Next week! For all those in Yorkshire, I will be giving a talk for the Royal Meteorological Society alongside @jrcarpenter.bsky.social (who very kindly invited me along). "Towards a Wind Humanities" - on wind as "model, media, and experience" www.rmets.org/event/toward...

Coin toss - In Dark Trees or Zawinul/Lava

Third Uncle is my favourite on this. Pre Punk Post Punk. youtu.be/IxsUGOQm6qQ

Nuclear Strop is my favourite on this ; )

"you're going to love our defeatist attitude" by The Remote Viewer, always in my favourites pile. @anewlinerelated.bsky.social

It's been great to see Autechre support local artists as support acts on tour. Highly recommend having a listen to this by nnirror, who was their support in Detroit nnirror.bandcamp.com/album/21-oct...

Best music night in Edinburgh! Tomorrow @fruitmarket.bsky.social #noise #improv

No hesitation here. Green Fingers is my favourite on this.

Too many good songs to choose from on here, but today I think my favourite is Alcoholiday

The demographic at the Autechre show in Glasgow last night. (Actually there was a lot of different people, and it was incredible)

It’s my birthday this week and all I really want is for youse to buy tix to see Alison Beattie, Aleatory Music Systems & Vole Invasion at @fruitmarket.bsky.social on Sunday 9th Nov! www.ticketsource.co.uk/tfeh/tfeh-pr... #Edinburgh #ExperimentalMusic #Noise #FreeImprov #ArtAgainstTedium

What's brilliant about working a music dept is that I hear all sorts of things being rehearsed in the room below me. However, there is a barbershop quartet rehearsing christmas songs below me right now, and it's a bit much.

Halloween. Not quite my favourite, but one to lead off with. McGeoch's slashing guitar is excellent here, and surprising to hear him flub the start (although he'd flub complete songs later) youtu.be/XIYj8ueEg2c

New Tortoise LP by sounds bot.

I listen to Loop *a lot* & they were really important to me learning to play guitar. First heard Collision on John Peel's Festive 50 in 1988 & was smitten. Got *really* sunburned listening to Fade Out on the beach in Calella a year later on a field trip! This album steered me towards stranger shores

The string machines in Say Hello, Wave Goodbye are among my favourite synthy moments of any song, and Bedsitter is minimal percussive bliss but my favourite Soft Cell is Torch. Soft cells of rolling melodies...

First band I saw live, and, unsurprisingly, I love this record.

I ⬛️⬜️⬛️⬜️⬛️⬜️ this record. Every part of it has written itself into my DNA.

My favourite moment of Off Brand's set at last TFEH was @gianttank.bsky.social telling/asking Firas to reconsider what he was doing (which was wall of guitar) to give more space for Ali's amplified objects. I enjoyed performance ofc, but also seeing that moment of owning 'this isn't working for me'.

Probably heresy but Kicking Against The Pricks is my favourite Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds album, or it's the one I play most, at least.

I 🖤🖤🖤 this track.

The best Doctor Who episode doesn't have the Doctor in it. It's a single episode spin-off called K9 and Company featuring some very satanic ritual witchcraft scenes which terrified me as a child in 1981. It's available on iPlayer so it can terrify kids today, excellent! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Amazing! As I'll take any opportunity to say, @elleesaich.bsky.social is my very *very* favourite person working in computer music. Here she is bossing it at Tectonics in Glasgow in May. She even had her own badge!

Still a few tickets left to hear @xeniapestova.bsky.social playing these tomorrow at St Cecilia's Hall, plus new work from @tinparksky.bsky.social and @aulichmusic.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leaky-bodi...

The Average White Stripes Band

TONIGHT AT @fruitmarket.bsky.social !!! #Edinburgh #ExperimentalMusic #FreeImprov #Noise #Weirdo #Avant #Electroaciustic #Drone #ArtAgainstTedium #TheReturn

Of the three This Mortal Coil albums, this is the one I listen to the most. It'll End in Tears has some great individual tracks, Blood has some fun moments, but Filigree and Shadow starts off Filigree and ends in Shadow. Ivy and Neet is my favourite on this.

Timepark by @mhasselbalch.bsky.social is great! Ambient but noisy, droning but detailed, calm but restless etc. One of my favourite releases of this year. marchasselbalch.bandcamp.com/album/timepark

My favourite Cocteau Twins record by quite some margin.

Many years ago I shared a nod with the Bass Thing from The Wonderstuff in Tower Records on Broadway. He worked there after he quit the band. I think I was wearing a PWEI t-shirt at the time. There was a great weekend market in the lot next door where this woman called Scary Mary sold handpainted Ts.

Media archaeology! Max 2.5.2 Disks 1-5 @cycling74.bsky.social

My list includes Claudia, Eric, Herrick, Nadja of Antipaxos, Miriam Blaylock, Severen and Blade. Oh, and The Girl. Oh, and, and, and... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

What a set of releases on @superpanghq.bsky.social!

Speedrun through an interactive songscape feat. transformations of traditional Scots song Fause, Fause performed by @loriwatson.bsky.social. Now with elements that develop the AV aesthetic. Audio made with @cycling74.bsky.social MaxMSP & @audiokinetic.bsky.social Wwise @edincollegeofart.bsky.social

20th anniversary refresh of pads and headband on my DT770s

heres an old video of me playing my max msp patch playing my sampled guitar. (this is not thrilling Visual Content)

A synthesiser, specifically a Dirty Electronics Bed of Nails #synthsky

Zoning out / zoning in to The Sunny Side of Hell by @mhasselbalch.bsky.social. Billowing layers of foggy drone shot through with god rays.

I love Rachel's, especially this one rachels.bandcamp.com/track/an-eve...

Raw Green Rust (me, @weefuzzy.bsky.social & @davemurrayrust.bsky.social) on this date in 2019 performing our improvised abstract glitch dub at Experimenta, Heilbronn. It's a science dome, so at one point the stage and seating began to rotate, was very odd. Full performance linked in next post.

Don't miss this, and also pick up Still Missing At The Club while yr at @l68k.com's Bandcamp page.

Mor Raw Green Rust #computermusic #improvisation with viola and networked laptops.

Mor Raw Green Rust session earlier (Nikki Moran (viola), me, @weefuzzy.bsky.social and @davemurrayrust.bsky.social)

Hope to see everyone for the return of another bunch of Giant Tanks TFEH events @fruitmarket.bsky.social on Sunday 12 October www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/edi...

The first few seconds of Hazy Shade of Winter are sublime, but Bring The Noise has had a much longer lasting effect on my sonic tastes. This one comes with a specific memory of getting ready for a school party when I was 17.

Reporting here that @danelaw.bsky.social 'summer' album also works really well as an autumnal album. evel.bandcamp.com/album/the-bl...

Picture This is my favourite on this brilliant, brilliant record.

Get your glitch on with Raw Rust Remote 250901 by Two-Thirds Of A Good Thing (any two of Raw Green Rust, me and @davemurrayrust.bsky.social on this occasion). An edit of an online laptop improv session! Free / NYP #computermusic #noise rawgreenrust.bandcamp.com/track/raw-ru...

Road, river and rail is my favourite on this. Also, I once bought the domain name cherrycolouredfunk dot com. Not really sure why.

Highly recommend having a listen to this if you're an experimental noise music and making.person.