⚠️⚠️⚠️ important updates from @UlsterUni regarding Storm Amy and campus closures Also see your emails for important advice / updates from the CPO and People + Culture

The latest issue of Projections 🎞️ has been published! Vol. 19, Issue 2 "Special Issue on Serial Television" is available for purchase here! bit.ly/3Iw0kWD View the TOC: bit.ly/4nknuOV Guest Edited by @gendler.bsky.social and Héctor J. Pérez. Featuring research by @cynthiacabanas.bsky.social

We're hiring for a Digital Artist in Residence with @artscouncilireland.bsky.social at Digital Humanities @ucc.ie. Applications are open right now. Please drop me a line if you're interested or have any questions.

Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.

This evening at 7.30pm as part of Culture Night at Derry Playhouse: Derry Sound Factory will feature local musicians performing selections from Michael Pisaro-Liu’s The Collection. Expect music that’s playful, unpredictable and deeply immersive. Free event | Everyone welcome

Asked ChatGPT how to spell a “Canadian Sixth Chord” and it assured me it was a real thing developed by Rimsky-Korsakov

Final day of the NI Film Scoring School recording scores at the RCC Letterkenny with the fabulous Hard Rain.

Day 4 of the NI Film Scoring School at @ulsteruni.bsky.social Magee and Die Hexen is in the house!

Are you a composer?✍️ Would you like to collaborate and explore musical ideas with LSO Musicians?🎶 Then this is the opportunity for you! We are currently recruiting for our new Soundhub Members and Associates. Head to lso.co.uk/soundhub for more info and share with someone who should apply!❤️

Delighted to have @michaelkeeney.bsky.social working with our NI Film Scoring School composers at Magee today. @ulsteruni.bsky.social

Plans coming together for a film music conference @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social next June! Keep an eye out for our Call for Papers over the coming days ☺️

Applications now open for 4 short-term postdoctoral fellowships working with materials in Cultural Collections and Galleries @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Deadline 29 September 2025. Find out more about the Brotherton and Bedford Fellowships and how to apply here: lahri.leeds.ac.uk/opportunities/

Great to welcome @hannahpeel.bsky.social to Magee for Day 2 of the NI Film Scoring School @ulsteruni.bsky.social

Brian Irvine kicking off Day 1 of this year's NI Film Scoring Summer School at the Magee campus this week. @ulsteruni.bsky.social

!!!Emerging composers apply!!! Soundstreams has just announced their Bridges: Emerging Composer Program of which we are the Ensemble-in-Residence alongside mentors Zosha Di Castri and Cassandra Miller. Deadline October 14 Visit: soundstreams.ca/education/br...

Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play. ‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith and the BBC.’

Are you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...

Peterloo Massacre happened #OTD 1819, estimated 15-18 people killed. Came during turbulent period of explosive population growth, food shortages caused by climatic disruption after a volcano erupted in Indonesia, aftermath of war, stresses of urbanisation and industrialisation.

Listen to what the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, said about Studio Ulster on her visit to our world-leading virtual production facilities yesterday: “not just the best facilities in the UK but the best facilities in the world.” www.linkedin.com/posts/ulster...

It's a good job that Loyalists marching the streets of Belfast brandishing Ulster Volunteer Force flags don't carry Palestine Action placards, or people might think they were terrorist sympathisers

Remembering Tony Wilson, who died #OTD 2007.

Conference on screen music/sound: 🚨 CFP: Sound on Screen V 🗓️ 5–17 Jul 2026 📍 Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester UK 📩 Deadline: 1 Oct 2025 I had the pleasure of attending (and, on occasion, presenting at) several iterations of this fabulous event. A really collegial, supportive gathering!

#Opportunity: Music Network / Ionad Cultúrtha Musician-in-Residence Programme in Baile Mhúirne, Cork 🎵 Applications welcome from professional musicians who are resident in Ireland, who are autistic/ people with autism and who have a strong track record in music performance. Closing date: 1 September

The Musician-in-Residence will be appointed for a 2 month period in October and November 2025 and receive a bursary of €8,000. 🔗 Full details & application : www.musicnetwork.ie/whats-on/app... #musicnetwork #residency #musicianinresidence

🚨 Today we publish State of the North 2025 🚨 The North gets just half as much arts and culture funding per person as London. We reveal the impact this & other regional divides have on young people, and what must change 👇 www.ippr.org/articles/the...

Maynooth University is now accepting applications for its micro-credential course, Writing About Music – Criticism, Journalism & Professional Development. The deadline is 7 September. Find out more: bit.ly/456jB9n #promotion

🥁🥁🥁 Self-promo: wanna know how to cope with complex film narratives and other mindbending cinematic puzzles? Check out my book IMPOSSIBLE PUZZLE FILMS – A COGNITIVE APPROACH TO CONTEMPORARY COMPLEX CINEMA 🥁🥁🥁 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-impossi...

Lecturer in History Ulster University - School of Arts and Humanities www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU353/l... #skystorians 🗃️

Thanks I'll be giving the talk again next week online: www.tudublin.ie/explore/even...

This Sunday at Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company Tickets £5 from www.ticketsource.co.uk/northern-lig... Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland #ACNISupported #NationalLottery

Some spotify money math. Loop C is my most popular track on there. It had 2633 streams this month. Spotify paid me paid me $6.46. That's a grand total of $0.002 per play. Music streaming is a scam.

@bridgesbb.bsky.social doing a spot of field recording from outside the Art Gallery of Alberta.

Wonderfully diverse paper topics yesterday, at @scsmi.bsky.social SCSMI 2025, and a very high standard of discussion throughout. Looking forward to continuing discussions about how the soundtrack influences our experiences of the moving image With @adammelvin.bsky.social

Enjoying SCSMI @scsmi.bsky.social at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, CA, with my UU buddy and collaborator @adammelvin.bsky.social. Here’s our paper on our model for the embodied-electronic soundtrack.

In Edmonton AB and after a productive afternoon record shopping with @bridgesbb.bsky.social on Whyte's Ave (what a marvellous spot) it's time for the SCSMI conference.

Open Call | Soundscape for People's Park from Limerick City and County Council Limerick City and County Council would like to commission an artist to create two audio islands for the public to sit, rest, and enjoy commissioned sounds in noise polluted areas of visualartists.ie/advert/open-...

RIP Ian Curtis, who died #OTD 1980.

// Belfast TradFest Launches All-Ireland Bursary for Young Musicians // bit.ly/4jTAUzL Residential bursaries available for 18 to 23-year-olds to attend summer school in Belfast.

RAMP returns to Rathmullan in July for a three day celebration of experimental music and sound as part of Earagail Arts Festival. More information on the RAMP 2025 programme to follow! eaf.ie/2025-events/

RAMP Festival 2025 invites sound artists and composers to take part in a Dawn Chorus Sound Walk on Sunday 18 May and a composition workshop on Friday 18 July. Visit the link below for information including a bursary opportunity from @cmcireland.bsky.social northernlightsproject.org/ramp/workshop

England's Football League was officially formed #OTD 1888 at the Royal Hotel, Manchester (at the corner of Market Street and Mosley Street). All twelve founder members came from the north and midlands, including six from Lancs.

Great seminar today from Dr Amanda Finch (Drama at Ulster), on Brigid’s Day: a 21st Century Irish Carnival?

Magee campus is crawling with reds (apparently @ulsteruni.bsky.social are celebrating a partnership with the other Manchester club).

Back in November we won the @timeshighered.bsky.social University of the Year 2024! We hit the streets of Derry~Londonderry to hear what people had to say about winning this prestigious award. #WeAreUU | #DeliveringForDerry

CALL FOR CONCEPTS FOR SOUND ARTISTS: sem.moz.ac.at/call-for-con...

At Whiterock Library today and tomorrow afternoon. #soundArt

Signal Flow – A One Day Festival of Experimental and Electronic Music FULL DETAILS COMING SOON!