HAPTIC: AMBIVALENCE 2005-2025 wrap up. Departure / there / music / return. A huge thanks to all the musicians we performed with (Tim Daisy, Rose Pearl, @sethcooke.bsky.social, @sarah-hughes.bsky.social, Mark Wastell, Linda Jankowska), the venues, and to all those who attended.

Haptic's UK tour starts tomorrow in Leeds. I'm playing with them in Brighton on Friday. Read more @thequietus.com thequietus.com/news/the-dep...

Excited to play with Haptic next month. Their first UK tour and my first post-Covid outing (yes, it has been that long). hapticmusic.bandcamp.com/music

Coming out of retirement to promote the Bristol date of Haptic's first tour outside of North America - with Kathy Hinde, and An unnecessarily justified with. Given how long it's been I'm wondering whether they've changed a bunch of stuff. @josephclaytonmills.bsky.social @josiehypatia.bsky.social

Thrilled to be playing at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social on 7th October, in support of Haptic + Mark Wastell. Link contains a new artist bio, which may become the new artist bio, which is the closest I'm likely to come to doing things properly for a while. www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/hapti...

I’m playing a gig for @free-music-lessons.bsky.social at wharf chambers in leeds on the 2nd october. Alongside HAPTIC ( @stevenhess.bsky.social ) and THOMAS CARROLL ( @snufkin.bsky.social ) more info: snufk.in/free-music-l...

I'm co-convening a conference in October focusing on cross-disciplinary approaches to walking practices, land use, and future-thinking. www.westdean.ac.uk/events/count...

Updated: sarahhughes.info

Eden Lonsdale's 'Dawnings' #nowplaying anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/dawnings

Tonight! 'Mute Teachers' played by Distractfold @cafeotodalston.bsky.social

We’re thrilled to reveal the opening weekend of hcmf// 2025 (21–23 Nov): a packed programme of premieres + bold new work from Bryn Harrison, @sarahhennies.bsky.social, Christian Marclay, Mingo Rajandi + more. More info: tinyurl.com/2vf3kj6n

Next week @cafeotodalston.bsky.social www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/distr...

Announcing Sarah Hennies as hcmf// 2025 Composer in Residence! Her powerful, boundary-pushing work explores identity, embodiment & queerness — a perfect fit for hcmf//'s bold programme. Explore more about Sarah’s pieces at hcmf// 2025 — link in bio! Photo credit: mara baldwin #hcmf2025

Coming up @cafeotodalston.bsky.social in July.

Chichester Pride 🏳️‍🌈 #pride #ally

I'm not a Springsteen fan but am behind anyone who opens a tour with "America...is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy...to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring!”

#nowplaying Jurg Frey's Voices. It's totally brilliant.

Solidarity with all trans and nonbinary people. Yesterday's ruling will make lives harder and put rights further at risk.

#nowplaying 'View' by Steve Roden steveroden.bandcamp.com/album/view

what exactly has to happen before you people will stop using spotify?

The stool is finished! It's a collaboration with furniture maker Daniel Pateman, reworking an organ stool from a church in Lullington that has been adapted to tilt the seat toward the keyboard. Here, the stool has been further adapted to reflect the musicality of the surrounding landscape #organ

Organ Stool (Adapted for Use) in progress, a collaboration with furniture maker Daniel Pateman.

Speechless Intimacy (2023)

Trying to write the sound of a chord being carved out by erosion.

Reminded of what a joy it was to play Antoine Beuger's Ockeghem Octets today. Recorded by Simon Reynell at his mum's house with Ryoko Akama, Seamus Cater, Kate Halsall, Ecka Mordecai, Harriet Richardson, Leo Svirsky, and Kathryn Williams, 2019. anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/Ockegh...

#nowplaying clarinet (& piano) anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/clarin...

Going through old stuff and I found this poster. Def ripped from the venue wall 😂

I'm making an organ stool with furniture maker, Daniel Pateman. Taking as its starting point a church stool which has been adjusted to tilt the seat toward the keyboard, we've further adapted the design to reflect the surrounding landscape - dip slopes, combes, windswept hazel...

#nowplaying 90 Day Men ninetydaymen.bandcamp.com/album/we-bla...

#nowreading The Box Man by Kōbō Abe. It has some excellent descriptions of sound..."like that of a wet trouser snapped by an umbrella handle".

And the Oscar goes to... Daniel Blumberg's score for The Brutalist featuring John Tilbury (piano), Axel Dörner (trumpet), Evan Parker (saxophone), Vince Clark, Pierre Borel (saxophone), Simon Sieger (piano), Joel Grip (bass) and Antonin Gerbal (drums). Special mention @cafeotodalston.bsky.social

Reminder that a week today Mary Hampton plays her first London show in years & years doing a support at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social. She's pure magic. Don't miss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs2w...

Flood defences in Bosham

Back to it.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... @theguardian.com 1. I come from a working class background and a lot of this is very familiar... impostor syndrome, balancing full-time work, no parental safety net, the bureaucracy of funding applications, etc.

Say what it is, not: gesture; controversial gesture; hand gesture; salute; an extended arm to the side; awkward hand gesture; questionable salute; apparent Nazi salute; mock Nazi salute; gesture resembling Nazi salute; alleged Nazi salute...

Originally published by Compost and Height* @sethcooke.bsky.social has rereleased The Light and Dark Arches as twenty 1-minute video clips. The revised edition, LūDō, was recorded in 2012 using the AI audio editing tool on Google Pixel. *Compost and Height is currently archived.

I'll be hosting an online talk by Glenn Adamson next week. 'Flow States: Rhythm and Rhyme in Textile Art' Wednesday 26 February, 5.30-6.30pm (UK time) tinyurl.com/mr89kxzb

My interview with David Lynch - where we talk about his ideas and film techniques - is back on the BBC after nearly 25 years. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

#nowplaying Bamya ‘Jolly Little Rococco Death March’ glarc.bandcamp.com/album/Jolly-...

For anyone at a loose end this afternoon in Dublin, this is what I'll be doing: projectartscentre.ie/events/elian...

#nowplaying Jürg Frey 'Longing Landscape' @juergfrey.bsky.social anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/longin...

I've changed my email address, ditched Instagram, and am using a different search engine. I'm now reflecting on why I didn't do this before. Aligning your digital footprint with your moral code is worth the hassle.

Realising how entangled Google is with everything when you try to stop using it. I do now have a new email. [email protected]

#nowplaying Michael Gregory Jackson 'Frequency Equilibrium Koan' @movedbysound.bsky.social

Rhodri Davies – Four-Day Residency 17–20 March 2025 www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/rhodri-davies-four-day-residency/

#nowplaying Mary Hampton maryhampton1.bandcamp.com/album/my-mot... playing live in London @cafeotodalston.bsky.social for the first time in a long while, 10 March. @babayagashut.bsky.social