Really glad I retrained in Cyber like they told me to all those years ago…

Seán Clancy: Where the Paths End Where the Paths End is a new album by one of the most exciting Irish composers of his generation, Seán Clancy. Bringing together works written between 2013 and 2025, the album explores lived experienc...

Probably the best thing I’ve yet done…

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Same!

‘We did a seance for Beethoven, to see what he thought’: the playful, pioneering life of field-recording maestro Annea Lockwood The New Zealand composer burned pianos, sampled earthquakes and recorded Belfast’s peace walls. And at 86 is still invested in her life’s work: to appreciate the music in everyday sound

Annea!

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

This morning, the April 2026 edition of @prxludes.bsky.social dropped, featuring two articles by me, one with Glasgow-based composer Ollie Hawker and another with Newcastle-based Eleanor Cully Boehringer...

Read them in full, for free here
prxludes.net/2026/04/20/o...
prxludes.net/2026/04/20/e...

An egg sliced in two with an almost perfect runny yolk, seasoned with salt & black pepper

The closest I’ve come to a perfect œuf mollet… maybe 10” too long

THREAD 🧵

Israel says it has set up a ‘yellow line’ to demarcate and area it is occupying in southern Lebanon, mirroring a barrier it used in Gaza.

🔗: aje.news/kit2jg | #Infograph

The 1926 Irish census with the record of Samuel Beckett’s family. Beckett is incorrectly recorded as a medical student.

Here I was looking up my own ancestors on the census like a fool, when I could have been looking up where young buck Sam Beckett was at.

The perfect post does not exs….

An orchestra and singers on stage with a pipe organ in the background…

Still thinking about Gerald Barry’s Salome from last night… absolutely extraordinary.

You can listen here (starts at 39 minutes and is about 70 minutes of your time):

www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

Saw the scores when I woke up up this morning and thought that Ball, Knueppel, or Bridges must have gone out injured…

Then watched the highlights and na, just Banchero playing like the late 80s Pistons…

Amazing!

An album cover depicting an industrial scene with an old weathered pipe in the foreground, and a canal and tea factory in the background. There is a blue banner on top with the name Seán Clancy written in white, and the NMC logo also in white. Half way down the album cover is the text 'where the paths end' and just below that is the text plus minus ensemble

Bonjour tout le monde. I'm delighted to say that a month from now on 15 May, @nmcrecordings.bsky.social will release my lasted album. It contains 5 pieces performed by Plus Minus Ensemble. It was recorded by Spud Murphy & mastered by Andrew Weathers. ⚡⚡⚡

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My marketing campaign for the next month…

Haha… oops yes, that’s a typo! Thanks for spotting it!

An album cover depicting an industrial scene with an old weathered pipe in the foreground, and a canal and tea factory in the background. There is a blue banner on top with the name Seán Clancy written in white, and the NMC logo also in white. Half way down the album cover is the text 'where the paths end' and just below that is the text plus minus ensemble

Bonjour tout le monde. I'm delighted to say that a month from now on 15 May, @nmcrecordings.bsky.social will release my lasted album. It contains 5 pieces performed by Plus Minus Ensemble. It was recorded by Spud Murphy & mastered by Andrew Weathers. ⚡⚡⚡

nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/collections/...

Bill Orcutt playing guitar bathed in red light encircled by middle aged bearded men

Mary Keane singing and playing a variety of instruments including mandolin, harmonium, and theremin bathed in red light encircled by middle-aged bearded men.

The great @billorcutt.bsky.social shredded the roof off of Bello Bar last night in Dublin. Great support from Cormorant Tree Oh also. What a really great night of music making. Everyone left in positive spirits. Fair play @enthusiasticeunuch.bsky.social for keeping an eye on our mental healths…

Music has the right to a future…

💯 sorry I didn’t see you there!

Couple of tickets back on sale for this just eff yizzer i

An ensemble onstage with a child’s music toy projected on screen.

An ensemble onstage, with Paul ‘big guns’ Scully projected above the stage running 3km live during his piece. Paul was trying to bring joyous elements of sport (rooting for someone, hoping they succeed) into music. For this piece he had to run 3km in under 10’30” to get to the concert hall before his piece finished. In my book that makes him a very fast runner. He is also a very good composer…

An excellent start (for me) to new Music Dublin. Amazing playing (and collaborating) from Nadar Ensemble. Exciting and thought-provoking pieces from Eveline Vervliet, Nina Fukuoka, Matthew Grouse, and Paul ‘big guns’ Scully, who ran 3km in 11 minutes during his piece. 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

Looking forward to seeing the great @billorcutt.bsky.social with the rest of the Dublin music freaks in the next couple of hours. 🎸 👑

Could you imagine if you invented FM synthesis?

How many lives you’ve impacted etc…

The two Dons of FM Synthesis, having a wee chat…

Dr. John Chowning - Interview By David Burraston

Now up on @imprec.bsky.social

Includes bonus download : Golden Ratio microtuning files for the system used in Stria

importantrecords.com/blogs/news/d...

OH MY ANDRE DRUMMOND

Gonna see him tomorrow. Looking forward! Also, Ailbhe is a class act…

A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.

A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

Silver Apples Of The Moon (VINYL RIP) YouTube video by Evan Cooper

["All my records went in different directions because I was really creating models for the future." Electronic musician Morton Subotnick is 93 years old today. He used a Buchla 100 modular synthesizer to record "Silver Apples of the Moon" (1967).]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hol...

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it just took me 30 mins to get from Nassau Street to Lesson Street (via Merion Square) cause Kildare Street is closed and that’s with bus lane before 8am etc. probably way worse even now.

Genuinely don’t know how they’re going to manage the city during that time.