You best star believing in cyberpunk dystopias You're in one with picture of Hector Barbossa with a cyberpunk hat and glasses

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Final 24 hours, 82% of the way there! If you would like to donate to Siglo de Oro Spinacino Consort's crowdfunder now is the time, each donation matched by Creative Scotland! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hey-for-ch...

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We are now 69% of the way there for our crowdfunder for our Hey for Christmas recording! Please help us with the final push in the final two days. Each donation is matched by Creative Scotland making each donation go twice as far!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hey-for-ch...

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If peace is your aim this Hogmanay then I invite you to join me on NTS.live from 8pm for ‘vespers’ – a blend of choral music from the fourteenth to the twenty-first centuries 🕊️

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Spinacino Consort will be recording our programme 'Hey for Christmas!' with Siglo de Oro! But we need your help. We have received generous support from @continuoconnect.bsky.social and Gemma Classical Music Trust, but still need to raise funds.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hey-for-ch...

Creative Scotland will match each donation up to £250 making your donation go twice as far! Click the link in the above post to donate.

Spinacino Consort will be recording our programme 'Hey for Christmas!' with Siglo de Oro! But we need your help. We have received generous support from @continuoconnect.bsky.social and Gemma Classical Music Trust, but still need to raise funds.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hey-for-ch...

Graphic with concluding words from the RMA statement: "We urge the University of Nottingham in the strongest terms to reverse its decision to suspend recruitment to all undergraduate programmes in music, and to continue to provide whole- hearted support to a department that has already achieved so much in so many different areas of music, and which, with its highly talented and deeply committed staff body, is excellently positioned to thrive in the future."

RMA statement on the proposed suspension of recruitment to all UG music programmes at the University of Nottingham: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/17/s...

I’ve been asked to do a phone interview tomorrow on ‘how the funding crisis is affecting early career academics’

Apart from ‘there are no jobs’, what else should we be saying? #academia

Bringing flashbacks of when I was just about to submit

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

Treat yourself - listen on Bandcamp, and then buy it to keep! Bandcamp waive their commission on Bandcamp Fridays, so Musica Secreta will benefit even more from your purchase.

Congratulations to the 28 ensembles who are celebrating their successful grant applications this week!

Here's a new commute playlist featuring an hour of beautiful recordings by some of this round's new grantees.

Listen now on Spotify 🎧 go.continuoconnect.com/grant-round-...

Is the rapture using the Pacific Time Zone? I have been waiting all day and so far nothing.

Musica Secreta Uncovers Lost Convent Manuscripts Discover rare 16th-century sacred music from Galileo's daughters' convent near Florence. Musica Secreta's new album reveals hidden Renaissance treasures.

We have our first review for Ricordanze! Thank you Interlude interlude.hk/nuns-celebra...

For every €1 of public money invested in the pilot, society received €1.39 in return The net cost of the BIA pilot went from €105m to under €72m due to tax generated and savings on social welfare payments

It also finds that recipients’ arts-related income increased by over €500 per month on average, while their income from non-arts work decreased by around €280. Dependence on social protection declined, with recipients receiving €100 less per month on average, and 38 percentage points less likely to receive Jobseeker’s payments.

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare

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@drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social this was a film idea I had yesterday and someone has got there first

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Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan

Songs and Fancies: Aberdonian music-making in the 17th Century Image: Title page from the 3rd edition of Songs and Fancies, 1682, from an ABE Books sales page (other versions also exist from e.g. the NLS). This post welcomes guest-author Roslyn Potter, who is …

🎶 I wrote a piece on 'Songs and Fancies', Scotland's earliest printed music book. Many thanks to Jane Petteree over at Soundyngs blog for hosting!

So useful to see! I will check out these recommendations, I also really like The Elements of Academic Style by Eric Hayot

Eric Thomas is fundraising on behalf of Crohn's & Colitis UK I’ll be taking on 123 skips a day throughout August, that’s 3,813 skips in total – one for every 1 in 123 people affected by Crohn’s or Colitis in the UK. I’m supporting Crohn’s & Colitis UK because...

There is still time to donate if you would like!

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Yesterday I completed the skipping challenge (though I was perhaps not as consistent as I was at the beginning!) and we managed to raise £245 for Crohn's & Colitis UK! Thanks so much to everyone who donated, your generosity will make a big difference to someone suffering with this illness.

I think the top one! If you can extract the colours from the photo then use them that would be perfect, but I do not have the technical know how haha

If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.

Just a few more hours to grab rewards from our crowdfunder!
Don't worry, though, if you are more inclined to support us by a simple donation or by pre-ordering the album on Bandcamp, you can do that, too.
We'll remind you about Bandcamp Friday *next week*!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/musica-sec...

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

It's not too late to donate to this wonderful project!

Crowdfunder 7: Visits ft. Curtis YouTube video by MusicaSecreta

It's Week 7 of our crowdfunder and we have a final history lesson for you! This week with added #MedRenMascot Curtis. If you haven't found time to support us yet, do consider pledging for signed books or CDs, pre-order the album on Bandcamp or donate direct to us on our website. youtu.be/NlAhZu-JKIQ

Came here just for this! Great episode so far (still listening obvs)