UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social The UHI Institute for Northern Studies is a hub for world-class research and teaching on all aspects of the culture, heritage, and history of the Highlands and Islands, including their wider connections across the world.
makestuff.club 🏴 @makestuff.club makestuff.club is a relaxed coworking and creative monthly group in Glasgow for people who want to make real progress on something - side projects, art, writing, code - alongside other friendly humans.
Danny Neill @danny-neill.bsky.social Music journalist and collector/dealer of vinyl records
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
Edward Harkins @edwardhar.bsky.social Active citizen & writer, housing, economics, culture, politics, Company Member The Citizens theatre (Glasgow, Scotland).
Bofan Ma @bofantheone.bsky.social 'Chinese composer' // Artistic Research -> Experimental Music -> Transnationalism -> Technology & Machine Ethics // Post-doc Fellow @rncmresearch.bsky.social // 'In Motion' Artist 2025-26 @soundandmusic.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/bofantheone
The Street Library @streetlibrary.ataxia.scot The Street Library. Where books get social 📚
Use YOUR books - to raise funds for YOUR favourite charity.
http://StreetLibrary.co.uk
Main Bluesky account: @ataxia.scot
Shawn Bell @bellnet.bsky.social Retired curriculum designer and interactive media arts educator. Composer, applying complexity science, a-life research and computational creativity to generative and interactive music systems.
Patrick Ellis @patrickel94.bsky.social Composer ∙ Creative Director of PRXLUDES ∙ Artistic Director of Open Union∙
https://patrickelliscomposer.com
Lucy Smith @lucy-smith.bsky.social Creative being who loves to sing, play, move, write, perform. 
ISATTGlobal @isattglobal.bsky.social ISATT (the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching) aims, through research, to develop and mobilise theory, knowledge and insights into the identity, role, contexts and work of teachers, and the process of teaching.
https://www.isatt.net
Michael Doris @doris.scot Music. Politics. Celtic. Lotus. Science. Art.
Dave Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @davespenceruk.bsky.social Happily retired maths academic.
Trustee of @baysar.bsky.social in Cumbria.
Made in Lancashire.
Married to @johnbarnes.org
Sandy Stevenson @tourscotland.bsky.social Tour Guide and videographer https://youtube.com/tourscotland and you are welcome to visit and subscribe
My Blog https://tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/
On Pinterest https://uk.pinterest.com/tourofscotland
All photographs and videos are mine
Holly Smith @holsmith.bsky.social Research Fellow @ University of Cambridge // My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN (Verso) is out now 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @johnbarnes.org Freelance who reads the news on BBC Radio 5 Live & all 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered ex-academic historian, folkie, morris dancer & geek.
Bellman of the City of Preston.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
Mandy @mcmillanmandy.bsky.social Mum, Dog Mum, Former drama teacher , LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 #Glasgow 🏴. #France 🇫🇷
Alastair Tibbs @alastairtibbs.bsky.social Local Democracy Reporter at the independent.ie. Previously with maghrebi.org
Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall and Museum @friendsofstcecilia.bsky.social We support St Cecilia’s Hall and Museum, Edinburgh. This hidden gem is the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland and has a collection of over 6,000 historic musical instruments. We hold concerts. Join us!
https://friendsofstceciliashall.com
Ruari P-A @rulapeep.bsky.social PhD at Cambridge University on 'Outsider music,’ listening, intimacy across time & radical creativity - convenor of Ambivalent Archives - queer utopian & abolitionist always 🇵🇸
They/them
@nordicviola.bsky.social @nordicviola.bsky.social 
Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social Art Historian/Lecturer at University of St Andrews. 19th & 20th century British Art, Music Hall, and Theatre. Occasional folkie / concertina player. Instagram: roughs_drafts
Paolo Griffin @paologriffin.bsky.social 🇨🇦//🇵🇪 Composer, curator, artistic producer.
https://linktr.ee/paologriffin
Krim Kram @krimkram.bsky.social Experimental / avant / noise / etc. label.
www.krimkram.com
Oxford Contemporary Music (OCMevents) @ocmevents.bsky.social Presenting + promoting the best new music. https://linktr.ee/OCMevents
www.ocmevents.org
zane trow @zanetrow.net composer/animateur living on Yugambeh country
https://www.zanetrow.net/
... poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved ... albert camus
Space Is The Place Radio Show @spaceitpradio.bsky.social Thursdays 9pm (UK Time)
Two hours of recent releases of left field, wonky wonder from around the world.
Hosted by Steve & Shaun www.map.org.uk
https://linktr.ee/SpaceIsThePlaceRadioShow
Johannes Burström @jpburstrom.bsky.social Composer, double bassist and transducer enthusiast based in Stockholm, Sweden
www johannesburstrom.se
fedi @jpburstrom@post.lurk.org
Vinzenz Schwab @vinzenzschwab.bsky.social algorithmic composition
improvised computer music
sounddesign & music for film
https://vinzenz.klingt.org
Tijs Ham (Tapage) @tapage.bsky.social I’m the Artistic Director of nyMusikk. In my artistic practice I am a sonic researcher, instrument designer and audiovisual artist, living and working in Oslo, Norway. Currently focused on cybersonics, chaotic instruments
https://www.tijsham.com
@tombstome.bsky.social @tombstome.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/Albert_Twomey
Samantha Hart @samanthahart.bsky.social Storyteller, Author of Blind Pony: As True
A Story As I Can Tell
samanthahart.net
wildbill.la
Ashley Stein @asteinpunk.bsky.social Electronic riot grrrl making post punk alt pop laptop trash. PhD Researcher in music @ Edinburgh Napier University, looking at how genre constructs gender identity.
The New Sound @the-new-sound.bsky.social We develop tools and strategies to keep music in school.
https://linktr.ee/thenewsound?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Paulo da Fonseca @paulodafonseca.bsky.social sound artist/ poesia/ paysan
west Iberia/ eu
lesondouble.bandcamp.com
https://c.im/@lesondouble
Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social Education Professor, Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making, University of Stirling. Mountain and prog rock enthusiast. European. Blog at http://mrpriestley.wordpress.com
Publications at https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/255862
Ms M Devlin @msdevlinmusic.bsky.social Music Teacher
St Andrews RC Secondary
Boswell Book Festival @bozzybookfest.bsky.social Bestselling authors bring biography and memoir to life at Boswell Book Festival. Join us for a weekend of in-person and live-streamed talks from 8-10 May.
Suzy Cuthbert @suzeclarissa.bsky.social Escaped here from the bad place
Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social Organist | Recitalist | Choral Director | Accompanist | Birmingham UK | paulcarr.co.uk
Amanda Crawley Jackson @amandacjackson.bsky.social Professor of Place & Culture at UAL, Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange, LCC. On the move between London and Sheffield. Writer, reader, educator, curator. Post-traumatic landscapes. Walking as practice. French Studies. Photography. Etc.
Chris Hodgkins @chrishodgkins.bsky.social Chris Hodgkins MBA FCIM raised in Cardiff. Toured the UK and Europe. Relocated to London to play professionally. In 1985, Director of Jazz Services Ltd. Retired in 2014 took to the road, the radio and the recording studio.
chrishodgkins.co.uk
DrMacLeodCartoons @macltoons.bsky.social Historian. Cartoonist. Atheist. Scot. Author of 'The Second Disruption,' 'Evansville in WW2’, 'The Cartoons of KK Knecht' and 'Lost Evansville" and wrote the documentary ’Evansville at War.’ He/Him🏳️🌈
Stefan Wolpe Society @stefanwolpesociety.bsky.social The Official Bluesky Page of the Stefan Wolpe Society: Stefan Wolpe and His World
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19tpWpunN5/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stefan_wolpe_and_his_world?igsh=dHRqaWptbzB4YXBt&utm_source=qr
Eleonore Schonmaier Author @eleonoreschonmaier.bsky.social Poetry, fiction, song lyrics, music-theater. Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete, Dustblown Side of the Journey, Wavelengths of Your Song and Rush of Wingspan (2026, MQUP).
https://eleonoreschonmaier.com
Leeds Male Voice Choir @leedsmalevoices.bsky.social Innovative & Inclusive. Singing across the North of England. Next concert… Cottingham (Hull)
Collective @collective-edin.bsky.social A free contemporary art gallery on Edinburgh’s iconic Calton Hill 🔭
⭐ Current exhibitions: Highland Embassy by Shen Xin & Panorama: New Views of a City
🏛️ Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm
https://collective-edinburgh.art/
HP Berkman @hpberkman.bsky.social Morosophe
Sue John @suejohn.bsky.social A Feminist Leader and Co-Director at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social | PhD Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow, studying Suffrage material culture | Runner | Views are mine | She/Her
Author David Stroebel @davestroebel.bsky.social Author of the book The Cannon King’s Daughter, the American author who created a firestorm in Germany with the true, untold story of the banishment of his great-grandmother, Engelbertha from Germany’s Krupp steel dynasty of Essen.
I/O @iiioooio.bsky.social We are I/O, an Amsterdam-based company that collaborates with a core team of artists with a strong drive in working across disciplines. We love sound and creating engaging experiences. www.iiiooo.io
Thanasis Deligiannis @thanasisde.bsky.social artist · director · composer #transdisciplinary
teacher at Amsterdam University of the Arts
Venice Biennale 2024, Greek Pavilion
founder of company I/O
www.thanasisdeligiannis.com
www.iiiooo.io
Diane Dunn @dianedunn.bsky.social Work for Renfrewshire Council, tackling poverty and working towards a fairer Renfrewshire to the best of my ability. All views my own. MD ANT on X. Hopefully that has carried over.
Garnetbank Primary School Glasgow @garnetbank.bsky.social Garnetbank is a gold rights respecting, multi-cultural, happy and vibrant primary school in the 🤎 of Glasgow. Team Garnetbank prioritises well-being and learning to support every child to flourish.
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/gc/garnetbankps
Jason Eckardt @jasoneckardt.bsky.social Writes music once described as "hostile to consumers." 
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Evangelia Rigaki @evangeliarigaki.bsky.social Composer & Academic 
Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social Electronic musician, composer & sound artist specialized in improvised electronic jazz music and generative algorithmic composition.
web: https://www.mutestate.com/
sound: https://mutestate.bandcamp.com/
video: https://www.youtube.com/@MuteStateVideo
Wud Records @wudrecords.bsky.social Wud! You have just been wudded. ;-)
EU indie label est. uk 1984.
We post lots of great music. Please listen to it!
Prog/psychedelic/alternative/art rock, alternative folk.
Musicianship and composition.
Champion of the underdog.
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords
Gavin @gav.cloud composer in a digital garden 🌱
website: https://gavingamboa.net • wiki: https://gavart.ist
pfp by mckay felt
Sofia Borges @sofia-borges.bsky.social percussion, drums, electronics
composer, improviser
sofiaborges.com
https://sofiaborges.bandcamp.com/music
Berlin
Dr Sarah Brand @sarahgailbrand.bsky.social *Trombonist
*Music Therapist in forensic
mental health services
*Absolute Shower
📍Kent, UK.
Recordings of experimental improvised music:
https://sarahgailbrand.bandcamp.com
When nothing goes right, go left.
Join a union.
Anders Dahl @andersdahl.bsky.social Sound experiments and music releases. Undergångsmusik.
sullivan johns @sullivanjohns.bsky.social
sullivanjohns.bandcamp.com
sullivanjohns.com
Notes in Dialogue @campradio.bsky.social
Sergei Tumanov @sergeitumanov.bsky.social Sound Artist | Composer | Music & Sound Producer | Photographer
https://linktr.ee/sergei.tumanov
Yann Schwab @yannschwab.bsky.social French bass player, sound engineer and composer of chamber, orchestral and jazz music
https://youtube.com/@yannschwab8816?si=SHBKZQ-OUk_F-zhd
davidt dunlop @davidtdunlop.bsky.social Norn Irish comic and zine creator.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/DavidtDunlop
Martin Greenwood @fichtheit.bsky.social Musician and Doctor of Philosophy. Sociology PhD from University of Manchester: Utopia, public experience and changing ecologies of possibility.
James Ricci @mod12music.bsky.social new music composer
www.jamesricci.com
Soundfackery @soundfackery.bsky.social Producer, composer, “Unstoppable Monster”…
…Oh, and I own a residential recording studio in rural France.
https://lnk.bio/Soundfackery
Michael Ippolito @ippolitomusic.bsky.social Composer / Professor Texas State University
www.michaelippolito.com
https://m.soundcloud.com/qualifiednoise
Clive Whitburn @clivewhitburn.bsky.social #Composer, #conductor, #choral #baritone, cross genre #musician, #oboe, #sax, #guitar, #sitar, #mandocello, #piano
Here for
Music
Musicians
Politics/news
Art & creativity
Be human
Be kind
Keep left
I rarely answer DMs
Eastbourne UK
www.clivewhitburn.com
Abby @abbyshupe.bsky.social I’m an academic studying commemoration of 9/11 and the GWOT.
Open water & masters swimming. Sighthounds.
Originally from IN.
Verkomponist Miika @verkomponist.bsky.social Composer|Researcher|Teachier|Performer
Experimental music theatre|Vocal music
www.linktr.ee/verkomponist
Werner Zangerle @wernerzangerle.bsky.social Musician, composer, saxophonist, educator
#musicsky
Julien Malaussena @julien-malaussena.bsky.social Compositeur/Composer
https://www.julienmalaussena.com
https://soundcloud.com/julien-malaussena
https://linktr.ee/JulienMalaussena
Peter Scartabello @scartabello.bsky.social Composer | Drummer | Record Label Owner | Supernatural | Philosophy | Occult peterscartabellocomposer.com
yuggothrecords.bandcamp.com
A.B. Kirsten @xoabox.bsky.social composer | author | director | mentor
dancing w/ photons since 1972
SHE/THEY; proud child of an IMMIGRANT; MyBodyIsMINE; tree hugger; magicalfairyqueen; MUSICisGODisLOVE
*lions&swamp monsters, oh my!*
www.amybethkirsten.com
📕 🌈 ✊🏿 ✊🏾 ✊🏽 🌱🌍 ☮️ 🧬 ❤️ 📕🇦🇺
Gregory Rowland Evans @grevanscomposer.bsky.social PhD in music composition interested in science, computation, and philosophy
https://soundcloud.com/gregory-rowland-evans
https://www.youtube.com/@GregoryRowlandEvans
Megan Ihnen, Mezzo-Soprano @mezzoihnen.bsky.social I sing new songs.
Mic Spencer @biroc1.bsky.social Composer, lecturer, conductor, Associate Prof Music@Leeds. Former Head AHC Grad School@Leeds. Occasional bon viveur. Views own.
David Q. Nguyen @davidqnguyen.bsky.social Acousmatic Composer | Sound Designer & Re-Recording Mixer | Educator
Platinum — Sekiro: Shadows Dies twice
https://linktr.ee/davidqnguyen
jonathan elliott @jesoundart.bsky.social composer/pianist/visual artist in brooklyn
Michael Kaulkin @michaelkaulkin.com Composer and musicianship teacher.
https://www.michaelkaulkin.com
Language learner. 🇭🇺🇮🇱🇮🇷
Founder, Swirly Music
https://www.swirlymusic.org
Stefan Strasser @stefanstrasser.bsky.social musician, improvisor, sound artist based in cologne/germany
https://stefanstrassermusician.de
Antonio Gallucci @antoniogallucci.bsky.social Italian musician, sound designer and mastering engineer.
And (of course) addicted to sound.
More info:
https://linktr.ee/ShefferStroke
Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social Based in SF Bay Area 🌁🌉
Computational Literary Studies
Postdoc at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social
Founding member of @fortextlab.bsky.social
Visiting Scholar @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social
Editorial Ass. @jcls-io.bsky.social
Website: svenjaguhr.github.io
ORGAN MAGAZINE @organmagazine.bsky.social ORGAN, Art, Music, Underculture - words, links, art galleries, bands, radio, albums, ResonanceFM, in print, on walls, on line, since the photocopied zine days of 1986 - www.organthing.com - this feed brought to you by Sean - @seanworrall-01.bsky.social
Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social Musician, Composer, Sound Artist and researcher at IT University of Copenhagen
Improvised electronic music, generative music, science and art.
web: https://mutestate.com/
sound: https://mutestate.bandcamp.com/
video: https://youtube.com/@MuteStateVideo
Mike McFerron @bigcomposer.bsky.social https://bigcomposer.com
Anja Kreysing @anjakreysing.bsky.social Anja Kreysing, post cinematic composer & media artist with accordion & electronics. Deep listening practitioner. www.anjakreysing.de
Jay Moy @jaymoy.bsky.social sound / sculpture / immersive /
Not necessarily not in that order
https://jaymoy.co.uk
https://jaymoy.bandcamp.com/
https://fleete.bandcamp.com/
http://listenwithothers.co.uk/
Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board.
Music in Orbit now available: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper
Andrew Ardizzoia @aardizzoia.bsky.social Composer, conductor, bon vivant, and associate professor at Muhlenberg College. I ❤️ music of all kinds, books, food, wine, dogs, architecture, pencils, autumn, and all things Italy. First generation college grad, grandson of immigrants. 🏳️🌈🇮🇹