pplpod delves into the mind-bending life of Keith Albarn (1939-2024), father of Damon Albarn but visionary in his own right—a artist whose work bridged 1960s psychedelic rebellion, architectural innovation, and deep mathematical research. This episode unravels how one man's career transcended the typical boundaries of creative practice, moving from sensory-overload installations like his 1968 Margate psychedelic environments through his pioneering fun palaces to decades of rigorous academic exploration of Islamic geometric patterns. Discover how Albarn's involvement with Soft Machine and his systems art philosophy challenged conventional creativity by asking: what happens when you treat art as mathematics, and mathematics as pure creative possibility? A fascinating study in structure, freedom, and the infinite po ...