Mark Knoop
mknoop.bsky.social
Mark Knoop
@mknoop.bsky.social
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A fantastic resource. They finally have their own website. Have a look!

archiveofsilence.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Thanks to @journalofmusic.bsky.social for a nice lil review of our Plus Minus // Ultan O Brien concert last week. Fair play to Ultan & Plus Minus for such an enjoyable show…

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@cmcireland.bsky.social
@artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social

journalofmusic.com/reviews/faer...
From Faeries to Field Recordings, Plus or Minus
The British new music group Plus-Minus Ensemble made their Irish debut last week at Whelan's (1 October), performing works by Jessie Marino, Bernhard Lang and Seán Clancy. Brendan Finan reviews.
journalofmusic.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Day 1 of recording with Plus Minus Ensemble in the bag. Lovely to be in the Dublin Mountains with the mighty Spud Murphy at the helm. New album out with @nmcrecordings.bsky.social in 2026… exciting times ahead

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October 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Plus Minus + Ultan O Brien… one month from today in Dublin.

Music by:

Ultan O Brien (has hair)
Jessie Marino (has hair)
Bernhard Lang (does not have hair)
Sean Clancy (itsa me) (has not much hair)

Has @enthusiasticeunuch.bsky.social ever steered you wrong?

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Plus Minus Ensemble + Ultan O'Brien
Enthusiastic Eunuch, In Association With The Arts Council Presents Plus Minus Ensemble performing J...
billetto.ie
September 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Blogged: street protests aren't very effective, so perhaps we should consider other forms of political action: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
Achieving political change
Can MPs be bribed? This question is central to whether the left should change its tactics. I say this for the simple reason that demonstrations and marches just don't work. Protestors have been on the...
stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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‘The proscription of Palestine Action crosses a new threshold. In the injunction proceedings, Mr Justice Chamberlain accepted that PA had not committed violence against any person or endangered life or created a risk to health or safety.’

David Renton in the next issue
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Renton · What is the meaning of support?
With the proscription of Palestine Action early in July, the question of what support for a terrorist group means has...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London.

We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.
July 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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‘The willingness of the average British citizen to convict someone of smashing up a plane to prevent more deaths would be hard to guarantee. Now there is no need to worry.’

Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action, online early from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?
I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Well done to Channel 4 for doing what the BBC should have done themselves www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
Channel 4 to air BBC-commissioned documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
BBC last week announced it had dropped the film over concerns it may create a ‘perception of partiality’
www.theguardian.com
June 29, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Join us for Music We'd Like to Hear's 20th season which begins Friday this week and continues for the next two Fridays! Featuring a glittering array of brilliant music and musicians! Come and join the celebration! Tickets available here www.eventbrite.com/cc/music-wed...
June 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Congrats to the incredible organizers who made this huge win possible! We know that this victory was earned through tireless research, organizing, continued pressure by the Mask Off Maersk campaign, Palestinian Youth Movement, and global popular pressure for a people’s arms embargo.
June 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Coming up this week - eavesdropping returns to Cafe OTO for another four-day festival, curated by Juliet Fraser, which includes four evening double-bill events and a weekend-long forum of provocations exploring 'Experiments in Magic': www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/eaves...
March 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I'm happy to share that this summer I'll be running a course at Musiikin aika / Time of Music in Finland together with my friend and colleague Matthew Shlomowitz. Please share with your students!

musiikinaika.org/en/olde-skoo...

(Photo from my last trip to Viitasaari in 2017.)
February 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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General booking now open for the celebration our 30th year concert, April 28th, at Wigmore Hall. A new version of Erik Satie’s Socrate for ensemble + iconic early Philip Glass works including the European premiere of his Music in Eight Parts.
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Apartment House
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
January 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
2025 kicks off next week with some collaborations with wonderful musicians. Firstly on Saturday 18th in Oslo, together with Mira Benjamin and Andrea Silvia Giordano, the fabulous pairing of the music of Galina Ustvolskaya and Robert Ashley. 20:30 @ Caféteatret, Oslo nymusikk.no/arrangemente...
January 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM