Boycotting Pepsi only for the reason that their new ad contains an English translation of “Je ne regrette rien”

Edith in the original French or bust

‘Stop using my voice' - ScotRail's new announcer is my AI clone Voiceover artist Gayanne says an AI used on ScotRail trains was trained using her voice.

The way of the future:

"It's hard enough for people in the creative industry to sustain careers but to be competing with a robotic version of yourself just adds insult to injury."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

They never have to take any responsibility for the livelihoods of the people they are entirely reliant upon. It would be more accurate then, to think of artists as a natural resource to be mined by others, rather than as valued workers in an economy. Let’s take publishing as an example . . . 5/

MA SVES group at University of York - 2024-5 cohort

I'm still looking for a tenor for the MA in Solo-Voice Ensemble Singing at the U of York this September. A year's course, coaching every week from me and top quality singing lessons (not from me...) Please be in touch if you're interested - and do pass on. Current lot (2 groups) pictured.

These are the twins, Galila and Dot.

We said pay what you want for opera — the audience changed overnight On stage the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo has bared all as Philip Glass’s Akhnaten. Off it, he runs the only American opera company that has sold out its entire season

We said pay what you want for opera — the audience changed overnight
From Pharaoh to impresario: Anthony Roth Costanzo talks to @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/article/dc84...

"Holy Week is coming" to the tune of the Coca Cola Christmas advert.

And speaking of gear shifts — after a lovely day of early ATB music at Westminster Abbey, now I’m off to New Music Dublin for a week of Xenakis!

Boulez to Finzi without even a pause for thought just now on BBC radio 3. Quite the gear shift on a Sunday morning!

Guthanna ar an gCnoc, Foteini Tryferopoulou, Nan Goldin. Composer, Eoghan Desmond on his nature-infused new work for Chamber Choir Ireland, Guthanna ar an gCnoc; Orit Gat on the slide shows, activism... and playlists of Nan Goldin; and satnav and cacti crash the soundworlds of Foteini Tryferopoulou.

Guthanna ar an gCnoc, Foteini Tryferopoulou, Nan Goldin.
Composer, Eoghan Desmond on his nature-infused new work for Chamber Choir Ireland, Guthanna ar an gCnoc; Orit Gat on the slide shows, activism... and playlists of Nan Goldin; and satnav and cacti crash the soundworlds of Foteini Tryferopoulou.

Why Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons — and what that means in an invasion by Russia Three decades ago, the newly independent country of Ukraine was briefly the third-largest nuclear power in the world. A lot has changed since then.

A reminder that Ukraine was once the third largest nuclear power in the world and voluntarily gave up those weapons. In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia guaranteed Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum.

www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1...

Love going on a podcast to talk about my work and the first thing the presenter does in the introduction is wildly mispronounce the title of the work even though I say it multiple times in the (pre-recorded) podcast.

In Liverpool today with Exaudi, for two performances of “Hello Halo” by @rubycolleymusic.bsky.social

2. Judge Judy the Opera

1. For a few years I’ve been slowly developing a large scale (ca. 1 hour) piece drawing on texts from Revelations of Divine Love. Think Symphony for large Chamber Choir in terms of scale

Ask me about what I want to do

First double bar line of the year

One of the most bleak truths about modern public discourse is that some of the people who are doing absolutely nothing in real life are all over social media, berating the rest of us for not posting enough on social media.

US YouTuber shows off cúpla focal in Donegal Gaeltacht A 34-year-old New Jersey man has shown a global audience that the spoken Irish language is indeed not so difficult at all to learn.

A 34-year-old New Jersey man has shown a global audience that the spoken Irish language is indeed not so difficult at all to learn

...and the line I may quote forever more to anyone who says climate reporting is too doomy:
"The problem is that the problem is so big that to even describe it factually sounds like scaremongering"

HOW am I only just discovering Inside No. 9 now? I watched the first four episodes today and every single one is a miniature masterpiece. I’m not surprised it’s sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes!

*RE visiting

First flight of the year booked and BA really really need to sort out their app functionality

Really looking forward to visiting this beautiful work

Mark Gattiss is bloody brilliant in season 1 of Wolf Hall, but I do have a hard time not seeing him as Val Denton basically at all times.

First double bar line of the year! It’s a shame it was due before last Christmas but that’s how life goes sometimes eh?

A cross stitch of convicted master felon and antagonist of Wallace and Gromit: Feathers McGraw. He is a plasticine penguin, wearing a red rubber glove as a cap to deceive people into thinking he is an innocent chicken when he is in fact a very evil and criminal penguin.

Woke up this morning with this guy on my mind and thought "I simply must cross stitch him" and so, hours later, here he is.

What does writing music even look like? Most days it’s just scribbling, planning, scheming, plotting. Most of the actual artistic bit happens on scraps of paper. The finished product that a choir sings from is just a lot of tedious typesetting.

Thomas Hardy’s great end-of-year lyric poem, ‘The Darkling Thrush’, was originally published in The Graphic on 29 December 1900 – though a deleted 1899 on the manuscript suggests he may have written it earlier.