David McGuinness
@davidmcguinness.bsky.social
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amateur executant: usually too busy organising music to make any.
https://linktr.ee/davidmcg
iām sure thereās room for a microtonal alien mathrock instrumental band who really love their chips and brown cheesy gravy. yup, Angine de Poutine
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15 days ago
When Falstaff threatens to have ballads made up about Prince Hal and sung to filthy tunes (IHen4.2.2), he did not have a Latin-texted motet in mind, but the effect might be the same. Brilliant Josquin parody and amazing solo performance!
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16th century polyphony meets MAGA Christians
YouTube video by Jonasquin
https://youtu.be/91CuilQk61U?si=jid6ar2H8glp3gi0
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Olivia Guest Ā· Īλίβια ĪκεĻĻ
7 months ago
Finally! 𤩠Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industryās marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
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back home from a fun day in St Andrews improvising on piano, melodica and the gorgeous 1860 organ in the Laidlaw Centre at St Andrews, with the HARK collective. The folks from
@fifecollege.bsky.social
recorded us in Dolby Surround with more DPA mics than you could blow a melodica at
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#Cardiacs
were superb last night of course, wonderful to finally hear some of the big set pieces as they should be, with an audience. Also, they very kindly let me sit in on their soundcheck which was quite the (seaside) treat. Stellar work from some very lovely people spreading happiness and joy.
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25 days ago
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I canāt quite get my head around the fact that Iām going to see Cardiacs play tonight, two doors along from my university office, and this seems normal. There are two many impossible things at play simultaneously.
26 days ago
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easily the finest piece of art produced this year is Harry Hill's reading of a Shopify ad, 20'48 into this. Perfection.
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The Harry Hill Show - Amanda Lamb
YouTube video by HARRY HILL
https://youtu.be/mMKSnQTY5Vs?si=Ut5IYI1UXRA_BdbE&t=1248
29 days ago
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We've got until the end of Monday to respond to the Green Paper on BBC Charter Review. You can bet your arse that the people who want rid of the BBC will be filling it in, so if you value the BBC, please do it too.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Britainās Story: The Next Chapter - BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/britains-story-the-next-chapter-the-bbc-royal-charter-review-green-paper-and-public-consultation/britains-story-the-next-chapter-bbc-royal-charter-review-green-paper-and-public-consultation
about 1 month ago
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Adam from Glasgow (aka - Szkocja w Unii Europejskiej)
about 1 month ago
Great work by
@glasgowbell.bsky.social
A recommended read, particularly for Glasgowās residents. Itās about your money:
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/humanitarian...
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Empty offices and child ādirectorsā: How to augment reality and avoid tax in the process
Weāve got to the bottom of that giant banner on the M8 office block
https://www.glasgowbell.co.uk/humanitarian-operations-charity-rates-avoidance-darren-adler/?ref=the-bell-newsletter
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Uniformbooks
about 1 month ago
Can't think of a better film about being a musician, all of the time... there's even a bit where Fred's coughing is music. Black and [off-]white version:
youtu.be/XEVJUJz2AuY
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Step Across the Border (1990)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step_Ac...
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about 1 month ago
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CodaQueen
about 1 month ago
Had a flashback to this one, just now, watching The Skids on
#TOTP
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The Skids,`Into The Valley`Maxell advert
YouTube video by rob jukes
https://youtu.be/Gib916jJW1o?si=zKufsuquzfkjD9GO
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FLAVOR FLAV ā°
about 2 months ago
Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now Iāve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing. 66 years old going 66 mph.
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do yourself a favour and set aside half an hour to marvel at this from the astonishing Angine de Poitrine. microtonal looping in silly costumes at its absolute best
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Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
https://youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?si=QbT15qioDgaEvG_B
about 2 months ago
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Peter Ross
2 months ago
Interesting piece on Andy Goldsworthy's Gravetstones art work on the BBC website. It's an "exclusive first look" apparently. I offered it to a national newspaper last year but they turned it down. I ended up writing it for my Substack.
smallfinds.substack.com/p/small-find...
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Small Finds #7
Andy Goldsworthy
https://smallfinds.substack.com/p/small-finds-7
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anyone advocated a cultural boycott of the US yet?
3 months ago
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Robert Hutton
3 months ago
Artificial Unintelligence: the government is in full retreat over copyright, and the attempts to make it look dignified only make it funnier. My SKETCH.
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this is absolutely amazing - an anonymous person has spent two years mapping the state of every public path in Glasgow "with the movement of high support mobility device users as priority" ššš
glasgowaudit.wordpress.com/about/
3 months ago
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amazingly, Ski Sunday is still running as a TV programme, and it still has the same sig tune, but they drown it out with crap sound FX. better to subtitle it so we can all sing along
https://youtu.be/hCIWyKey0BI?si=xJJbkIIwTacgBtMg
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Ski Sunday!
YouTube video by TheJeremyLion
https://youtu.be/hCIWyKey0BI?si=xJJbkIIwTacgBtMg
3 months ago
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having just had to postpone a recording session because the organ pitch had dropped in the cold weather, this is definitely my favourite news story of the week
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/22/organ-tuning-books-english-churches-notes-warming-climate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate
Researchers have realised the records are a āgoldmineā to study changes in environmental conditions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/22/organ-tuning-books-english-churches-notes-warming-climate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
4 months ago
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even if Derek Griffiths had done nothing other than the music for Bod, and singing in the chorus on I Am The Walrus, he would still be an utter legend.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002p1zj
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Remembers... - Derek Griffiths Remembers... Bod
Derek Griffiths, himself an icon of children's broadcasting, looks back on the 1970s animated series Bod, a cult classic narrated by John Le Mesurier of Dadās Army fame.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002p1zj
4 months ago
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Radical Graffiti
4 months ago
Antifascist stickers spotted in Dundee, Scotland
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Just got to listen to Maxim Emelyanychev trying out three different pianos (1844 Broadwood, 1880s Erard, 1970s Steinway), and going to see Josie Long tonight. Not bad for a day off, eh?
4 months ago
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this was so much fun to do: sitting round a table enthusing about XTC!
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4 months ago
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a wee sundial on my new old jacket, thanks to
@alisoneales.com
fikarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/mox-nox
4 months ago
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The Quietus
5 months ago
āThis festival is a celebration of improvisation as a global, inclusive, and transformative art form.ā Stewart Smith looks forward to a celebration of the gamelan at the seventeenth instalment of the Scottish festival Preview: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestraās GIOfest
buff.ly/QM9uFi9
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this is incredible - Public Information Film meets Sesame Street. "Hey! Luggage Chute!"
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5 months ago
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Past Glasgow
5 months ago
I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history. This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...
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from today, all this ludicrous music where 18th-century Italian composers tried to sound Scottish and Scottish ones tried to sound Italian is out in the wild again - find your preferred streaming service here (and consider leaving Sp*tlfy if you can)
concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mungrelstuff
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Mungrel Stuff - Concerto Caledonia & David McGuinness
Choose your preferred music service
https://concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mungrelstuff
5 months ago
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coming to streaming services on Friday after only 24 years' wait - pre-save here
concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mungrelstuff
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5 months ago
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at
@uofglasgowmusic.bsky.social
today in the space of an hour, today's year 2 performance workshop had some Welsh triple harp, a bit of John Mayer, and Debussy played on two different Steinways and an Erard. The student consensus was for the Erard: yes! š
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Tim Dunlop
6 months ago
Melbourne: ever helpful
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about 4 minutes into last night's
#totp
repeat you can spot audio legend Calum Malcolm miming to his carefully crafted keyboard parts on a classic CP-70/Prophet 5 combo in Edinburgh's power popsters The Headboys
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Top of the Pops - 11/10/1979
Andy Peebles presents pop chart programme, first broadcast on 11 October 1979 and featuring The Dooleys, Chic, Dr Hook, Viola Wills, Cats UK, Dave Edmunds, Dana and the Police.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04m9r6z/top-of-the-pops-11101979
6 months ago
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Jessica Kant
6 months ago
Machine learning is a neat tool, but clearly companies are desperate to give āAIā credit for what human scholars accomplish in part because companies have bet the farm on the idea that human ingenuity is expendable. This historian is extraordinary and deserves the real credit.
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great to hear the unstoppable Matt Wadsworth in this feature on 200 years of Braille music notation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002jst7?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Sunday Feature - Joining the dots - 200 years of Braille Music - BBC Sounds
The story of Braille music and its impact on blind musicians over the last 200 years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002jst7?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
6 months ago
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Roland Space Echo onstage
#totp
7 months ago
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as of today, MUNGREL STUFF is available again on Bandcamp: over 70 minutes of 18th-century Scottish-Italian & Italian-Scottish musical experiments in all their ridiculous glory. Get it here
concertocaledonia.bandcamp.com/album/mungrel-stuff
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7 months ago
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yesterday's organ tourism, at the 1970s-tastic Hradetzky in St Salvator's chapel in St Andrews, which my Buxtehude score reminded me I had played once before. Chris Bragg also showed me the amazing new Laidlaw Music Centre with its moving floor and reverberation chamber in the roof - wow!
7 months ago
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today's organ tourism, on the wonderful early 18th-century styled Ahrend organ in the Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh. I gave a recital on this about 30 years ago, can't remember what I played ...
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Adam Bienkov
7 months ago
Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go
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well, this is both genuinely brilliant and properly hilarious. Martin Parr just doing what he does
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002j0v3
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Modern Times - Martin Parr: Think of England
As another St George's Day passes, Martin Parr, the celebrated Magnum stills photographer, travels the length and breadth of the country to look at the English and how they see themselves.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002j0v3
7 months ago
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this morning: Bach on the 1844 Broadwood piano in the concert hall, this evening: pipe tunes with the organ in the chapel. Not bad for a Monday.
#UofG
7 months ago
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So chuffed that this album from 2001 is available once again: a bunch of Scottish-Italian and Italian-Scottish music from nearly 300 years ago, and still one of the favourite things Iāve done, for the sheer joyful weirdness of it.
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great to see this available again, with a powerful performance of Sergeant Where's Mine, and a truly virtuosic fart routine which the subtitler clearly enjoyed too. The assistant camera back in 1975 was Jan Pester who later gave me my first jobs writing music for TV!
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Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet
The long-lost film featuring Billy Connollyās 1975 Ireland tour captures āThe Big Yinā on and off stage, providing a captivating record of the comedy legend on the cusp of international stardom.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002hqvk/billy-connolly-big-banana-feet
8 months ago
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nice to be reminded tonight of the joy of practising in a Gothic revival chapel on a summer evening
8 months ago
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spotted my first PLASTICINE ACTION t-shirt in the wild tonight in the Three Judges ā
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Association for Scottish Literature
8 months ago
From Tom Leonardās INTIMATE VOICES 1965ā1983 (Galloping Dog Press, 1984)
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Craig Grannell
8 months ago
A question people should ask themselves, but rarely do: What would you do if, tomorrow, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, and every other cloud provider you use closed your account without warning? Then maybe spend some of today safeguarding against that eventuality.
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Chrisonwheels
9 months ago
youtu.be/KidL8T-Wzy8?...
Here's the link. Saturday 26th July. One night only. Chat opens 7.00pm Performance 7.30pm
#Cardiacs
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CARDIACS - Recorded Live at the TOWN AND COUNTRY CLUB, London. 25 March 1988
YouTube video by abcglobus
https://youtu.be/KidL8T-Wzy8?si=gaX7WHiSE7UpJNkH
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