A very lovely day, including meeting up with Mr Rat Drifting and Mr Another Timbre

At my speech therapy class yesterday we worked on Kurt Scwitters' Ursonate

At my PPP0

I came home from hospital 4 years ago today, after a 17-month stay. New developments all the time including, this year, lots of walking outside. And recently have been learning to walk without brakes on my walking frame. Noone quite knows where it'll go from here

Beat Generation Ballads: III. Lonely Banna Strand YouTube video by Philip Thomas - Topic

Seeing as it's Michael Finnissy's 80th (and St Patrick's Day) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3idt...

Fortunately I have considerable training in waiting, as my current life involves a lot of waiting around while other people take me places or do things to me
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John Cage Disc One  66:05 Disc Two  61:50 Recorded in Huddersfield, March 2017 From reviews "The sense of pace is almost viscous without any connotations of stickiness or anything syrupy. If you can imagine ver...

Just been listening to this disc. A prilege to play with Mark Knoop in this beautiful piece, whose musicality and pianism is second to none
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I absolutely love Saturday mornings: bath, toast and marmalade, strong coffee, paper. And the feeling of not being hurried

Performances like no other

Morton Feldman Trios box set 1    Why Patterns?      (1978)       29:55 Taylor MacLennan, flutes    Siwan Rhys, piano    George Barton, glockenspiel   2   Crippled Symmetry    (1983)      90:47 Taylor MacLennan, flute & bass ...

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This is phenomenal. Remarkable. Intriguing , compelling and brilliant. Completely rescues these pieces

Only heard about Jonathan Powell's passing yesterday. Very sad news. A really great pianist with a fascinating repertoire

The genius of Morton Feldman | The Spectator Australia To accompany an exhibition of paintings by Philip Guston at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2004, a…

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happy 100th to Morton Feldman, inventor of pp

Bryn Harrison - Piano Quintet (2016) Quatuor Bozzini Philip Thomas YouTube video by Quatuor Bozzini

A happy memory
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Happy new year everyone

Morton Feldman Trios box set trailer YouTube video by Anothertimbre

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This is outstanding

Have a great day everyone, and a wonderful week. Happy Christmas

We we're intending on having omelette for dinner. But we forgot to buy eggs. Mmmm. Egglessn omelette anyone?

20th Century Radicals - Anthony Braxton: Agency and ancestry - BBC Sounds Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

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Lovely Anthony Braxton

New Music Show - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Sarah Hennies' Borrowed Light - BBC Sounds Tom Service presents the UK premiere of Sarah Hennies' Borrowed Light for string quartet.

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Wonderful new quartet by bsky.app/profile/sara... on the radio, performed at hcmf

Many thanks to Mr Another Timbre for driving me and looking after me so well

New Music Show - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Explore Ensemble and ONCEIM - BBC Sounds Explore Ensemble perform a brand new work from Bryn Harrison.

I went to a wonderful concert last Friday at hcmf. Excellent performances and wonderful piece by Bryn Harrison. You can listen here

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John Lely NB running low on CD copies 1  ‘Doubles’   (2012)   string quartet2  ‘Karnaugh Quartet’   (2020)   string quartet3  ‘Pale Signal’   (2020)   electronics, John Lely4  ‘Meander Section’   (2018)   versi...

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Am listening to my favourite CD of recent years

I go to Huddersfield tomorrow for the opening concert of the festival. Which is a bit weird as it’s the first time I’ve been back for a couple years. Promises to be a great programme with new works by Rytis Mazulis and Bryn Harrison played by the Explore Ensemble

Listening toCage’s orchestral music I realise I smile an awful lot

Preceded by a fantastic afternoon featuring a visit from Steve Chase, Heather Roche, and Laurence Crane

SOUNDS OF NOW: ÉLIANE RADIGUE FOR HARP, VIOLIN & DOUBLE BASS SOUNDS OF NOW: ÉLIANE RADIGUE FOR HARP, VIOLIN & DOUBLE BASS - Music in the Round %

I forgot to mentio this marvellous concert of Radigue I attended last weekend
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Poster of Houdini, who devised the upsidedown escape from a straightjacket in near Greystones with the city's own Great Randini

Graves Gallery/Library stairwell

Pictures from Penny McCarthy's 'How to look through time' exhibition at Graves Gallery

Upper Chapel with harp #thereturnofthesonofblurryphotos

A swift jaunt to Sheffield catching up with a bunch of excellent people (including, at last again, the inimitable indomitable @philipthomas.bsky.social ) and amazing sounds from #FredericBlondy #AngharadDavies #RhodriDavies & #DominicLash

New Music Show - Wild About Nature - BBC Sounds The New Music Show goes wild about nature.

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Really excellent and lovely piece by Lisa Streich on this week’s New Music Show

5 years ago an unpredictable and radical event led to me following an entirely different life