My friend Moira made me a white chocolate birthday brain 😂

Cannot believe I have this on my wall. A score of John Cage’s, signed by John Cage. One of the most generous gifts I have ever received! Thank you Andrew Toovey, I will never forget this and I will treasure it for the rest of my life 🥹

I think I’ll get this framed 🥹

The names of the 75 composers who contributed a bar to "I Hate Suitcases" for piano, darts and caller. We performed it on the 8th September and now hope it will be taken up by others! drive.google.com/file/d/1Slgc... [Composers, if you spot an issue with your name/bar, let me know and I will fix]

absolutely thrilled to be turning 40 on Monday

"For Samuel Beckett" was premiered at Heath Street Baptist Church across the last weekend in August by organist Kat Farn who played for a total of nineteen hours! There are no appropriately grandiose words to describe how grateful I am to her for taking on this enormous monster!

Can you share this? 🥹 buytickets.at/heathstreeta...

Name a single composer that does not look exactly like this, I’ll wait.

I remember when I first learned that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness and just thinking how wild that was!

I no longer wish to be known as a composer, from this day on please refer to me only as a soundshitter.

If you don’t have a David Shrigley bookmark, do you even read bro?

Organist Extraordinaire Katia Farn talking about the organ she will play For Samuel Beckett on, alongside her own journey and experiences and how to approach such a long composition 🫠

When you start a new novel and there’s a sentence which ignites in you the feeling that the author: 1) knows exactly what they’re doing 2) has written the book just for you Would love to hear your own examples of this!

I was interviewed about "For Samuel Beckett" and the compositional process that led to it.

Hope you enjoy the part at the end where I get overrun with hundreds of puppies and kittens ^_^

- will I be able to play the piano after this? 🥺 - yes! Definitely! 😊 - great, because I couldn’t before! 😀 - you… you said you were a piano teacher 😕 - please don’t spoil my joke 🤨

Rosie and Jim shortly after seeing some serious shit go down

I've identified the places in the UK that cause the most treble and need to give it a rest.

Portraits of the composer as a youngish man

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Throwback to when I had run out of ideas for graphic scores so just chewed the edges for five minutes

Most of the crazy music I write never gets performed but ever so occasionally I meet fellow crazies... In six weeks time the fearless Kat Farn will perform "For Samuel Beckett" which is, as far as we know, the world's longest organ composition (fully notated and played by a human!)

This card from a student 👌🏻

Debussy said that music is the space between the notes. Good luck with that...

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performed by Sarah Parkin and Dominic Irving

I made this with baby fireworks and a hammer, it was super loud and my neighbours have formed a new WhatsApp group without me 😋

Threw a few hundred baby fireworks at a piece of manuscript paper on my bathroom floor then drew around the marks

30 seconds of my new arrangement of Rod Stewart's "I Am Sailing" which goes from crotchet 1 to crotchet 500 in half an hour! clickity click here for the whole thing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TpT...

Do my new glasses make me look plain? 🥺 (Artwork by Michael Coppelov)

I took the title (Something In Pink Nylon Flutters At Him From A Bedroom Window) from "Secret Lives" by Siân Hughes Something in pink nylon flutters at him from a bedroom window. He twirls his cord to beckon her outside. FULL PIECE www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpbA...

www.bcu.ac.uk/.../eve.../c... Birmingham Conservatoire, 3:30 today! Kate Ledger playing pieces by Howard Skempton, Luke Deane, Michael Wolters, Linda Catlin Smith, Christopher Fox and my piece ACT UP, a transcription/translation of a Larry Kramer speech where Kate will play as if she's speaking it.

I make this sound when you tell me one of my compositions is too long

My friend Keith Burstein sketched me in chalk on a table in the French Institute café 😃

After Marc Chan (2008) by Matthew Lee Knowles, performed by Michael Finnissy

Made 50 new graphic scores to give away to anyone who comes to my gig tonight ☺️

196 bars, 196 metronome marks You'll Sink Like A Stone crotales, tubular bells, piano + viola (yes the title is a pun) Here is the end of the piece, you can listen to the whole thing here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m4t...

Doing a little Hackney gig tomorrow showing some new songs 🥰