there was a minor dispute over what to get for dinner tonight so i had to pull rank by saying ‘it’s international women’s day and i want china dragon’

I used to hate International Women's Day until I spent the day in Tijuana where it was a riot against the patriarchy. Where race and imperialism was at its core. Happy International Women's Day to the women who fight.

wearing my women in stem t-shirt on international women’s day to celebrate the fact that i was given that and a reusable water bottle instead of equal pay

In recognition of Éliane Radigue's death, the recent themed double issue in Contemporary Music Review is now available in free access. (It says 'variable access', but that's because some articles are open essays anyway.) www.tandfonline.com/toc/gcmr20/4...

Well, look at that. My BBC documentary on the science of sound from years ago has just popped up on the BBC Earth Science channel. If you fancy some cool sound science in your day, here you go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp_u...

Another instalment of the Live Compendium EP has arrived on streaming services! “Anecdoche” live in Bristol last year.

Oh my god Lmao youraislopbores.me

This week's Cottage Studio newsletter begins the process of delving into this idea👇 mailchi.mp/loulayorke/w... (category thought experiment to be abandoned quickly if my investigations start to suck the joy out of actually playing 💫)

Rivers are living beings.

It’s still Bandcamp Friday so get on the bus

and and AND the new Barbieri x Giske!! this one just builds and builds DIVINE <3

oooft!! new detroit thunder from Der Zyklus!! get this on the big speakers, u will not regret it.

There is an extraordinarily rich experimental music scene in Iran, and this is one of the best compilations featuring many of the key artists (who I hope are safe) unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/anthol...

Immediately thought of Daphne Oram’s ‘Oramics Machine’

Lovely interview with @loulayorke.bsky.social over at Tonearm where she chats about many things including her album 'Hydrology' (DiN94) released on the DiN label in November. www.thetonearm.com/wildflowers-...

no pets, £1200pcm

Sat down with Carolyn aka 'Tangent Universes' for a long read in the @thetonearm.com it was such a pleasure!! Thank you so much ✨💫 to all indie music writers out there keeping it going 💚

“Oh it can be a miserable machine in the context of certainty.” 🩷🩷🩷

Oh hey everyone-- trying to be here more. :) Thank you so much @loulayorke.bsky.social I really enjoyed your record.

new live version of The Hidden Messages in Water is now streaming 💫

She's one of the best → @tangentuniverses.bsky.social ✨

Sat down with Carolyn aka 'Tangent Universes' for a long read in the @thetonearm.com it was such a pleasure!! Thank you so much ✨💫 to all indie music writers out there keeping it going 💚

From squat parties to a cottage on a wildflower common, Loula Yorke has built a practice around beauty, ecological dread, and the feminist history that 'Hydrology' quietly carries forward. The Tonearm's Carolyn Zaldivar Snow digs into the soil. Loula Yorke's Electric Commons:

✨ Loula Yorke on Bluesky → @loulayorke.bsky.social

new live version of The Hidden Messages in Water is now streaming 💫

“i’m still punk” i whisper to myself as i turn down the music in my car so i can see better

'Get up, girl, and dress yourself. Woman must have spunks to live in this wicked world.'

VERY EXCITED

Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 97 is out now... starring @loulayorke.bsky.social @keithseatman.bsky.social @solar76.bsky.social and much more! moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-97-2...

Thank you @moonbuilding.bsky.social for making ‘Bundle of Styx’ from my forthcoming EP Salix (antique free reed organ vs clarinet shreds by Charlotte Jolly) your Track of the Week!!

really looking forward to playing 🐎🧬ACID HORSE🐴 💊 the line-up is 👀 super proud to be on it!

Salix is up for pre-order today! I sat down with @thequietus.com for a potted history about how I ended up making up electronic music from a cottage in Suffolk 🌟✨💫

The long 2010s are finally over

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.

From the Archives #30 Éliane Radigue (1932-2026) acloserlisten.substack.com/p/from-the-a...

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Also available on Qobuz. open.qobuz.com/track/393078... Now listening. 🎧

Ich have startid the dangerous newe habit of beginninge the daye wyth both a colde caffeine drynke and a hot caffeine drynke at the same tyme. Ich call thys "the balance of the Force."

“When I started going raving it would be normal to get handed printed leaflets about vegetarianism or whatever, but quite quickly the police made it more and more clear to us: ‘We’ll shut you down if you start rabble-rousing.’" Loula Yorke Interviewed buff.ly/1yPe72L

ooops i totally forgot! The Live Compendium 2 is being added to streaming services week-on-week. Track 1 'SICL' dropped on Friday. This was recorded live at the Round Chapel last year. It's the best I've ever played it. I don't think I'll be playing it live again so fill yer boots 😅

Xylitol's @bunnyhausen.bsky.social metamorphic jungle/kosmiche collab with Sculpture on her rework of Chromophoria is getting a release on new @planetmurecords.bsky.social LP Blumenfantasie, which also ft a track with the excellent @theleaflibrary.bsky.social xylitol.bandcamp.com/album/blumen...

1980s dancehall session with some young voices blowing up in the subsequent decade (and that's about all I know about right now) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt6g...

🎵 You see, I’ve been through the desert on a

Suffolk represent

Peter Mandelson has been arrested - send up the hater signal. It's once again a poster's holiday.

"They did remove Akinola Davies Jr’s shout of “Free Palestine!” and Alan Cumming’s comparison of “Lies, corrupt leaders, poisoning and persecution of a race” themes to America, it seems a perverse decision not to remove an appalling racial insult." www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

DIY doesn’t need to be a beer soaked basement venue, although ain’t nothing wrong with that. It can also be a conservatory. It can be a publisher. It can be what you and your colleagues choose to make it collectively.

During the last two years, Loula Yorke has released 6 albums and a mixtape and she's only just getting started. Joe Muggs talks to the modular synthesist about a background in raving and activism, and why it's time to start thinking of herself as an artist Loula Yorke Interviewed buff.ly/1yPe72L

art, activism, motherhood,visibility and becoming yourself, @loulayorke.bsky.social on always interesting form here @thequietus.com in relation to circumstances, intentionality, belief and learning thequietus.com/interviews/l...