Simon Barber implodes in self-referential internet vortex

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Academics in convoluted debate shocker

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As academics, we are constantly asking questions about the work we are doing. Here, photographer Mike Jackson, a frequent contributor to justlikejazz.org over the course of the past two days, picked up a camera and made us part of the unfolding narratives of this festival experience.

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Jez continues to be amazed by the technology

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Interview with Michael Janisch

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The live blogging command center

We've been at it for eleven hours or so and still going strong. Such a wonderful atmosphere here at Scarborough Jazz and the performers, staff and audience members have all been so willing to contribute to make this experiment successful.

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Camaraderie and openness at The Scarborough Jazz Festival

It's beginning to get late at the Scarborough Jazz Festival. It's only the first day and I haven't really heard that much music yet. This is not because I'm disinterested but that there is so much material coming into us here at what we've called the Stagedoor that we are running just to keep up to date to make sure we capture and then upload the videos, photos, interviews, reviews and everything else inbetween.

But what I really wanted to say was that I think Tim, Dubber, Simon and I have been bowled over by the friendliness and sense of camaraderie we've encountered with other people working with and for the organisers Mike and Marian. The staff at Scarborough Spa Hall, Stuart, John and Hannah have gone out of their way to make sure we get backstage and speak to the musicians; William Ellis and Mike Jackson, outstanding photographers have been wonderful by allowing us to put their photos on this site and some of the bands have provided us with their music.

We hope we are providing you with a sense of what the festival is like and that you get a sense that music is not all about protecting what you've got and just about making money. It is about shared experiences, collaborations based on trust and mutual understanding, about a love of music, about Music As Culture. 
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The Just Like Jazz team demonstrate their website to Kyle Eastwood

All images © Mike Jackson 2009  
http://www.mjimagery.com

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Backstage with Kyle Eastwood

I managed to get backstage after the Kyle Eastwood Band had finished. Tim managed to grab a couple of minutes with Kyle while I snapped a few photographs of the band and Kyle coming off stage and talking to a few people. Luckily for me, William Ellis was around to take some proper photographs and record Kyle's appearance at the Scarborough Festival.

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Candid shots of the Just Like Jazz team at work

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The BCU team arrives in Scarborough

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Explore the festival
About 'Just Like Jazz'

'Just Like Jazz' is a collaborative project between Interactive Cultures, a research unit at Birmingham City University, and the Scarborough Jazz Festival. We're media academics who happen to be jazz fans and we're working with the Scarborough Jazz Festival to explore the ways in which jazz festivals can be portrayed online.

Rather than creating a brochure website around the festival, or simply filming the festival and putting that online, our goal is to capture the spirit of the festival using a range of techniques such as photography, text and handheld, personal digital video. We have given small, cheap, portable video cameras to select audience members, musicians, backstage staff and the festival organisers and asked them to capture whatever they think is interesting: the buzz of the audience, the surrounding environment, snippets of the music performed, and any discussions that take place around jazz.

The Just Like Jazz team
Left to right: Prof Tim Wall, Andrew Dubber, Dr Simon Barber, Jez Collins.

We're gathering together all of this video, photography and text from our contributors and publishing it live on this website as the festival happens. We're also tagging the content in order to experiment with the ways in which the characters and stories that are captured can be navigated by you, the visitor. This process gives audiences the opportunity to experience the festival in their own way and makes the event accessible to those who may wish to attend the festival in future years, or who may never have considered visiting a jazz festival at all.

Although we've worked on projects like this before, with Aftershock in Italy and with the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, we don't have a fixed idea of what we're going to end up with. We're working with a loose structure and quite a lot of improvisation - in a way, it's just like jazz.

Do come and say hello if you see us around. We hope you enjoy exploring the festival online with us,

Tim, Andrew, Simon and Jez.
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