It’s bandcamp Friday, ya’ll - the day where you’re money helps support the artists most! Look at all these beautiful people: they all make great music that you can listen to sawyereditions.bandcamp.com/merch

Have any of you tried out www.multiphonics.app yet? Would love to know what you think or if you have any feature requests!

Éliane Radigue in Nice, France c. 1950s Photo: Yves Raman

"Radigue pursued an exciting musical life, moving from electroacoustic feedback to electronic music (with the help of her inseparable ARP 2500) and finally reinventing herself through fruitful collaborations with numerous instrumentalists.” R.I.P. Éliane Radigue buff.ly/ShlQoU5

Me wanting to use multiphonics like

Another generous review of my Annea Lockwood album - this one from Five Lines in New Zealand by Elizabeth Kerr. I look forward to presenting Annea’s work at @counterflows.bsky.social and @musicintheround.bsky.social this spring! www.fivelines.nz/articles/ul6...

New feature! Multiphonic of the day 😍 www.multiphonics.app

Also can you just take a moment to imagine with what glee I bought the domain www.multiphonics.app SO MUCH GLEE

Ok the app is live. Have at it, clarinet multiphonic lovers. I'm dying to know what you think and how you'll use it! www.multiphonics.app

Soft launch has gone so well. Just over 50 users now! Such a thrill. And yesterday someone posted a bit of feedback in the forum which was genuinely so helpful so I implemented everything this morning. I really want to go proper live now.

Ok, I think the app is done. I think I might hit go on the soft launch tomorrow. Might spend today adding some more contrabass multiphonics...

my violin chord composer's helper tool is more or less done if anyone else wants to try it out

One week left to apply to this PhD studentship! Fully funded, covers fees and stipend; UK home student applicants only (due to funder rules).

Realised I hadn't added an option to cancel your account in what I thought yesterday might be a Finished App. Oops. Obviously had that realisation at 5am.

We're welcoming applications for the 2027 RPS Composers programme, for UK-based composers establishing a career. Write for a noted ensemble, venue or festival, with professional development workshops and mentoring. Find out more and apply by 1 April: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/composers/rp...

I put a tool in my admin panel to check for duplicated fingerings and I found about 30 (oops - but there were 614 fingerings total so human error is likely), and it was SO satisfying to start tidying them all up. Urgent to do it too since my clarinetist beta tester has started work today 🥰

Wouldn't it be cool if suddenly there was just this huge proliferation of multiphonic-heavy clarinet music because the app just makes it so easy to be creative with them all? Oh man I could die happy to think I helped bring that kind of joy into the world 🤣

Experience a deep dive into the cutting edge of Iceland’s mesmerising musical landscape in a full day of music, film and talks: www.alternativeclassical.co.uk/concerts-cal...

Composers! I've made a clarinet multiphonic app with a ton of features I know you'll love. Been dreaming of doing this myself for 12 years and now it's real. I'm just in the testing phase now if you want early and discounted access sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#MusicIcon Michel Arrignon, co-founder of the Ensemble Intercontemporain and cherished clarinettist, has passed away at 76. A pioneer of modernism, he brought 20th-century masterpieces to life and was deeply inspired by his work with Pierre Boulez. #ClassicalMusic #Legacy

Since it was my birthday last week, I bought myself a present: a new contrabass clarinet mouthpiece from JD Woodwinds. 3D printed, and 1/3 of the price of other models. Arrived from the US in less than a week. And it plays like a dream. Agility + dynamic control are up 10x.

In color: Dimitri and Irina Shostakovich playing with a little cat.

Three days until the deadline for our Composer's Lab, get your applications in! heatherroche.net/2025/02/25/z...

Spent all day recording Meredith Monk on my glorious contrabass clarinet and I love playing it so much and please can more people book me to do so? Please? I really don’t get to take her out often enough. She’s low and a bit farty and really just delightful.

@royalbirmcons.bsky.social is offering TWO £5000 scholarships open to applicants for our MA Musicology course. This one-year course can be a gateway to PhD studies or simply a chance to explore any area of music in more depth with world-leading experts, all in our state-of-the-art facilities 1/

I wrote a thing after an encounter with one of my adult clarinet students! (I also started a Substack, having already been hooked on the platform for a few months now.)

I'm happy with this video too but this thumbnail is probably my best work ever 🤣

We're putting on this gig on Friday (21st Feb) with Weston Olencki and Laura Cocks (launching their album FATHM), two excellent experimental musicians from the USA who I am sure some of you know. Please come to this gig! Sign up here: www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

We are now accepting applications for the next ZRD Composer's Lab. Three commissions of €1500, no restrictions on age or nationality (although 2/3 must be resident in Germany) kuenstlerhaus-lauenburg.de/composers-la...

Have a call with a tonebase clarinet coachee this afternoon and I'm so excited to get her started. The way the platform helps you track your progress and get feedback every week is cool, I think it's going to be an amazing tool (and hope more people sign up!) coaching.tonebase.co/coaches/heat...

Re-amplifying this job going in digital music cultures in @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social Come work with me and many other nice people in arts & humanities. Plenty of opportunity to collaborate in the school & in the college The search is deep & wide www.ucd.ie/adastrafello...

I'm playing a set at the Blue Moon in Cambridge tomorrow with my pal Jack Cooper (Modern Nature), and Jon Collin is headlining and I think it's all going to be rather beautiful joncollin.bandcamp.com/album/the-ot... so come along cambridge folks, lots of floaty guitars (and bass clarinets!)

I'm not the only instrumental studio in this position, but interesting to see how many professional clarinetists are signing up for Darmstadt - I have feeling younger players just don't know about it. Still some spaces in the clarinet studio so please tell your friends, today is last day to apply!

Just been reading about crosstalk as a language learning method - hoo boy that would have been a GREAT idea when I was learning German, I had so many awkward tandem dates…

#NowPlaying Gorgeous melancholic motets by Renaissance composer *Nicolas Gombert, arranged for instruments by contemporary composer James Weeks who also composed the 'media vita' interludes. Beautifully played by the great @apartment-house.bsky.social *a bad man

You can’t measure the worth of writing by views. Most of the finest articles I’ve ever had the joy to commission & edit for tQ are nowhere near our most read. Every publication that has gone slutty for page views has also gone shit - it’s a race to the bttm, that’s the rules.

One of my favourite places in all of London and the idea of it not being there anymore is too awful to really think about

This monthly roundup always inspires some listening in this house, but also really glad he dug our Gombert/Weeks record. daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...

Have quite a busy spring of projects coming up, except April. April is this weird black hole where I have *nothing*. The one thing I did have was just cancelled. April, come on, what are you doing to me?

Across four sessions, hcmf// and @hootcreativearts.bsky.social offer a fun opportunity to make music online in a group setting, led by community musician and arts practitioner Rob Crisp. No experience necessary – just an open mind and an internet connection. Learn more: hcmf.co.uk/online-elect...

i don't care who you are- this is going to be an educational experience. mark it on your calendar:

We're welcoming applications for the 2026 RPS Composers programme, for UK-based composers establishing a career. Write for a noted ensemble, venue or festival, alongside professional development workshops and mentoring. Apply by 25 March via royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/composers/rp...

I'm doing another LIVE Q&A on my YouTube Channel on Thursday, aimed mostly at composers (although clarinetists you're also very welcome as ever!). More info and how to submit a question in advance here: heatherroche.net/2025/02/03/l... Photo by Sam Walton

One week to go until applications are due for the Darmstadt Instrumental Studios! Have you got your application in? internationales-musikinstitut.de/en/ferienkur...

My new composition residency for trans girls with inti figgis-vizueta and Andrew Yee happening this summer is still accepting applications through this weekend. The deadline was 1/31 and we got a nice healthy # of applications but giving folks a couple more days to apply. www.sarah-hennies.com/gliss

We appeal to those in power at Cardiff University to cherish and protect the School of Music. Matching the pride that Wales famously possesses for its musicians, the School takes such care training its students, and the UK music profession embraces all they have to offer.

flutists, oboists, trumptists, cellists, we are looking forward to working with you in Darmstadt summer courses, for the premiere of my piece, The divine thawing of the core. (52'), and Ustvolskaya's amazing 2nd symphony. see link to Program notes internationales-musikinstitut.de/en/ferienkur...

Spent an hour on Zoom with Donald from Chicago and Jesse from Columbus, talking about clarinet articulation for tonebase - moved on to general clarinet nerdery and what a perfect way to start the weekend.

Recorded some bass clarinet parts for some absolutely gorgeous songs today. My chops are a wreck after three hours of mostly long tones and delicate multiphonics but omg so so beautiful.