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Stephen Chase

@stephenchase.bsky.social
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Album 1 of 2 on the way
A wooden interior
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Got the airport motto sorted
LP cover of "On a wing and a prayer"
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Maybe this piece was too obvious for yesterday's R3 tour of lighthouses
extract from Lighthouses of England and Wales by Benedict Mason
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Slowly progressing with longterm project
Words "on a chair" set to the notes F, A and C
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
T - 16 hrs... Insomniacs! truckers! moon worshippers! dark sky rangers! 1st thing Sunday 13th Sept you can hear my 'limits of the diaphane' #radiophreniaglasgow radiophrenia.scot/calendar/sun...
Pic of a blue bell (not a bluebell) on the ground amidst some kind of scattered & crushed berries
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
First album (bought for me/bought by me)
Cover of Father Abraham in SmurflandCover of Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Looking forward to the film franchise
Mission Impossible Tom Cruise in similar hooded jacket to book cover
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
...or
Gabrielle Glaister
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Bob Ashley
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#radiophreniaglasgow is back! Pleased that I have a brief moment amidst the intrigue, weirdness and excitement. radiophrenia.scot/schedule/
Radiophrenia poster with image of blue lines connected by red dotson a navy(?) background.
Quick summary of text info: "Radio art transmissions across Glasgow 87.9FM Broadcasting 24hrs a day 5th - 20th September radiophrenia.scot
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Excerpt from Variation on a theme by Jeanne Leleu for John Lely
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Detail of the Halberstadt ASLSP organ in 2014
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Wonderful things with incredible poise and wild lyricism @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social #lindakemp and #JohnTilbury #AnotherTimbre #Slinky-Rita
Pic of book pamphlet Lamentations by Linda Kemp and CD 'At Home' by John Tilbury. Cat looking away.
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
An album (or 2). Soon(-ish). #lanternerouge
Photo of a riderless bicycle at night, with glowing lamp
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Perks of the day job
pic of Serious Music by Percival Everett with 2 cats more interested in other things
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Possibly a bit too on the nose
The young Sonny BlountSun Ra in full regalia
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Bringing things up to the 1/2way mark for my reading peepers, March to June. Some stunners, some unsettlingly good
Pic of March to June books: #LostChildrenArchive #TheOriginal #AWorkingMother #OnthecalculationofvolumeIV #AnimalStories #NowISurrender #ThirstyAnimals #Brodie #Witchborne #SpentLight #MansWarAgainstNature #JohnClare #StirringsStill #WilliamBlakeAndtheSeamonstersofLove #HowardSkempton
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Fbok post from 26 June 2016: "Currently reading John Ashbery's 'Quick Question', here are some of the poems included within: 'Cross Island', 'The allegations', 'Who were those people', 'Absent agenda', 'This economy', 'Northeast building', 'False report', 'Saps at sea', 'The fop's tale', 'Instead of losing', 'You what?', 'Can we start again?'"
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Wear ankle socks to pretend you're like the Kids from Fame (nice reference for the kids there...)
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
JA on the set of Hawaii
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I think they've had enough
Patrick Cavanagh and Anthony Cronin, Bloomsday 1954
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A list of pieces, far too many pieces...
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
tension, /ˈtɛnʃ(ə)n/ (n.) a room full of film & media people unexpectedly encountering John Cage's 4'33"... 10 years ago ahead of Patrick Shen's film In Pursuit of Silence
Pic of me not playing the guitar in front of  a Sheffield Doc Fest audience. Pic by Patrick Shen
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The cosmos has willed it be so....
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Hwæt! Hafen yoƿ gotte inn þæt papyre bagge? Is it a dræht æf a Sinfanye inn C-ee?
Seamus Heaney's version of Beowulf & Mozart's K425 in a paper bag
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Scribblings ongoing
Pic of some scores finished/in progress/etc.
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Hangin' out the passenger side Of Vera Yevseyevna's ride Hollerin' lepidoptera at me
Carl Mydans' photo of Nabokov leaning out of car window taking a break from writing

Not sure why I've done this as I really like the little I've nabbed of 'kov
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
work-in-progress
treble clef stave featuring a large question mark
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Some recent listening, that, dare I say it (dare! dare!) is quite lovely #anothertimbre #sylvialim #jamesmcreed #standardissue #toyourear #outlineensemble @apartment-house.bsky.social
Pic of the CDs by Sylvia Lim & James Creed
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
May, Firth. Forgot to take any pictures all weekend Tectonics Glasgow but there was some terrific stuff, with the humming sound masses of Lore Amenabar Larranaga & Christopher Fox / GBSR Duo battling with things alongside Laura Bowler & later drifting wonkily/amiably in Oliver Leith GoodDayBadDay...
Pic of Moray Firth from Nairn Beach
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"For sake awake to miss out nothing" Almost almost a quiet aside, as if to say this is what even the most abstruse stuff is doing too. The fierce joyous bursting fizz of paying attention to life
Day    Light
On the silvery tree bark, now the sun / gleams and flickers to catch the eye; / imaginings likewise glimmer to fly / backwards and forwards, on their run. // Echoes of thought brim like charity, / admit how generous the trees can show; / throughout the day they come and go, / in truth of nature, so evenly. // Squirrels will race and birds a-twitter, / branches as home, to flit and play; / the tracks all joyful in open way / swift breezes set the leaves a-glitter. // For sake awake to miss out nothing / the tunes for mortals, breathing deep / as yet before now downwards to sleep / the birds nearby, close in their offing.
(JH Prynne from Foremost Wayleave)
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Tsk, fighting talk!
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Her roadies
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Ooh, the website of Clarence/Klarenz/Qui la rince Barlow has had an overhaul with a bunch of scores and other examples clarlow.org
Clarence Barlow/Calcutta hybrid pic
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
CoMA Festival 2026 Loads of great stuff happening all over the place, possibly near you! www.coma.org/whats-on/eve... PLUS 'Immediate Pieces' is launched (now!), which includes one by me, just add water: www.coma.org/.../pub.../i... @comanewmusic.bsky.social #participatorymusic
Cover of the immediate pieces anthology: "immediate pieces, scores to pick up and play"
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Is it this one? alberto-caeiro.blogspot.com
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
February A curious bunch, of which Catrileo, Enard, Chance, and Holloway-Smith intrigued the most.
Pic of the books I've been reading: Doric Plumage, Slags, Coming Through Slaughter, Chilco, Rabbitbox, The Deserters, Feldman in Love, The News from Dublin. Still working my way through the Toibin stories, not sure how far I'll stick with it. I think the Prynne is reading me more than I it.
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The pilot episode of Between Two Ferns, in which the host and guest make an experimental radio drama about unconvincing fern imposters
Mauricio Kagel and Charles Amirkhanian seated either side of flowers - pic c/o Other Minds
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Duolingo exercise where the challenge is to translate „Die Hexe hört gern Jazz."
The left over words hint at an alternative world where Lisa Simpson has taken some of the life choices of John Coltrane a bit too seriously ("I'm clean Lisa now")
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
All this talk of symphonic supermarket freezers in Sheffield, reminded me, here's #EleanorCullyBoehringer singing in my fridge-freezer... eleanorcully.bandcamp.com/track/kitche...
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The beginnings of out-of-doors suite, 15yr ago
Text score:
the thinking of the tympanic 
using sound (or light) / communicate across a large open space 
a game of battleships / use morse code to communicate grid 
positions / other signals to communicate ‘hit’ or 
‘miss’ 
[Cole Bros. rooftop with Ross Parfitt, 16-ii-11]
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Ooh, 5 years old #bandcampfridayyesiknowitsthursdaytoday monsetairetruc.bandcamp.com/album/ice-cr...
Album cover for Ice Cream for K. Rowe Bash St Kids running after ice cream van amended in a John Baldessari dot style
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
An intriguing read. Chance is a fine writer. ... #MortonFeldman #PhilipGuston #StephenChance
Book: #MortonFeldmanInLove
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
January reading: Some decent books, a few very good, and one early contender for best book read this year... (Clue: it's the top one)
Everything Will Swallow You by #TomCox
The Employees by #OlgaRavn
Hypothermia by #AlvaroEnrigue
The Stone Door & Down Below by #LeonoraCarrington
Stolen by #AnnHelenLaestadius
Small Things Like These by #ClaireKeegan
Dancers on a Plane by #JohnCage #MerceCunningham #JasperJohns
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I had hoped that this was the translation
Time to Your Elf
by P D Workman
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Werk-in-progress
Copying up scores
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The Tudor-less photo is more famous, taken presumably seconds later, but none of the 4 would have got where they got or did what they did without him (obvs)
1950s pic of Christian Wolff, Earle Brown, John Cage, David Tudor and Morton Feldman
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Recipe from David Tudor's collection:
"LIME PICKLE (Native process)
Roll the lemons or limes with the hand well upon a stone or board, and throw them in water; put them in an earthen vessel, and sprinkle over with fine salt; let them remain for 2 or 3 days, turning them occasionally; when the lemons have become soft, expose them to the sun on a cloth; after they appear ripe, steep them either in vinegar or lemon juice, preferably in the latter. 
(the juice being first boiled ?)"
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Tudor music #CanariesNotByrd #DavidTudor100
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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Perhaps it was an early version of Purrfleet and the Essex Shore
I can't see any cats (or owls for that matter) in the picture. The sea is possibly too choppy, which would be a little annoying for most.
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