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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

The playlist for today's (10/5/26) episode of Not Brahms and Liszt can be found at alleystoughton.us/not-brahms-and-li… And a Samply link (good for 2 weeks only, downloads not allowed) to the high-quality audio file for the show can be found at […]

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Ninety minutes of electronic and electroacoustic music - including Guy Barash & Cornelius Dufallo’s “Minutes”, which consists of 40 1-minute tracks - this (10/5/26) afternoon beginning at 4pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on wmbr.org #Cambridge #Boston #Radio #ModernClassical […]

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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 · 28/09/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract/117339… The playlist for today's (9/28/26) episode of Not Brahms and Liszt can be found at alleystoughton.us/not-brahms-and-li… And a Samply link (good for 2 weeks only, downloads not allowed) to the high-quality audio […]

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract/117339… Ninety minutes of modern chamber music - including the last recording by double bassist Robert Black - this (9/28/26) afternoon beginning at 4pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on wmbr.org #Cambridge #Boston #Radio […]

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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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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Complex software behaving in unexpected and sometimes harmful ways has been a persistent problem since software was invented. The phenomenon used to be called “bugs” or “defects”, but I guess “going rogue” sounds cooler. It also implicitly frames “rogue” behavior as some kind of inexplicable […]

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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 · 25/09/2026

Listening to the chamber music I’ll be playing on my radio program this coming Monday while watching the landscape go by out the train window. It’s like watching a film! Forest, rivers, small towns, a car junk yard, dilapidated buildings, etc…

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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

Are fares randomly checked with the new tap to pay MBTA system? If someone taps with a card, how would the inspector check it? #Boston #MBTA

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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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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

📌 2026 Massachusetts ballot questions: my recommendations Here are my recommendations for how I believe people should vote on the nine 🫠 initiative petitions that Massachusetts residents are voting on this year. 📌📌 TLDR I recommend you vote: - *YES* on Question 1 - *YES* on Question 2 - *NO* […]

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I didn't teach last academic year, but am teaching this semester, and I think this is the first time LLMs (especially Claude) will be able to complete whole assignments I set. This has me seriously weirded out. I guess my main concern is that students who go this route may learn very little. And […]

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract/117300… The playlist for today's (9/21/26) episode of Not Brahms and Liszt can be found at alleystoughton.us/not-brahms-and-li… And a Samply link (good for 2 weeks only, downloads not allowed) to the high-quality audio […]

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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

The all-purpose 2026 Venn diagram #WTF

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract/117300… Today's (9/21/26) episode of Not Brahms and Liszt features music by Peter Dickson Lopez, Meredith Monk, Gene Pritsker & inti figgis-vizueta - featuring cellists Jakob Nierenz / Andrew Yee, ComoCord Modified Quartet, MISE-EN & Phaedra […]

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

The UK is generating so much green energy from wind that it is *PAYING* people to use electricity all day long. This is what the transition looks like. An abundance of electricity.

Graph showing negative prices until 1700 in the evening.

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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 · 14/09/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract/117265… The playlist for today's (9/14/26) episode of Not Brahms and Liszt can be found at alleystoughton.us/not-brahms-and-li… And a Samply link (good for 2 weeks only, downloads not allowed) to the high-quality audio […]

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

@j2bryson I read in Paul Krugman's blog that instead of physically moving gold, sometimes it's sold and the proceeds are used to buy gold that's out of the US - with the new owner still not taking physical possession.

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract/117265… Ninety minutes of innovative solos and duos this afternoon beginning at 4pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on wmbr.org #Cambridge #Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical

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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 · 11/09/2026

Today's marks the one year anniversary of the submission of an NSF grant proposal I'm a co-PI on and that is still "pending".

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

While all this was going on, tonight President Trump attended the second day of his Dallas rally to fire up his base before the midterm elections. There, a video from the Republican National Committee intoned: “And on June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a […]

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The Gaffer @thegaffer.hobbitwhispers.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

#70sMoviesTaughtMe the Washington Post used to be a respectable newspaper #AllThePresidentsMen #HashTagGames

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

"The game of life is hard to play I'm gonna lose it anyway The losing card I'll someday lay so this is all I have to say." #70sMoviesTaughtMe #HashTagGames

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

"I’m not saying all safety regulations are bad. I’m saying that I would personally mouth-pipette a solution of pure chloroform right now, today, in front of God and the NIH Director and the entire Office of Research Safety, if it meant a young scientist in my department could get a payline above […]

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2026

If these dems are allowed to win and take power, the Democratic Party WILL get worse on this issue. So much worse. Yes, not as bad as Republicans, but we will lose the ability to right the ship when Dems win, because they will work like a ratchet... rights only lost, then paused.

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Fascinating that the writer of this piece is chief economist at a "conservative" think tank. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/opinion/…

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

@futurebird Brave Pica! Our tough looking tabby, Cedric, hides under a couch whenever a stranger comes into the house.

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract/117219… The playlist for today's (9/7/26) episode of Not Brahms and Liszt can be found at alleystoughton.us/not-brahms-and-li… And a Samply link (good for 2 weeks only, downloads not allowed) to the high-quality audio file […]

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

If Trump issued an executive order renaming "New Mexico", would Google and Apple cave? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/us/polit…

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