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Class War, Noise and Carnival in Sao Paulo

February 9th, 2010 · No Comments

This weekend i was fascinated to read reports in the Folha about an apparent manifestation of class war in Sao Paulo. The site for this contest is the noise made by samba schools. Carlos Costa, one of the original founders of a centrally located school argued that “these people from higher social classes don’t like [...]

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The Art of Listening

December 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Earlier in the week i was lucky enough to be invited to go meet the people at Full Jazz here in Sao Paulo. A huge thanks to Christina Carvalho Pinto and her team for their time, their thoughts and for LISTENING to my thoughts. I very nearly embaressed myself by not realising that they have [...]

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