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schrimshaw.bsky.social
Synthesis, music, art, education, long distance cycling.
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Testing updates. Mutation tables, consignments, encounters, distance units, environmental variables. A solo ttrpg inspired by Vandermeer, Cronenberg and dot watching designed to be played anywhere with just the contents of a pencil case and paper.

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Performances include multi-channel electroacoustic works by Simon Emmerson, live-coding duo Epiploke and Trevor Wishart’s Hieronymus Bosch inspired piece The Garden of Earthly Delights. performancevenues.group.shef.ac.uk/event/compos...

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Spent the afternoon scheduling Composing (with) Systems and getting very excited about it. www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/univer...

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"Why does the house smell like drains!?" First batch.

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Lontano always puts me back on Byker bridge.

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James McCartney (@asynth.bsky.social), author of SuperCollider, a language that changed the landscape of computer music, has just released a new audio programming system called sapf or, "sound as pure form". I am looking forward to this weekend! github.com/lfnoise/sapf?

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Dusting off a copy of Negative Dialectics in the library and found this lovely DIY bookmark (presumably from a student many years ago).

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Morning reading: @ben-carey.bsky.social's metastable inventions which maps the composition of and with modular systems onto Simondon's framework for conceptualising the ontogenesis of technological objects. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Le Guin's 9 Lives: more ideas elegantly folded into a handful of pages than many manage in whole novels.

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Finally finished reading Ned Bauman's Venomous Lumpsucker, set in an unnervingly close future in which an Extinction Industry has arisen in response to the runaway collapse of life on Earth.

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The cat is not a fan of pulsar synthesis.

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Couriers, generative landscapes, zones, mutations. This was a Christmas break project.

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Systemic Pessimism In the late 18th century system came to be understood as synonymous with institutionalisation and regulation by way of an established order (Siskin, 2016, 151-2). This perspective on system’s relationship with institutionalisation, order ... willschrimshaw.net/2025/01/09/s...

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Composing (with) Systems USSS invites contributions exploring the role of systems in sonic practice. We welcome practical and theoretical contributions concerned with any area or period of music wherein systems have a role in transforming the creative will. www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/univer...

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Signed up for this because solstice is the obvious time to ride your bike non-stop for days. www.solsticeseries.cc/e/solstice-s...

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Nik Colk Void at Sheffield University, 28th November 2024: performancevenues.group.shef.ac.uk/event/sound-... #synthesis #electronicmusic #modularsynthesis

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A real pleasure to host these two at USSS. Fell & Chowning. www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/univer... #computermusic #sheffield #rotherham #usss #synthesis #electronicmusic

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