Rehearsin' 🖤

Hi! 👋 I'm ACY, a composer from Belfast, and I'm out here making vibey music for cool games and your stereos 💿✨ Here's a bit about what I do Any and all shares greatly appreciated! 💝

One of these days I'll get through my language lesson without somehow ending up talking about funerals for most of it 🤦🏼‍♀️ #SlowlyTurningIntoMyMa

See also: Christmas "break". One rewritten topic down... And just the two papers, an assignment, a research protocol, a HEA application, a meeting agenda, and some conference organisation work to go. 🤦🏼‍♀️ (@phdcomics.com)

Day job closed for the break (well, emails at least). It's times like this that I don't miss working in a hospital... thisshipargo.bandcamp.com/track/what-a...

Most played on our Bandcamp today - @thisshipargo.bsky.social song. Comparisons to Broadcast abound. iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/this-s...

Finally was bothered to put that Medard and Nicholas demo onto streaming too. More experimental than the other bits, but fun to make the sea through a synth biggest streaming platform link: open.spotify.com/album/2iCCPB... Obvs available on others, which I would encourage you to switch to ASAP

Finally was bothered to put that Medard and Nicholas demo onto streaming too. More experimental than the other bits, but fun to make the sea through a synth biggest streaming platform link: open.spotify.com/album/2iCCPB... Obvs available on others, which I would encourage you to switch to ASAP

Here are some of my suggestions 1/1 @thisshipargo.bsky.social @skyjellymusic.bsky.social William Carlos Whitten / Bill Whitten (cc @thirdkindrecords.bsky.social) Odd Person / @atraeger.bsky.social (cc @ingrownrecords.bsky.social)

Most played on our Bandcamp today - "Why Are You Like This" by @thisshipargo.bsky.social iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/this-s...

ICYMI 6-track preview of our upcoming digital sampler! Featuring @thisshipargo.bsky.social Mike Honcho / @onthehonches.bsky.social @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com Ye Gods / @maiovvi.bsky.social @vardamanens.bsky.social and @nicholasburgess.bsky.social iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/2025-s...

ICYMI 5-track preview of our upcoming digital sampler! Feat. @thisshipargo.bsky.social @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com @onthehonches.bsky.social @maiovvi.bsky.social and @nicholasburgess.bsky.social / Rainy Maple Sugar Candy-Spaghetti (@saplingband.com) iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/2025-s...

Another preview of our upcoming annual sampler! Why Are You Like This by @thisshipargo.bsky.social iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/this-s...

Proposing an alt-LinkedIn for people who have no intention of trying to prove they're amazing which rewards standard behaviour likes "fought the urge to reply sarcastically", "made a really great cup of tea" and "managed to remember to update the Tesco delivery before the change window closed".

Bust out laughing at this as I just spent an hour explaining Ireland/Northern Ireland/The Troubles whilst traumatising my Korean teacher with talk of bombs, bombscares and evacuations and trying to explain why English policemen wearing those *stupid* hats was so hilarious when I moved to Liverpool

Found an old song down the back of the sofa, made for a comp that wasn't released. Original files are lost to hard drive death, so here's a dodgy-vocals, truly unpolished version instead. Proceed with caution ☠️ This Ship Argo - Medard and Nicholas (demo) #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/HIyl9Iii9PeL...

The soundtrack to "Our Movie" is really something else and I'm only half way through episode 1 🖤

Please, gig-goers. I am so sick of being forced to watch gigs through other peoples' phones, held above their heads. Please put them away and just watch with your own eyeballs: I promise you'll have more fun and you won't block the view of *everyone* behind you 😭

Happy to report I'm now *DONE* with my PhD on learning from failure through interactive fiction, and it's up online! :) :) doi.org/10.17635/lan...

Soooooo many #BTSArmy around for #RunSeokJin in #London today and tomorrow. I love it 💜💜

"I wonder what "Gwi Ma" actually means in K Pop Demon Hunters? ... ..... ..... OFC IT DOES.

PhD viva done and dusted and all but like, can someone tell my sleeping brain that? I've had a recurring nightmare every night since about forgetting to go, and being wildly unprepared then waking up terrified that I just *thought* it had happened. Like, it's *over*. Get OVER IT, BRAIN. JFC

In an airport. Had some good and just finishing up my pint. American family - 2 adults, elderly woman in a wheelchair - looking for a table.

One of the comments my PhD supervisor made was that I use the word "whilst" more than anyone he's ever known. I removed a bunch before submission but just did a final "whilst" tally as I prep for my viva: 130. And that's with a load *removed. 😂

@meerium.bsky.social and I seem to have accidentally become avid fans of weightlifting and Strongman competitions whilst on holiday...

Fully equipped now to tell someone their outfit makes them look like a snail on my next visit to Korea. #ttmik #seyo

John Field's Nocturne no5 in B flat Major opening the last episode of "Heavenly Ever After" may be redeeming it a little before the episode even starts. My favorite ever piece from my piano exams, fittingly soundtracking a (fake) evenr for a book titled "The Weight of Memory" = 🖤

I have this as an earworm today, so you need to have it too. youtu.be/45NOP1OA-EQ?...

Junk Drawer, once more killing it Stevie, you're wasted behind the camera. more of this. MORE!!!! youtu.be/bi50Gv8FeUI?...

Ah, 'tis the season to hear the sound of flutes and Lambegs gradually intensifying to destroy your peace. And of cars causing chaos on normally quiet back roads because of diversions. Brought to you by the same people who give out about the noise when you mow the lawn on a Sunday.

Movie/film people: I'm trying to find a quote I once read that was something along the lines of "the characters in horror movies don't know they're characters", as a way of explaining why they do things viewers think is stupid. Does anyone know the quote I mean and can point me towards it?!

A terrible joke, but a great time. #puttingthebandbacktogether

#KDrama advertising that backfires: Kopiko sweets. I have never wanted to eat anything less than that at this point. Sweet baby Jesus.

Everyone else: look at kang tae oh 😍 Me: look at the potato 😍

My toxic trait is believing - every single time - that I can edit a whole thesis chapter in a single day. I... Cannot.

The #PirateYakuzaInHawaii credits are something else (@_@;)

Is anyone playing #yakuzaPiratesInHawaii? Because I just completed recruiting the Minato girls and wtaf 😂

Capital I introvert achieving lifelong nightmare of becoming capital E introvert outside reality.

Specifically odd request: Anyone know where I can get an Ableton-friendly Yanggeum (양금) plugin?! The National Gugak Centre one I found doesn't appear to be available for download/general use...

I keep having dreams about not checking the pharmacy dispensary rota in work and just not turning up for months on end. I haven't worked in a dispensary in 8 years.

The last few hours of waiting for January payday...

Just realized I missed all the albums' birthdays the other day! Dammit, I knew 22nd January meant something... Happy 5th 💛💔 Kintsugi Happy 4th 🐝🙅‍♂️🍯 Always the Bees: Never the Honey And happy 2nd 🌷💥🎇 Flowers, Sparks, Fireworks! All available here thisshipargo.bandcamp.com (&streaming etc etc)

Took a quick PhD break this evening. No mics, no synthes hooked up hooked up, but sure isn't mixing fun when that's all you can do?! 😂

Getting an emergency alert for the weather like I'm back in South Korea wuuuuut

Someone yesterday said the phrase "if it walks like a duck and smells like a duck..." to me. *Smells* like a duck? *SMELLS*?

Serendipitous streak of sunlight across the mantel

Hit me with your recommendations for good music to write to that won't distract me (like how I started listening to Múm again and just lost interest in working), is upbeat enough to motivate me to keep going without making me want to have a wee bop, and that I won't want to sing along to. GO GO GO

Spent 20 minutes explaining the concept of referencing and citations to my mother just now, and what I meant when I said "my thesis will be in the library, but not as a printed book"

My most listened album of 2024, I reckon. Many people have been won over by it this year... open.spotify.com/album/512dQp...

Me on my own vs. me when I'm out with friends #BadPhDWritingJokes