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Composer/performer writer/researcher | Contemporary music; jazz-grunge math-song; noise, speech, & poetry | Ivors nominee (2016) | Accidental photographer...
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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.
🎶 I’m lookin’ for a good time
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Claus = 🎅🏻
December 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
🎶 I’m lookin’ for a good time
December 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I've got a story about this: A friend left a copy in my flat. 18 years later a random person quipped they'd lent that record to said friend but never got it back, & I got to say: 'I've got your CD's… they’re in my car.”
Now playing:
Alice In Chains – Jar Of Flies
Their third EP and their first recording with Mike Inez on bass. Released in 1994 on Columbia.
Every song is hauntingly beautiful from start to finish.
#CdCollection
#AliceInChains
#VinylCommunity
#MusicSky
#NowPlaying
#LayneStaley
#Grunge
Alice In Chains – Jar Of Flies
Their third EP and their first recording with Mike Inez on bass. Released in 1994 on Columbia.
Every song is hauntingly beautiful from start to finish.
#CdCollection
#AliceInChains
#VinylCommunity
#MusicSky
#NowPlaying
#LayneStaley
#Grunge
December 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I've got a story about this: A friend left a copy in my flat. 18 years later a random person quipped they'd lent that record to said friend but never got it back, & I got to say: 'I've got your CD's… they’re in my car.”
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New piece on ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’, the biopic about Bruce Springsteen making his 1982 album Nebraska amid his own worsening mental health crisis, and how it frames that album in relation to his life and career. A 🧵 on my take on the film.
#filmsky #skystorians #polisky
#filmsky #skystorians #polisky
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
This biopic frames the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska in the context of his own psychological turmoil, at the omission of the broader social and political strife it also channelled.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
New piece on ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’, the biopic about Bruce Springsteen making his 1982 album Nebraska amid his own worsening mental health crisis, and how it frames that album in relation to his life and career. A 🧵 on my take on the film.
#filmsky #skystorians #polisky
#filmsky #skystorians #polisky
Having the most London weekend - including someone grabbing my face & yelling at me to go home cos all my chakras are open.
December 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Having the most London weekend - including someone grabbing my face & yelling at me to go home cos all my chakras are open.
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They’re letting Trump do the World Cup draw? He’s gonna pull out the names of countries that don’t even exist any more.
December 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
They’re letting Trump do the World Cup draw? He’s gonna pull out the names of countries that don’t even exist any more.
Your mum when you tell her you might’ve had a little flutter at the crypto casino.
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Your mum when you tell her you might’ve had a little flutter at the crypto casino.
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Many AI artists/scientists using the term ML (machine learning) instead of AI to avoid pushback.
December 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Many AI artists/scientists using the term ML (machine learning) instead of AI to avoid pushback.
I was reacquainted with this earlier & remembered just how good The 1975 are at creating portraits.
I love how I’m shown the main character’s life here & how I almost piece it together, just like them.
#Music #MusicSky #MusicianSky
youtu.be/UuihJInaeN4?...
I love how I’m shown the main character’s life here & how I almost piece it together, just like them.
#Music #MusicSky #MusicianSky
youtu.be/UuihJInaeN4?...
The 1975 - The City (Official Video)
YouTube video by The1975VEVO
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November 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I was reacquainted with this earlier & remembered just how good The 1975 are at creating portraits.
I love how I’m shown the main character’s life here & how I almost piece it together, just like them.
#Music #MusicSky #MusicianSky
youtu.be/UuihJInaeN4?...
I love how I’m shown the main character’s life here & how I almost piece it together, just like them.
#Music #MusicSky #MusicianSky
youtu.be/UuihJInaeN4?...
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there's only one use of AI that I'd REALLY like to see...
"you appear to not being using any of the AI features on your phone. Would you like to remove them all and any associated data that we've scraped without your permission?"
that's it. AI to detect AI refusniks which then deletes itself.
"you appear to not being using any of the AI features on your phone. Would you like to remove them all and any associated data that we've scraped without your permission?"
that's it. AI to detect AI refusniks which then deletes itself.
November 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
there's only one use of AI that I'd REALLY like to see...
"you appear to not being using any of the AI features on your phone. Would you like to remove them all and any associated data that we've scraped without your permission?"
that's it. AI to detect AI refusniks which then deletes itself.
"you appear to not being using any of the AI features on your phone. Would you like to remove them all and any associated data that we've scraped without your permission?"
that's it. AI to detect AI refusniks which then deletes itself.
I love you, my US cousins, but this thanksgiving I saw more pics of hands ‘stuffing’ turkeys than I ever wanted… & by that I mean there were more than none.
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I love you, my US cousins, but this thanksgiving I saw more pics of hands ‘stuffing’ turkeys than I ever wanted… & by that I mean there were more than none.
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It’s budget time already? You’d think somebody would have mentioned it was coming up
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It’s budget time already? You’d think somebody would have mentioned it was coming up
I just looked back over some old social media posts & can't believe how open I used to be online. I literally don't recognise the pre-Cambridge Analytica techno-surveillance-fascism me.
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I just looked back over some old social media posts & can't believe how open I used to be online. I literally don't recognise the pre-Cambridge Analytica techno-surveillance-fascism me.
Got to see this at the cinema last week - I wanna buy a hard copy even more now. Might’ve been a liiiiiittle starstruck that Megan Falley was in the Q&A as well.
#ComeSeeMeInTheGoodLight #AndreaGibson #WriterSky #PoetSky
#ComeSeeMeInTheGoodLight #AndreaGibson #WriterSky #PoetSky
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Got to see this at the cinema last week - I wanna buy a hard copy even more now. Might’ve been a liiiiiittle starstruck that Megan Falley was in the Q&A as well.
#ComeSeeMeInTheGoodLight #AndreaGibson #WriterSky #PoetSky
#ComeSeeMeInTheGoodLight #AndreaGibson #WriterSky #PoetSky
Music industry: You guys! You just need to tweak this *one* little thing to make it, I dunno, put yourself out there, have rich parents, etc.
Musicians:
Musicians:
November 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Music industry: You guys! You just need to tweak this *one* little thing to make it, I dunno, put yourself out there, have rich parents, etc.
Musicians:
Musicians:
'I'm backing up my hard drives' is my new 'I'm washing my hair tonight'
November 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
'I'm backing up my hard drives' is my new 'I'm washing my hair tonight'
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The casualisation/workload seesaw continues apace. I need a job, you have too much of a job, and yet here we both are.
Today in the life of an academic specifically targeted by management as under hours: PhD supervision meeting; exam board attendance; read and rank 51 job applications; write and deliver tonight’s MA lecture; write tomorrow’s 3rd year class.
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The casualisation/workload seesaw continues apace. I need a job, you have too much of a job, and yet here we both are.
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Every time a real musician skips a gig, a thousand souls settle for Spotify’s algorithm. Get back on stage, you're a public service.
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Every time a real musician skips a gig, a thousand souls settle for Spotify’s algorithm. Get back on stage, you're a public service.
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Labi Siffre disagrees.
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Labi Siffre disagrees.
Sign the to stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at Nottingham Uni.
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Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
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November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Sign the to stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at Nottingham Uni.
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A non-musician friend thought I'd gone to a fancy dress Halloween party. The evidence? The 'costume' I posted on social media ⬇️
Is this what non-musicians think we look like?
#MusicSKy #MusicianSky #Musicians
Is this what non-musicians think we look like?
#MusicSKy #MusicianSky #Musicians
Phew! Managed to procure tomorrow’s outfit just in time for my annual game of ‘Hipster or Halloween’ on the Hipster Highway (Windrush Line) tomorrow.
Happy Halloween #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Musicians!
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Happy Halloween #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Musicians!
🎃👻💀🧡
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A non-musician friend thought I'd gone to a fancy dress Halloween party. The evidence? The 'costume' I posted on social media ⬇️
Is this what non-musicians think we look like?
#MusicSKy #MusicianSky #Musicians
Is this what non-musicians think we look like?
#MusicSKy #MusicianSky #Musicians
I also have a pop-classical crossover for kids called ‘In C wincy Quincy Jones’.
#MusicSky #MusicianSky #Composers
#MusicSky #MusicianSky #Composers
A grunge/High Renaissance mash up band, Tallis in Chains
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I also have a pop-classical crossover for kids called ‘In C wincy Quincy Jones’.
#MusicSky #MusicianSky #Composers
#MusicSky #MusicianSky #Composers
Music & modern languages courses proposed for closure & suspended from 10th Nov at Nottingham Uni.
#HESky #Music
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#HESky #Music
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Music & modern languages courses proposed for closure & suspended from 10th Nov at Nottingham Uni.
#HESky #Music
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#HESky #Music
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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On my dog walk I often chat with right wingers. I pretend I am an ex-Reform voter put off by the utter fuck up of our county council. Then they see me as one of their own, don't get defensive and shouty, and start to question their own opinion of Reform. Honey, not vinegar.
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
On my dog walk I often chat with right wingers. I pretend I am an ex-Reform voter put off by the utter fuck up of our county council. Then they see me as one of their own, don't get defensive and shouty, and start to question their own opinion of Reform. Honey, not vinegar.