Solareye at Sonica 2022 - Live Performance at sonic visual arts festival
Exhibition / Performance
Hook, D. (2022)
Solareye at Sonica 2022 - Live Performance at sonic visual arts festival. [Live Performance]. 11 March 2022. (Unpublished
Just as the Covid crisis first hit the UK, Solareye – aka SAMA-winning, Stanley Odd frontman Dave Hook – was putting the finishing touches to a new set of solo works, imaginin...
'Kids rock Akademiks but they're not academic': hip-hop, academia and the liminal spaces between
Presentation / Conference
Hook, D. (2022, January)
'Kids rock Akademiks but they're not academic': hip-hop, academia and the liminal spaces between. Paper presented at PANTHEON: Hip-Hop’s Global Pathways to Cultural “Legitimacy” (European Hip-Hop Studies Network Meeting), Paris, France
Presenting a ra/p/aper, demonstrating and arguing that hip-hop practice is hip-hop studies. Building on AD Carson’s artist-research in the form of mixtap/e/ssays (Carson, 2020...
Ground Control and Cloud Booths: Using Dante to break geographical barriers to music production
Book Chapter
Ferguson, P., & Hook, D. (2021)
Ground Control and Cloud Booths: Using Dante to break geographical barriers to music production. In R. Hepworth-Sawyer, R. Toulson, & J. Paterson (Eds.), Innovation in Music: Future Opportunities (89-105). Abingdon: Routledge
In January 2013 the authors became early adopters of Focusrite RedNet. The RedNet Dante-based audio-over-IP interfaces gave their studios and performance areas very flexible c...
Interview with Bella Caledonia
Presentation / Conference
Hook, D. (2020, November)
Interview with Bella Caledonia. Presented at Bella Chats
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2020/11/26/bella-chats-solareye/
Scotland's Surging Hip-Hop And Grime Scene
Presentation / Conference
Hook, D. (2020, October)
Scotland's Surging Hip-Hop And Grime Scene. Presented at Dumfries Music Conference, Dumfries [Online]
An artist-led panel looking at current sounds, and trends emerging in Scotland and how the scene is attracting national recognition.
All These People Are Me
Physical Artefact
Hook, D., Samson, A., & Duffy, D. All These People Are Me)
Hook, D., Samson, A., & Duffy, D. All These People Are Me
‘All These People Are Me’ is a 14-track album concerned with identity, expression and contradiction.
The aim in creating the album was to attempt to portray the writer as an ...
An autoethnography of Scottish hip-hop: social commentary, outsiderdom , locality and authenticity
Presentation / Conference
Hook, D. (2016, June)
An autoethnography of Scottish hip-hop: social commentary, outsiderdom , locality and authenticity. Paper presented at It Ain't Where You're From, It's Where You're At: International Hip-Hop Studies Conference
Hip-hop’s export, practise, appropriation and reuse can be found in cultures around the globe from Aborigines in Australia, to Palestinian hip-hop in the Middle East. While a ...