John Aulich
@aulichmusic.bsky.social
Mancunian composer. RTs obviously imply endorsement. PhD @ Buffalo NY | MATA NY 2022 | LSO Soundhub Member 2023 | ISCM Brit section shortlist 2023
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Still a few tickets left to hear @xeniapestova.bsky.social playing these tomorrow at St Cecilia's Hall, plus new work from @tinparksky.bsky.social and @aulichmusic.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leaky-bodi...
October 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Still a few tickets left to hear @xeniapestova.bsky.social playing these tomorrow at St Cecilia's Hall, plus new work from @tinparksky.bsky.social and @aulichmusic.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leaky-bodi...
If we involve a bit of material history we can clear this one right up. Well, nothing is just for one reason, but Iommi pitched down because he lost some fingertips in an industrial accident. That sound was very influential on what followed.
Also, a down-pitched guitar sounds nothing like a bass.
Also, a down-pitched guitar sounds nothing like a bass.
Hot take: I think the trend of modern metal guitar to down-pitch everything as much as possible is guitarists wanting to be bassists but being hung up about just using the right instrument for the sound they want
Just get a bass, my dude. Learn to play the instrument that already makes those sounds
Just get a bass, my dude. Learn to play the instrument that already makes those sounds
September 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If we involve a bit of material history we can clear this one right up. Well, nothing is just for one reason, but Iommi pitched down because he lost some fingertips in an industrial accident. That sound was very influential on what followed.
Also, a down-pitched guitar sounds nothing like a bass.
Also, a down-pitched guitar sounds nothing like a bass.
the lord he giveth... and he taketh away.
August 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
the lord he giveth... and he taketh away.
my hands are too large for my cup
and yet I am too small for this space
and yet I am too small for this space
July 2, 2025 at 8:55 AM
my hands are too large for my cup
and yet I am too small for this space
and yet I am too small for this space
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The perfect example of analytic philosophy: let's make up a hypothetical that to us (of a certain class/race/gender) seems like an intractable dilemma but for anyone with actual knowledge of the material situation is actually an entirely different issue
May 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The perfect example of analytic philosophy: let's make up a hypothetical that to us (of a certain class/race/gender) seems like an intractable dilemma but for anyone with actual knowledge of the material situation is actually an entirely different issue
they're right. it's completely unacceptable to compare ICE to the gestapo. They're more like the einsatzgruppen.
May 20, 2025 at 7:20 AM
they're right. it's completely unacceptable to compare ICE to the gestapo. They're more like the einsatzgruppen.
hear me out - new tax for super wealthy to prevent hoarding. what you've gained in wealth over the last tax year above a certain threshold, you have to spend in the next or you're taxed something obscene like 95% - spend your money or we spend it for you.
May 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
hear me out - new tax for super wealthy to prevent hoarding. what you've gained in wealth over the last tax year above a certain threshold, you have to spend in the next or you're taxed something obscene like 95% - spend your money or we spend it for you.
at the end of all this
artists, writers, poets and musicians
will command a rate far in excess
of any AI bro
and when i'm near retirement
I will crawl up a tall tower
to collect my yearly wage,
look out over my kingdom
and raise a toast to my bounty:
two jelly beans and a quarter cup of lemonade
artists, writers, poets and musicians
will command a rate far in excess
of any AI bro
and when i'm near retirement
I will crawl up a tall tower
to collect my yearly wage,
look out over my kingdom
and raise a toast to my bounty:
two jelly beans and a quarter cup of lemonade
May 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
at the end of all this
artists, writers, poets and musicians
will command a rate far in excess
of any AI bro
and when i'm near retirement
I will crawl up a tall tower
to collect my yearly wage,
look out over my kingdom
and raise a toast to my bounty:
two jelly beans and a quarter cup of lemonade
artists, writers, poets and musicians
will command a rate far in excess
of any AI bro
and when i'm near retirement
I will crawl up a tall tower
to collect my yearly wage,
look out over my kingdom
and raise a toast to my bounty:
two jelly beans and a quarter cup of lemonade
30-something-year old composers whose music has something to do evil sounds, atmospheres and spaces, embodiment and decay: I can't help but wonder if we might have all been profoundly shaped by roughly the same experience encountering Burial, et. al. in about 2010. Am I right?
May 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
30-something-year old composers whose music has something to do evil sounds, atmospheres and spaces, embodiment and decay: I can't help but wonder if we might have all been profoundly shaped by roughly the same experience encountering Burial, et. al. in about 2010. Am I right?
New Music Show - A Kind of Haunting - BBC Sounds
Tom Service speaks to Michael Zev Gordon
www.bbc.co.uk
March 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
tell us your compositional journey to date.
don't make a list of collaborators, be super specific and tell us all what you did.
also mention other things you do apart from composing.
BUT can you cram all this in, I dunno, like 1,000 characters?
don't make a list of collaborators, be super specific and tell us all what you did.
also mention other things you do apart from composing.
BUT can you cram all this in, I dunno, like 1,000 characters?
March 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
tell us your compositional journey to date.
don't make a list of collaborators, be super specific and tell us all what you did.
also mention other things you do apart from composing.
BUT can you cram all this in, I dunno, like 1,000 characters?
don't make a list of collaborators, be super specific and tell us all what you did.
also mention other things you do apart from composing.
BUT can you cram all this in, I dunno, like 1,000 characters?
Two concerts in Berlin featuring my large-scale bassoon and electronics piece in a matter of weeks! 15th and 17th March, performed by my obnoxiously talented collaborator, Olivia Palmer-Baker!
March 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Two concerts in Berlin featuring my large-scale bassoon and electronics piece in a matter of weeks! 15th and 17th March, performed by my obnoxiously talented collaborator, Olivia Palmer-Baker!
a little research piece on technology in music composition pedagogy, drawing from my own experience but also from those who have been at the coalface an awful lot longer:
insamjournal.com/index.php/ij...
insamjournal.com/index.php/ij...
View of Towards Technological Ecologies as Compositional Environments in the Pedagogy of Acoustic Composition
insamjournal.com
January 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
a little research piece on technology in music composition pedagogy, drawing from my own experience but also from those who have been at the coalface an awful lot longer:
insamjournal.com/index.php/ij...
insamjournal.com/index.php/ij...
very entertaining but absolutely horrifying watching centrist melts trying to square the nazi salute thing with continuing to be on x
surely there is a German word out there for this very specific emotion.
surely there is a German word out there for this very specific emotion.
January 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
very entertaining but absolutely horrifying watching centrist melts trying to square the nazi salute thing with continuing to be on x
surely there is a German word out there for this very specific emotion.
surely there is a German word out there for this very specific emotion.
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We’ve written to the Oxford Literary Festival to question why Helen Joyce is listed under their LGBTQ+ category. Her widely criticised views on trans inclusion make this association both insulting and tone-deaf to the LGBTQ+ community. We’ve asked for this to be corrected.
December 30, 2024 at 3:38 PM
We’ve written to the Oxford Literary Festival to question why Helen Joyce is listed under their LGBTQ+ category. Her widely criticised views on trans inclusion make this association both insulting and tone-deaf to the LGBTQ+ community. We’ve asked for this to be corrected.
Wonderful to have secured this Goethe-Institut funding to work on a new surround-sound live electronics bassoon project with Olivia Palmer-Baker.
www.goethe.de/en/kul/foe/i...
www.goethe.de/en/kul/foe/i...
Effusive Boundaries - Goethe-InstitutClaim Goethe InstitutClaim Goethe Institut
www.goethe.de
November 25, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Wonderful to have secured this Goethe-Institut funding to work on a new surround-sound live electronics bassoon project with Olivia Palmer-Baker.
www.goethe.de/en/kul/foe/i...
www.goethe.de/en/kul/foe/i...
blusky feature request - let randomers add alt text to images if it's missing. the original poster can approve/disapprove
November 23, 2024 at 7:14 AM
blusky feature request - let randomers add alt text to images if it's missing. the original poster can approve/disapprove
hcmf shorts highlights (no pictures because I forgot):
Maija Hynninen's contrabass and electronics piece excellently performed by Heather Roche, and Paul Scully's audiovisual reflection on Bull Island. Also great to have a few (too many) beers with new friends and Niki @nikizohdi.bsky.social
Maija Hynninen's contrabass and electronics piece excellently performed by Heather Roche, and Paul Scully's audiovisual reflection on Bull Island. Also great to have a few (too many) beers with new friends and Niki @nikizohdi.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 3:13 PM
hcmf shorts highlights (no pictures because I forgot):
Maija Hynninen's contrabass and electronics piece excellently performed by Heather Roche, and Paul Scully's audiovisual reflection on Bull Island. Also great to have a few (too many) beers with new friends and Niki @nikizohdi.bsky.social
Maija Hynninen's contrabass and electronics piece excellently performed by Heather Roche, and Paul Scully's audiovisual reflection on Bull Island. Also great to have a few (too many) beers with new friends and Niki @nikizohdi.bsky.social
twitter trolls all mad we left. radical idea, I know, but I just want to share creative stuff and shoot the shit with people I enjoy being around. it's working. i'm having fun. suck it up, man.
November 17, 2024 at 9:54 AM
twitter trolls all mad we left. radical idea, I know, but I just want to share creative stuff and shoot the shit with people I enjoy being around. it's working. i'm having fun. suck it up, man.
(not necessarily in order)
cab firm phone operator guy
disability note-taker
volunteer concert steward
computer repair specialist
(erstwhile) software engineer
cab firm phone operator guy
disability note-taker
volunteer concert steward
computer repair specialist
(erstwhile) software engineer
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now
Early Learning Centre shop staff
Building site labourer
Toy demonstrator in museum gift shop
Live-in gardener
Art gallery attendant
Concert hall steward
Library counter staff
Piano teacher
Early Learning Centre shop staff
Building site labourer
Toy demonstrator in museum gift shop
Live-in gardener
Art gallery attendant
Concert hall steward
Library counter staff
Piano teacher
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now
Electronic components retailer
Photocopier operator
Document courier
IT helpdesk assistant
Customer service letter writer
Bus route planner
Transport consultant
Local authority team leader
Rail project manager
Electronic components retailer
Photocopier operator
Document courier
IT helpdesk assistant
Customer service letter writer
Bus route planner
Transport consultant
Local authority team leader
Rail project manager
November 16, 2024 at 11:07 AM
(not necessarily in order)
cab firm phone operator guy
disability note-taker
volunteer concert steward
computer repair specialist
(erstwhile) software engineer
cab firm phone operator guy
disability note-taker
volunteer concert steward
computer repair specialist
(erstwhile) software engineer
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Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now
Early Learning Centre shop staff
Building site labourer
Toy demonstrator in museum gift shop
Live-in gardener
Art gallery attendant
Concert hall steward
Library counter staff
Piano teacher
Early Learning Centre shop staff
Building site labourer
Toy demonstrator in museum gift shop
Live-in gardener
Art gallery attendant
Concert hall steward
Library counter staff
Piano teacher
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now
Electronic components retailer
Photocopier operator
Document courier
IT helpdesk assistant
Customer service letter writer
Bus route planner
Transport consultant
Local authority team leader
Rail project manager
Electronic components retailer
Photocopier operator
Document courier
IT helpdesk assistant
Customer service letter writer
Bus route planner
Transport consultant
Local authority team leader
Rail project manager
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now
Library assistant
Office dogsbody
'Product development executive', music education publishing
Assistant editor
Magazine editor
Library assistant
Office dogsbody
'Product development executive', music education publishing
Assistant editor
Magazine editor
November 16, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now
Early Learning Centre shop staff
Building site labourer
Toy demonstrator in museum gift shop
Live-in gardener
Art gallery attendant
Concert hall steward
Library counter staff
Piano teacher
Early Learning Centre shop staff
Building site labourer
Toy demonstrator in museum gift shop
Live-in gardener
Art gallery attendant
Concert hall steward
Library counter staff
Piano teacher
I'm shit at posting or I'd do it myself, but we need more wholesome new music content. one of the reasons I left twitter is got I got fed up of getting pissed off at what some new york school ego makes of Brian Ferneyhough passages.
November 16, 2024 at 11:03 AM
I'm shit at posting or I'd do it myself, but we need more wholesome new music content. one of the reasons I left twitter is got I got fed up of getting pissed off at what some new york school ego makes of Brian Ferneyhough passages.
1. Big new piece in collaboration with a bassoonist (soon to be announced)
2. Monograph reappraising 'new complexity' approaches (such as they are) as fundamentally queer
2. Monograph reappraising 'new complexity' approaches (such as they are) as fundamentally queer
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
Mine:
1. The Eastern Roman and Greek context of the Qur'an
2. Aryan race theory as the foundation of modern Orientalism
Mine:
1. The Eastern Roman and Greek context of the Qur'an
2. Aryan race theory as the foundation of modern Orientalism
November 15, 2024 at 4:54 PM
1. Big new piece in collaboration with a bassoonist (soon to be announced)
2. Monograph reappraising 'new complexity' approaches (such as they are) as fundamentally queer
2. Monograph reappraising 'new complexity' approaches (such as they are) as fundamentally queer
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the important question isn’t “did Harris lose because the left is too woke?” it’s “why isn’t Donald Trump in federal prison?” We’re being subjected to lectures about politics by the people who held all of the power and let this dipshit slip through their grasp.
November 11, 2024 at 7:35 PM
the important question isn’t “did Harris lose because the left is too woke?” it’s “why isn’t Donald Trump in federal prison?” We’re being subjected to lectures about politics by the people who held all of the power and let this dipshit slip through their grasp.
I need more two-note slurs in my life.
Look, buddies!
Look, buddies!
November 13, 2024 at 8:38 AM
I need more two-note slurs in my life.
Look, buddies!
Look, buddies!