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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 20/09/2026

A little teaser for a forthcoming software instrument that digs into a lost world of 1980s recordings, to create a unique new sound library drawn from my personal archive of 4-track tape machines, cassette recordings, tape loops, and experimental sound-making. More soon...

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Barney Grubbs @barneygrubbs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If a bunch of collaborative 90-second field recording/synthesizer tracks seems intriguing, check them out here (or on bandcamp)

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Tom Whitwell @tomwhitwell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sixty-five track collaborative album made by Workshop System owners around the world. youtu.be/Vp3Dgo2UvIk?...

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Thinking #1: Shared Air Collaborative Album (Spectrogram Video)

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𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚊 𝚢𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚎 @loulayorke.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

New 1-day workshop at Asylum Studios on sale now ✨ Patch & Splice ✨ Learn to splice 16mm film to create unique visuals from found footage + patch up a compact modular synth to improvise a live score to accompany it! Join me, Graeme Hogg & @tomwhitwell.bsky.social in Suffolk on Sat 17th Oct 😃

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Patch & Splice

Make your own analogue sounds and visuals using a 16mm film projector and a compact modular synth.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Walked forth to my instrument maker, and there had my rule he made me lay now so perfected, that I think in all points I have never need or desire a better, or think that any man yet had one so good in all the several points of it for my use.

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DANIELPEMBERTON @danielpemberton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🚨LONDON! 🚨 🕷️ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE 🕷️ LIVE IN CONCERT.. returns! 19 Dec 2026 at the Eventim Apollo www.eventimapollo.com/events/spide...

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Film with Live Orchestra

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Tom Whitwell @tomwhitwell.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Wrote this back in 2022 and never published it

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Can I just say that Londoncentric is proving to be the most important media outlet in London and a crucial part of the city's social and political fabric. I'm a subscriber and I always feel like it's a great investment

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DANIELPEMBERTON @danielpemberton.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

So excited that the guy who built this crazy museum LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER is gonna rep the UK at Eurovision this year. Bonkers. I love it.

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Tom Whitwell @tomwhitwell.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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Peter Kirn @pkirn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Workshop workshops, ensembles, free and open cards doing all kinds of stuff (mungling! granular!), Workshop System in a browser, and a whole lot more. @tomwhitwell.bsky.social was generous in summing up all the goodness from the world of his creation, and I cribbed his notes:

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What's new in the DIY world of Music Thing's Workshop System - CDM Create Digital Music

It's a Very Workshop System Jamuary. Music Thing's patchable music lab-in-a-lunchbox has proved that small-batch personal hardware can attract a select, dedicated community sharing great stuff with on...

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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 08/01/2026

I had a lovely chat with Tom Whitwell of Music Thing Modular about the role of radio in my career. Watch it back here. @tomwhitwell.bsky.social youtu.be/nE4H1mJB0eU?...

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Robin Rimbaud on using radio to make music

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hayden and things of that nature @hayden-higgins.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

awesome to see @katiejwells.bsky.social research mentioned in @tomwhitwell.bsky.social's annual '52 things i learned,' terrible to see that AI is being used to selectively offer lower wages to nurses with more difficult financial straits medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

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52 things I learned in 2025

This year I stopped being a consultant, started a tiny company, sold hundreds of little modular synths, hosted two incredible events, and…

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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The yearly list of '52 Things I Learned This Year' has become an annual treat, and this year's selection by @tomwhitwell.bsky.social contains some typically-great facts; this year I was most struck by shrinking Americans and the possibility of a shrimp uprising: medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

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52 things I learned in 2025

This year I stopped being a consultant, started a tiny company, sold hundreds of little modular synths, hosted two incredible events, and…

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 01/12/2025

Tom always seems to come up with a list of interesting and optimistic things e.g. "London is safer today, with fewer murders, than at any time since I moved here almost 30 years ago."

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 08/08/2025

This graph is misleading. It shows the number of tokens processed by OpenRouter per day and per model, not consumer usage. Students usually wouldn't be using OpenRouter, they'd be using the LLM provider's website directly and the telemetry would not be captured by OpenRouter. see openrouter.ai

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OpenRouter

The unified interface for LLMs. Find the best models & prices for your prompts

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Tom Whitwell @tomwhitwell.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Pay what you like for a Music Thing Workshop System - inspired by Teenage Engineering www.musicthing.co.uk/NYP/

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Tom Whitwell @tomwhitwell.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

If you're interested in the Music Thing Workshop System, you might enjoy this email list: workshopsystem.substack.com/p/workshop-n...

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Tom Whitwell @tomwhitwell.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Genuinely wondering why this weird short clip of me pulling out the pins on the back of a Workshop System box seems to interest / connect with people www.instagram.com/p/DJtrmH2tq-1/

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Tom Whitwell @tomwhitwell.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Loving this clip of S8FJOU just playing a tiny 8mu midi controller. www.instagram.com/p/DJzQNqhtDLN/

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Tom Whitwell @tomwhitwell.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Lovely to see a Music Thing Workshop System (the little black box on the drum on the left) out in the world, in such an interesting creative environment

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

COME and WORK WITH US building NHS DATA INFRASTRUCTURE that WORKS

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Tom Whitwell @tomwhitwell.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

The onboarding flow in The Substance is exemplary

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𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 @seachael.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

5 day residency in Cornwall creating and album in a week in a workshop led by Tom Whitwell. Two free positions are available based on need and not writing ability. Exploring graphic and text scores, improvisation, modular synths, and other sound-making devices. MTM Workshop! dyski.co/Tom-Whitwell...

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Tom Whitwell - Sound Maps — Dyski

Sound Maps 2025 Tom Whitwell April 26–May 1st, 2025 An Album in One Week: Graphic scores in Cornwall's quiet The Basics ...

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Tom Whitwell @tomwhitwell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Nice piece about me and what I've been up to in Sound on Sound this month - January Edition www.soundonsound.com/people/modul...

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Chris Eccles @chrisecc.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Heres a quick vid of the Music Thing Workshop System in first squelchy action. looking forward to finding out more and getting to grips with this. Thanks @tomwhitwell.bsky.social for a great instrument. It was a fun build too.

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Sonicstate @sonicstate.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Synth Advent Calendar For Music Thing Workshop System: Create custom compute algorithm pairs for Christmas sonicstate.com/news/2024/12... @tomwhitwell.bsky.social

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Synth Advent Calendar For Music Thing Workshop System

Create custom compute algorithm pairs for Christmas

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This from @tomwhitwell.bsky.social the Gentleman Synthesist is always a Xmas treat

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4nd3rs @4nd3rs.dk · 09/12/2024

It’s that time of year again! Thanks, Tom 😉

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Chris Eccles @chrisecc.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Music Thing Workshop System synth complete and it looks and sounds amazing. So much to play with in a tiny box. I love it. Another great thingy from @tomwhitwell.bsky.social

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Chris Eccles @chrisecc.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Started the build of @tomwhitwell.bsky.social Workshop System today. Really looking forward to playing with this beauty.

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EconomicsInTen @economicsinten.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

This list by @tomwhitwell.bsky.social is fantastic, a brilliant read. No.25 reminds us of the famous photo of Amartya Sen on a bike and links to capabilities. No.35 we fully appreciate as teachers! 🤣 Will think about this when marking mock exams in January. #EconSky open.spotify.com/episode/2r9f...

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Season 4 Episode 3 - Amartya Sen

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

“Between the 1920s and 1950s, millions of ‘enemies of the people’ — often educated elites — were sent to prison camps in the Soviet Union. Today, the areas around those camps are more prosperous and productive than similar areas.” freepolicybriefs.org/wp-content/u... Via @tomwhitwell.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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