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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Fun conference collab with @adammelvin.bsky.social , riffing on the synthesised soundtrack and embodied/4E cog via a Joy Division opening ref. And on what would have been Ian Curtis’s 70th birthday too. Plus one of the nicest conferences I have been to!

Selfie and Title side for ‘Touching from a Distance: Embodied Space, Schemas, and Crosstalk in the Synthesised Soundtrack’ by Adam Melvin and Brian Bridges, Ulster Uni

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I ❤️ NY: Delighted to hear the news today, and to hear these words ‘New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.’ Thrilled for my friends in that great city. Here’s to some much-needed hope.

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Tonight at 7 pm in Derry (Christchurch, near entrance to Brooke Park). Boulez: Connections by Northern Lights project With Darragh Morgan and Sarah Watts www.northernlightsproject.org/events/boule...

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I’ll be virtually in Queens, New York, tomorrow, Sat 18th, at the inaugural Queens Tape Music Festival. Giving my ‘Tracing Beijing’ an outing in a new 4-channel spatial version. Great to be in such enjoyable and diverse musical company; just wish I could be there in person worldoftomorrow.nyc

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I’m off to Leeds with briefcase modular synth in tow for a performance of ‘Machine Time’, inspired by the spacetime-distorting cybernetic soundscapes of Roland Kayn. Also giving a paper w/ @stephenroddy.bsky.social on some media archaeology of Kayn & Jaap Vink’s pioneering musical cybernetics.

Title ‘Machine Time’ with blurred modular synthesiser with feedback loops in background

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Great to see growth in Leaving Cert music numbers: this from today’s Irish Times: ‘Music saw the largest increase … rising 21 per cent from 6,503 last year to 7,877.’ And spread the word, you can study music (BMus) & music tech (BSc Creative Audio) at Ulster Uni, Derry!

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Delighted to see this published; in the time between the writing & publication, it’s become more relevant & urgent (looking at you, Meta)! ‘Cybernetic Resurgences: Machine Music Beyond AI Slop’ shows how an ethically grounded cybernetics of ML can help us resist AI slop & discourse of replacement

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 20/06/2025

We finalised our proofs for the Cybernetics Music VS AI Slop chapter. Going to need a short breather from all the AI stuff for a few weeks now. In our defense, it wasn't so all-pervading when we started working on it @bridgesbb.bsky.social

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Adam Melvin @adammelvin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

@bridgesbb.bsky.social doing a spot of field recording from outside the Art Gallery of Alberta.

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Wonderfully diverse paper topics yesterday, at @scsmi.bsky.social SCSMI 2025, and a very high standard of discussion throughout. Looking forward to continuing discussions about how the soundtrack influences our experiences of the moving image With @adammelvin.bsky.social

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Not-so-wee buns here in Canada (but everything else is ‘wee buns’ in the figurative sense)! Yes, for scale, the diameter is your standard modern paper plate size! With @adammelvin.bsky.social

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Just a sliver of the massive University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Enjoying SCSMI @scsmi.bsky.social at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, CA, with my UU buddy and collaborator @adammelvin.bsky.social. Here’s our paper on our model for the embodied-electronic soundtrack.

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Adam Melvin @adammelvin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

In Edmonton AB and after a productive afternoon record shopping with @bridgesbb.bsky.social on Whyte's Ave (what a marvellous spot) it's time for the SCSMI conference.

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Nice day for a scenic shortcut through campus

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

+1000. Very difficult for us to see around our inflated opinion of ourselves sometimes.

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I’m all set up for tomorrow’s first ever Signal Flow festival at the Playhouse Theatre, Derry, courtesy of @peterodoherty.bsky.social and his Northern Lights Project. 11 am to 9 pm tomorrow, with coffee and croissants for the early risers Full details here www.northernlightsproject.org

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Northern Lights Project @nolightsproject.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

*** FULL PROGRAMME *** Signal Flow – A One Day Festival of Experimental and Electronic Music Sunday 27th April, 11am - 9pm Playhouse, Derry Starts at 11am (including coffee and croissants!) with laidback listening with Vincent O'Callaghan and Gavin McCarron.

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This Sunday, I’ll be premiering my new piece ‘Machine Time’ at this brand new festival of electronic and experimental music in Derry. Expect evolving microtonal interlocking feedback loops in a modular synthesiser, influenced by the machine music of Roland Kayn and Jaap Vink.

Signal Flow- one-day festival of experimental and electronic music, Playhouse Theatre, Derry, Sun 27th 2025, 11 am to 9 pm

Part of the modular synthesis system for ‘Machine Time’

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A brief slice of Manchester elegance, from a flying visit yesterday

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Great seminar today from Dr Amanda Finch (Drama at Ulster), on Brigid’s Day: a 21st Century Irish Carnival?

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Enjoying the DCU All Hallows campus in north Dublin today after an in-person Irish Humanities Alliance board meeting; a nice way to bow out, as my colleague Dr Lisa Fitzpatrick (Drama at Ulster) takes over

Dublin City University All Hallows campus

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

A little Christmas cybernetic music listening in prospect, courtesy of Roland Kayn

Roland Kayn boxed set - Scanning (booklet)

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Kerry @kerrylhagan.net · 29/11/2024

New chapter! Hagan, K. "Electronics as a Member of the Ensemble." Collaboration, Engagement, and Tradition in Contemporary and Electronic Music: NoiseFloor Perspectives. M Estibeiro, D Payling, D Cotter, eds. New York: Routledge, 2025. www.routledge.com/Collaboratio...

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Collaboration, Engagement, and Tradition in Contemporary and Electronic Music: NoiseFloor Perspectives

Collaboration, Engagement, and Tradition in Contemporary and Electronic Music: NoiseFloor Perspectives illuminates practices at the forefront of modern music-making and is built on a rich collection o...

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Managed to grab a few mins in the Ulster Uni Magee studio today to install our new modular synth keyboard and case (Cre8audio Niftykeyz) A few more modules to be added (some waiting in storage in the treasure chest), but enough to make some noise

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Looking forward to catching this tonight; recommended if you’re into the history of electronic and computer music and sound. Peter Zinovieff was at the centre of a truly fascinating scene around far-sighted electronic and computer music, and a whole host of intermedia stuff, in the 1960s and 70s.

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

It’s not an echo chamber. More a feedback chamber! Like the Jaap Vink cybernetic music patch, which myself and @stephenroddy.bsky.social discussed in our recent Cybernetic Resurgences presentation at ubimus24. Check out Tazelaar’s video demo and tutorial. sonology.org/aiovg_videos...

Jaap Vink cybernetic music patch, after Kees Tazelaar’s Inst of Sonology video tutorials

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Posthuman @posthuman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Can you afford to release your album on vinyl? I work for a small vinyl pressing plant, our customers are mostly independent artists doing small-run pressings. My job is advising people on how it all works. Here's a short thread outlining the very basic costs of pressing and releasing an album:

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 19/11/2024

The Radical Humanities Laboratory Presents Narrative Half-Life, a talk by Jay Needham at the Hub, @ucc.bsky.social, this Wednesday at 4pm.

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Spectrum City @spectrumcity.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Roland Kayn - The Ortho-Project Another indispensable Roland Kayn unearthing courtesy of the ever- dependable @frozenreeds.bsky.social In stock and shipping now! 🌏 + 15-CD limited edition boxed set + Audio restoration by Jim O’Rourke. + Artwork and design by Robert Beatty.

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Roland Kayn - The Ortho-Project - Spectrum City

Roland Kayn's The Ortho-Project is a new high watermark for longform electroacoustic composition, unfolding across 15 CDs in a luxurious gold-stamped boxed set. With Jim O’Rourke applying his signatur...

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 12/11/2024

Here’s the Experimental Music and Sound Art pack we desperately need. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/9SHRJdL

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

So, whilst everything was going on, my new chapter, w/ colleague & buddy Adam Melvin, came out. ‘Cinematic Cross-talk and Psychotechnological Spaces’ in the new Routledge Handbook of Sound Design, ed. M. Filimowicz. Embodiment, tech, & acoustic & conceptual spaces colliding in the soundtrack

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Melvin, A, and Bridges, B. 2024. ‘Cinematic Cross-talk and Psychotechnological Spaces: Understanding the soundtracks’s materiality, multimodality and embodiment through conceptual blending’ in Filimowicz, M (ed). ‘Routledge Handbook of Sound Design’

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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Eins, zwei, drei, vier… (Cue musical electronics)

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