Tim Rutherford-Johnson
@purlis.bsky.social
Listener, CFer, wordmonger. Written books about new music; trying to write one about Schubert.
https://johnsonsrambler.wordpress.com/about/
Substack here: http://purlis.substack.com
https://johnsonsrambler.wordpress.com/about/
Substack here: http://purlis.substack.com
Triangulations of touch, resonance and duration in last week's Purposeful Listening: Antti Tolvi playing Feldman, Sviatoslav Richter playing Schubert, Marilyn Nonken playing Dufourt. Meanwhile, Natasha Barrett and Arlene Sierra triangulate the world around them.
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Purposeful Listening 3
Line/event, nature/machine, place/sound, surface/depth
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November 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Triangulations of touch, resonance and duration in last week's Purposeful Listening: Antti Tolvi playing Feldman, Sviatoslav Richter playing Schubert, Marilyn Nonken playing Dufourt. Meanwhile, Natasha Barrett and Arlene Sierra triangulate the world around them.
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I am sitting in a [gender]
Ran my face through the novelty gender-swap filter on FaceApp set to “masculine” a bunch of times. Think it came out great.
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I am sitting in a [gender]
This book wot I wrote is mostly about experimental music in the late 20th/early 21st century, but it's accidentally also a time capsule of cultural preoccupations between 1989 and 2016.
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This book wot I wrote is mostly about experimental music in the late 20th/early 21st century, but it's accidentally also a time capsule of cultural preoccupations between 1989 and 2016.
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I didn’t know Reg Bloor was running a Kickstarter campaign to fund an important Glenn Branca archival recording with Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo in the band until Robert Fripp (!!) shared the news on Facebook. Get yourself a piece of the action here. www.kickstarter.com/projects/reg...
Release of Glenn Branca's Symphony No. 4 (Physics)
Much anticipated release of a long lost recording.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I didn’t know Reg Bloor was running a Kickstarter campaign to fund an important Glenn Branca archival recording with Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo in the band until Robert Fripp (!!) shared the news on Facebook. Get yourself a piece of the action here. www.kickstarter.com/projects/reg...
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"Gute Nacht, Charlie Brown!"
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"Gute Nacht, Charlie Brown!"
No news yet on whether I can just skip both. (jk)
The Exercise as an Airway Clearance Technique in people with cystic fibrosis preliminary study looked at whether exercise can safely replace traditional chest physiotherapy in people with CF as an airway clearance method.
Visit the ExACT-CF post on our Trials Tracker.
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ExACT-CF: A trial investigating whether exercise can replace chest physiotherapy for airway clearance in people with CF
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November 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
No news yet on whether I can just skip both. (jk)
WANDERER: oh look a leaf
i’m going to pin all of my hopes and self-worth on it
LEAF: [falls]
WANDERER: why does this keep happening
i’m going to pin all of my hopes and self-worth on it
LEAF: [falls]
WANDERER: why does this keep happening
"no seriously you think it’s so funny that i saw flowers in winter
like oh let’s make fun of the guy who took a risk and put himself out there romantically."
like oh let’s make fun of the guy who took a risk and put himself out there romantically."
Dirtbag Winterreise
“more like suck-blick”
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November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
WANDERER: oh look a leaf
i’m going to pin all of my hopes and self-worth on it
LEAF: [falls]
WANDERER: why does this keep happening
i’m going to pin all of my hopes and self-worth on it
LEAF: [falls]
WANDERER: why does this keep happening
You know when you have a load of pressing deadlines on your desk, but your brane wakes you up at 5am and says No we absolutely have to think about this instead, and it makes some excellent points, but couldn't you have done this later, brane? Well, that. Good morning everyone.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
You know when you have a load of pressing deadlines on your desk, but your brane wakes you up at 5am and says No we absolutely have to think about this instead, and it makes some excellent points, but couldn't you have done this later, brane? Well, that. Good morning everyone.
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Alison Knowles (29 April 1933–29 October 2025)
At The Wire website, Irene Revell reflects on the life and work of Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles, who died in October
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...
At The Wire website, Irene Revell reflects on the life and work of Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles, who died in October
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...
Alison Knowles (29 April 1933–29 October 2025) - The Wire
Irene Revell reflects on the life and work of Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles, who died in October
www.thewire.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Alison Knowles (29 April 1933–29 October 2025)
At The Wire website, Irene Revell reflects on the life and work of Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles, who died in October
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...
At The Wire website, Irene Revell reflects on the life and work of Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles, who died in October
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...
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"Like on a long journey through open landscape, impress with an unyielding image despite any surface variations along the way." Long piano works by Linda Catlin Smith and Forrest Moody. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Two more long-ass piano pieces
Linda Catlin Smith: The Complete Piano Solos (1989-2023), Volume One: The Plains
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November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"Like on a long journey through open landscape, impress with an unyielding image despite any surface variations along the way." Long piano works by Linda Catlin Smith and Forrest Moody. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
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now listening to 'Magic Flora of the East Midlands' - trippy English-eerie electronica by Leo Chadburn, courtesy of @purlis.bsky.social purlis.substack.com/p/purposeful...
Purposeful Listening 1
Beginning/continuing, place/language, tree/mobile, bigness/detail
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November 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
now listening to 'Magic Flora of the East Midlands' - trippy English-eerie electronica by Leo Chadburn, courtesy of @purlis.bsky.social purlis.substack.com/p/purposeful...
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New Purposeful Listening: deep dive into Antti Tolvi's slooow rendition of Feldman, plus recent albums by Natasha Barrett, Arlene Sierra and Marilyn Nonken. open.substack.com/pub/purlis/p...
November 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
New Purposeful Listening: deep dive into Antti Tolvi's slooow rendition of Feldman, plus recent albums by Natasha Barrett, Arlene Sierra and Marilyn Nonken. open.substack.com/pub/purlis/p...
New Purposeful Listening: deep dive into Antti Tolvi's slooow rendition of Feldman, plus recent albums by Natasha Barrett, Arlene Sierra and Marilyn Nonken. open.substack.com/pub/purlis/p...
November 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
New Purposeful Listening: deep dive into Antti Tolvi's slooow rendition of Feldman, plus recent albums by Natasha Barrett, Arlene Sierra and Marilyn Nonken. open.substack.com/pub/purlis/p...
Coming up: Antti Tolvi stretches Feldman, Arlene Sierra bird-listens, Natasha Barrett crushes reality, Marilyn Nonken resounds with Dufourt – all in Purposeful Listening 3.
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Purposeful Listening 3
Line/event, nature/machine, place/sound, surface/depth
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November 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Coming up: Antti Tolvi stretches Feldman, Arlene Sierra bird-listens, Natasha Barrett crushes reality, Marilyn Nonken resounds with Dufourt – all in Purposeful Listening 3.
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Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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This evening, the London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF) and Wigmore Hall present a programme spanning from the age of Mozart to the modern day, prefaced by a pre-concert talk from Jennifer Walshe 🎶
🕰️ 7.30pm (pre-concert talk: 6.00pm)
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/artists/jennifer-walshe-2
🕰️ 7.30pm (pre-concert talk: 6.00pm)
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/artists/jennifer-walshe-2
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This evening, the London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF) and Wigmore Hall present a programme spanning from the age of Mozart to the modern day, prefaced by a pre-concert talk from Jennifer Walshe 🎶
🕰️ 7.30pm (pre-concert talk: 6.00pm)
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/artists/jennifer-walshe-2
🕰️ 7.30pm (pre-concert talk: 6.00pm)
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/artists/jennifer-walshe-2
Excited for LCMF tonight at Wigmore Hall:
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November 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Excited for LCMF tonight at Wigmore Hall:
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Dammit. Whosampled is legitimately one of my favourite things on the net.
Spotify says the database will power its new SongDNA feature.
Spotify acquires music database WhoSampled | TechCrunch
Spotify says the database will power its new SongDNA feature.
techcrunch.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Dammit. Whosampled is legitimately one of my favourite things on the net.
Today I am mostly taking notes on pieces by Eric Skytterhokm Egan, Eden Lonsdale, Kaija Saariaho and Bernhard Gander. Three have led me to Couperin, Catholicism and Corelli. The fourth has led me elsewhere: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlzT...
Motörhead – Overkill (Official Video)
YouTube video by Motörhead Official
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November 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Today I am mostly taking notes on pieces by Eric Skytterhokm Egan, Eden Lonsdale, Kaija Saariaho and Bernhard Gander. Three have led me to Couperin, Catholicism and Corelli. The fourth has led me elsewhere: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlzT...
there are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
The Swiss got rock’n’roll after it had been filtered through the rest of Europe so its version was brilliant, exaggerated and wrong. A sincere pastiche of the original.
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
there are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
I'm sure all of you are waiting on tenterhooks for today's Purposeful Listening, but I'm afraid you need to hold on a little more - this week got away from me a bit. (But the Antti Tolvi recording I'm writing about is also long and involves lots of waiting, so I guess it's thematically appropriate.)
November 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I'm sure all of you are waiting on tenterhooks for today's Purposeful Listening, but I'm afraid you need to hold on a little more - this week got away from me a bit. (But the Antti Tolvi recording I'm writing about is also long and involves lots of waiting, so I guess it's thematically appropriate.)
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Happy #InternationalMensDay to all who celebrate
November 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Happy #InternationalMensDay to all who celebrate
Confession: I was just a shade too young for Psychocandy when it came out. So I'd read lots of discourse by the time before I finally heard it, around 94/95. I was expecting a proper avant-garde noise classic, and what I got was the Beach Boys through a fuzzbox.
Four decades back a major label released a debut album that sounded like almost nothing on earth while still sounding incredibly familiar. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett takes stock of it all
Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
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Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
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November 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Confession: I was just a shade too young for Psychocandy when it came out. So I'd read lots of discourse by the time before I finally heard it, around 94/95. I was expecting a proper avant-garde noise classic, and what I got was the Beach Boys through a fuzzbox.