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Carl Rosman
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Unquestionably one of the clarinettists of his generation. Suddenly father of two. As surprised as you are.

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Carl Rosman @carlrosman.bsky.social · Nov 25
I don’t know where all these followers have come from (hello!), but clearly I need to post some videos from my day job and see how many of you jump ship 😉 youtu.be/zsmlwyionlA?...
Lockdown Tapes #23 - Giacinto Scelsi: Tre Studi (1954)
YouTube video by Ensemble Musikfabrik
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rningscissors.bsky.social
I hate how much I enjoyed this

BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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themerl.bsky.social
'AI is coming' I tell the museum stakeholders as I proudly cut the ribbon of our new Artificial Insemination exhibition
December 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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disgwylfa.bsky.social
On Stockhausen's MONTAG in Paris:
disgwylfa.substack.com/p/stockhause...
Stockhausen: Montag
The common view of Stockhausen’s LICHT—that after a decade and more of extraordinary achievements the composer slid into a project at once grandiose and tedious, an operatic septalogy that, where it d...
disgwylfa.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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architecture.bsky.social Architecture @architecture.bsky.social · 4d
This is a photo of all the workers who have spent more than five years restoring the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
December 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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dbucket.bsky.social
Whoa. And today I learned about the ondes Martenot.
December 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
carlrosman.bsky.social
Lichtenstein is normally very much not my thing but I am at least interested that he seems to have put a shakuhachi in this one.
art.feediverse.org Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 5d
Interior with cactus, 1978 #roylichtenstein #lichtenstein
December 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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yvanspijk.bsky.social
The fact that the English city of Worcester is pronounced with only 2 syllables may seem odd, but what's really wild is that it comes from an Old English name that had 5 syllables and 15 letters. Watch my video to hear it evolve:
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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ircam.bsky.social
"C’est comme si nous retrouvions dans une cave un tableau entreposé depuis 62 ans, attaqué par l’humidité, abîmé par les champignons, partiellement couvert de graffitis.."

Trois questions à Marco Stroppa sur l’électronique de Poésie pour pouvoir : https://ow.ly/puP750XwULb
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
A small child approaches his scientist father who is working at a large, strange, contraption. His face pressed to a viewing tube. “Are you looking forward to Christmas, papa?” Asks the child. “Yes,” replies the scientist“ turning round, “that is exactly what I am doing” then he adds “Thank you for the socks.” We can now see that the viewing tube breaks the border of the comics panel, passes through complicated machinery and allows the scientist to see into the next comic panel: Caption: December 25th A Christmas scene. The child and father-scientist open presents before a Christmas tree. The father has just unwrapped some socks.
December 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
carlrosman.bsky.social
That sound you can hear is my mind boggling
irishlittimes.bsky.social Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 8d
Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.
December 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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normalcomposers.bsky.social
Harrison Birtwistle getting a haircut.
December 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
carlrosman.bsky.social
How you expect a call to the Oz visa hotline to go:

-hello, our visa application is a couple of weeks past the 90% estimate on the website and I’m wondering if you could give me any information?
-strewth cobber, what a bloody nuisance, give us your code and I’ll take a butcher’s at your file!
December 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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nicolashodges.bsky.social
If any pianists out there are in the market for a German teaching job, there‘s one available here. Please forward to any likely candidates.
stellen.hmdk-stuttgart.de/jobposting/5...
Professor/in für Klavier (m/w/d) Bes.Gr. W 3, 100 %
stellen.hmdk-stuttgart.de
December 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
carlrosman.bsky.social
Why have I bothered learning to say ‘ich halt dich auf dem Laufenden’ when there are actual Germans who just say ‘ich update dich’
December 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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emilyherring.bsky.social
This from @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social's biography of Schopenhauer is sending me
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
carlrosman.bsky.social
Not the first time I’ve read this and I hope not the last.
bfletcherwatson.bsky.social Ben Fletcher-Watson @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social · 15d
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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lenschiff.bsky.social
May we never stop trying to write cricket bats.
HENRY: Shut up and listen. This thing here, which looks like a wooden club, is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so that the whole thing is sprung, like a dance floor. It’s for hitting cricket balls with. If you get it right, the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds, and all you’ve done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout, and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly… (He clucks his tongue to make the noise.) What we’re trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might … travel … (He clucks his tongue again and picks up the script.) Now, what we’ve got here is a lump of wood of roughly the same shape trying to be a cricket bat, and if you hit a ball with it, the ball will travel about ten feet and you will drop the bat and dance about shouting ‘Ouch!’ with your hands stuck into your armpits. (Indicating the cricket bat.) This isn’t better because someone says it’s better, or because there’s a conspiracy by the MCC to keep cudgels out of Lords. It’s better because it’s better. You don’t believe me, so I suggest you go out to bat with this and see how you get on. [quoting from the play] ‘You’re a strange boy, Billy, how old are you?”Twenty, but I’ve lived more than you’ll ever live.’ Ooh, ouch! (He drops the script and hops about with his hands in his armpits, going ‘Ouch!’ ANNIE watches him expressionlessly until he desists.)
November 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
carlrosman.bsky.social
Gosh, I’ve often translated the Bach title as ‘Musical Sacrifice’ for a giggle but here’s an old edition that does it in all seriousness…

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Title page of an old musical publication: THE ART OF FUGUE to which is added from the SACRIFICE MUSICAL, THE FUGUE on a Subject by FREDERIC 11, Ricercata in Gpants on the same Subject. Composed by JOHN SEBASTIAN BACH. 1 ten Edition carefully rerised, corrected, and fingered; as well as provided with indications respecting the Style of Erection; the exact time according to Martzels Bell Metronome, bc. And Accompanied by a PREFACE. Dedicated to Cipriani Potter By his Friend CHARLES CZERNY etc etc… I may have retained a couple of OCR errors that gave me further amusement. Frederic 11 is how it looks in the original though.
November 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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TIL that Helmut Lachenmann and Michel Portal were born on the SAME DAY 🤯❤️
francemusique.fr France Musique @francemusique.fr · 17d
🎂 Ce 27 novembre 2025, le clarinettiste, saxophoniste, bandonéoniste et compositeur Michel Portal souffle ses 90 bougies. On écoute, dans Banzzai ➡️ https://l.francemusique.fr/ZKh
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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oliviagiovetti.bsky.social
"no seriously you think it’s so funny that i saw flowers in winter
like oh let’s make fun of the guy who took a risk and put himself out there romantically."
Dirtbag Winterreise
“more like suck-blick”
www.criticaldrift.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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archivetvmusings.bsky.social
Parkinson (23rd November 1974). Michael chats to Richard Burton.
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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It’s another age, isn’t it
presentcorrect.bsky.social Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 22d
Boomboxes with built in keyboards.

Sanyo KBX-7, Sharp MR990, Casio CK-200, Fisher SC-300.

facebook.com/synthhistory/

review.wolfarchitects.design/casio-ck-200...

matrixsynth.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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insuladulcamara.bsky.social
J'apprends avec tristesse la disparition de Jean-Claude Eloy hier, à l’âge de 87 ans.
Compositeur électroacoustique, il est notamment connu pour ses longues fresques (souvent de plusieurs heures) et son intérêt pour les musiques indiennes et japonaises
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
carlrosman.bsky.social
There are box sets and there are box sets.
A cardboard box sealed with tape bearing a sticker at the base of which the Western eye can make out the HMV gramophone+dog logo and the name Victor. Western eyes with a bit more experience can also make out 山口五郎 (yamaguchi gorō) and 尺八本曲 (shakuhachi honkyoku) but there my expertise ends.
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Somehow I find this “when” strangely depressing
“How does the creation of music change when Al and blockchain reshape creativity and authorship?”
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM