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Composer/performer writer/researcher | Contemporary music; jazz-grunge math-song; noise, speech, & poetry | Ivors nominee (2016) | Accidental photographer... | #musicsky #writersky #academicsky #HEsky #photosky

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · Dec 21

Lovely to meet you new followers! I’m Sorana 👋 Music obsessive/collector/nerd, synesthete (sound-colour) & contrarian (!) Work more behind the scenes commercially atm but’ll release my music again soon. Teach a bit. Laugh a LOT. Love all the stuff in my emoji list ⬆️ Felt cute, might delete later.

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 2h

That’s a good idea: fly The Blimp for Halloween this year! (come on, London, you know exactly which one 😉)

Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Good news everyone! Gozer is here!

Giant marshmallow man spotted in West Derby

Why there is a giant marshmallow man on a residential street

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 2h

Gosh, another memory. As a teen I used to get the train to Brixton & hand over a pile of pound coins I’d saved from not eating my school lunch to buy gig tickets from the box office there. I’d go back to that any day over the current system.

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 2h

The problem with ticket prices is a consequence of outsourcing to web platforms. Just require venues to sell tickets out of a box office located at the venue. That's most of the problem solved in a way that creates local job instead of putting them overseas.

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 2h

This album was one of my first experiences of communist contraband - it had a fake one-sided paper inlay & I was fascinated.

I now know one reason the regime failed was the police tired of policing/not having music. It’s so devalued now it’s easy to forget people *really* want music.

GH @carrythegary.bsky.social · 7d

#Album a day 282/365 🎧

A shoo in for my #5debutalbums8084 top 5, there are some fantastic songs here

That bass solo though 😬

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 4d

Quote: I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember this too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick. Stewart Lee

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 1d

“For example, the swastika is actually an ancient good luck charm, but its appropriation by the Nazis last century means you would be unlikely to send a drawing of one unsolicited to someone the night before their driving test.”

THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 4d

🔗 Read the full piece

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 1d

Composers big & small! COMA currently accepting submissions towards an online anthology of accessible easy-to-play works. Deadline 1st Dec.

#Composers #Composition #Music #MusicSky #MusicianSky
www.coma.org/get-involved...

Immediate Pieces: Call for Scores

Contemporary Music for All

www.coma.org

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Diabolical G @gwill2k.bsky.social · 2d

The only Christopher I celebrate is Cornell

[Sic] Burns @sicburns2.bsky.social · 2d

The only Christopher I celebrate is Reeve

Pandy Fackler 🎃 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 2d

The only Christopher I celebrate is Walken

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 2d

Ooft. Isn’t that the truth.

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 2d

That would’ve had much more impact on a lot of other flags.

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 2d

Heavy subtext klaxon in Lambeth today.

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 3d

don’t need sound check

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 4d

Leaving the ECHR is a fucking stupid idea. It's on a par with leaving the European Union. So we'll probably end up doing it.

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 4d

Ireland’s DCCS announce permanent successor to its current Basic Income for the Arts scheme, paying 2,000 artists/creative workers €325 a week

“The research proves that the BIA successfully sustains artists careers and reduces the income precarity”

#MusicSky #MusicianSky
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Ministers O’Donovan and McConalogue announce details of Budget 2026 for the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport

www.gov.ie

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 5d

Yes! Different palette & more delicate.

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 5d

I saw the most beautiful paintings by an artist called Clare Barton-Harvey yesterday at The Art Pavillion in Mile End Park (below). The exhibition,'Painting Now', is open 11-6pm today & tomorrow if anyone wants to see for themselves. Free entry.

#Art #LondonArt #Painting #LondonPainting

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 6d

‼️NEW: Universities have tried to axe over 15,000 staff this year.

Yet the vice-chancellors responsible are paying themselves more than ever before.

We’re balloting to save higher education.

Our GS @drjogrady.bsky.social broke the story on BBC Today this morning👇

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 6d

Half-tone structures.

#blackandwhitephotography #monochromes #photos #photosky

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 6d

It also reminds me of questions I like to pose my students sometimes

Will urban music survive wealth inequality, & if so, how?

And/or: what will music in post-urban landscapes sound like?

... Because we might not be all that far from these eventualities.

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 6d

MC Skibadee is what I think of when 'The Kids' say ‘skibidi’

Just one of many incredible sounds of the London that grew me

This; Proms in summer; jazz & rock everywhere; & open-minded people similarly enjoying everything. What luck. All Skibidi, no toilet

www.youtube.com/watch?..&v=y... #MusicSky

Drum and Bass Special - Fire In The Booth

YouTube video by CharlieSloth

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 8d

'Music for the Jilted Generation'... I always wonder how they knew.

#MusicSky #MusicianSky #Prodigy #Prescience

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 9d

😂 Brilliant. I'm going to choose to believe I reminded them of Dolly Parton somehow.

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 9d

No matter how good you get at it, English as a second language = a long list of baffling experiences, e.g. recently:

Being told 'There's something 'Steel Magnolias' about you', not understanding what that meant, watching the film to see what it meant... and still not understanding what was meant.

Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 9d

I agree. I also deserve an Oscar for being a high functioning society in a crumbling human.

Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 9d

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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 12d

Cancel your #Spotify today. Use those dollars to buy between 1 & 3 (or more!) albums on #BandcampFriday. Enjoy the actual, direct impact you had on someone's life. (Hell they might message you to say thanks!)

No amount of $$$ (or streams) spent on Spotify will ever change ANYTHING for the better!

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 12d

Politics aside, I always love a bit of pre-toddler-level understanding of sound, where it comes from, & how it's made in music, particularly in high-level propaganda.

#MusicSky

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13d

Signs of psychosis. No biggie