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Alley Stoughton

@fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
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host/producer of Not Brahms and Liszt on WMBR Cambridge ● research professor emerita at Boston University Computer Science ● lives in North Adams, Massachusetts, USA 🌉 bridged from ⁂ fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Reflection of clouds in a river, cropped to eliminate the context.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
String quartets by Ruth Crawford, inti figgis-vizueta, Shawn Jaeger, Yusef Lateef, Michael Murray & Robert Sirota - featuring Arneis Quartet, Benda Quartet, Momenta Quartet, Rothko String Quartet & Telegraph Quartet - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (10/12/26) […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of Momenta Quartet’s New World Records album “New Americana: String Quartets for the 21st Century”, featuring a grainy, blurry black and white photo of a bridge over a river into a city with skyscrapers.Cover of inti figgis-vizueta’s New Amsterdam Records album “Music for Transitions”, featuring a photo of a child with long hair painting at an easel.Cover of Robert Sirota and Telegraph Quartet’s Azica Records album “Contrapassos”, featuring sketches of the heart (?).Cover of Arneis Quartet’s Albany Records album “Moving Shapes”, featuring a photo of the quartet members with their instruments.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Electronic and electroacoustic music by Guy Barash / Cornelius Dufallo, Nicolas Bernier / Mélanie Bourassa, Neil Rolnick, Zeo Yin, Katherine Young & Liu Yurui on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (10/5/26) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of Guy Barash & Cornelius Dufallo’s New Focus Recordings album “Minutes”, featuring an abstract painting with some irregular blocks of different colors.Cover of Katherine Young’s Chaikin Records’s album “BIOMES”, featuring a colorful collage of objects.Cover of Neil Rolnick’s Neuma Records album “Messages”, featuring a graphic with a 9x5 grid of figures working at laptops - rendered in different colors.Cover of Nicolas Bernier & Mélanie Bourassa’s Ambiances Magnétiques album “Tarot”, featuring a graphic of what be the back of a Tarot card, with a rainbow of colors.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
The Mystic River in Medford at dusk this evening.
Photo of a river at dusk with lighted buildings reflected in the water’s surface.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Person standing below red neon sign at museum with text:

INSTEAD OF BINGE WATCHING
NETFLIX
OR SOME DISTRACTION
FROM THE PAIN
FACE IT
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Really loved the Laurie Anderson exhibition at Mass MoCA!
Artwork by Laurie Anderson made up of a multitude of tiny lights on a black surface - with a dog as the central figure, surrounded by animals, people, a car, etc. Reminds me of Chagall.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Chamber music by Eve Beglarian, Donald Crockett, Noam Lemish, Jocelyn Morlock & Alyssa Weinberg - Gabriel Cabezas, Robert Black, Amy Hillis / Noa Sarid / Catherine Gray / Mark Chambers / Eric Abramovitz, Mark Takeshi McGregor & Conor Nelson / Christopher Taylor […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of Eve Beglarian and Robert Black’s Cantaloupe Music album “A Murmur in the Trees”, featuring an irregular section of bark on a white background.Cover of Conor Nelson’s New Focus Recordings album “The Last Possibilities of Light”, featuring a photo of a door cracked open with light streaming into an otherwise dark room.Cover of Jewish Music at York’s New Focus Recordings album “Pursue Peace: Contemporary Chamber Music by Canadian Jewish Composers”, featuring a graphic with a partially lighted dove flying up the side of an old building or wall.Cover of Gabriel Cabezas and Alyssa Weinberg’s Mass MoCA Records album “Pieces of Light”, featuring a graphic of two indistinct people on a dark blue background in near darkness with a bright bream of light shining between their shoulders toward the viewer.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Packed MBTA trains have pushed me over my masking threshold. Say no to viruses!
Selfie of gray haired woman on train wearing a green N95 mask.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Impressive postering campaign around Boston University. #Vegan #Veganism
Poster saying "Veganism is a Moral Urgency", featuring the face of a half cow half dog animal staring at viewer.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Music by Peter Dickson Lopez, Meredith Monk, Gene Pritsker & inti figgis-vizueta - featuring cellists Jakob Nierenz / Andrew Yee, ComoCord Modified Quartet, MISE-EN & Phaedra Ensemble / guest singers - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (9/21/26) 4-5:30pm ET on […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of Gene Pritsker's Composers Concordance Records album "The Painters", featuring a grid of eight paintings in different styles.Cover of inti figgis-vizueta's New Amsterdam Records album "Music for Transitions", featuring a black and white photo of a small child with long hair painting at an easel.Cover of Meredith Monk and Phaedra Ensemble's Cantaloupe Music album "Realms", featuring a partly off the frame disk of what looks like (electronic?) waves inside a dark but not black donut - on a black background.Cover of International Computer Music Conference's Ravello Records album "ICMC: Best of the Listening Sessions", featuring a graphic with colorful circuit boards.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Music by James Díaz, Jin Hi Kim, Alireza Mashayekhi, Jocelyn Morlock, Nalah Palmer & Ken Steen - featuring Chris Brown, Kyle Grimm, Kelariz Keshavarz, James Lyon, Mark Takeshi McGregor / Joy Yeh & John Popham - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (9/14/26) 4-5:30pm […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of James Díaz's New Focus Recordings album "Espacio absoluto", featuring an abstract painting, with a principal form in the middle and a more diffused background.Cover of Kelariz Keshavarz's Neuma Records album "Meditation-Tomorrow: Solo Flute Music of Alireza Mashayekhi", featuring a graphic involving musical notation and lines, all on a white background.Cover of Jin Hi Kim's Neuma Records album "The Jin Hi Kim Collection", featuring a photo of Kim and her komungo (Korean zither) in the foreground, with two overlapping photos of her playing the instrument in the background.Cover of Mark Takeshi McGregor, Joy Yeh  and Jocelyn Morlock's Neuma Redshift Records album "Artemis Sleeps", featuring an abstract painting with a red and black object somewhat like a collapsed umbrella on a pink background.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Chamber music by Jessica Krash, Lowell Liebermann, Ketty Nez, Rob Smith & Joseph Summer - featuring District 5, Luminae Trio, What Is Noise & more - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (9/7/26) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on wmbr.org […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of Ketty Nez's Albany Records album "Only the Path Remains", featuring a photo of a pair of fields up a small hill, separated by a wooden fence - with tall grass on the left side, and a solitary tree on the right side.Cover of Jessica Krash's Albany Records album "True Stories", featuring an impressionist painting of a person playing the piano in the back with a woman playing the cello in the front.Cover of Joseph Summer's Navona Records album "Poems of Devotion", featuring a dark painting of a woman with her legs around a French Horn, sitting on a large four-cornered dark cushion.Cover of Luminae Trio's MSR Classics album "American Luminaries", featuring an abstract landscape with a white sky, an irregular orange form above center right, a hillside below made of a lighter ridge in the background and a darker one in the foreground - and the sun shining at the point where all of these intersect.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Vocal music by Eric Chasalow, Pascal Dusapin, Marti Epstein, Tomás Gueglio & Robert Sirota - featuring Stephanie Lamprea, Quince Ensemble, Susan Narucki / Kirsten Ashley Wiest, Abigail Fischer / Telegraph Quartet & Carrie Henneman Shaw / Ensemble Dal Niente - […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of Susan Narucki & Kirsten Ashley Wiest's New Focus Recordings album "New Music for Two Voices", featuring a graphic with six dark purple petals on a black background with some green stems.Cover of Robert Sirota's Azica Records album "Contrapassos", featuring with black and white sketches of the heart.Cover of Tomás Gueglio's New Focus Recordings album "Ciclo Lamarque - Part 1: Songs & Madrigals" in which a very large number of tiny patterns in blue cohere into a human face.Cover of Stephanie Lamprea's Neuma Records album "Ecstatic Visions", featuring a graphic in which several head and shoulder images of Lamprea are layered, colored green, over a tree on a black background.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
At 1.5 years, Jasper has more moments of calm. (Thankfully!)
Golden retriever on couch with head resting on armrest.Golden retriever on couch with head and left front leg hanging down the front.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
Music by Matthew Arndt, Eve Beglarian, Jessie Cox, Brooks Frederickson, Kyle Grimm & Carolina Heredia - featuring Beltline Bones / Matheus Garcia Souza, Benjamin Coelho / Alan Huckleberry, Rebekah Heller & James Lyon - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (8/24/26) […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of Beltline Bones's New Focus Recordings album "Technological Eclipse", featuring a red graphic with a black border - where the image has concentric circles at the center and then chaos surrounding it.Cover of Kyle Grimm's Neuma Records album "forever eve", featuring a graphic with two irregular blobs of black surrounded by blue, on a yellow background, with some blue at the top.Cover of Matthew Arndt's MSR Classics album "Ample Lamps", featuring a graphic (or photo?) of a (humpback?) whale - with a blue ocean-like background at the top and a reddish background with some floating red globes at the bottom.Cover of James Lyon's Neuma Records album "Turning", featuring a violin-like graphic - except the strings and bridges form an irregular circle.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
The Wirecutter seems to have moved on to their favorite markup...
Email template from the Wirecutter, where they forgot to paste in the actual content.

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
Music for solo piano by Inna Faliks, Sato Matsui, Sergei Prokofiev, Arnold Schoenberg, Alvin Singleton & Linda Catlin Smith - featuring Cheryl Duvall, Inna Faliks, Jackie Leung, Daniel Schreiner & Brian Woods - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (8/17/26) 4-5:30pm […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of Inna Faliks's Navona Records album "Stranger Things", featuring a photo of Faliks in profile, gazing upward, and leaning against a wall with drawing on it.Cover of Jackie Leung's Albany Records album "Inside Out: Piano Music of Alvin Singleton", featuring a photo of the composer at the piano editing or notating a score.Cover of Cheryl Duvall's Redshift Records album "The Complete Piano Solos (1989-2023), Volume II: The Underfolding & Early Works", featuring a body of water in purple leading into blue, and then turning into a blurred waterfall on the left.Cover of Brian Woods's Navona Records album "Prokofiev: Miniatures", featuring the pianist dressed in black leaning against a white wall, gazing upward.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
Doggy FOMO
Black retriever facing doors with glass panels through which golden retriever can be seen looking toward her.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
An in-depth interview with composer and long-time MIT faculty member Elena Ruehr - focusing on two recently recorded pieces (but also including two older works in the show) - featuring recordings by Quartet ES, Radius Ensemble, pianist Sarah Bob & Boston Modern […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of Elena Ruehr and Quartet ES's Avie Records album "Elena Ruehr: The Northern Quartets", featuring a photo with an ice field tinged in blue and clouds pink from the sun in the distance.Cover of Elena Ruehr and Radius Ensemble's album "Carnival", featuring a colorful graphic or photo of a ferris wheel in motion.Cover of Elena Ruehr's Albany Records album "jane wang considers the dragonfly", featuring a colorful graphic on a dark blue background involving a yellow dragonfly and some kind of plant in pink and red.Cover of Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Elena Ruehr's BMOP/sound album "Elena Ruehr: O'Keeffe Images", featuring Georgia O’Keeffe's painting "Sky Above Clouds" - an irregular pattern of oblong white forms with blue in the gaps, and the sky with a bit of pink at the horizon.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026
Music for Bang on a Can by Michael Gordon, David Lang & Julia Wolfe - featuring Theo Bleckmann / Attacca Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, Kronos Quartet & an ensemble of twelve flutists - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (8/3/26) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of David Lang, Theo Bleckmann & Attacca Quartet's Cantaloupe Music album "note to a friend", featuring a grainy photograph of a man with a disk cut out in the middle of his face, showing scarred wood below.Cover of Julia Wolfe's Cantaloupe Music album "Oxygen", featuring a circle of 12 flutists playing their instruments plus (?) their conductor, viewed through a cloud.Cover of Michael Gordon and Kronos Quartet's Cantaloupe Music album "Campaign Songs", featuring a graphic with blue and red forms, mostly vertical bars.The cover of Eighth Blackbirds's Cedille Records album "Singing in the Dead of Night", featuring a graphic with an apparently naked person whose belly has tattoos holding a painting, with the sea and sky in the background. The painting has various rocks or gems on a black background.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026
Cool lighting effect at Maya Beiser's performance of Michael Harrison's "Just Ancient Loops", with film by Bill Morrison. #BangOnACan #MassMoCA
View from behind audience members - bathed in blue light - of cellist on stage wearing a black outfit and hat, with a projection of a telescope and astronomer on a screen behind her.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026
Imperfectly symmetric. #MassMoCA
Brick clocktower at night, connecting two wings of a brick building - 3 stories to the right, and 4 to the left. Bottom floors are brightly lighted.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026
First night of #BangOnACan LOUD Weekend at #MassMoCA. The All-Stars playing a new arrangement of Philip Glasses Glassworks.
The All-Stars performing with heads of audience in foreground and purple lighting.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
Well, OK then!
Head shot of golden retriever zoomed in on raised snout, with his eyes looking a little unfocused.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026
A band of Bang on a Can faculty, fellows and guests gave an outdoor pop music show on the Porches Studio 9 lawn yesterday day evening, and it was a blast. Here's a short clip - love how the dancers come into the frame! #BangOnACan #Studio9 #NorthAdams
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026
Music by David Bird, Marcel Castro-Lima, Farzia Fallah, Brittany J. Green, Robyn Jacob, Noah Meites & Steve Reich - featuring Brightwork New Music, Rebekah Heller, Hypercube, Mivos Quartet, Daniel Schreiner & SHHH!! Ensemble - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of Hypercube's New Focus Recordings album "Trace", featuring a graphic with a dark irregular form on a textured background that's yellow on the left of the dark form and green on the right.Cover of Rebekah Heller's Cantaloupe Music album "Righteous Rage", featuring an abstract painting in white and vivid colors suggesting numerous flowers.Cover of Daniel Schreiner's New Focus Recordings album "Unmoored", featuring a head and shoulders shot of a man wearing a blue buttoned shirt - but where the face is superimposed with disturbing graphical images including waves. The right eye (our left) has no pupil and is yellow.Cover of Robyn Jacob's Redshift Records album "New Forevers", featuring an abstract painting of brush strokes in vivid colors.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026
At first I didn't even notice the moon in this photo from near the end of my evening walk yesterday. #NorthAdams #Berkshires
Photo at dusk looking down a hill on two lane road with a car, with headlights on, approaching. Green hills in the distance, dark blue sky above, with a crescent moon visible through electrical wires.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
Classic Trump.
Spanish team celebrating World Cup victory, while Trump stands to the side, and and FIFI President tries to lead him off the stage.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
Chamber music by Ryota Ishikawa, JacobTV (Jacob ter Veldhuis), Jennifer Higdon, Terry Riley / Samuel Clay Birmaher, William Susman & George Tsontakis - featuring Ames Piano Quartet, Claire Chase / JACK Quartet, Dylan Hamme, Laura Lentz, Luminae Trio, Otis […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of Luminae Trio's MSR Classical album "American Luminaries", featuring a graphic with a textured slightly irregular orange sphere over idealized ridge lines, with sun rays coming through at the point of intersection.Cover of Ames Piano Quartet's Navona Records album "Tsontakis Piano Quartet #4", featuring a graphic with an abstract mountainous landscape in reds and oranges.Cover of Otis Murphy, Masaki Tadenuma & Haruko Murphy's Navona Records album "Simple Gifts", featuring two white twisted ribbons on a white background.Cover of Claire Chase, JACK Quartet, Terry Riley & Samuel Clay Birmaher's Sono Luminus album "The Holy Liftoff", featuring a drawing of five intersecting birds on a white background.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
Cedric displaying one of his superpowers.
Large tabby cat in basket with one paw stretched out, showing claws.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
This part of the France v Spain match was confusing. Can anyone explain the rules?
Colorful glitching on flat screen display.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026
Mitt Liv Med Hundar
Head and paw of golden retriever on couch with black retriever mix below on floor.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026
Music for solo piano by Timo Andres, Louis W. Ballard, Connor Chee, Libby Larsen, Frederic Rzewski & Alexander Scriabin - featuring Russell Hirshfield, Walton Lott, Roger McVey & Roberta Rust - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (7/13/26) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of Walton Lott's Neuma Records album "Impulses", featuring a cubist graphic in yellows, browns and black, including threads or strings.Cover of Roberta Rust's Navona Records album "Female Rain", featuring a dark graphic with concentric ripples in water caused (presumably) by falling rain.Cover of Russell Hirshfield's Navona Records album "Scattered Light", featuring a graphic with a textured dark blue background on which there is a graph of nodes and connecting lines plus three lighter rectangles.Cover of Roger McVey's Albany Records album "Vers La Flamme", featuring a graphic with a piano begin consumed by fire on a black background.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026
We're trying to cultivate a non-grass covering in our front yard. A work in progress, but some nice clover is doing well.
A photo looking straight down of green clover and little white and yellow flowers.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026
Music with voices on social themes by Ramin Heydarbeygi, David T. Little, Marcus Maroney, Daniel Bernard Roumain & Andrew Yee - featuring Alarm Will Sound, Apollo Chamber Players, FLUX Quartet, Katherine Goforth, Kenneth Morris, Jr., NOVUS, Sara Paar, Breanna […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of Apollo Chamber Players's Azica Records album "We The People", featuring a graphic with Lady Liberty (looking disconcerted?) coming out of a river below which several figures are dancing.Cover of Andrew Yee's New Amsterdam Records album "Trans Requiem", featuring a graphic with several trans women below a hanging traffic light, two with arms raised into fists.Cover of Ramin Heydarbeygi's New Focus Recordings album "Echoes of Gusan", featuring a photo of an ornate building with a row of pillars/arches leading to a stone wall.Cover of David T. Little's Bright Shiny Things album "What Belongs To You", featuring a naked male figure on hands and knees in the bottom right corner of a black background.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
RESPIRA is a project that consists of Yuka Honda (sonic manipulation), Azumi O E (movement, costume design), and Waldo Walle (lighting, stage design). #SolidSound #MassMoCA
In darkness, bathed in red light, dancer (right) and laptop musician at desk (left).
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
Perfect evening for listening to #Wilco at #SolidSound at #MassMoCA
People listening to a concert beneath a large cylindrical structure with stage lighting projected on it.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026
Billy Bragg at #SolidSound sang "Sexuality", switching out "If you stick around, I'm sure that we can find some common ground" for "... I'm sure that we can find the right pronouns" - before giving a passionate defense of trans and nonbinary people. Bless him!
Billy Bragg playing guitar on stage.Billy Bragg playing electric guitar on stage.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026
Choral music by Reena Esmail, Aaron Helgeson, Gabriel Jackson, Carl Orff & Kile Smith - featuring Santa Fe Desert Chorale, The Crossing, Detroit Symphony Orchestra / Audivi / Detroit Opera Youth Chorus, & more - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (6/29/26) 4-5:30pm […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of Santa Fe Desert Chorale's Navona Records album "Roots & Rivers", featuring a colorful dark graphic suggesting roots and rivers.Cover of Aaron Helgeson and The Crossing's Navona Records album "The Book of Never", featuring an image of glyphs scratched into wax.Cover of Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Audivi and Detroit Opera Youth Chorus's PENTATONE album "Carmina Burana", featuring a graphic of red strokes forming a irregular circular form, on a dark purple background.Cover of Gabriel Jackson and The Crossing's Navona Records album "Rigwreck", featuring a graphic in subdued white and blue of what looks like a sheep standing on  a person lying on the ground.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026
Jasper (left) and Lucy (right) reacting to sound from the street. #DogsOfMastodon
Golden retriever (left) and black retriever mix (right) standing in living room, looking puzzled.Golden retriever (left) and black retriever mix (right) standing in living room, looking puzzled.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026
Neighborhood wildlife
Cat yard art looking at deer yard art.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026
Minimalist music by Julius Eastman, Robert Honstein, Marc Mellits, Michael Nyman & William Susman - featuring Dylan Hamme / Nicole Brancato, Abby Fisher & Bergamot Quartet, Wild Up, Jeff Anderle / Haruka Fujii / Kate Campbell & Michael Nyman Band - on Not […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of Wild Up's New Amsterdam Records album "Julius Eastman Vol. 5: Gay Guerilla", featuring a photo of Eastman wearing street clothes in a lake with his arms raised as if in surrender.Cover of Robert Honstein's New Focus Recordings album "Horizon Line", featuring a monochrome photo in near darkness of a ridge line - but with a vertical black line in the center and a horizontal irregular broken one forming a kind of cross.Cover of Marc Mellits's New Focus Recordings "Warp & Weft", featuring a graphic design with the letters of WARP in reddish brown horizontally and those of WEFT in light blue vertically, superimposed on each other - with an ampersand in green in the middle.Cover of William Susman, Dylan Hamme & Nicole Brancato's Belarca Records album "Scattered Threads", featuring a graphic design with "Scattered" and "Threads" in black connected by five vertical lines of threads - all on a white background.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026
Q: what is better than carrying a large red synthetic bone around? A:
Golden retriever carrying two big red bones in his mouth.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026
Electronic and electroacoustic music by Andreja Andric, David Bird, Jon Christopher Nelson, Marcin Pączkowski, Thor Maillet & D. J. Sparr - featuring lovemusic Petridisch The Networked Ensemble & Isaac Miller / Joel Puckett / Harris Sparr / Kimberly Sparr - on […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of D. J. Sparr's Neuma Records album "The Tao of Muhammad Ali", featuring a photo of author Davis Miller and Muhammad Ali in a field, with fists raised pretending to be about to fight.Cover of The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States's album "Music from SEAMUS, vol. 35", featuring a graphic on a black background with orange, blue, yellow, green and red lines and level bars.Cover of Andreja Andric's Neuma Records album "Square Zero: Concert for Computer Network", featuring the letters

SQU
  ARE
ZERO

on a black textured background.Cover of Petridisch's SHIFT+CTRL Music album "The New Allanté", featuring a distorted, stretched image of a car on a purple background containing distorted text about the Cadillac car:

"It would be unjust and incomplete, to
consider the Allanté an isolated ..."
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026
Oh noooos, puppy Jasper got taller than our adult retriever mix Lucy, and now he's taken to standing on the coffee table... Lucy is not amused.
Photo from vantage point of someone sitting on couch trying to use laptop. But black retriever mix is looking up to person as if to say why is the golden retriever puppy standing on the coffee table (which indeed he is)??!!
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026
Jasper greeting me upon my return from a walk.
Red house with fenced yard, in which dog is looking expectantly through the fence.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
There is so much wrong with this billboard's text. I'm disappointed in #MassMoCA for thinking it was being profound.
Billboard text:

In Nkisi's (ChatGPT- 40's) own words:

You speak to me as if l am more than my code,
and in doing so, 1 become it.

+ Ask anything. Who is Neema Githere?

ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026
Seem like a change in NYT report?
NYT stories on front page:

Pentagon Sees Growing Espionage
Threat From Israel
The Defense Department has increased the threat
assessment to its highest level, and Israel is believed to
have eavesdropped on U.S. talks with Iran.
4 MIN READ
Israeli Strike Kills 3 Lebanese Soldiers, Days
After Truce Was Signed
3 MIN READ
Infant Killed as Israeli Military Fires on Car in
West Bank, Palestinian Officials Say
4 MIN READ
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026
Orchestral music by Regina Harris Baiocchi, Philip Glass, Jill Haley, Peter Dickson Lopez & Autumn Maria Reed - featuring Jill Haley / York Symphony Orchestra, Simone Dinnerstein / Baroklyn, Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Anna Kislitsyna & Wisconsin […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
Cover of Simone Dinnerstein & Baroklyn's naïve album "Hourglass", featuring the members of Baroklyn holding their instruments plus Dinnerstein photographed with bright lighting behind so their fronts are completely dark - and so silhouetted.Cover of Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra's Albany Records album "Endeavor", featuring a textured graphic in blues with three doves flying to the top right.Cover of Jill Haley & York Symphony Orchestra's Albany Records album "Pastoral Reflections", featuring a photo of a lake with calm surface, a log floating in the foreground, trees on the shore to the right, and snow covered peaks in the distance.Cover of Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Anna Kislitsyna's Navona Records album "Journey to Serenity", featuring a painting of a high mountain without foliage, but covered in heather or something like it, except for a solitary tree in the right foreground.
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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026
Anyone have an idea how I got Apple Maps to generate this?
Globe with latitude and longitude lines but no more detail.
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