📣 Fully-funded PhD studentships at the RNCM #AHRCCraftingCareDFC 📆 Expressions of Interest due 1 December 2025 ⏱️ Details: 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/news/rncm-an...

Echoing @michelle-phillips.bsky.social - wonderful talk from Prof Ian Cross & Dr David Duncan (Uni of Cambridge) at the RNCM Research Forum yesterday, sharing important findings on the interplay of music notation & sightreading accuracy as part of their ongoing Score Design for Music Reading project

At 4.15pm today, Professor Ian Cross, Dr David Duncan, and Katya Ness will share their Leverhulme-funded Score Design for Music Reading project with us at the RNCM (@rncmlive.bsky.social) in our Research Forum. You can join us for this too – details in the link below. www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

Hello! @rncmresearch.bsky.social might be new to Bluesky, but we've been researching #music in the heart of Manchester @oxrdmcr.bsky.social for over fifty years. We look forward to being part of the Bluesky community. You can find out more about us here: www.rncm.ac.uk/research/

🔊 “Statistical Alchemy”. Artist Vicky Clarke (@sonamb.bsky.social) takes us inside AI, sonic materiality and Manchester’s spectral aura. @futureeverything.bsky.social | @rncmprism.bsky.social

Check out the @ox.ac.uk news piece to find out more about our world premiere of Dangerous Matter @rncmlive.bsky.social last week! 🔗https://www.immunology.ox.ac.uk/news/world-premiere-of-dangerous-matter-opera-inspired-by-vaccine-science-and-history-as-part-of-thanks-for-the-memories-project

The opera is the result of a 3 year collaboration between Zakiya Leeming at @rncmprism.bsky.social and Prof. Paul Klenerman @ox.ac.uk supported by @wellcometrust.bsky.social - with a huge range of support and participation from scientists and musicians across Oxford and @manchester.ac.uk 🥳

What a night! A HUGE congratulations to everyone involved in bringing Dangerous Matter to life @rncmlive.bsky.social last night - we're still buzzing from the brilliant performance!

Today's the day! Here's a sneak peek of the world premiere of Dangerous Matter, showing tonight at the RNCM at 7pm - grab your ticket now! www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

🎤 OPERA PREMIERE | 7pm, 24 June, RNCM Theatre ⏱️ Dangerous Matter - a powerful reflection on the role of memory in medicine & human progress, after Lady Mary Montagu Wortley. Zakiya Leeming (composer / libretto) @sredway.bsky.social (director / libretto) 🎟️ www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

🎵Coming up tomorrow 🎼 "Sound Sculptures: A Concert Merging Installation and Live Performance" feat. music by Simon Knighton, Gemma Bass, Emmy Lambert, Sidney Patrick, and Gloria Xia. 📍 @anthonyburgess.bsky.social, M1 5BY, Manchester ⏱️ 8pm, 11 June 2025 🔗 www.ticketsource.co.uk/simonknighton

"I wanted to make a piece which said “I am really confused. ... I am trying to do what I can but not to prove something, simply because *doing* feels better/more useful to me than talking. I want to collect and connect. I’m terrified but I want a happy home and wow, isn’t the world beautiful.”

📢 New PRiSM Blog | 'Climate Music' Innovative pianist-composer Sarah Nicolls discusses how her musical activist works responding to climate change has connected deeply with her being an artist, a parent, and recently becoming a farmer in rural Gloucestershire 👇 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...

PRiSM Summer 2025 News & Upcoming Events 👇 ▶️ Sound Sculptures with Simon Knighton & the House of Bedlam | 11 June ▶️ Dangerous Matter: New Opera by ZakiyaLeeming | 24 June ▶️ 'A Possibility' at #MIF25 feat. new music by Emily Howard | 17-20 July Details 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...

Awesome week at #AEConservatoires #EPARM2025 in Tallinn, sharing #ComingUpForAirInLocation - a new art-research initiative led by Kathryn Williams & myself on critical effects & impact of indoor air quality, and raising public awareness through music #IAQ #ArtisticResearch @rncmprism.bsky.social

👋 Hello BlueSky! 👋 Our February 2025 News is here 👇 ▶️ RNCM appoints two Honorary Researchers in Association with PRiSM ▶️ 'The Anvil' nominated for 2025 BBC Music Magazine Awards | Public voting is open ▶️ PRiSM Researchers at EPARM | April 2025 | Tallinn, Estonia 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...