Ian Baxter
@ianwbaxter.bsky.social
Following mainly sound art, synth DIY and computer music based stuff but also accounts that make me laugh. Did PhD at Sheffield "Sonification as a means to generative music"..and posted about it, now seems increasingly irrelevant
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Ian Baxter
@ianwbaxter.bsky.social
· May 14
Some links:
Music on bandcamp: ianbaxter.bandcamp.com
Gardening: www.instagram.com/smallsheffie...
Adventures in soldering: www.instagram.com/ianbaxtersou...
Old skool website: ianbaxter.net
Occasional guitar here: www.instagram.com/hearing.thin...
PhD: etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/27...
Music on bandcamp: ianbaxter.bandcamp.com
Gardening: www.instagram.com/smallsheffie...
Adventures in soldering: www.instagram.com/ianbaxtersou...
Old skool website: ianbaxter.net
Occasional guitar here: www.instagram.com/hearing.thin...
PhD: etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/27...
Sometime ago someone pointed out to be 99% of tweets (or whatever they are here) could be followed up with " and yet..."
Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
January 12, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Sometime ago someone pointed out to be 99% of tweets (or whatever they are here) could be followed up with " and yet..."
Reading my Xmas present "Perfection" - I know it's meant to be satire but the apartment described in the opening section sounds quite nice.
December 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Reading my Xmas present "Perfection" - I know it's meant to be satire but the apartment described in the opening section sounds quite nice.
Secret weapon this year...mahoosive gravy jug
December 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Secret weapon this year...mahoosive gravy jug
Ah man. RIP Chris Rea. Was just joyfully singing along to Driving Home for Christmas on Saturday.
December 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Ah man. RIP Chris Rea. Was just joyfully singing along to Driving Home for Christmas on Saturday.
I was stumped the other day when asked what my goals are for 2026 but having just done the kitchen I've got it: the uniform one brand two sizes tupperware project
December 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I was stumped the other day when asked what my goals are for 2026 but having just done the kitchen I've got it: the uniform one brand two sizes tupperware project
Spent last night trying to remake this old piece and ending up making quite a convincing fake Feldman work. Not sure if this a success or not.
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Spent last night trying to remake this old piece and ending up making quite a convincing fake Feldman work. Not sure if this a success or not.
Same folk who were suddenly professors of epidemiology during COVID and Napoleon's heir after Russia invaded Ukraine...some folks need to shut up and listen.
Ain’t life wonderful: all these people who have never given a shit about autistic people suddenly becoming experts on ‘over diagnosis’
December 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Same folk who were suddenly professors of epidemiology during COVID and Napoleon's heir after Russia invaded Ukraine...some folks need to shut up and listen.
The last couple of audiobooks I've listened to the dates have been read as "May One Nineteen-Thirteen", "August Twenty..." etc rather than May 1st or 1st of May. Is this sone weird audiobook standard set by publishers? It's a bit...weird.
December 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The last couple of audiobooks I've listened to the dates have been read as "May One Nineteen-Thirteen", "August Twenty..." etc rather than May 1st or 1st of May. Is this sone weird audiobook standard set by publishers? It's a bit...weird.
Absolutely gutted to be thrown out of the local pub for winning the quiz too often and now have a huge hole in my social schedule.
December 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Absolutely gutted to be thrown out of the local pub for winning the quiz too often and now have a huge hole in my social schedule.
Proper old fart moment as I say "oh she's singing Pink Pony Club?"
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Proper old fart moment as I say "oh she's singing Pink Pony Club?"
Questioning my audio book choices. Spent 20 mins this morning listening to graphic descriptions of a surgeons experience at the Battle of the Somme. Not the most uplifting start to the day.
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Questioning my audio book choices. Spent 20 mins this morning listening to graphic descriptions of a surgeons experience at the Battle of the Somme. Not the most uplifting start to the day.
Rareish non-quizzing trip to the pub last night. Young people to the person all drinking pints of stout. Great, nowt wrong with it, but fashion is odd isn't it?
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Rareish non-quizzing trip to the pub last night. Young people to the person all drinking pints of stout. Great, nowt wrong with it, but fashion is odd isn't it?
The Andrew Milne story, now stories, in the Tribune make me so angry. Like incredible hulk angry. All freehold reversions to be given to current owners now for free, no compensation to shitehawks who have bought them up.
November 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The Andrew Milne story, now stories, in the Tribune make me so angry. Like incredible hulk angry. All freehold reversions to be given to current owners now for free, no compensation to shitehawks who have bought them up.
Has it finally stopped raining? Snow on Wednesday. What next?
November 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Has it finally stopped raining? Snow on Wednesday. What next?
I was once (performatively I guess now) reading some some art book in the Winter Gardens on my dinner break and an older lady - I'm not being a rank sexist but it was unexpected - said to me "Oh do you like Isao Tomita, he's brilliant, you should check him out". It was pure Sheffield.
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I was once (performatively I guess now) reading some some art book in the Winter Gardens on my dinner break and an older lady - I'm not being a rank sexist but it was unexpected - said to me "Oh do you like Isao Tomita, he's brilliant, you should check him out". It was pure Sheffield.
Guess I should ring them back
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Guess I should ring them back
Sunday listening, really one one of the finest releases recently that's stayed in healthy rotation for me.
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/record...
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/record...
Recordings from the Åland Islands, by Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer
11 track album
intlanthem.bandcamp.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Sunday listening, really one one of the finest releases recently that's stayed in healthy rotation for me.
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/record...
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/record...
This non chronological thing in feeds is getting ridiculous
November 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This non chronological thing in feeds is getting ridiculous
This encouraged me to actually overhaul the whole bloody thing, make it work on mobiles and so on. It wasn't actually as much work as I thought and a pleasant trip down memory lane.
I did a bit of tidying on my website last night (as much as one can do housekeeping on an abandoned ruin) getting rid of links to Twitter for example and to my delight my dawn chorus web experiment www.ianbaxter.net/projects/daw... has come back to life (the proxy thing I used had disallowed audio)
www.ianbaxter.net
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This encouraged me to actually overhaul the whole bloody thing, make it work on mobiles and so on. It wasn't actually as much work as I thought and a pleasant trip down memory lane.
Feeling the enshitification strongly this morning. Small banking problem...terrible online AI chat....can't get through on the phone (customer number not recognised but worrying)....would close my account in a fit of pique but what's the point? Assume every other high street bank is the same.
November 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Feeling the enshitification strongly this morning. Small banking problem...terrible online AI chat....can't get through on the phone (customer number not recognised but worrying)....would close my account in a fit of pique but what's the point? Assume every other high street bank is the same.
Belly laugh. Bravo.
October 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Belly laugh. Bravo.
I did a bit of tidying on my website last night (as much as one can do housekeeping on an abandoned ruin) getting rid of links to Twitter for example and to my delight my dawn chorus web experiment www.ianbaxter.net/projects/daw... has come back to life (the proxy thing I used had disallowed audio)
www.ianbaxter.net
October 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I did a bit of tidying on my website last night (as much as one can do housekeeping on an abandoned ruin) getting rid of links to Twitter for example and to my delight my dawn chorus web experiment www.ianbaxter.net/projects/daw... has come back to life (the proxy thing I used had disallowed audio)
Just tried to leave a nice message on someone's farewell blog (twice) and was stopped because I can't find my wordpress username that I probably set up 15 years ago. So no nice message. I hate the internet and note the irony.
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Just tried to leave a nice message on someone's farewell blog (twice) and was stopped because I can't find my wordpress username that I probably set up 15 years ago. So no nice message. I hate the internet and note the irony.
For the first time in ages I am going to a 'proper' gig with a big promoter. Fuck me the bureaucracy involved is mind bending. Which app do I need? does my wife with the other ticket need it too? No I don't want to share my location data with you for recommendations...the modern world is maddening.
October 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
For the first time in ages I am going to a 'proper' gig with a big promoter. Fuck me the bureaucracy involved is mind bending. Which app do I need? does my wife with the other ticket need it too? No I don't want to share my location data with you for recommendations...the modern world is maddening.
People may laugh at me for being a bumpkin but I miss visits to London and the underground. A heavy metal thunder noise concert and fascinating to read about it's subtle changes. I could spin an essay "tube as the original generative site specific sound installation" if I had the time and sense.
The main cause of the noise is something that will, sooner or later, hit every part of the network: “rail corrugation”.
You aren’t imagining it: London's Tube is getting louder.
You aren’t imagining it: London's Tube is getting louder.
No, you aren’t imagining it: the Tube is getting louder
I SAID, THE TUBE *IS* GETTING LOUDER.
jonn.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
People may laugh at me for being a bumpkin but I miss visits to London and the underground. A heavy metal thunder noise concert and fascinating to read about it's subtle changes. I could spin an essay "tube as the original generative site specific sound installation" if I had the time and sense.