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Composer/performer writer/researcher | Contemporary music; jazz-grunge math-song; noise, speech, & poetry | Ivors nominee (2016) | Accidental photographer... | #musicsky #writersky #academicsky #HEsky #photosky

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · Dec 21

Lovely to meet you new followers! I’m Sorana 👋 Music obsessive/collector/nerd, synesthete (sound-colour) & contrarian (!) Work more behind the scenes commercially atm but’ll release my music again soon. Teach a bit. Laugh a LOT. Love all the stuff in my emoji list ⬆️ Felt cute, might delete later.

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 10h

don’t need sound check

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 1d

Leaving the ECHR is a fucking stupid idea. It's on a par with leaving the European Union. So we'll probably end up doing it.

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 1d

Ireland’s DCCS announce permanent successor to its current Basic Income for the Arts scheme, paying 2,000 artists/creative workers €325 a week

“The research proves that the BIA successfully sustains artists careers and reduces the income precarity”

#MusicSky #MusicianSky
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Ministers O’Donovan and McConalogue announce details of Budget 2026 for the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport

www.gov.ie

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Different palette & more delicate.

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the most beautiful paintings by an artist called Clare Barton-Harvey yesterday at The Art Pavillion in Mile End Park (below). The exhibition,'Painting Now', is open 11-6pm today & tomorrow if anyone wants to see for themselves. Free entry.

#Art #LondonArt #Painting #LondonPainting

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 2d

‼️NEW: Universities have tried to axe over 15,000 staff this year.

Yet the vice-chancellors responsible are paying themselves more than ever before.

We’re balloting to save higher education.

Our GS @drjogrady.bsky.social broke the story on BBC Today this morning👇

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 3d

Half-tone structures.

#blackandwhitephotography #monochromes #photos #photosky

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 3d

It also reminds me of questions I like to pose my students sometimes

Will urban music survive wealth inequality, & if so, how?

And/or: what will music in post-urban landscapes sound like?

... Because we might not be all that far from these eventualities.

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 3d

MC Skibadee is what I think of when 'The Kids' say ‘skibidi’

Just one of many incredible sounds of the London that grew me

This; Proms in summer; jazz & rock everywhere; & open-minded people similarly enjoying everything. What luck. All Skibidi, no toilet

www.youtube.com/watch?..&v=y... #MusicSky

Drum and Bass Special - Fire In The Booth

YouTube video by CharlieSloth

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 5d

'Music for the Jilted Generation'... I always wonder how they knew.

#MusicSky #MusicianSky #Prodigy #Prescience

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 5d

😂 Brilliant. I'm going to choose to believe I reminded them of Dolly Parton somehow.

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 5d

No matter how good you get at it, English as a second language = a long list of baffling experiences, e.g. recently:

Being told 'There's something 'Steel Magnolias' about you', not understanding what that meant, watching the film to see what it meant... and still not understanding what was meant.

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 6d

I agree. I also deserve an Oscar for being a high functioning society in a crumbling human.

Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 6d

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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 9d

Cancel your #Spotify today. Use those dollars to buy between 1 & 3 (or more!) albums on #BandcampFriday. Enjoy the actual, direct impact you had on someone's life. (Hell they might message you to say thanks!)

No amount of $$$ (or streams) spent on Spotify will ever change ANYTHING for the better!

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Politics aside, I always love a bit of pre-toddler-level understanding of sound, where it comes from, & how it's made in music, particularly in high-level propaganda.

#MusicSky

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9d

Signs of psychosis. No biggie

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There's A Big Album Release Happening Today AND the new Alfa Mist record's out too!

#TaylorSwift #AlfaMist #MusicSky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjUO...

Alfa Mist - "Roulette" [FULL ALBUM]

YouTube video by Alfa Mist

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A fan-led review of live music's launched w/ the aim of improving sustainability in grassroots & electronic music.

It considers fan experience, barriers to touring, policy efficacy, & Gov't support of music.

Artists encouraged to respond.

#MusicSky
committees.parliament.uk/work/9161/fa...

Fan-led review of music - Committees - UK Parliament

Take part in the fan-led review of music. A fan-led review of live music has been launched by MPs, with the aim of improving the sustainability of grassroots live and electronic music to safeguard the...

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UCU University of Kent branch @ucukent.bsky.social · 10d

This is a very necessary but depressing list.
More jobs being cut.
Worse for staff and worse for students.
Our working conditions are student learning conditions.

QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 11d

hm. Haven't had to update our webpage on the cuts in #UKHE for a while. Kinda assumed the consequences of the Clearing cycle would be transpiring by now. Or was every university just already in disaster mode and not much new to report?

UK HE shrinking

a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.

qmucu.org

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 12d

Tonight will be a decisive night for the flotilla as they close in on the strip. The latest flotilla tracker’s below. Help keep them safe.

#GlobalSumudFlotilla #Flotilla #SumudFlotilla

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The latest flotilla tracker below. It’s now accompanied by a dedicated vessel from NGO Emergency, providing medical & logistical backing.

#GlobalMovementToGaza #GlobalSumudFlotilla
thousandmadleens.fr/tracker/

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 12d

Nothing spaces.

#photo #photos #photosky #travelphotos #nothingspaces

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 12d

You're an amazing writer.

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 12d

Musicians that see this! (if any) Where are you going for US work/travel visa advice at the moment?

I have something maybe bridging the two, & want to make sure I'm not stung what with all the changes & goings on over there.

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 13d

punching you in the face unless you opt out of being punched in the face

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😮 Well that *is* a happy birthday 🎉🎊