A little chat I did with Daryl Buckley a few months ago about conducting, physicality, gesture, instrumentation, collaboration, etc. youtube.com/watch?v=_oAjg9…

A lovely, detailed review of the recent Kairos CD. @ELISIONensemble Ensemble Musikfabrik JACK Quartet line upon line elcompositorhabla.com/es/noticias.zh…

Map of the UK, according to Americans.

For those on the hunt …

Ooof. theguardian.com/culture/2023/j…

Jackasses.

On the contrary, they know exactly what they’re doing. And they’ve spent their entire lives preparing how to do it.

Will be responding tomorrow to the govt announcement on 'low-value' courses. Please get in touch with Roddy Hawkins with anything you want to feed in. In solidarity with all in the Arts & Humanities Alliance (AHA). We have to put forward a positive counter narrative or else we lose the argument

Imagine dinosaurs posing with an asteroid

Worth a read: pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

I can’t top this

Brilliant opportunity to use archive collections (and their silences) to inspire new work, funded by Sound and Music

bachtrack.com/news-drop-a-le…

Please read the Guardian coverage of ISM 6th Brexit report Paying the Price. Devastating findings. Govt really must Make Brexit Work as they promised theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Once more for the people at the back: opera singers — and particularly those working in new music — do this all the time. It is indeed amazing. But they’ve been doing it for, you know, ages, often while doing 10 other things simultaneously. Welcome to the party.

Think it might be time to get off this ride.