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...

I have just submitted an abstract to the Transnational Opera Studies Conference next July in Cambridge and if you are, like me, working on musical drama outside the Western Canon, you could too! Let’s shift the frame! #ToscaCambridge

In the 1690s parenting hacks could be found in churches

Join our next event in the conversations series on the theme of Music and Phenomenology Stephen Amico Judy Lochhead Harris Berger chair: Friedlind Riedel 16:00-17:30 (UK time) Wednesday 29th May musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/2024/05/21/m...

#OHPMCsneakpeek In “Listening Beyond Sound and Life,” J. Martin Daughtry explores the distinctive qualities of imaged sounds, offering new insights into the workings of our imagination and providing a framework for understanding how imagined music shapes our bodily experiences.

The #MPSG24 programme is online including the book of abstracts! Register at the early bird rate and join us in London. tinyurl.com/MPSG2024

MMaP is please to announce the publication of "The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures," edited by @harrismberger.bsky.social, @friedlind.bsky.social, and Dr. David VanderHamm. Stay tuned over the next few months as we offer sneak peaks at each chapter of the #OHPMC !

> 200.000 in München gegen rechts, gegen Deportationsphantasien, gegen die #noafd, gegen Spaltung und Menschenverachtung.

Today, the devastating news that Lenka Hlávková, Director of the Musicology Institute at Charles University, and a brilliant scholar and human being, was a victim of yesterday's senseless tragedy. Our worlds will not be the same without her. I hold her friends, family, and colleagues in my heart.

This is quite amazing news: next SEM conference will be entierly virtual! Finally. Online is not perfect, but WAY more accessible and WAY less exclusive. ethnomusicology.org/news/660463/

Happening Today! Sound, Philosophy & Listening with Amy Cimini, Eldritch Priest & Julian Johnson Join us online musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/2023/10/23/s...

Working mum

Fantastic new(ish) historical Asian sound studies article from Yiren Zheng. Looks like she has a book in the works on a related topic. Hell yeah.

As always, Jedermann sells! (Sculpture by Anna Chromy Salzburg 1999)

If you missed it, my talk about brackish water, boredom, Burmese harps, Buddhaghosa and other things not starting with B can now be watched on YouTube—thanks to the wonderful team at @mmap.bsky.social! youtu.be/Abi1GWYDT1E?...

CFP Themed Session ‘Being Contemporary’ In the aftermath of modernity, and the passing of the postmodern, how are we to know and show what it is to live in the conditions of contemporaneity? musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/2023/10/23/c...

Porpose a Paper by 31. October to join us in London 2024! The call for papers for the RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group conference 2024 is now live! Head to our website for further details: musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/events/mpsg24/