BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//360exp//Calendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:360exp REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9cae7f91-8c95-4fc7-9d14-0fa893212be4@360exp.net SEQUENCE:29842523 DTSTAMP:20260928T055809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260927T232315Z DTSTART:20261113T193000Z DTEND:20261113T230000Z SUMMARY:Emma-Jean Thackray: Dear Miles - A Love Letter LOCATION:EartH DESCRIPTION:This event will take place in EartH Theatre.\n\nDear Miles\,\n \nI discovered you by accident. As a naive thirteen year old I came across a track by mistake\, not knowing your genius\, not knowing how that one m oment changed the trajectory of my life.\n\nI was learning a brass band so lo piece\, Concerto de Aranjuez\, and found your version on an illegal dow nload site. “Who is this Miles Davis guy?” I asked. No-one in my pro vincial orbit knew your name\, so I assumed you were just some guy\, and t hat I discovered you. After that I looked for you in CD shops\, piecing to gether bits of pocket money to buy your work and playing it on the Discman in my hoodie on the long walk home because I could no longer afford the b us.\n\nI learnt the melody and solo of Four on my trumpet by ear because i t stood out to me\, not knowing it was an important part of the great Amer ican songbook\, and not knowing I was already immersing myself in jazz tra ining. I was already starting to write my own music\, my own words\, but y ou blew everything wide open and showed me a whole world of music that I h adn’t known. You made me want to play jazz. You made me realise I was an artist. I wasn’t just inspired by you\, I studied you - and not just th e notes but you. How you had one ear on the notes you played and your othe r ear on the whole thing\, the aesthetic\, the production\, the vibe. This is how I work\, too - splitting my brain to inhabit many roles at once. N ot just a musician but a bandleader\, a producer\, an auteur. \n\nYou pus hed boundaries\, didn’t let anyone tell you what to do\, but followed yo ur own ear. Some people dug it\, some people took a minute\, some people n ever caught up. The most important thing was your own artistic integrity b ecause that was everything to you\, and I took that to heart. That’s the most important thing to me\, too. I don’t care if everybody's into what I do or not\; the right people will listen. What I do comes from deep wit hin\, maybe even from somewhere else\, but it’s like air\, it’s my pur pose. I recognise that in both of us.\n\nWhat would you be doing today if you were still here? I truly have no idea\, but I know you wouldn’t be s tanding still\, you’d be doing something groundbreaking and mixing thing s that people had previously thought shouldn’t be mixed to make somethin g new. Would there be dance music textures? Drum and Bass\, Jungle\, or Te chno underpinning improvisation? Blending modern groove with jazz harmony? Drum machines together with live instruments? Would you revisit your clas sic tunes and make them anew with the ear of a beat maker? Would you make the electric period actually electronic?\n\nI don’t know what you’d be doing\, but it doesn’t matter because I’m going to do that for you... \n\nFor more information on access at EartH\, please see our FAQs here: ht tps://bit.ly/44dzl75 or contact us at access@earthackney.co.uk\n\nEartH is a social enterprise committed to supporting new musicians\, with music st udios in the venue that are completely free for young artists to use. When you attend a show in EartH Theatre\, head to the back of the space to ren t a cushion for just £2. Not only will you get to sit more comfortably\, but all proceeds go towards funding Studio 36. Find out more here: https:/ /earthackney.co.uk/about/studio-36/\n\nBoletos: https://dice.fm/event/eoyq wy-emma-jean-thackray-dear-miles-a-love-letter-13th-nov-earth-london-ticke ts URL;VALUE=URI:https://360exp.net/events/9cae7f91-8c95-4fc7-9d14-0fa893212be 4 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR