Kate Arnold
@dulcimerkate.bsky.social
Musician/Composer/Electro-Medievalist
PhD Researcher: Arabic poetry, Old French song
Hammered dulcimer, vielles/viols/violins
Inventor of the phantasmaphone
"Absolutely extraordinary" - BBC R3
https://katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/
https://katearnoldmusic.com/
PhD Researcher: Arabic poetry, Old French song
Hammered dulcimer, vielles/viols/violins
Inventor of the phantasmaphone
"Absolutely extraordinary" - BBC R3
https://katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/
https://katearnoldmusic.com/
Pinned
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
Wow. I was talking to someone about Kit Williams' 'Masquerade' only a couple of days ago. It was a formative feature of my youth. The treasure hunt wasn't just a case of following clues and digging; it required time, deep engagement, research and the ability to make connections between ... (1/3)
AI music isn't music, and it doesn't work.
I think...like, truly think, that music is ours, at least now. Because music is about an inner communication with yourself and how that inner self synthesizes external influences. Which means you quite literally CAN'T BE CUT OFF FROM YOUR BODY. Which..........
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
AI music isn't music, and it doesn't work.
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Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind
Agreed. Plus, many of the best (& most polished) musicians I know have made successful* careers from only playing small shows. The small shows aren't just for the "next big thing"s. If you don't go to them you're missing out on a whole world.
* in musicians' terms! Successful does not mean famous.
* in musicians' terms! Successful does not mean famous.
I wonder how many people haven't gone to small shows anymore and simply don't know how raw, unpolished, live music has an energy even if the performers aren't "there" yet.
And how much you discover at these events.
And how much you discover at these events.
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Agreed. Plus, many of the best (& most polished) musicians I know have made successful* careers from only playing small shows. The small shows aren't just for the "next big thing"s. If you don't go to them you're missing out on a whole world.
* in musicians' terms! Successful does not mean famous.
* in musicians' terms! Successful does not mean famous.
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But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
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"She provided us with all the sound we could possibly use: for singing as we worked, for bubbling pots of stew, for the chop of an ax and the crash of a tree, for the creak of a hinge and the hoot of an owl, for the squish of a shoe in the mud and the friendly tapping of rain on the roof”
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"She provided us with all the sound we could possibly use: for singing as we worked, for bubbling pots of stew, for the chop of an ax and the crash of a tree, for the creak of a hinge and the hoot of an owl, for the squish of a shoe in the mud and the friendly tapping of rain on the roof”
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🚨 Hwæt, medievalists: following its successful inauguration last year, the Bristol Medieval Studies Summer School will be running again in 2026! 🚨 Please share the good news or—even better—sign up yourself: www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s... We're so proud of this course, and we'd love to see you! 🚨
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🚨 Hwæt, medievalists: following its successful inauguration last year, the Bristol Medieval Studies Summer School will be running again in 2026! 🚨 Please share the good news or—even better—sign up yourself: www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s... We're so proud of this course, and we'd love to see you! 🚨
Wow. I was talking to someone about Kit Williams' 'Masquerade' only a couple of days ago. It was a formative feature of my youth. The treasure hunt wasn't just a case of following clues and digging; it required time, deep engagement, research and the ability to make connections between ... (1/3)
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Wow. I was talking to someone about Kit Williams' 'Masquerade' only a couple of days ago. It was a formative feature of my youth. The treasure hunt wasn't just a case of following clues and digging; it required time, deep engagement, research and the ability to make connections between ... (1/3)
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(2/2) ... I only brandish a sword on Saturdays now though. And occasionally Thursdays.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/album/rota-f...
I do wonder if there may have been some symbological conflation along the way between Fortuna and St Katherine. Thoughts welcome from those better qualified to think.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/album/rota-f...
I do wonder if there may have been some symbological conflation along the way between Fortuna and St Katherine. Thoughts welcome from those better qualified to think.
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
(2/2) ... I only brandish a sword on Saturdays now though. And occasionally Thursdays.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/album/rota-f...
I do wonder if there may have been some symbological conflation along the way between Fortuna and St Katherine. Thoughts welcome from those better qualified to think.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/album/rota-f...
I do wonder if there may have been some symbological conflation along the way between Fortuna and St Katherine. Thoughts welcome from those better qualified to think.
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Happy St Katherine/Catherine's Day to all who celebrate.
I've got quite a lot of time for her. Also, she reminds me of someone ... (1/2)
#StCatherine #StKatherine
I've got quite a lot of time for her. Also, she reminds me of someone ... (1/2)
#StCatherine #StKatherine
2/3 St Catherine holds her wheel and a sword in an early 16th Century Flemish devotional statue now in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow. She's recorded as a martyr in Alexandria during the Maxentius Persecution c305, aged about 17. She's the patron saint of single women.
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Happy St Katherine/Catherine's Day to all who celebrate.
I've got quite a lot of time for her. Also, she reminds me of someone ... (1/2)
#StCatherine #StKatherine
I've got quite a lot of time for her. Also, she reminds me of someone ... (1/2)
#StCatherine #StKatherine
It's true.
No email from a library system stirs the imagination like a notice my scan is ready to download through WORLDCAT. The great cat that surrounds the world? That nuzzles the roots of the world-scratching-tree? The great world cat who is and was and shall be? That cat???
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It's true.
Happy St Katherine/Catherine's Day to all who celebrate.
I've got quite a lot of time for her. Also, she reminds me of someone ... (1/2)
#StCatherine #StKatherine
I've got quite a lot of time for her. Also, she reminds me of someone ... (1/2)
#StCatherine #StKatherine
2/3 St Catherine holds her wheel and a sword in an early 16th Century Flemish devotional statue now in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow. She's recorded as a martyr in Alexandria during the Maxentius Persecution c305, aged about 17. She's the patron saint of single women.
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Happy St Katherine/Catherine's Day to all who celebrate.
I've got quite a lot of time for her. Also, she reminds me of someone ... (1/2)
#StCatherine #StKatherine
I've got quite a lot of time for her. Also, she reminds me of someone ... (1/2)
#StCatherine #StKatherine
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"If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones."
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones."
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Zero LeCrêche - Last Year's Wife (12" Version) [UK, New Wave, Goth Rock, Alternative] (1984)
https://redd.it/1ojz8m6
https://youtu.be/WWeYcm5FARI
https://redd.it/1ojz8m6
https://youtu.be/WWeYcm5FARI
Zero LeCrêche - Last Year's Wife (12" Version) [UK, New Wave, Goth Rock, Alternative] (1984)
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Zero LeCrêche - Last Year's Wife (12" Version) [UK, New Wave, Goth Rock, Alternative] (1984)
https://redd.it/1ojz8m6
https://youtu.be/WWeYcm5FARI
https://redd.it/1ojz8m6
https://youtu.be/WWeYcm5FARI
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It seems to be a troubled world.
BnF Français 134; Livre des proprietés des choses de Bathélemy l'Anglais , traduit du latin par Jean Corbichon; 15th century; Flandres (Bruges); f.169r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF Français 134; Livre des proprietés des choses de Bathélemy l'Anglais , traduit du latin par Jean Corbichon; 15th century; Flandres (Bruges); f.169r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It seems to be a troubled world.
BnF Français 134; Livre des proprietés des choses de Bathélemy l'Anglais , traduit du latin par Jean Corbichon; 15th century; Flandres (Bruges); f.169r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF Français 134; Livre des proprietés des choses de Bathélemy l'Anglais , traduit du latin par Jean Corbichon; 15th century; Flandres (Bruges); f.169r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
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Don't know if you'd be interested in a bit of work on Saturday 1st July, they're booking people to roam around in wild animal costumes uptown.
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Don't know if you'd be interested in a bit of work on Saturday 1st July, they're booking people to roam around in wild animal costumes uptown.
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Looking for a fully-funded three year PhD, starting in April 2026?
The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities
Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities
Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
Jobs and volunteering - Mary Rose
Jobs, academic placements and volunteering opportunities at the Mary Rose Trust.
maryrose.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Looking for a fully-funded three year PhD, starting in April 2026?
The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities
Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities
Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
I do love this.
(And I'm looking forward to seeing the rave on the day when the Vatican offers completely equal opportunities for women and approves the unrestricted use of contraception.)
(And I'm looking forward to seeing the rave on the day when the Vatican offers completely equal opportunities for women and approves the unrestricted use of contraception.)
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I do love this.
(And I'm looking forward to seeing the rave on the day when the Vatican offers completely equal opportunities for women and approves the unrestricted use of contraception.)
(And I'm looking forward to seeing the rave on the day when the Vatican offers completely equal opportunities for women and approves the unrestricted use of contraception.)
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Today is Duodi the 2nd of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate cattle turnips.#JacobinDay
More information on cattle turnips
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate cattle turnips.#JacobinDay
More information on cattle turnips
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Duodi the 2nd of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate cattle turnips.#JacobinDay
More information on cattle turnips
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate cattle turnips.#JacobinDay
More information on cattle turnips
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Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
If you were at the 'Medieval Futures' show in Nottingham in June 2023 with Katherine Christie Evans and me, you'll know what a wonderful, transcendent evening it was.
Really looking forward to hearing this new track and the video on Friday; join us!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iexq...
#electromedieval
Really looking forward to hearing this new track and the video on Friday; join us!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iexq...
#electromedieval
Lucente Stella / Shining Star- Artwork by Thomas Tokamu
YouTube video by Katherine Christie Evans
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
'May all your drinks come true' 🙂
looking at a poetry anthology from 1947 at the British Library, obscure enough that I had to ask them to cut some of the pages (!)
here’s a poem by Oswell Blakeston and Max Chapman, artists and writers who were pretty much a lifelong couple
here’s a poem by Oswell Blakeston and Max Chapman, artists and writers who were pretty much a lifelong couple
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
'May all your drinks come true' 🙂
If you were at the 'Medieval Futures' show in Nottingham in June 2023 with Katherine Christie Evans and me, you'll know what a wonderful, transcendent evening it was.
Really looking forward to hearing this new track and the video on Friday; join us!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iexq...
#electromedieval
Really looking forward to hearing this new track and the video on Friday; join us!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iexq...
#electromedieval
Lucente Stella / Shining Star- Artwork by Thomas Tokamu
YouTube video by Katherine Christie Evans
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If you were at the 'Medieval Futures' show in Nottingham in June 2023 with Katherine Christie Evans and me, you'll know what a wonderful, transcendent evening it was.
Really looking forward to hearing this new track and the video on Friday; join us!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iexq...
#electromedieval
Really looking forward to hearing this new track and the video on Friday; join us!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iexq...
#electromedieval
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Ladybird wisdom, 1975
“With so much noise in the world, we have to listen carefully to the things that are worth hearing”
(‘Sounds’, Artist: BH Robinson)
“With so much noise in the world, we have to listen carefully to the things that are worth hearing”
(‘Sounds’, Artist: BH Robinson)
November 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Ladybird wisdom, 1975
“With so much noise in the world, we have to listen carefully to the things that are worth hearing”
(‘Sounds’, Artist: BH Robinson)
“With so much noise in the world, we have to listen carefully to the things that are worth hearing”
(‘Sounds’, Artist: BH Robinson)
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Friends in York and the Ridings!
One for you?
Next Monday, 17th Nov.
www.thefulfordarms.com/event/dead-s...
One for you?
Next Monday, 17th Nov.
www.thefulfordarms.com/event/dead-s...
DEAD SPACE CHAMBER MUSIC - LUNA CULT CLUB - ELDERMOTHER | The Fulford Arms
DEAD SPACE CHAMBER MUSIC are a gothic / experimental / doom group from Bristol, UK. They reinterpret historical material, taking forms and melodies that are hundreds of years old and shape-shifting th...
www.thefulfordarms.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Friends in York and the Ridings!
One for you?
Next Monday, 17th Nov.
www.thefulfordarms.com/event/dead-s...
One for you?
Next Monday, 17th Nov.
www.thefulfordarms.com/event/dead-s...
Since seeing that photo of him from 1982 I now imagine every papal edict in a Chicago gangster/godfather -type accent.
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Since seeing that photo of him from 1982 I now imagine every papal edict in a Chicago gangster/godfather -type accent.