‘I don’t remember a life before the great status yellow warning of 2026’

Preparing classes on Luciano Berio by day, making music for VR art installations by night…

No escaping the Hegelian dialectic…

Dublin is actually a very interesting & friendly place.

Music Mouse is about to make a comeback! www.eventideaudio.com/software/mus...

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Surprised to see it’s raining again in Dublin…

First blue sky I’ve seen since 4 January… wow…

Ireland, Day 1056 of The Rain. Everything is saturated to the grey of the sky. Moss covers every surface. The outdoors sounds like constant static. The entire staff of Met Éireann is on mental health leave. I’ve forgotten what dry clothes feel like. It is still a yellow weather alert. #SpeirGorm

🎶That’s gent-ri-fi-cation🎶 Really hope Yamamori fight this tooth n nail… See how other music cities were gutted by the same circumstances… www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/...

This is really class… Imagine my delight in hearing an Art Ensemble of Chicago tune arranged for gamelan at the end. willguthrie.bandcamp.com/album/spilla

@leochadburn.bsky.social got the seal of approval from my 7 year old this morning… ‘It’s really cool!’ leochadburn.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-...

You could say I had a Fell Wednesday…

Also enjoyed today this recording by Mark Fell & Explore Ensemble frozenreeds.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...

This recording by Mark Fell & Pat Thomas is quite something… blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/realit...

Someone really needs to take Michéal Martin aside and remind him why exactly we named it O'Connell St and why there's a fucking massive statue of the man who led a national rent strike at the top of it.

🧛‍♂️☘️ Bleh! The alleged Vampiro-Gaelic roots of Dracula are EXPOSED in the latest episode of Folklore Fragments from Cnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann/ The National Folklore Collection! 👏🎧 @bealoideasucd.bsky.social

Absolute horror… should be unbelievable but, unfortunately is not… ‘…after an exhaustive search yields nothing but biological traces—blood spray on walls or small fragments like scalps…’ www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

We’ve had so much rain in Dublin the last six weeks, that I don’t even consider the kind of rain we have today as rain. This rain is known as baistín (little rain)

Looks like a lot of nice stuff happening in Edinburgh week of sound next week

This is pretty good… Frankie is pretty good in general… youtu.be/59nvJTPo7Bc?...

Managed to get out and about today… (still rained tho)

Blackrock DART station.

Good stuff in the +44

2 x greats returning to Dublin…

I'M WRITING THIS FAIRLY BIG BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE HARD OF HEARING.

Status orange weather warning with absolute misery outside did not stop the people coming to hear Ian Wilson performing some Morton Feldman this afternoon @ucddublin.bsky.social. T’was a real treat to hear Ian play Palais de Mari, Extensions 3, and Intermission 6… very beautiful

Incredible, succinct summary in this thread on the probability of AMOC/North Atlantic Drift collapse… is a real horror show

A 3LP/2CD Cecil Taylor live set — FRAGMENTS: THE COMPLETE 1969 SALLE PLEYEL CONCERTS — will be released in April. Two full concerts, 92 minutes and 50 minutes long respectively, featuring Jimmy Lyons, Sam Rivers, and Andrew Cyrille. This one will blow your house down. (I wrote the liner notes.)

A nice few days for composers in @ucddublin.bsky.social… last week we had Nathan Sherman & Jonathan Nangle in performing a great programme for viola & electronics, and a few days later we had the mighty @crashensemble.bsky.social workshopping student pieces. Super stuff from all involved!

We're welcoming applications for the 2027 RPS Composers programme, for UK-based composers establishing a career. Write for a noted ensemble, venue or festival, with professional development workshops and mentoring. Find out more and apply by 1 April: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/composers/rp...

Thought these were Max patches for a second…

Michael Gira at it again…

I'm selling some very delicious eurorack percussive synthesiser equipment over on Reverb and Adverts at nutritiously competitive prices. reverb.com/ie/shop/dunk... www.adverts.ie/member/1071275

Oh the wind & the rain…

Looks like there’s more flooding forecast for Ireland over the next week…

💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 Congratulations to New Music Hero Donnacha Dennehy!

Happy Imbolc… nice to see a lil bit of brightness out today…

Have been making music for this yoke all day... Has been nice. The synths are getting a good outing...

Our next National March for Palestine is on Saturday 21st February. There is no ceasefire, Israel is bombing Gaza right now, murdering at least 25 people since last night. It is attacking and ethnically cleansing people all over the West Bank. And still our government refuses to act #FreePalestine

‘A four-foot box, a foot for every year’

Me, a millennial, making a phone call: ‘oh man how am I ever going to get through this ordeal?’ Me after phone call: ‘wasn’t so bad actually’

Still murdering women & Children in Gaza…

What did Janus do to get such a shit month named after him?

Catherine O'Hara was a class act…

Teaching music theory in the 21st century…

Next Friday 6 February I'll be talking about BERGHAIN NIGHTS, pubs and clubs and literature with Donal Fallon at @molimuseum.bsky.social. Free entry, book here: moli.ie/events

Never not at it…

‘Here you, move yer car will ye?’ ‘I will in me…’

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis