Praised as 'an absolute hoot' by The Wire Magazine, join Bastard Assignments for the UK première of their folk-horror musiktheater piece PIGSPIGSPIGS this evening 🎭
🕰️ 7.30pm
🎶 PIGSPIGSPIGS
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202604111930
It’s gig day! Am en route to Wigmore Hall. Just a few hours till Bastard Assignments’ PIGSPIGSPIGS’ UK premiere. There’s still some tickets left if you want to come! www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
@divinecomedyhq.bsky.social I've recently sent an email to Neil's agent whose address I had from 2022 when I interviewed him for my PhD research - just wondering if that email (name starting w N) is still correct. Can you confirm by DM pls? (happy to send address by DM but can't do this directly!)
In Mario Kart Wii, crashing the game and activating the crash handler will eventually start playing back the contents of the Wii's RAM as sound. Since the data was never intended to be interpreted like this, it ends up sounding like experimental harsh noise music.
Had a great chat with Caitlin, Edward and Josh about this last week; really looking forward to it.
840 returns on 21 March with a programme of new vocal music performed by New London Chamber Choir at Stone Nest.
eightforty.co.uk/events/210326/
Have you been living under a rock? If so, you might not have heard that BASTARD ASSIGNMENTS will be performing in London for the 1st time in 5 YEARS. We're doing our musiktheater piece PIGSPIGSPIGS at @wigmore-hall.org.uk, no less! Tickets on sale RIGHT NOW: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
OMG there's a DIY version??? I was looking at the MORE ROAR on Dirty Electronics' website a couple of days ago and trying to be super-strong and adult and not just shout TAKE MY MONEY immediately.
Bela Gem is here: the biggest upgrade to the Bela platform in a decade, with a quad-core processor (PocketBeagle 2), up to 10ch audio I/O, and a completely new IDE.
We've delivered the boards to our Crowd Supply backers and it's now available on our shop: bela.io/products/bel...
Unusual opportunity for student composers & recent graduates to compose a piano solo for a creative process research project. No entry fee, top 5 win up to £500 (vouchers) + performance. Apply by 20 Feb to compose Mar-May. www.martinsuckling.com/yiaf
Friday at Kings Place: A unique window into the New York art scene in the midst of the AIDS crisis as Zubin Kanga gives the London premiere of Philip Venables' Answer Machine Tape, 1987. A powerful and poignant reflection on queer history. Book now: tinyurl.com/kp20251205
DALTON???!??! With you on early Brosnan but Craig is my no. 1 because he treads a nice line between the book-Bond and the film-Bond. I have a soft spot for Lazenby too.
Always adored the films though from an early age. Haven’t watched one in a while actually… maybe I can Bond my way through the rest of these 3 root canals…
Yes! That would be grand. I read all the books back to back during the early lockdowns. I liked the short stories and the early books but once the 1960s hit the sexism got worse (and there’s some disturbing sexual violence mentions) and tbh the later books were a bit of a trial.
Yes!
I care! TBH I can’t see Amazon doing a great job of Bond. To me, the Bond films are Broccoli films. They made them into something special - sometimes absolutely bananas but they were their own thing with little connection to the books.
Four white people are posed within what appears to be a farm shed. They are all looking straight at the camera, surrounded by discarded tools, paint, rope and bags of unknown stuff. In front are two young men wearing dresses. One has a grey mop-like wig, while the other is blonde, with a beard, holding some dried flowers. Behind them on the left is an older woman dressed like a man, with a brown suit jacket over a collared shirt and dark corduroy trousers. On the right a the back is a much taller man, wearing a flat cap and a tweed jacket over a nightshirt. He is holding a large rusty scythe. They all have bare feet. A single bare lightbulb hangs above them from a wooden beam.
Oslo gig! Bastard Assignments are performing our experimental folk-horror music theatre piece PIGSPIGSPIGS in Oslo on Saturday. Info & tickets here: nymusikk.no/en/events/ba...
"Truly bizarre — and truly funny" - iscene.dk
I'm playing the farmer's son. Tim is my girlfriend. Of course.
One of my favourite record labels, www.anothertimbre.com has had a gorgeous website redesign and to celebrate they have a 5-CDs-for-£25 special offer. If you’re into modern composition and minimalism there is no finer label.
Congratulations! Such happy news!
Sitting in the garden in the sun. Cup of tea. Listening to @leochadburn.bsky.social ‘s Primordial Pieces. Intermittently reading Yoshi Oida’s marvellous book The Invisible Actor. Very happy with this state of affairs.
Ooh I need to revisit this one. Been too long...
New necklace alert! 🚨
Photograph showing a messy desk with equipment lying around - a hot glue gun and 2 ends of a scruffy-looking contact microphone sit on a stained silicone mat with a craft knife. Beside the mat we can see a desoldering device, a cup of tea, a wire cutter, soldering iron and various scraps of wire, tape, glue and plastic bags for components. Everything is sitting on top of a large green self-healing mat which obscures all of the table’s surface expect for a small strip showing a golden-toned wood, right at the bottom of the image.
I made a contact mic today! It’s ugly and has some problems for me to iron out in version 2, but hey! It plugs in, it makes a sound approximating what I expected, it doesn’t blow anything up. I’m calling this a win.
*waves madly* I’m doing ok, thanks! Filling my spare hours learning electronics. This weekend I’m going to try to make my first contact mic!
⚡ Latest in PRXLUDES: Learn about composer-performer group Bastard Assignments and the process behind their latest commissions, HOUSE and PIGSPIGSPIGS:
prxludes.net/2025/03/17/b...
I've caved. Much as I love Mastodon (and will still be over there), Bluesky seems to be where the people I know AFK hang out, so here I am. Good to see you all again!
