Andrew Cusworth
@andrewcusworth.bsky.social
Composer & musician, digital archives specialist, photography enthusiast. Team lead for Digital Scholarship at Oxford. At various points: Digital Humanities, Welsh traditional music, Archives, History, and Prince Albert. Aelod Bwrdd y LlGC. Cymro Cymraeg.
#Advent seems to have arrived. How did that happen.
I had a lovely email from the Rector of Holy Trinity Melrose to say the choir would like to perform this. Their service is at 6.30pm today if you happen to be in the area, and being streamed live on youtube, too!
youtu.be/EAaVpBgl7Fc?...
I had a lovely email from the Rector of Holy Trinity Melrose to say the choir would like to perform this. Their service is at 6.30pm today if you happen to be in the area, and being streamed live on youtube, too!
youtu.be/EAaVpBgl7Fc?...
Concanenda - Drop Down, Ye Heavens [Cusworth]
YouTube video by Concanenda
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 7:56 AM
#Advent seems to have arrived. How did that happen.
I had a lovely email from the Rector of Holy Trinity Melrose to say the choir would like to perform this. Their service is at 6.30pm today if you happen to be in the area, and being streamed live on youtube, too!
youtu.be/EAaVpBgl7Fc?...
I had a lovely email from the Rector of Holy Trinity Melrose to say the choir would like to perform this. Their service is at 6.30pm today if you happen to be in the area, and being streamed live on youtube, too!
youtu.be/EAaVpBgl7Fc?...
Today's a busy day in #digitalhumanities at Oxford ...
Just a nudge to our double-excursion into thinking about digital humanities today:
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Today's a busy day in #digitalhumanities at Oxford ...
Very much looking forward to this discussion with Goran, tomorrow!
Join us at our first Critical Digital Humanities discussion, where we will explore @goran-gaber.bsky.social's recent paper Mind the gap: On archival politics and historical theory in the digital age.
More & registration: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/critic...
#digitalhumanities
More & registration: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/critic...
#digitalhumanities
Critical Digital Humanities
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Very much looking forward to this discussion with Goran, tomorrow!
This should be an exciting discussion!
Michael Christopher Brown, Haley Morris-Cafiero, & Stéphanie Hubert, in a panel chaired by Sam McGuire.
The subject: Photography and truth in times of AI.
Join us at @mfoxford.bsky.social at 3pm today, 4 November.
Registration: photooxford.org/events/photo...
#photography #AI #truth
The subject: Photography and truth in times of AI.
Join us at @mfoxford.bsky.social at 3pm today, 4 November.
Registration: photooxford.org/events/photo...
#photography #AI #truth
Press the Shutter, Type the Prompt: Photography, truth & AI — Photo Oxford
Maison Française d’Oxford Tuesday, 4 November
photooxford.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This should be an exciting discussion!
Join us for a conversation with some remarkable artists and photographers about what AI means for their work in photography.
What is photography when images can be created in a moment? What is 'truth?' What is 'real?'
At a historic moment in photography, join our conversation on photography and truth in times of AI. 3pm, 4 November, Maison Française d'Oxford (@mfoxford.bsky.social).
photooxford.org/events/photo...
At a historic moment in photography, join our conversation on photography and truth in times of AI. 3pm, 4 November, Maison Française d'Oxford (@mfoxford.bsky.social).
photooxford.org/events/photo...
Press the Shutter, Type the Prompt: Photography, truth & AI — Photo Oxford
Maison Française d’Oxford Tuesday, 4 November
photooxford.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Join us for a conversation with some remarkable artists and photographers about what AI means for their work in photography.
Reposted by Andrew Cusworth
From 25.10 to 5.12, 'Press The Shutter, Type The Prompt' will be on display at @mfoxford.bsky.social, as part of the Photo Oxford Festival
It will showcase 3 artistic projects that explore the intersections of #Truth & #AI
Works by Michael Christopher Brown, Haley Morris Cafiero, & Stéphanie Hubert
It will showcase 3 artistic projects that explore the intersections of #Truth & #AI
Works by Michael Christopher Brown, Haley Morris Cafiero, & Stéphanie Hubert
October 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
From 25.10 to 5.12, 'Press The Shutter, Type The Prompt' will be on display at @mfoxford.bsky.social, as part of the Photo Oxford Festival
It will showcase 3 artistic projects that explore the intersections of #Truth & #AI
Works by Michael Christopher Brown, Haley Morris Cafiero, & Stéphanie Hubert
It will showcase 3 artistic projects that explore the intersections of #Truth & #AI
Works by Michael Christopher Brown, Haley Morris Cafiero, & Stéphanie Hubert
Reposted by Andrew Cusworth
The next Bodleian Student Editions session will run on 11th November – it’s a great opportunity for students to learn about editing and transcribing early modern letters. Spaces are still available - find out more & sign up: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/bodlei...
Bodleian Student Editions
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The next Bodleian Student Editions session will run on 11th November – it’s a great opportunity for students to learn about editing and transcribing early modern letters. Spaces are still available - find out more & sign up: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/bodlei...
Today is the start of Photo Oxford, and our international exhibition hosted by Digital Scholarship at Oxford and Maison Française d’Oxford is opening.
October 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Today is the start of Photo Oxford, and our international exhibition hosted by Digital Scholarship at Oxford and Maison Française d’Oxford is opening.
Well, in the midst of grindingly grim news, here's a photograph of the mountains above Llyn Mwngil. #photography #cymru
September 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Well, in the midst of grindingly grim news, here's a photograph of the mountains above Llyn Mwngil. #photography #cymru
As we roll on towards Michaelmas, I am reminded that it was fifteen years ago this month that my piece 'Factum est silentium' was first performed at St Paul's Cathedral. It got a couple of outings over the next few years, but I'm not sure if anyone else has ever performed it. #choralmusic
September 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
As we roll on towards Michaelmas, I am reminded that it was fifteen years ago this month that my piece 'Factum est silentium' was first performed at St Paul's Cathedral. It got a couple of outings over the next few years, but I'm not sure if anyone else has ever performed it. #choralmusic
My colleague @goran-gaber.bsky.social is thought-provoking as always in this article - a pleasure to read, and a pleasure to think on.
Why does contemporary theory of history neglect digital archival scholarship and how does this affect its understanding of the politics of history?
Read about it in my new paper for @tandfresearch.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#digitalhumanities #archives #history #politics
Read about it in my new paper for @tandfresearch.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#digitalhumanities #archives #history #politics
Mind the Gap. On archival politics and historical theory in the digital age
Modern archival scholarship and practice are strikingly absent from contemporary historical theory. Given the archive’s enduring importance for history and its long-thematized political aspects, th...
www.tandfonline.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
My colleague @goran-gaber.bsky.social is thought-provoking as always in this article - a pleasure to read, and a pleasure to think on.
As today seems to be the day allotted for marking five years since the #coronavirus #pandemic began, here is a short piece I wrote for Calmus Ensemble as part of their project to collect musical 'statements' on the period.
youtu.be/JXvPuDAQetA
youtu.be/JXvPuDAQetA
Andrew Cusworth - All our numbered lives | Calmus Ensemble
YouTube video by Calmus Ensemble
youtu.be
March 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
As today seems to be the day allotted for marking five years since the #coronavirus #pandemic began, here is a short piece I wrote for Calmus Ensemble as part of their project to collect musical 'statements' on the period.
youtu.be/JXvPuDAQetA
youtu.be/JXvPuDAQetA
Come along and meet us!
Our next Digital Scholarship coffee morning will be tomorrow ☕️ find out more: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/digita...
Digital Scholarship coffee morning - 4th February
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Come along and meet us!
Don’t forget that you can join us in Cardiff tomorrow for a free workshop on the new Towards Digital Collections training materials for the cultural heritage and collections sector. #towardsdigitalcollections #tanc #towardsanationalcollection
An open invite to those working at Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums and an interest in digital collections to join us for a free event in Cardiff on Friday 31st January. To find out more about this session, and find details for registering please visit - bit.ly/CardiffTDC
#MuseumEd #GLAM
#MuseumEd #GLAM
January 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Don’t forget that you can join us in Cardiff tomorrow for a free workshop on the new Towards Digital Collections training materials for the cultural heritage and collections sector. #towardsdigitalcollections #tanc #towardsanationalcollection
A good place to think about a new Welsh opera.
In these stones horizons sing.
In these stones horizons sing.
January 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A good place to think about a new Welsh opera.
In these stones horizons sing.
In these stones horizons sing.
Looking forward to these!
Towards Digital Collections: Free workshops to introduce training materials to support those in the GLAM sector getting started or continuing their Digital Collections journey.
On site in Cardiff, Sheffield, Belfast & Stirling or online end of March 2025.
bit.ly/TaNC_Training
On site in Cardiff, Sheffield, Belfast & Stirling or online end of March 2025.
bit.ly/TaNC_Training
Welcome to Towards Digital Collections: Towards Digital Collections - Resources for Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums
bit.ly
January 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Looking forward to these!
It's freezing outside, and so it seems apt to share something icy. I rate these two pictures amongst the most pleasing I have taken, thus far. They were worth a cold early start.
For the technically curious: Pentax SPII, SMC Takumar 50/1.4, Rollei RPX 400 film developed in 510 Pyro.
For the technically curious: Pentax SPII, SMC Takumar 50/1.4, Rollei RPX 400 film developed in 510 Pyro.
January 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It's freezing outside, and so it seems apt to share something icy. I rate these two pictures amongst the most pleasing I have taken, thus far. They were worth a cold early start.
For the technically curious: Pentax SPII, SMC Takumar 50/1.4, Rollei RPX 400 film developed in 510 Pyro.
For the technically curious: Pentax SPII, SMC Takumar 50/1.4, Rollei RPX 400 film developed in 510 Pyro.
Reposted by Andrew Cusworth
Preservation is at the heart of what we do. This year, we released the Vanishing Culture report— detailing instances of cultural loss and emphasizing the role that libraries and archives play in preserving materials.
Help us in saving these resources:https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024
Help us in saving these resources:https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024
December 27, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Preservation is at the heart of what we do. This year, we released the Vanishing Culture report— detailing instances of cultural loss and emphasizing the role that libraries and archives play in preserving materials.
Help us in saving these resources:https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024
Help us in saving these resources:https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024
I’ve been giving X a hard eye for the year or so since Elon Musk took ownership and my very small share in the company was returned to me. Now, though, his outright support for destabilising hard-right movers like Farrage in the UK and the AFD in Germany tells a story that it’s impossible to ignore.
December 22, 2024 at 1:04 PM
I’ve been giving X a hard eye for the year or so since Elon Musk took ownership and my very small share in the company was returned to me. Now, though, his outright support for destabilising hard-right movers like Farrage in the UK and the AFD in Germany tells a story that it’s impossible to ignore.
Congratulations, Helle!
I am very, very, very, very happy to finally be able to tell you all that I am on the list of ERC Consolidator Grant recipients with project WEB CHILD "Changing Childhoods in the Early
Era of the WWW." #ERCCoG
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Era of the WWW." #ERCCoG
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Consolidator Grants: ERC awards €678m in grants to back excellent research across Europe
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded its 2024 Consolidator Grants to 328 researchers across Europe. These grants, totalling €678 million, aim to support outstanding scientists and scholars ...
erc.europa.eu
December 4, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Congratulations, Helle!
For all you digital humanists at Oxford ...
Our next Digital Scholarship coffee morning is on the 3rd December, and we’ll be hearing from Phil Dines, project manager for the
@torchoxford.bsky.social
Fantasy Futures project! Find out more at: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/digita...
@torchoxford.bsky.social
Fantasy Futures project! Find out more at: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/digita...
Digital Scholarship coffee morning - 3rd December
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
December 3, 2024 at 10:23 AM
For all you digital humanists at Oxford ...
You can take the boy out of the church, but ....
For the beginning of Advent, 'Drop down, ye heavens.' There are proper recordings on various platforms, but this was the première. I finished writing it a whole hour or so beforehand ...
on.soundcloud.com/6B7h7M1CNyEK...
#choral #music #advent
For the beginning of Advent, 'Drop down, ye heavens.' There are proper recordings on various platforms, but this was the première. I finished writing it a whole hour or so beforehand ...
on.soundcloud.com/6B7h7M1CNyEK...
#choral #music #advent
Drop down, ye heavens
A setting of Isaiah 45.8 for SAATB choir. Written for and first performed by the St John's Compline Singers in St John's College Chapel, Cambridge, 3rd December 2010.
Score available from Score Exc
on.soundcloud.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:55 PM
You can take the boy out of the church, but ....
For the beginning of Advent, 'Drop down, ye heavens.' There are proper recordings on various platforms, but this was the première. I finished writing it a whole hour or so beforehand ...
on.soundcloud.com/6B7h7M1CNyEK...
#choral #music #advent
For the beginning of Advent, 'Drop down, ye heavens.' There are proper recordings on various platforms, but this was the première. I finished writing it a whole hour or so beforehand ...
on.soundcloud.com/6B7h7M1CNyEK...
#choral #music #advent
Reposted by Andrew Cusworth
Our next Digital Scholarship coffee morning is on the 3rd December, and we’ll be hearing from Phil Dines, project manager for the
@torchoxford.bsky.social
Fantasy Futures project! Find out more at: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/digita...
@torchoxford.bsky.social
Fantasy Futures project! Find out more at: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/digita...
Digital Scholarship coffee morning - 3rd December
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
November 28, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Our next Digital Scholarship coffee morning is on the 3rd December, and we’ll be hearing from Phil Dines, project manager for the
@torchoxford.bsky.social
Fantasy Futures project! Find out more at: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/digita...
@torchoxford.bsky.social
Fantasy Futures project! Find out more at: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/digita...
I'm looking forward to hearing how people receive and use these! There's a nice open-endedness to a lot of the steps, suggesting things to consider rather than presenting a didactic 'one true way,' which (I hope!) is valuable in an evolving field. #digitisatalcollections
Alongside the TaNC Policy Recommendations, these training materials could become a National credited programme around the world. These resources can always be expanded to include other technologies and workflows from the Global South.
Here are a few pictures of @agneatha.bsky.social and Dave De Roure introducing towardsdigitalcollections.org at the #TaNC #UnlockingCollections conference. It's a new resource we have been working on to help collections institutions along their journey towards digital collections.
November 28, 2024 at 9:10 PM
I'm looking forward to hearing how people receive and use these! There's a nice open-endedness to a lot of the steps, suggesting things to consider rather than presenting a didactic 'one true way,' which (I hope!) is valuable in an evolving field. #digitisatalcollections
Reposted by Andrew Cusworth
Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like
November 26, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like