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

Nice day for a scenic shortcut through campus

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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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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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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 · 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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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

Routledge Handbook of Sound Design (ed Michael Filimowicz)

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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