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• Simon Hewitt Jones, Violinist

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Dictionary of Simonisms:
cultural trendbase
(k?l‘ ch?r-?l tr?nd b?s )

n.
a constantly-developing array of loosely associated creative ideas that affect issues relating predominantly to the arts or to social culture, some of which may gain critical influence and spread memetically as a result of many simultaneous instances of individual manifestation.
(I may revise […]

What we want to do is to define and document how the profound social changes that have happened as a result of digitalization affect artists and artistic culture.
The thesis in a sentence:
The arts are no longer static offerings passed down from an assumed position of authority. Instead, they are now the starting point for engagement.
The […]

I’m pleased to announce a new side project that isn’t actually in itself a music performance project. It is in fact a manifesto-like set of ideas that I’m putting together in collaboration with Russell Bender, a theatre director (and old friend of mine) from the UK.
We’ve decided to move our work over here to my […]