Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com director of the lab (sf)
former director of indexical (santa cruz)
composer, curator, arts worker
if you ever found yourself thinking “that’s not a gong that’s a tam tam” this account might be for you
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social
The Divine Comedy @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social The official Bluesky run by the nice folks at DCHQ
Live: https://thedivinecomedy.com/live
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Album 'Rainy Sunday Afternoon' out now
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Robert Barry @monsterbobby.bsky.social Freelance writer (The Wire, Tribune, Art Review, Mubi Notebook, &c.). Musicker (Far Rainbow, The Pipettes). Reviews Editor at The Quietus. Author of The Music of the Future (Repeater, 2017), Object Lessons: Compact Disc (Bloomsbury, 2020). Idiot.
Postgraduate Research Hub @pgresearchhub.bsky.social Postgrad life, but together. Coworking · Accountability · Community. A global community for postgrads. Research can be lonely, come find our community.
PGRH Discord:
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AuditivVokal Dresden @auditivvokal.bsky.social One of the most influential ensembles for contemporary and metamodern vocal music worldwide
www.auditivvokal.de #metamodernity
Alternative Classical @alterclassical.bsky.social Pioneering positive change in the classical music industry
Dan Harding @modernmusicdan.bsky.social No music before 1902. Head of Music Performance, University of Kent.
Lauren Redhead ☮️ @laurenredhead.bsky.social Music. Running. Dog walking. Vegetables.
I circle round the sun until some day I won’t.
Tim Parkinson @untitledparkinson.bsky.social Writes music.
www.untitledwebsite.com
timparkinson.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/untitledparkinson
music we'd like to hear @musicwedliketohear.bsky.social concert series
www.musicwedliketohear.com
Sonic Arts Forum @sonicartsforum.bsky.social The Sonic Arts Forum is a UK-based group for those using audio technology creatively. We hold regular free meetings: all are welcome. If you are interested in hosting a meeting our admin/principal organiser is Coryn Smethurst.
RNCM PRiSM @rncmprism.bsky.social Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK) @rncmresearch.bsky.social
Taking a lead in interdisciplinary and reflexive research between the creative arts and the sciences.
www.rncm.ac.uk/prism
Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social Award-winning author of books on Boulez, Satie, Boulanger and Dutilleux/ Visiting Reader in French Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire/
Contributing writer at I Care If You Listen/ https://substack.com/@carolinefrmus
Robert Laidlow @robertlaidlow.bsky.social Composer // interested in creativity, computers, astro/particle physics, video games, birdsong // senior fellow King's College London Music Dept
robertlaidlow.co.uk
Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social Composer, Performer, Artistic director of rainy days festival at Philharmonie Luxembourg,
Professor of Composition at Royal College of Music, published by Composers Edition. www.catherinekontz.com
marat ingeldeev @maratingeldeev.bsky.social + music journalist, critic & researcher
+ texts & projects in the link below
https://linktr.ee/maratingeldeev
Dr Benjamin Tassie @benjamintassie.bsky.social Composer 🕊 Visiting Lecturer Birmingham Conservatoire • Resident Researcher Guildhall School of Music & Drama• Programme Manager Music in the Round • broadcaster on Resonance FM
Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social Composer, performer, writer. FKA Simon Bookish. 🏳️🌈
www.leochadburn.com
leochadburn.bandcamp.com
Wigmore Hall @wigmore-hall.org.uk "The leading international home of chamber music" (The Times) 💫
Find out more about us here ➡️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/
VAN Magazine @vanmusicmag.bsky.social Independent online classical music magazine published weekly in English and German. Strong personalities welcome. www.van-magazine.com
Object Collection @objectcollection.bsky.social performance, naps
The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
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@alicepurton.bsky.social @alicepurton.bsky.social
Dr Megan Steinberg @megansteinberg.bsky.social Composer, Turntablist, Disability Advocate 🏳️🌈 PhD level unlocked
Jamie Hamilton @jihamilton.bsky.social Composer/Multimedia Artist
https://linktr.ee/JIHamilton
Next: new work at Portsmouth Guildhall, February 23rd
Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social New & vintage stationery from around the world, since 2009. Our shop is at 12 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL. https://www.presentandcorrect.com
Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social Half Man, Half Bookshop.
Moved to Hastings in 2018 to start a wild new adventure with my family.
Not the inventor of the word "brainbow"
https://www.biggreenbookshop.com/
Tim Minchin @timminchin.bsky.social Songwriter singer pianist actor writer comedian producer speaker poet wanker reader runner worrier.
https://linktr.ee/timminchin
Posts on this account are posted for me by my webfairy, Shell🧚♀️
Score Follower @scorefollower.bsky.social the score video resource for the beautifully gnarly sounds of today
https://scorefol.io
Amy Bryce @amybryce.bsky.social Composer
Scores tend to come in all shapes and sizes.
www.amybryce.co.uk
Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social Music academic in Sydney: mostly an historian of music since about 1960; also interested in performance, composition, instruments. Have written much about Australian Music. Late modernism.
IRCAM @ircam.bsky.social
Frauke Aulbert @frea-ke-lalala.bsky.social www.stimmkuenstlerin.de
Composers Doing Normal Shit @normalcomposers.bsky.social 🎹 pictures of composers doing normal shit
📸 all photos © their original photographers
📚archived at @librarycongress
❤️ 90k+ on twitter
Tim Rutherford-Johnson @purlis.bsky.social Listener, CFer, wordmonger. Written books about new music; trying to write one about Schubert.
https://johnsonsrambler.wordpress.com/about/
Substack here: http://purlis.substack.com
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
James Weeks @jamesweeks.bsky.social composer - conductor - human
Ken Ueno @djmoderne.bsky.social Composer/Performer/Sound Artist
https://youtube.com/@ken_ueno_composer?si=rXNSxhVae79mWyPG
Alistair Zaldua @azaldua.bsky.social
Carl Rosman @carlrosman.bsky.social Unquestionably one of the clarinettists of his generation. Suddenly father of two. As surprised as you are.
www.carlrosman.com
lara agar @laraagar.bsky.social ~ composer 🦋
~ laraagar.com
~ links: https://linktr.ee/laraagar
~ EP: https://octoberhouserecords.co.uk/albums/lara-agar-solstice-preview/
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
Jennifer Walshe @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social Composer, vocalist, improviser, Mars, noise, AI, professor of composition University of Oxford views my own 🚀☄️www.milker.org 13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music https://unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com/merch/jennifer-walshe-13-ways-of-looking-at-ai-art-music
Patrick Ellis @patrickel94.bsky.social Composer ∙ Creative Director of PRXLUDES ∙ Artistic Director of Open Union∙
https://patrickelliscomposer.com
Tom McKinney @tommckinney.bsky.social Breakfast on BBC Radio 3. Monday to Friday, 6.30-9.30.
I'm here for birds, music, birds, all things radio, birds, mountains, birds and birds.
Barry O'Halpin @barryohalpin.bsky.social Composer, Guitarist, Arranger in Dublin.
Member of @crashensemble.bsky.social
and @alarmistband.
Header image by @rouzbehrashidi. Headshot by @meghyland
https://barryohalpin.bandcamp.com/album/stonemired
www.barryohalpin.com
PRXLUDES @prxludes.bsky.social A contemporary magazine focused on promoting and celebrating emerging composers 🎶
Learn more:
prxludes.net
840 @840series.bsky.social London-based experimental music concert series. Join our mailing list: eightforty.co.uk/contact/
Jules Rawlinson @julesrawlinson.bsky.social Sounds, images, interactives, compositions, improvisations. Senior Lecturer & Programme Director for Sound Design at Edinburgh College of Art / University of Edinburgh. Releases on EVEL, Superpang and Lateral Addition. 1/3 of Raw Green Rust!
Rachael Composes @rachaelcomposes.bsky.social Freelance composer, music teacher and craftaholic
David May @composerdavidmay.bsky.social Composer, Artist, Writer
PhD Student at Bath Spa University
www.david-may.co.uk
Sonic Imperfections @sonicimperfections.bsky.social Monthly show of experimental/unusual music on Resonance FM hosted by Nigel Bryant @theuntiedknot.bsky.social - 10pm on the 4th Monday of each month. Previously a live music night in SE London.
Douglas Kahn @douglaskahn.bsky.social Writer, historian and theorist of the arts, focus on sound and energies, with STS-ish background. Books: Energies in the Arts (2019), Earth Sound Earth Signal (2013), Noise Water Meat (1999).
Marko Ciciliani @ciciliani.bsky.social Composer, intermedia artist and artistic researcher. Professor for computer music composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics IEM
Http://ciciliani.com
Thor Magnusson @thormagnusson.bsky.social A worker in rhythm, frequencies and intensities. Research and development in the areas of music, mind and technology.
** Intelligent Instruments Lab (www.iil.is) **
** Experimental Music Technologies Lab (www.emutelab.org) **
Alex McLean @slab.org Researcher + musician based in Sheffield UK https://slab.org/
Co founder of algorave, toplap, algomech, pattern club, strudel, tidalcycles
Part of Then Try This https://thentrythis.org/
Exploring algorithmic patterns https://algorithmicpattern.org/
Duncan MacLeod @duncanmacleod.bsky.social FRSA 🔊 https://linktr.ee/Leod_Music 🏳️🌈
Sound maker, Professor of Sonic Arts &
Head of PGR @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social
Senator @ivorsacademy.bsky.social
Mira Benjamin @mirabenjy.bsky.social violinist @apartment-house.bsky.social
lecturer @citystgeorges.bsky.social
Here for practice research & dogs.
Peter Nagle @petemaskreplica.bsky.social Adventures in sound and movement. Notifications are off, do not expect swift replies.
Experimenting with bridging from Mastadon: @petemaskreplica.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy
https://linktr.ee/PeterNagle
Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social Researcher-activist, Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social #DisabilityStudies
Member, Neurodiversity Working Group of the Church of England
Co-author, At the Gates: Disability, Justice & the Churches https://bit.ly/3YMoUaE
Disabled, ND, they/them
Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social Disquiet.com since 1996: ambient/electronic music, field recordings, sound studies. I moderate the Disquiet Junto community of weekly music projects. I've written for The Wire, Pitchfork and Nature. I publish ThisWeekInSound.disquiet.com. Offline weekends.
prof_lofi @proflofi.bsky.social I'm a sound artist who enjoys breaking things to hear what they sound like...
www.billthompson.org
Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com Composer (contemporary classical/musical theatre) based in South Cambridgeshire, UK. Pianist, teacher, crochet and gardening enthusiast. jennipinnock.com
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
Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matthewleeknowles/for-alan-turing
Emily Bick @saving-throw.bsky.social Editor @thewiremagazine. she/her. @saving_throw@ohai.social on Mastodon. Message me there, forget this ID data scraping nonsense. Dexterity 6, Charisma 4, a d20 kiss for luck.
Andrew McPherson @apmcpherson.bsky.social Professor in Design Engineering and Music, Imperial College London. Researcher, composer, violist, engineer, instrument designer.
Leader of the Augmented Instruments Laboratory instrumentslab.org.
Co-founder and director of Bela.io.
@nwandoebizie.bsky.social @nwandoebizie.bsky.social
Viola Yip @violayip.bsky.social
Vicky Clarke @sonamb.bsky.social Sound Artist | Producer | Electronic Tinkerer | Educator
Jenn Kirby @jennkirbym.bsky.social composer, performer, electronics, likes making things
jennkirby.com
Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social Maker, Educator, Creative Technologist, Musical instrument inventor. Creative Director for Hackoustic, CTO for MTFLabs, inventor of SPOKE. Spokeboard.com
Cyborg Soloists @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social Cyborg Soloists is a music technology research project led by Dr Zubin Kanga, based at Royal Holloway, University of London.
The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social “The most essential music magazine of the contemporary era.” (Forced Exposure)
thewire.co.uk
Seán Clancy @seanlclancy.bsky.social Composer & performer working across the Hibernian archipelago. Ad Astra Fellow, Assistant Professor in UCD. Likes acoustic & electronic sound, minimal & experimental stuff. Formerly Senior lecturer in music at RBC
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