I've had a few people mention The So Strangely podcast to me this conference season. Maybe its time to bring it back!

Again enjoying following research on music as part of culture and society in a contrast to my usual focus on music as physical phenomenon investigated through music cognition, music technology, and performance-oriented musicology. Our work shouldn't be so separated ccrs.ku.dk/research/asi...

Midsommer, Jyväskylä, 2025

Lovely discussions all through #RPPW20! Sorry to see it end. More about breathing and action coordination to come!

BREAKING: Trans Kids Deserve Better are currently holding a demo outside the United States Embassy in protest of trans rights They're making friendship bracelets

NEW: WIRED confirmed various automated efforts to remove pronouns from both email and Slack at USAID, the EPA, the GSA, and more.

Any countries whose scientific research funding bodies are NOT currently under siege by their own national leadership would do very well announcing investments in bringing in foreign research talent right now

Things to keep close to keep yourself afloat. 20 things to counter fascism, from Jewish anarchists. Includes a zine pdf if you wish to disseminate in printed form. itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...

I never got to meet Jimmy Carter, but I worked on several projects that involved him and music in both popular and classical and just nothing but respect.

Scrunching up To Do postits is satisfying but they look so much smaller than the waiting tasks

💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS 💥 The tech industry has had quite a year with its billionaires revealing who they really are for all to see. Who will be the WORST PERSON IN TECH? 🗳️ Voting is now open: forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1...

My daughter was one of almost 400 tuba players gathered at the Kauffman Center for A Tuba Christmas. It was beautiful.

Nice to see replication in pedagogy!

wonder if this might be a good venue for some new work on laughter during participatory dance activities

on my way home from RM's Wrong People Right Place, think about this KPop star learning about music built by/with live musicians after years of recording alone in a booth to a producer constructed track.

The result of crowd sourcing the exposure and simultaneity of various audience behaviours via analogue interactive plots at the RITMO Largo poster session yesterday.

Spotify cutting off audio features API access? I'm only half surprised. I wonder what the full story is. techcrunch.com/2024/11/27/s...

almost released a "Dance Bachground" survey yesterday. Dyslexia is more creative than i am.

New open dataset of biosignals from academics at a workshop. Why only look at group physiological responses in controlled conditions? osf.io/rk6qs/

Moss

Listening to @404media.co complain about python installation management on mac was like looking in a mirror.