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Benedict Drew @benedictdrew.bsky.social Art and music
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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social The UK's largest international festival of new and experimental music.
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In Your Ears Music @inyourearsmusic.bsky.social Showcasing New Music that's Under The Radar.
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Mark Knoop @mknoop.bsky.social Musician
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Music in the Round @musicintheround.bsky.social One of the UK's leading promoters of chamber music
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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
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Whitney Museum @whitney.org The Whitney is your home for American art.
Apartment House @apartment-house.bsky.social We play music, don’t go out much. European. ‘wtf was that?’ Phill Niblock www.apartmenthouse.co.uk
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social walking / writing / between world & word
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Fife, Scotland (mostly)
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Edward Edgcumbe @gumbe.bsky.social Head of Artistic Planning & Production,
BBC Philharmonic
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VAN Magazine @vanmusicmag.bsky.social Independent online classical music magazine published weekly in English and German. Strong personalities welcome. www.van-magazine.com
Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social Writer | Presenter | Historian
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QUARTET out now at https://linktr.ee/leahbroadwriter
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Vanessa Ague @vanessakayague.bsky.social Writing about experimental music at various publications. Blogging at The Road to Sound. Based in NYC.
Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com Global travelling explorer and flaneur electronique. Creative catalyst, magician and reasonably amusing raconteur. Careering across the cultural landscape, embracing books, films, music, technology and the arts
Louise McMonagle @noisycellist.bsky.social Scottish cellist playing music old & new. Normally found touring with Riot Ensemble.
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social Composer, Performer, Artistic director of rainy days festival at Philharmonie Luxembourg,
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Chihiro Ono @chihiroono119.bsky.social Violin + Viola x Music (9c-2026) x Xprmtl x Theatre x Eastern Folklore + xprmtl Composer
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New Sounds @newsounds.bsky.social Home for the musically curious. Serving hand-picked, genre-free music 24/7, from NY Public Radio. Newsounds.org 
Fielding Hope @fieldinghope.bsky.social www.counterflows.com
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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social A grant-giving charity, with composers at the heart, formed by the merger of the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust and the RVW Trust.
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Spitalfields Music @spitsmusic.bsky.social We bring artists, audiences and communities together so that everyone can find, explore & share extraordinary music in one of the most vibrant areas of London.
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Crash Ensemble @crashensemble.bsky.social We're Crash -
Ireland's leading new music ensemble.
Funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. Resident at the National Concert Hall, Dublin. RCN: 20066895
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Website: https://www.crashensemble.com/
Philip Thomas @philipthomas.bsky.social Pianist. Suffered Brain Injury and now disabled. Was Professor of Performance, Uni of Huddersfield and member of Apartment House. Married to gorgeous Tiff with two wonderful, now grown -up, kids, Naomi and Jack
www.philip-thomas.co.uk
Stewart Smith @drstewartsmith.bsky.social Writer: jazz, improvised, experimental, Scotland & the avant-garde @ The Wire, Bandcamp, The Quietus, We Jazz, Guardian. Associate lecturer Newcastle University. Musician. He/him. 🇵🇸
Duncan MacLeod @duncanmacleod.bsky.social FRSA 🔊 https://linktr.ee/Leod_Music 🏳️🌈
Sound maker, Professor of Sonic Arts &
Head of PGR @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social
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Hidden Notes @hiddennotes.bsky.social Festival (vol.5 20-21.09.25) and Record Label (Hidden Notes Records)
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@errollynwallen.bsky.social @errollynwallen.bsky.social 
Ligeti Quartet @ligetiquartet.com ligetiquartet.com
Lore Lixenberg @lorelixenberg.bsky.social 
Sara Mohr-Pietsch @saramohrpietsch.bsky.social music broadcaster / writer / curator
Host of BBC Radio 3’s Night Tracks and Music Map
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.
Louise Gray @drlcagray.bsky.social Writer at The Wire and New Internationalist: sound arts lecturer, LCC, University of the Arts London. Likes strange sounds. 
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
nonclassical @nonclsscl.bsky.social Music promoter, record label and events producer presenting the best new classical, experimental and electronic music.
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Counterflows Festival @counterflows.bsky.social Scotland’s longest running festival of experimental music.
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@ljbcomposer.bsky.social @ljbcomposer.bsky.social 
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
Emily Granozio @emilygranozio.bsky.social Gratia Arts. GM @hebridesensemble.bsky.social. Past Head of Culture & Events @afhongkong + programmer @culturesummit. Trustee @nmcrecordings.bsky.social. Enjoys a good tune
ben nobuto @bennobuto.bsky.social composer 🌱
https://bennobuto.com/
links: https://linktr.ee/_nobuto_
Liam Byrne | Viola da Gamba @liambyrne.bsky.social very old and very new music on the viola da gamba
www.liambyrne.net
Greg Sinclair @gregsinclairartist.bsky.social Performance artist, composer, cellist, dancer, theatre maker
(he/they)
www.gregsinclair.net
@ffionabradley.bsky.social @ffionabradley.bsky.social Director Fruitmarket, Edinburgh. Art, flowers, books, skies and sea
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
Arusa Qureshi @arusa.bsky.social Author of Flip the Script (404ink) and words sometimes in the Quietus, NME, Guardian, The Forty-Five etc.
Trustee @ Music Venue Trust & Hen Hoose
https://www.arusaqureshi.com/
Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social Composer, performer, writer. FKA Simon Bookish. 🏳️🌈
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leochadburn.bandcamp.com
Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social Journalist on culture and news, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Ten Sunday Spells for you every week on juderogers.substack.com
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@clairesawers.bsky.social @clairesawers.bsky.social Freelance journalist in Edinburgh, writing for The Quietus, The Wire, The Times, Big Issue, The List etc
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Jasper Dommett @jasperdommett.bsky.social PhD Composer at the Royal College of Music | Upcoming Work with Hebrides Ensemble, Buxton International Festival, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & BBC Radio 3
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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.
Alternative Classical @alterclassical.bsky.social Pioneering positive change in the classical music industry
Jessica Duchen @jessicaduchen.bsky.social Classical music critic, author, librettist. MYRA HESS - NATIONAL TREASURE out now and available from https://www.kahnandaverill.co.uk/product/myra-hess-national-treasure/
Fiona Maddocks @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social classical music critic The Observer. Etc
Neil Fisher @neilfisher81.bsky.social Exec culture and books editor of The Times 
Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social music, sex & culture writer / editor.
first book TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF MAINSTREAM EMO (2000-2013) COMING 2026.
emmagarland.substack.com
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Hannah Williams @hkatewilliams.bsky.social Editor at The Londoner ~hannah@the-londoner.co.uk
Freelance arts and culture at the New Yorker/FT/Atlantic/Granta/Guardian etc etc ~h.katewilliams@gmail.com
The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social “The most essential music magazine of the contemporary era.” (Forced Exposure)
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Gavin Higgins @gavhiggins.bsky.social ‘Still very much alive’ composer of choons - Coffee bitch - Schnauzer dad
https://linktr.ee/gavhiggins
Cafe OTO @cafeotodalston.bsky.social New music venue & cafe.
18-22 Ashwin Street / London / E8 3DL
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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
Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social clarinettist, teacher, recording artist, researcher, multiphonic obsessive www.multiphonics.app
Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social Composer, Percussionist
Assistant Professor of Music @ Bard College
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Héloïse Werner @heloisewerner.bsky.social Soprano & Composer - Associate Artist at Wigmore Hall - singer in The Hermes Experiment
Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker.bsky.social 
Hannah Peel @hannahpeel.bsky.social Composer, producer, synther, all the eerrrrs
Broadcaster on BBC Radio3 #nighttracks & 6Music #Instrumental // Mgmt: steve@randommusicmgmt.com
Peter Meanwell @petermeanwell.bsky.social Curator and Radio Maker
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Francisco Garcia @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social I write long form features, essays and investigations for the Financial Times, Guardian and loads of other places. I wrote two nonfiction books published by HarperCollins and am working on my first novel at the moment, along with a bunch of other stuff 
Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social 🌿 Poet & nonfiction writer. ‘Strangers: Essays on the Human & Nonhuman’ w/Makina Books. 'WITCH' w/Penned in the Margins.
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Eat Your Own Ears @eatyourownears.bsky.social London-based music promoters and record label who work with an eclectic roster of the best new and established artists
Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social Writer & translator with second violin energy. Writing a book about women in classical music for Simon & Schuster. She/her/lei
Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social I teach music, modernism, psychoanalysis @ University of Chicago, direct Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, and am mostly unconscious. Stuff: http://bit.ly/3JMupgJ
Jamie Barton @jbartonmezzo.bsky.social Proudly queer opera singer into drag queens, bluegrass, social justice, equality, and cats – especially her own, River! 😻
Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social singer of allsorts | represented worldwide by Askonas Holt | Ambassador of Donne UK | Associate Royal Academy of Music | 2024 Young Artist Winner - Royal Philharmonic Society
www.lottebettsdean.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/
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. 
Helen Pidd @helenpidd.bsky.social Host of Today in Focus, the Guardian’s daily news podcast. Former North of England editor. Nominated for best host at the 2025 British Podcast Awards. Contact me in confidence helen.pidd@theguardian.com
Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social Longform, thoughtful coverage of the UK's theatre landscape. Find us at exeuntmagazine.substack.com
Ilan Volkov @ilanvolkov.bsky.social Conductor
Tectonics Festival
Love music of all sorts at any moment of the day
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Oliver Basciano @olibasciano.bsky.social Writing, reporting, criticising. Mostly in south of the world.
OUTCAST: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World is out now. You can buy it here: https://linktr.ee/oliverbasciano
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social Arts Writer and Commentator with words in Guardian, FT, Plaster Magazine, Independent and Dazed.
You can pre-order My Opinionated Guide to Erotic Art here: https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/an-opinionated-guide-to-erotic-art
Push the Boat Out Festival @ptbopoetry.bsky.social Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival 12-15 November 2026
Festival, open mic, workshops, podcasts, and more.
Festival Nights + pre-festival events ON SALE NOW. Full programme announced 1 October!
https://pushtheboatout.org/
Mike Wade @mikewadejournalist.bsky.social Freelance journalist, formerly long-serving news and features from (mostly) Scotland for The Times. Likes: cats. Dislikes: dogs.
Allison Everett @allisongeverett.bsky.social Ex art historian, accidental museum and gallery retail expert. I write about it sometimes. Award winning designer/maker mentor and curator (it found me). I just like nice things.
Chitra Ramaswamy @chitgrrl.bsky.social Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.