If we involve a bit of material history we can clear this one right up. Well, nothing is just for one reason, but Iommi pitched down because he lost some fingertips in an industrial accident. That sound was very influential on what followed. Also, a down-pitched guitar sounds nothing like a bass.

the lord he giveth... and he taketh away.

my hands are too large for my cup and yet I am too small for this space

The perfect example of analytic philosophy: let's make up a hypothetical that to us (of a certain class/race/gender) seems like an intractable dilemma but for anyone with actual knowledge of the material situation is actually an entirely different issue

they're right. it's completely unacceptable to compare ICE to the gestapo. They're more like the einsatzgruppen.

hear me out - new tax for super wealthy to prevent hoarding. what you've gained in wealth over the last tax year above a certain threshold, you have to spend in the next or you're taxed something obscene like 95% - spend your money or we spend it for you.

at the end of all this artists, writers, poets and musicians will command a rate far in excess of any AI bro and when i'm near retirement I will crawl up a tall tower to collect my yearly wage, look out over my kingdom and raise a toast to my bounty: two jelly beans and a quarter cup of lemonade

30-something-year old composers whose music has something to do evil sounds, atmospheres and spaces, embodiment and decay: I can't help but wonder if we might have all been profoundly shaped by roughly the same experience encountering Burial, et. al. in about 2010. Am I right?

Well this is a bit of a coup! My music on radio 3? Well I never... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

tell us your compositional journey to date. don't make a list of collaborators, be super specific and tell us all what you did. also mention other things you do apart from composing. BUT can you cram all this in, I dunno, like 1,000 characters?

Two concerts in Berlin featuring my large-scale bassoon and electronics piece in a matter of weeks! 15th and 17th March, performed by my obnoxiously talented collaborator, Olivia Palmer-Baker!

a little research piece on technology in music composition pedagogy, drawing from my own experience but also from those who have been at the coalface an awful lot longer: insamjournal.com/index.php/ij...

very entertaining but absolutely horrifying watching centrist melts trying to square the nazi salute thing with continuing to be on x surely there is a German word out there for this very specific emotion.

We’ve written to the Oxford Literary Festival to question why Helen Joyce is listed under their LGBTQ+ category. Her widely criticised views on trans inclusion make this association both insulting and tone-deaf to the LGBTQ+ community. We’ve asked for this to be corrected.

Wonderful to have secured this Goethe-Institut funding to work on a new surround-sound live electronics bassoon project with Olivia Palmer-Baker. www.goethe.de/en/kul/foe/i...

blusky feature request - let randomers add alt text to images if it's missing. the original poster can approve/disapprove

hcmf shorts highlights (no pictures because I forgot): Maija Hynninen's contrabass and electronics piece excellently performed by Heather Roche, and Paul Scully's audiovisual reflection on Bull Island. Also great to have a few (too many) beers with new friends and Niki @nikizohdi.bsky.social

twitter trolls all mad we left. radical idea, I know, but I just want to share creative stuff and shoot the shit with people I enjoy being around. it's working. i'm having fun. suck it up, man.

(not necessarily in order) cab firm phone operator guy disability note-taker volunteer concert steward computer repair specialist (erstwhile) software engineer

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now Early Learning Centre shop staff Building site labourer Toy demonstrator in museum gift shop Live-in gardener Art gallery attendant Concert hall steward Library counter staff Piano teacher

I'm shit at posting or I'd do it myself, but we need more wholesome new music content. one of the reasons I left twitter is got I got fed up of getting pissed off at what some new york school ego makes of Brian Ferneyhough passages.

1. Big new piece in collaboration with a bassoonist (soon to be announced) 2. Monograph reappraising 'new complexity' approaches (such as they are) as fundamentally queer

the important question isn’t “did Harris lose because the left is too woke?” it’s “why isn’t Donald Trump in federal prison?” We’re being subjected to lectures about politics by the people who held all of the power and let this dipshit slip through their grasp.

I need more two-note slurs in my life. Look, buddies!

If you're in Melbourne over Christmas, please do go! I'll be there in spirit. 'the angles which wound me' was a huge turning point in my creative development... by which I mean my turn towards sci-fi gothic lunacy with filthy sounds and a penchant for exuberant graphic scores.

New antifascist art challenge: write music that utterly appalls Ivan Hewett, ideally in several dimensions at once.

Thinking of a newly forming unholy alliance between artists and inoffensive centrist pap, where we 'explore humanity's dark and light sides' as if the best art has to offer in these dark times could just as easily describe Coronation Street.

I just noticed I have a ton more people following than before. Hi! To introduce myself... composer (I know, another one) largely of chamber music. interests include atmosphere, bodily-felt affect and abjection. you can my stuff on: www.johnaulich.co.uk here's a pretty picture of some of my work

ask little questions, so that we can talk to one another instead of google for no good reason except one.... because being human is sometimes better than being efficient

Art can be a very legitimate and effective form of protest, even at this time in history. But only if we're actually willing to give a flying fuck about supporting each other's art and not just consuming the art product corporations sell to us.

Things i*n p*ce does not viscerally disapprove of: I*n P*ce

Drafting my piece for the Legato project... something is emerging in the cello part. May scrap everything else and go from here!

Every time someone says they used chatgpt to find some info, they're actually telling you that they have never been punched hard in the face.

twitter's a bust. followed the starter pack. I think this is me now.

Hello. :)