Getting a strong sense of deja vu from Radio 3 tonight...

BBC Radio 3 Radio 3 in Concert Now Playing Mark E. Smith, Elizabeth Kenny & Elaine Mitchener Joker Hysterical Face

Hwæt! Hafen yoƿ gotte inn þæt papyre bagge? Is it a dræht æf a Sinfanye inn C-ee?

Tubists of Scotland! #AnthonyBraxton #RedNoteEnsemble #lammermuirfestival www.rednoteensemble.com/event/call-o...

Tubists of Scotland! #AnthonyBraxton #RedNoteEnsemble #lammermuirfestival www.rednoteensemble.com/event/call-o...

Scribblings ongoing

Hangin' out the passenger side Of Vera Yevseyevna's ride Hollerin' lepidoptera at me

Seems appropriate youtu.be/90w0qyOA6go?...

"Our community is scared and exhausted but we are fighting back." It's important that all of us who stand with the LGBTIQA+ community support the Good Law project in their appeal against the high court decision. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

sound has signed an open letter to the new Scottish Parliament elected to make sure a basic income for artists pilot is delivered. Sign the open letter here: actionnetwork.org/forms/an-ope... #BasicIncome #Artists #Creatives

work-in-progress

Happy #InternationalDylanThomasDay! How many of them does it take to change a light bulb? None. They'd rather rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Some recent listening, that, dare I say it (dare! dare!) is quite lovely #anothertimbre #sylvialim #jamesmcreed #standardissue #toyourear #outlineensemble @apartment-house.bsky.social

To the booths. Keep the fascists out.

As people get ready to vote in the Scottish Parliament election please be careful of the spoiler operation which is 'Independent Green Voice'. They are listed second on the regional ballot paper in South of Scotland with the Green Party further down. IGV is a right-wing spoiler operation.

May, Firth. Forgot to take any pictures all weekend Tectonics Glasgow but there was some terrific stuff, with the humming sound masses of Lore Amenabar Larranaga & Christopher Fox / GBSR Duo battling with things alongside Laura Bowler & later drifting wonkily/amiably in Oliver Leith GoodDayBadDay...

This book. Lawks a-lordy.

If you are anti fascist you are against anti semitism, end of. ✊against racism.

This is something else and then some. It goes places much music doesn't. A thing to get wonderfully lost in. @juergfrey.bsky.social @heatherroche.bsky.social @apartment-house.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/clarin...

Enjoying this sesh from Mariam Rezaei & John Butcher www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

"For sake awake to miss out nothing" Almost almost a quiet aside, as if to say this is what even the most abstruse stuff is doing too. The fierce joyous bursting fizz of paying attention to life

And, of course, he'd just published two pamphlets (who knows how many more there might be...)

Very sorry to hear that the poet J.H. Prynne has died, at the age of 89. Here, from 10 years ago, is my attempt to describe the man and the work

The excellent Wolf Notes is available again c/o @sarah-hughes.bsky.social . All kinds of writings, scores &c. on sound, music and things listening sarahhughes.info/Wolf-Notes

IT is really important because without it Isaac Newton would just have discovered gravy.

The majority against murdering children in Gaza are against the deliberate murdering of children by any regime - it is not about the religious identity of murderers, it is about the children murdered

"Get me Debbie Harry on the phone" www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6g0...

At my speech therapy class yesterday we worked on Kurt Scwitters' Ursonate

Blimey, looking forward to this @juergfrey.bsky.social @apartment-house.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSE3...

Some excellent stuff here, especially the Orcutt & Rezaei duo www.youtube.com/watch?v=MARi...

Seeing as it's Michael Finnissy's 80th (and St Patrick's Day) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3idt...

This link should work instead... www.coma.org/our-music/pu...

Ooh, the website of Clarence/Klarenz/Qui la rince Barlow has had an overhaul with a bunch of scores and other examples clarlow.org

CoMA Festival 2026 Loads of great stuff happening all over the place, possibly near you! www.coma.org/whats-on/eve... PLUS 'Immediate Pieces' is launched (now!), which includes one by me, just add water: www.coma.org/.../pub.../i... @comanewmusic.bsky.social #participatorymusic

in case you were in any doubt whatsoever that war crimes are being committed

Good to hear some #luciadlugoszewski www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

CoMA Festival 2026 Loads of great stuff happening all over the place Possibly near you!

A headline crying out to be in the Viz Profanisaurus

February A curious bunch, of which Catrileo, Enard, Chance, and Holloway-Smith intrigued the most.

The pilot episode of Between Two Ferns, in which the host and guest make an experimental radio drama about unconvincing fern imposters

Well, the plumber fixed the drip

New T Parks timparkinson.bandcamp.com/album/the-pr...

RIP Éliane Radigue. One of the upcoming elsewhere releases features a collaborative work between Marianne Schuppe / Deborah Walker and Éliane. As a tribute to Éliane, I am posting this interview with Marianne and Deborah early. www.elsewheremusic.net/qa-with-mari...

Ach, fantastic composer. And what a communal network of musicians that sprang up around her.