If I'm listening on vinyl I don't normally play side 2, I just play side 1 twice!

If I'm in a dancing mood, it's got to be Cities in Dust, but otherwise The Sweetest Chill is my favourite on this. Kind of wonder what it could have been with McGeoch on guitar rather than JVC, but JVC does his best.

Cairngorms Fauna Jukebox, by Alec Finlay and Chris Watson 11 track album

Synchronicity! Found out about this set of quite literal field "record"-ings (field recording records field recorded) on the bus this AM by following up on a post by @alecfinlay.bsky.social, then got to work and Chris Watson emailed me about something related! gathering.bandcamp.com/album/cairng...

A man is sitting playing a modular synthesiser covered in wires. He is wearing headphones. The man is snooker legend Steve Davis

This is snooker legend Steve Davis cueing up his next break! (See what I did there)

White bricks organised like waves down the side of a long building. The building is a swimming pool at Gracemount Leisure Centre in Edinburgh.

Detuned waves at Gracemount Leisure Centre.

Mira Calix - Sparrow YouTube video by sencesor

Sparrow is my favourite mira calix. youtu.be/F6IBQwXKPj4

Requiem for Edward Snowden, Utrecht, (4) 20150906 212855 YouTube video by Thomas Edward

A different section from one of the performances, this one in Utrecht www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z93o...

What it (more or less) looked and sounded like in the actual performances (2/2)

This was a big visual influence for one section of the visuals I created for a collaborative project called Requiem for Edward Snowden about 10 years ago. I recreated some of the kinds of imagery using stock footage which I then used as a layered and stuttering audio-reactive layer in realtime (1/2)

Sonorities Music Festival Belfast: 15-18th APRIL 2026 Sonorities is a biennial festival of sound and music, making a joyful commotion in Belfast since 1981. 2026 programme and tickets now available.

I'm (sadly) not at Sonorities this year, but great to be able to watch @xeniapestova.bsky.social via a live stream right now. Lots of other good stuff to be streamed too at sonorities.net/2026/

Pulsar Retcon, by Jules Rawlinson 9 track album

Some codes for Pulsar Retcon, which you can redeem at superpang.bandcamp.com/yum

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My Pulsar Retcon release is 5 years old today. Here I'm playing opening track Lotus Prancer after learning to repeat what I'd previously improvised. pixelmechanics.bandcamp.com/album/pulsar...

Mongoose

In 1993 I was travelling in Malaysia and bought some pirated tapes on a market stall in Kuala Lumpur. There was some kind of deal on so that was one of the tapes I ended up with, along with Juliana Hatfield's "Hey Babe" and Anthrax's "Sound of White Noise". I think I might have binned it soon after!

Currently listening to Michael Nyman 1-100 at low volume while doing some reading, and my office heater is making some kind of repetitive low-register sound, so the combination is like Alva Noto and Sakamoto's Vrioon album.

Have read Lost Souls, Drawing Blood and (very gruesome) Exquisite Corpse multiple times. It's been a while though, so time to dig them out!

A table of synthesisers made from basic components, wires, batteries, knives and cables

John Richards' setup for fun with speakers, batteries and assorted junk during a workshop in feb, including his take on the Victorian Synth

Totally excellent Totaleee improv laptop trio cutting it up last night at Sketchy Beats in Leith. Would love to do a laptop trio duo with them at some point.

Screengrab from a game engine of a view down a road in the middle of a broad valley towards a white building with a phone box and telegraph poles. The image is colour processed so the colours are greens and purples.

Screengrab from a game engine of a view down a broad Highland valley towards distant mountains. The image is colour processed so the colours are greens, browns and purples.

Screengrab from a game engine project of a stone circle on a snowy hillside.

Scenegrabs from songscape project, all (loosely) based on real locations in the Highlands.

A view of Buachaille Etive Mòr as a screen capture from a Unity game engine project in development

Similar view, minus tippex, from a songscape game engine project I'm developing

King Tubby's Meets Bowie Uptown

My best job was the summers I spent working at Camp Cromwell, the (mostly) day camp run by the Boys Club of New York in the late 80s, early 90s. Some of the kids had been in this video and had the Fight The Power t-shirts that you see people wearing in this.

Memon.

My favourite electronic record. Unrelenting, uncompromising.

You're going to do a lot of heavy lifting of the Ivar stuff!

Unsurprisingly, I flippin love this.

Dr. Tom Mudd prescribes algorithmic free music for yr ailments at Tfeh’s @fruitmarket.bsky.social gig this Thursday April 2nd. Buy yr tix & take yr medicine!
www.ticketsource.com/tfeh/tfeh-pr...
#ExperimentalMusic #Noise #FreeImprov #Edinburgh #ArtAgainstTedium

Fred again and again and again.

A sound recordist answering questions after a lecture presentation

A sound recordist with their arm raised stands in front of a projected image of an iceberg

A sound recordist stands in front of two laptops with a projected image of a rockpool behind them

A sound recordist stands in front of a projected image of a seal

Mind / ears blown away by sound wizard Chris Watson's excellent 'Planet Ocean' talk tonight at @edincollegeofart.bsky.social 👏🎧👏🎤👏

Photo of a white middle-aged man playing a modular synth. The man is snooker legend Steve Davis.

Sport/Music collision, snooker legend Steve Davis cueing (geddit?) up his next patch earlier tonight.