And so the genocide continues in hushed silence, with the rest of the world lulled into a false sense that it has ended... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Love hearing the Ivortheenginess of early Cardiacs pieces. youtu.be/kkQSzrQxa4Y?...

#ChiyokoSzlavnics #UdayBhawalkar #UnusualMusicExchange www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/un...

This is quite the thing. J Cage arr. M Smolka for M Duchamp www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r43...

"Life should be full of strangeness" soundcloud.com/stobiepole/g...

video evidence of the new trio with Angharad Davies and @johnbutcher.bsky.social at the Rising Sun Arts Centre in Reading www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPM0...

This this this if you can can can GOGOGO

Great stuff happening now...

For the fantastic #AlisonKnowles I know what I'm having for tea tonight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfv6...

Today began with James Weeks' Blue Hours conjuring blues and wooze on the cusp of alpha and beta waves, welcoming in GMT with a fantastically poised performance from GBSR Duo at Sound Festival Aberdeen. And the spinning and waves continued at Fraserburgh lighthouse museum...

Not that I can get to either(!) but this too looks unmissable if you're in the area #michaelparsons #siwanrhys www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

This looks like a fantastic programme #rainydays www.philharmonie.lu/en/programme...

A swift jaunt to Sheffield catching up with a bunch of excellent people (including, at last again, the inimitable indomitable @philipthomas.bsky.social ) and amazing sounds from #FredericBlondy #AngharadDavies #RhodriDavies & #DominicLash

Crikey! a deceptively slim volume but plenty to get stuck into... #LeafePress #LindaKemp www.leafepress.org

Sluggo, Messiaen about

"Contrast is for people who can't write music"

Limbering up for my next career as a leading cinematographer

I wrote about the bedtime poems my children have most enjoyed over the years, from a Cumbrian shepherd counting rhyme to Gertrude Stein someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/crap-poims

It's Ernst Jandl's 100th anniversary this year and I'm edging slowly and surely (surely!) ever closer to completing Jandl Songs, started in 2007...

Oh blimey. The Symphonies of John White courtesy of @musicwedliketohear.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/music-wed-...

Some excellent things to (re)watch before Vimeo goes kaboom...

This is some fine sounds

Linda Catlin Smith: The Complete Piano Solos (1989-2023) Vol. 1 The Plains performed by Cheryl Duvall Super good, out in a few weeks.

"I my heart, there is great pain, now, every day, for months" The great Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov calls for a ceasefire at the Proms at the Albert Hall last night

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

Happy New ('pataphysical) Year www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l7t...

Stuck some plaisir in his cap and called it semiologie

Real police state stuff, pre-emptively arresting people in Defend Our Juries, because they are organising a peaceful protest.

New weirdness from Rat-drifting... #HenryKaiser #KurtNewman rat-drifting.bandcamp.com/track/after-...

It's #FrankensteinDay * aka Mary Shelley's birthday! (* #FrankensteinsMonsterDay )

If you're young Or old Or a woman If you've got a disability Or, you've a SEND If you're LGBTQ+ Or you're from an ethnic minority If you need care Or you're in the forces And if you're in Northern Ireland Then Farage's plan to abolish human rights law is going to screw you

Londoners beware... www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/20-ye...

It's #InternationalOrangutanDay apparently #michaeloesterle #quatuorbozzini collectionqb.bandcamp.com/track/three-...

Improvisers, composers and their slippers, 1/53

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM66... 'Walking me to work': to finish, a brief extract from Errolyn Wallen's piece of this name - see her speak at #NairnFest! www.nairnfestival.co.uk

Londoners beware... www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/20-ye...

Guardian has the cops arresting 474 people as terrorists. Salute to all arrested. People with courage to stand up against draconian intimidation. ✊

Cor, what a scorcher! @leochadburn.bsky.social new thing Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator Sounding pretty great.

Cor, what a scorcher! @leochadburn.bsky.social new thing Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator Sounding pretty great.

Chris Burn. One of the greats, and should be far better known.

The only positive about this proposal is that it made me watch this Mr Show sketch three times back to back, howling. youtu.be/GTJ3LIA5LmA?...

“Aye, yesterday. Have ye seen a whale-boat adrift?”

Headspinning start to the day with this great new collection from #exaudi #winterandwintermusic

In a world growing weirder (in a bad way - weird is generally a force for good) it's great that there are finesome things to look forward to

‘Gaza has been under siege by land, sea and air since 2006, with tighter blockades put in place on 9 October 2023 and total closure on 2 March 2025. In the words of the UN, Gaza is “the hungriest place on earth”.’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Work-in-progress... Waldrop music