Americas, that Marco is based in Auld Reekie, aka Edinburgh.



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Are you a distraught artist struggling to find just the right touch of sounding intelligent but wary of coming across as too mainstream, is your Artist Statement not incomprehensible enough, do you fear that your allies at the Scottish Arts Council will think you've gone corporate? Then wash away those tears of feigned ennui, fear not oh timid artist and behold the mighty tool to make your project description stand out like a priapic button… Continue

So farewell Click Opera possibly the most widely read, influential blog ever written by a Scotsman.* Nick Currie aka Momus, has ceased to blog. I seriously doubt more than a few of us in Scotland, except for the exalted post-literate, have ever noticed, heard of, or even read Nick's writings, muses, dissertations, cries for thoughtful examination. Instead, so insular has civic enlightened Scotland become, that you can forget minimalist… Continue