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Jim Harbourne

@jimharbourne.bsky.social

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Edinburgh/Borders-based Composer and Sound Designer for Theatre. Also writer. Occasional printmaker.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

GO BINFACE, GO!

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Never been happier about the superfluous "u" in my surname.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Ragnarok is back! My personal dream project performing one night only in Edinburgh, 23rd May. Micro-cinema, hundreds of tiny puppets, mask-work and a live score (by me) telling the story of a sister and brother navigating the end of the world. www.capitaltheatres.com/shows/ragnar...

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Ragnarok - Capital Theatres

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Don't know if anyone here remembers a show called 'Beulah', but that small thing led to a lifelong friendship, and here I am marrying my friends Edward and Serena together.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

This can't be an original thought, but an authoritarian's most hated enemies are not foreign but domestic. Not sure that's always been true, but it seems so now.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

So, interview on R4 Today, Reform intend to spend £2bn as an incentive for countries to take their asylum seekers back. Does that mean they're going to pay the Taliban (for example)? How would that go down with their base? Have they forgotten all the British soldiers lost? What fresh hell is this?!

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I have a cult if people want to join. All it involves is sitting still, listening to 'Canto Ostinato' by Simeon Ten Holt once a week. Tuesdays, 9-11pm. There isn't much opportunity to exploit people, so if you're interested in cultist stuff for those reasons, this won't be for you. Get in touch.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Right. Sci-fi/fantasy theatre. Plays that just straight-up do SFF. Any examples? I absolutely LOVED 'The Beautiful Future is Coming' at the @traversetheatre.bsky.social. Of course it had climate themes, but it clearly took pleasure in the setting of the future storyline. The doors went wooosh.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

How does one cope when the show you've just seen has 4* reviews but you think it verges on being disrespectfully bad? Or vice-versa? Anyone else made their way home RANTING about a show only to realise that [insert respected publication] thought it was great?

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

2025 looking a little thin. Not surprising considering the financial uncertainty in Scottish Theatre - but if anyone would like to chat to a composer/sound designer for their projects in the UK, I'd love to meet new people and make new things! jimharbourne.com

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Congratulations to all who finally got their Creative Scotland funding today. But particular commiserations to those who didn't - a very long wait for disappointing news.

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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

4 pieces by RUTH WOLF-REHFELDT (1932-2024). Wolf-Rehfeldt's typewritten poetry set the bar for excellence. Seek her work out, every piece is architectural marvel.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

One month until I move to Melrose! Edinburgh, the last 19 years have been swell. But you're only an hour away.

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a young boy in a brown leather jacket is crying

Alt: a young boy, in this case representing me, in a brown leather jacket is crying, waving back at, in this case, Edinburgh.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Despite X's best efforts, it is in fact Bluesky that owns the libs.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I am here! I've been pretty quiet over on the other one for a while now, but dipping my toe in here feels warm and familiar. Like the other one used to!

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