Landmark study on symptom dismissal and diagnostic delays in women’s health launched The study will explore women's experiences of medical gaslighting and issues including diagnostic delays and patient–doctor interactions. Read: www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...

arXiv pre-print for the IEEE I2S paper is up. If you've ever wondered how Wavetable Synthesis might be deployed on-device for soil moisture monitoring in water scarcity contexts, well, now we know: arxiv.org/abs/2509.19097

'All circular grooves and spectral riffs, with Werliin and Berthling’s pulsing sway providing the motor that anchors and pulls along the broad palette of effervescent sounds Ambarchi extracts from his guitar' #OrenAmbarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin - Ghosted III buff.ly/BFukAwv

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.

Still digesting all the important conversations we had on Friday on our UCC ‘Dealing with Difficult Pasts’ event w/ panels on institutional abuse and gendering experiences of the North. While no one can question the importance of the Troubles it has meant other intersections are left in its shadow.

And on this topic, with the benefit of hindsight, while preparing this particular class I am now willing to say that Lars Ulrich had a point about Napster back in circa 1999 and it would have been good if he also applied that point to Spotify.

GOT IT!!! Internet Archive FTW

The irony of the fact that I cannot find a .pdf version of Negativland's 'Fair Use' for my students is most definitely not lost on me.

Delighted to share that the Department of #DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie will host a digital artist as part of the first @artscouncilireland.bsky.social Digital Artist in Residence pilot programme. Applications are now open! Enquiries to @stephenroddy.bsky.social artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...

My thoughts on Chat-GPT Summed up by a Bendictine Monk form the Middle Ages: Great is the gulf between singers and musicians; the former perform, the latter know, what music is. He who does what he doesn’t understand is a beast. Guido of Arezzo, Regulae rhythmicae, (ca. 1025)

For @thequietus.com, I wrote about @marjaahti.bsky.social's new album of delicate yet voluminous electroacoustic explorations (out on @johnchantler.bsky.social's Fönstret). Gorgeous stuff.

I quite like this photo I took of Rachel Lavelle playing with @crashensemble.bsky.social at the Pavilion, part of the Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival.

Kevin O'Connor ditched the drums that defined 20 years of Talkdemonic for his most personal album. "Very Cool Yesterday" captures heartbreak in stolen Sunday sessions, tape hiss intact. "I make music selfishly to feel better about being alive." Read this interview at Foxy Digitalis.

Very nice piece !!

Look I hate TikTok but you have to see Peter McGann's Tony Brady video; www.tiktok.com/@peterjmcgan...

I only give out about Blood Orange so I can be pleasantly surprised when he releases something like Essex Honey, which is, for the most part, pretty good actually.

This event is on this Wednesday morning at 11.00 am. City Library Grand Parade Cork City All welcome! Check out this beautiful Sam Amidon recording here: samamidon.bandcamp.com/album/all-is...

We are so back. (We being the “embodied cognition can address ethically questionable computing practices” gang.)

Might it be because robots, as we tend to imagine them, don’t actually exist and these are simple machines?

Doing some talking on Friday at UCC!

Our Sonic Practices Symposium is this Friday! Please come along but remember that there is a blanket ban on questions starting: "This is more of a comment than a question really but..." There will be a buzzer, and a security guard. You will be escorted out.

As rare occurrences go, they simply don’t get much rarer than a live performance by Finnish electroacoustic composer Patrick Kosk. Utterly breathtaking.

A notable anniversary...I have a chapter in my new book which addresses cyberlibertarianism in the 1990s, focusing on Esther Dyson and George Gilder. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...

Are Deftones the only nu-metal band who make listenable music?

If you’re doing participatory research but all the participants turn out to be awful people steering your research in a horrible direction…. What then?

Given where we are with LLMs and the very recent turn to Small LMs for well defined tasks, how long before we see the return of the dreaded "Programmable User Model" for interactive systems design?

Just a reminder that on Friday September 5th we @radhumslab.bsky.social will be running our sound symposium(Un)Silencing here at @ucc.ie with an excellent lineup of talks: journalofmusic.com/listing/21-0...

It took awhile, but Maggie Boden got a NY Times obit: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...

Join the @radhumslab.bsky.social on Friday September 5th at @ucc.ie for (Un)Silencing, our one-day symposium exploring exciting work from the fields of sound studies and sound art, in collaboration with Resonance: the Journal of Sound & Culture.

Yes. I do in fact have a favourite pop song, and yes, it is staring at the sun by tvotr. Obviously.

Looking forward to contributing to this important event on AI in education at the Royal Irish Academy next month.

Xiu Xiu are not coming to Ireland on the newly announced tour. Don’t know if they’ve ever played Ireland. Considering a flight to Prague to see them.

These are probably the greatest things ive ever drawn #pixelart #art #pixel #space

y=mx+vibes

Beatles to Wings not withstanding, is there a bigger downgrade in pop music than Jefferson Airplane to Starship.

At this point in time can we maybe all just agree that Samantha Urbani was the real brain behind that early Blood Orange stuff. Also the Policies of Power EP is somehow 8 years old now which is making me feel geriatric. Anyway, still well worth a listen: samanthaurbani.bandcamp.com/album/polici...

I'm late to hear of the passing of Margaret Boden, the most influential figure in the field of Computational Creativity -- certainly the Grandmother of CC. She was a clear and rigorous thinker capable of hopping interdisciplinary divides like a parkour master. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...

Strong contender for the top 10 best music tweets. Nailed both the formula and the main problem with the music perfectly, while being hilarious.

I have met, interviewed, and worked with many "coding geniuses" and after 14 years of professional software across 7 companies that includes desktop, server, and mobile — I assure you none of them are

An odyssey of darkness, resilience & seasonal drift, Galway-based progressive act Veln's self-titled debut unveils epic & lengthy songs with shades of blackened death, romanticism, melancholic acoustic passages & compelling performances.

For the issue's CV special, I wrote about the Cab's influence in 1980s Yugoslavia. I also penned the Avant Rock column (w/ amazing albums by @giantclaw.bsky.social and Marissa Nadler), reviewed new music by Merzbow and Bruch and revisited albums by Flower Travellin' Band and Phew/Kobayashi/Moebius.

Nice little behind the scenes on one of the best game soundtracks in recent memory. Which, given the quality in that particular niche, is really saying something.

Power Rangers' success in the 90s was because it honed in on the three fundamentals of good storytelling: dinosaurs, robots, and karate.

If you think A.I. will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems.

Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

“Sorry, no dogs.” “That’s alright. I brought my own.”

Delighted to see this published; in the time between the writing & publication, it’s become more relevant & urgent (looking at you, Meta)! ‘Cybernetic Resurgences: Machine Music Beyond AI Slop’ shows how an ethically grounded cybernetics of ML can help us resist AI slop & discourse of replacement

There’s a short punchy 3 page essay to be written on mimetic theory, AI art, and fascism but I can’t be bothered to work through the Girard stuff.

I’m loosing the battle to reclaim Machine Learning from the “AI” movement as it comes to music and the creative arts. But regardless, our new piece now seems to be up online today and we do give it another very whole-hearted try!! Won’t be backing down anytime soon and all that.