Even musical instruments are adopting to the political climate these days...

_On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone_ is now available open access. Here's a link: www.acls.org/path-to-open...

Even musical instruments are adopting to the political climate these days...

a country where innocent people are deprived of music “It’s non-punitive… I don’t understand why they can’t have music” “Organizers have a playlist they play on speakers during the vigil. New songs are added every week based on what the detainees have requested.” lataco.com/captive-loti...

I hope that’ll finally make guns redundant.

I had no idea it’s German until they said it’s German. I am so glad Americans are finally discovering that you can clear the air by simply opening the windows. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...

Exciting news: an expanded English translation of my bestseller "AI and the New Fascism" is coming out with Pluto Press later this year. Grateful to Pluto Press for making this happen. More on the book: rainermuehlhoff.de/en/KI-und-de... @plutopress.bsky.social

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

AI is not a tool. It’s an experience.

I've written this blogpost on ICE protest chants & songs, w/ a large section of transcriptions of singing at protests by faith leaders and the Singing Resistance. It also includes songs about ICE agents' perceived masculinity issues and new songs protesting ICE. medium.com/@norikomanab...

AI is not a tool. It’s an experience.

Only when you use AI for research you will be able to know that it hallucinates all the time. Everyone who has first hand knowledge of AI hallucinations must have used it extensively.

Open tenure track position in musicology focus on political music at Mozarteum Salzburg www.moz.ac.at/de/ueber-uns...

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

"Music and sound are to the 2020’s social media ecosystem what hashtags were to the 2010s — clickable portals into the swirl of what’s happening now." That's the takeaway, I think. (Thanks to the Globe folks for getting me to put it in writing!)

AI optimists please help me understand this: If Claude is good at python coding because it devoured Substack, and Substack is now disappearing because of Claude.. how does Claude get good at the next programming language when Substack no longer exists?

We are excited to announce our 3 keynote speakers for #MPSG26 Prof Salomé Voegelin Professor of Sound @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social Dr Nicole Grimes @nicoleegrimes.bsky.social Ass Professor of Music @tcddublin.bsky.social Prof Simone Mahrenholz Professor of Philosophy @umanitoba.bsky.social

the smell of a playing cassette tape

"What is ‘musical thought’? Can music be considered a form of thinking? How to think in, with or through music?" Send a paper proposal to @cdysers.bsky.social and Malte Koble to join the conversation on "Liminal Musicking"! musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/2025/09/25/c...

Our call for papers is out! And we have some exciting news: for our 10th anniversary conference we are going to @dublincityuni.bsky.social We are looking forward to your submissions! musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

#ChatGPT is patient and kind; it does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. ChatGPT bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things

If you want to help victims of the earthquake in Myanmar, I recommend donating to smaller initiatives: 1. Better Burma (www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...) 2. Advance Myanmar (www.advancemyanmar.org/myanmar-eart...) 3. My PhD student from Mandalay is collecting funds www.gofundme.com/f/donation-t...

The biggest bummer about students using AI is that AI provides answers. But what an aspiring academic needs to learn is to ask questions.

There’s a lot to say, but I want to remark on how committed Jonathan was to his writing practice. Academic writers get a bad rap, but J. handled complex technical subjects with confidence and grace. He loved the craft and worked at it, intentionally and hard; and he inspired others to do the same.

I have changed the reading for my class next week to Jonathan Sterne writing on Hearing, to celebrate this groundbreaking thinker at this heartbreaking juncture.

I wonder if the Scholars at Risk program by the German Academic Exchange Service will soon include American scholars at risk of deportation too. I think it should.

I wonder if the Scholars at Risk program by the German Academic Exchange Service will soon include American scholars at risk of deportation too. I think it should.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

The people of #Myanmar "deserve our unwavering solidarity and action, not silence or complicity. Every weapon supplied to the junta is another tool for oppression, and it is time for the world to take decisive action to cut off its enablers" 🎙️ Thai MP, Rangsiman Rome

Join us online! "Reassessing Romantic Music Aesthetics" with Matthew Pritchard, Katherine Hambridge, Tomás McAuley Wednesday, 26 February 2025 – 16:30-18:00 (UK time) musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/2025/02/06/2...

##Myanmar A court in Buenos Aires yesterday requested arrest warrants for Min Aung Hlaing and other Burmese military officials involved in the genocide of the Rohingya” The case was opened based on a petition filed in 2019 by Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) www.brouk.org.uk/argentina-co...

To us in Europe, America has become parenthetical.

This is of course about American politics. But the poster’s feminist vibes make me think that women know all about the pressure to resign. So go ask them how to deal with it.

This is of course about American politics. But the poster’s feminist vibes make me think that women know all about the pressure to resign. So go ask them how to deal with it.

If you are a jazz musician and anyone ever gives you shit for not having a zillion jazz standards memorized, just inform them that Herbie Hancock read sheet music when he performed "Killer Joe" and "Fly Me To The Moon" at the 2025 Grammys and nobody gave a shit.

WÄHLE! Du bist Auslandsdeutsche/r und hast dich noch nicht um die Wahlunterlagen gekümmert? Lade den Antrag hier herunter und schicke ihn per email an die Behörde bei der du zuletzt gemeldet warst. Deadline: 2.2.!

WÄHLE! Du bist Auslandsdeutsche/r und hast dich noch nicht um die Wahlunterlagen gekümmert? Lade den Antrag hier herunter und schicke ihn per email an die Behörde bei der du zuletzt gemeldet warst. Deadline: 2.2.!

Delighted and honoured to visit UNT to talk about Burmese Opera at the School of Music. They have created a fabulous, five day schedule for me including lots of meetings with students, teach-ins and a panel discussion with @vivekvirani.bsky.social

FELLOWSHIPS for Scholars at Risk Applications until 20.01.2025 at 23:59 (CET). #SAFE offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral & postdoctoral researchers of non-EU nationality. Read the call carefully, contact potential supervisor in your academic field. saferesearchers.eu

"Liberale und Konservative liefern Österreich lieber den Rechtsextremen aus, als Zugeständnisse im Sozialbereich zu machen. Damit zeigen sie erneut, was Linke schon immer wussten: Hinter dem Faschismus steht das Kapital."

Can’t wait to read this exciting new book and to learn how the mixing of archival sources and ethnographic interviews plays out as this also applies to my own research in neighbouring Myanmar.

Save the date: a converstaion about music, philosophy and time

What I learned this semester: using AI gives students a false sense of validity. It restricts their thinking by (quite literally!) providing (mostly bullshit) answers.

Another gorgeous composition in the advent calendar by @donauschwalbe.bsky.social celebrating female composers. Today: American composer Margaret Bonds. #AdventInFemDur

Freedom is being able to pick up an artistic project again, to have the freedom to return to it.

Women and children freed from Sednaya Prison after years.

#AdventInFemDur Tür 8 🎄 Maria Szymanowska (1789–1831) – Nocturne As-Dur für 3 Hände. Führte diese Gattung in Polen ein & damit die Romantik dort. Wegbereiterin Chopins. 🎁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGo5... 🕯️ www.sophie-drinker-institut.de/szymanowska-... #Adventskalender #Komponistinnen

“It is the first time in Belgium and probably in Europe that a court has condemned the Belgian colonial state for crimes against humanity.” Simone Ngalula, Monique Bitu Bingi, Léa Tavares Mujinga, Noëlle Verbeeken, Marie-José Loshi, you did this. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Hamburg’s red-green government seems to be playing Battleship these days. The termination of the highly productive and highly visible research centre on Hamburg’s colonial legacy is a huge blow.

“What would a music sound like that would assign the human a place amongst its fellow species, a music, that would articulate our social and environmental entangledness rather than lift us up and out of it all?” If you are in #Salzburg come to our performance lecture! w-k.sbg.ac.at/veranstaltun...