Our book, "Nature Beats" is finally out. It talks all about how we can study rhythm across species and what that can tell us about the evolution of music. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I also appreciate Emily Wilson as a woman in a male dominated role, by which I don’t mean translator or classicist or public scholar but rather “curmudgeon.”

The dog never really comes when we call "Idris". But he always comes running when he hears us open a plastic food package. I think this means his name is now effectively "[crinkle crinkle]"!

It's great to see The Biology of Music - Interdisciplinary Insights edited by @andrearavignani.bsky.social out in the wild! I have a co-authored chapter in there on #animalmusicking, with @emilydoolittle.bsky.social and Pralle Kriengwatana. academic.oup.com/book/63102.

Adding some random-hyphens between words and making some non-standard compoundwords to fit within the wordcount... (Not really, but I consider this every time!)

In my honest opinion you can absolutely recognise when something is AI-written because of the overuse of genuinely pointless intensifiers... (This is not AI-written though, I'm just channeling the style for illustrative purposes.)

People like to quote Bartok's (apocryphal?) dictum "competitions are for horses, not artists", but I always find myself thinking: what use has a horse for a competition? While highly flawed, competitions have some potential benefit for artists, whereas I imagine horses do not care about them at all!

What novel should I read next? (The last few novels I've read & enjoyed include Nonesuch, Houses of Ravicka, The Safekeep, Birnam Wood -- not sure if that amounts to a coherent genre, but stuff like that!)

I'm at that weird stage of getting into composing a new piece where I'm alternating rapidly between "I'm so excited, I've written 8 minutes of music" and "this is terrible, I'm going to scrap it all, I've done nothing!" Usually this stage settles down after a few weeks...

It doesn't have to be this way. (Climate change, rising fascism, increased bigotry and xenophobia, out-of-control capitalism, destruction of habitat, etc., etc.). Can we please make it not this way?

It doesn't have to be this way. (Climate change, rising fascism, increased bigotry and xenophobia, out-of-control capitalism, destruction of habitat, etc., etc.). Can we please make it not this way?

1/3 In my 30 years as an artist, I've seen the success rate of some grants go from, say, 1/3 to 1/30. Of course if you're 10% as likely to get a grant, that doesn't mean you spend 10% as much time on it: more likely you work harder. Instead of spending 3 hours on it maybe you spend 5.

Time to re-up it, or, Why Nadia Boulanger Isn't Your Poster Child for Women in Music kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org/2018/04/05/m...

1/3 In my 30 years as an artist, I've seen the success rate of some grants go from, say, 1/3 to 1/30. Of course if you're 10% as likely to get a grant, that doesn't mean you spend 10% as much time on it: more likely you work harder. Instead of spending 3 hours on it maybe you spend 5.

I hear traces of birdsong in my music even in non-bird-related pieces. I thought this was b/c I listen to birds so much. But I just listened to one of my pre-birdsong pieces & it sounds bird-ish too. Maybe it was my innate motivic & structural tendencies which drew me to birds in the first place?

Ep 1 of For the Record delves into the world of music in the animal kingdom. 3 of the experts we spoke to were bird song expert, @dominiccouzens.bsky.social, zoomusicologist @emilydoolittle.bsky.social & oceanographer @helenczerski.bsky.social Ep one out Jun 25 on youtube.com/cosmicshambles

Very happy to be visiting Fetlar (Shetland) 9 June to perform music by @emilydoolittle.bsky.social inspired by the folk tale Jan Tait and the Bear, plus works in which the clarinet evokes the sounds of gannets and whales.

Emily Doolittle@emilydoolittle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you'll be on Fetlar June 9 pls come to an evening of art & music w paintings about Jan Tait & the Bear by Meilo So & a concert by @amsouth.bsky.social of music abt bears, whales & gannets. Free & drop-in but if you book here we can bring enough snacks! Pls RT! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...

If you'll be on Fetlar June 9 pls come to an evening of art & music w paintings about Jan Tait & the Bear by Meilo So & a concert by @amsouth.bsky.social of music abt bears, whales & gannets. Free & drop-in but if you book here we can bring enough snacks! Pls RT! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...

An Evening of Art and Music at the Fetlar Community Hall

Paintings by Cullivoe artist Meilo So and music by clarinetist Alex South

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New pinned post so the silly preview thing works yikes | my Austenaut novel: inanna.ca/product/aeth... | #SmallPress starter packs: 🇨🇦 go.bsky.app/D4YKenp 🇺🇸 go.bsky.app/S4HKBuC 🌍 go.bsky.app/S5N1WAY 🎓 go.bsky.app/EoXRRgy | 🌈📚 #Booksky 🪐📚 | recent writing: see linktree in bio | yaaaayy nailed it

Aether and Ego - Inanna Publications

Aether and Ego is a steampunk retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, with the addition of space travel, dogs, and accidental death.

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If you'll be on Fetlar June 9 pls come to an evening of art & music w paintings about Jan Tait & the Bear by Meilo So & a concert by @amsouth.bsky.social of music abt bears, whales & gannets. Free & drop-in but if you book here we can bring enough snacks! Pls RT! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...

An Evening of Art and Music at the Fetlar Community Hall

Paintings by Cullivoe artist Meilo So and music by clarinetist Alex South

eventbrite.co.uk

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Aether and Ego by @joannemerriam.bsky.social, Inanna Publications & Biopiracy by Vandana Shiva, @btlbooks.com. See alt-text. 💙📚 #BookSky #DSPBposts #shamelessselfpromoversion #prideandprejudice #bookish #booklovers #booktok #booksta #bookstagram

There are still a few spots available for the @soundscotland.bsky.social Composer's Helpline tomorrow -- free and open to all composer and new music people (not just in Scotland). Details and sign-up here: sound-scotland.co.uk/event/compos...

There are still a few spots available for the @soundscotland.bsky.social Composer's Helpline tomorrow -- free and open to all composer and new music people (not just in Scotland). Details and sign-up here: sound-scotland.co.uk/event/compos...

Sometimes when I am answering too many emails in a day I end up typing "all beset" instead of "all best", which seems appropriate!

I can’t get over how gorgeous this cover by Pei Yuan Li is! So many thanks to Inanna for involving me in decisions about specifics and finding such a talented cover artist. Also very grateful to @kateheartfield.com for her lovely blurb. 💙📚 #BookSky #JaneAusten #bookish #romance 🪐📚

Trying to chat with a company to get help is so utterly useless these days...

This is a great opportunity for Scotland-based composers and artists to create a new work based on data sonification. Please apply and/or share with people who might be interested! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

I'm really looking forward to being part of this show at Transmission Gallery (Glasgow), with crochet by my, origami by @neilbanas.bsky.social, and paintings by Michelle Campbell. Join us for the opening (with drinks and snacks) Feb 24 6-9! #sciart #mathart #seaslugs