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Ivan M @specwrites.bsky.social · Jan 15

I'm excited to announce I'm joining the University of Huddersfield as a Research Fellow on the Leverhulme Amplification Project (2025-30) led by Prof. Steve Waksman. We have *12* fully funded PhD scholarships available with the deadline approaching soon, please RT and send to your masters students!

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Ivan M @specwrites.bsky.social · 16d

Job opp - full-time Project Officer at U of Huddersfield. Support the admin needs of research staff and PGRs on the Amplification Project. Grade 6 (£32,363 - £39,132 per annum), fixed-term ending Jan 2030. Apply by 1st Oct here: vacancies.hud.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Fender amplifier-shaped shop front of the Guitar Store, Southampton, UK

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 29d

VCs don’t run universities.

We do.

After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.

Ballot opens October.

Vote YES.

#WeAreTheUniversity

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Ivan M @specwrites.bsky.social · 29d

Someone recently contacted me about accessing the archive of the Low End Theories conference we ran online in 2023, inspired by my PhD research. The site has been cleaned up and archived cfp + recordings of the talks are now fully online. sites.google.com/view/lowendt...

#LowEnd23 #LowEndTheories

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Welcome to the Low End Theories conference website. Date held: 19–20 May 2023 This free online conference was a response to the multidisciplinary field emerging around low-frequency sound and the soun...

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IASPM UK and Ireland @iaspmuki.bsky.social · Jun 28

We're now on Bsky 👋 This account will be used to share CFPs, news, and opportunities in the field, and maybe the occasional photo or two from conferences. For any formal enquiries, visit Contact Us on our website to reach the relevant committee member.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · Apr 22

The AMS (like any large org) doesn't always get it right, but it got this one VERY right

www.amsmusicology.org/coalition-of...

Coalition of Music Organizations to Help Address Lost Grant Access

The AMS launches a voluntary association of music organizations designed to strengthen the music and education sector.

www.amsmusicology.org

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Ivan M @specwrites.bsky.social · Apr 7

Amps! + a neat little summary of what our work is about www.hud.ac.uk/news/2025/ap...

Ambitious research agenda for new five-year Amplification Project - University of Huddersfield

A project to chart the past, present and future of the technology behind amplified sound has begun at the University of Huddersfield, with the backing of a Leverhulme International Professorship grant...

www.hud.ac.uk

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Mar 1

Excited to share that I have a new chapter out in *The Oxford Handbook of Electronic Dance Music* entitled “Beats, Tactility, and the Politics of Deaf Representation in EDM": doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

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Ivan M @specwrites.bsky.social · Mar 26

PhD call part II: we have three fully funded (home) scholarships still to award for students interested in researching sound amplification. Preference will go to topics like disability and the environment but all will be considered. Info below, deadline 12 May. www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Call for Applications: The Leverhulme Amplification Project PhD Scholarships at University of Huddersfield on FindAPhD.com

PhD Programme - Call for Applications: The Leverhulme Amplification Project PhD Scholarships at University of Huddersfield, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Mar 13

While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolithic, "Algorithms of Resistance" shows through a diverse range of case studies how people can resist algorithms across various domains. This book is available in a free, #openaccess edition: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254742...

Hands holding a copy of "Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power" by Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Trere.

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · Feb 26

Walter Rodney's ambitious masterwork of political economy, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is part of our Black History Month sale.

Rodney makes the unflinching case that African maldevelopment is not a natural feature, but a direct product of imperial extraction.

Black History Month | Reading List

During the final week of Black History Month we're offering a collection featuring both new and classic titles on Black History. All titles below are marked down 40%. Buy two or more from this list a...

www.versobooks.com

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Ivan M @specwrites.bsky.social · Feb 25

I'm giving a short talk in a few weeks with my new team about our work where we want the Amplification Project to go, or think it could/should go. It's a weekday morning on campus but come along if you can, we'd love to hear from you.
#MusicSky #AcWri #Musicology #MusicStudies #Yorkshire

Seminar poster, stack of amps on blue background.

Ivan M @specwrites.bsky.social · Feb 25

Awesome! That's my excuse to finally buy the game tonight ✅

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Dr Chris Inglis @chrisswinglis.bsky.social · Feb 22

Save the School of Music protest. It's a very bittersweet feeling watching these incredible musicians play. This is the talent we will be losing if Cardiff University go ahead with their shortsighted plans.

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Repeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social · Feb 6

Check out Josh Davila author of "Blockchain Radicals", on @thebristolcable.bsky.social 's People Just Do Something Podcast on crypto and the contemporary left.
thebristolcable.org/2025/02/peop...

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Choice Reviews @choicereviews.bsky.social · Feb 4

Catch the #Grammys? This week’s review introduces the concept of Blacksound to examine how the American popular #musicindustry "was built on the exploitation of slave song and blackface minstrelsy” in "Blacksound" from U California Press: ow.ly/JQtZ50USEBB
#BlackHistoryMonth @ucpress.bsky.social

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · Feb 5

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do!

www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon

"Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

www.salon.com

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Jan 31

@lendavis.bsky.social , author of "Poor Things," talks with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about how people with money write about those without it.
https://buff.ly/4gl9YGf

Cover of Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those without It by Lennard J. Davis. Cover features a halftone illustration of an adult hand dropping a coin into the outstretched palm of a child. A color filter overlays the image; most of the image is blue-tone, but the hands are encircled in bright red. The text “Poor Things” is in white chunky lettering.

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Ivan M @specwrites.bsky.social · Jan 29

Grim news at Cardiff, probably more to come at other Universities. Please sign and share if you can. Solidarity to all the affected students and staff chng.it/xcSXRBZwW4

Sign the Petition

SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC

chng.it

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Lorenz Gilli @lorenzgilli.bsky.social · Jan 26

my chapter on the #analysis of #EDM #DJ-sets 🎧 🔊 🔍 in the #Oxford #Handbook of Electronic Dance Music is out! thanks to the #OUP team and the editors @lmgm.bsky.social and @robinjames.bsky.social for their feedback and support! ❤️ doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Abstract

This chapter presents a methodological framework for analyzing EDM DJ sets. The concept of “phonographies,” introduced by Alexander G. Weheliye, is used to discuss DJing as a socio-aesthetic practice of modernity, originating from Black and African American culture. Rolf Großmann’s concept of “phonographic work(ing)” is employed to further illuminate the material foundations and practices of DJing. The chapter discusses Mark J. Butler’s three elements of a DJ performance, namely “tracks,” “third record,” and “DJ set,” and distinguishes between third records as transition and third records as entity. Additionally, three fundamental aesthetic principles are introduced: modulation, repetition, and combination. This analytical framework is then applied to analyze a house DJ set by Solomun and an EDM pop DJ set by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, revealing distinctive aesthetic approaches across EDM genres in terms of sonic time and space, liveness, authority, and the creation of third records.
Keywords: DJ sets, analysis, third record, sonic space, EDM pop, house, liveness, phonographic work
Subject
Musicology and Music History Music

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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · Jan 24

Music in Orbit is now available for pre-order, with the option to buy through @ucpress.bsky.social now available. Everything is happening.

www.ucpress.edu/books/music-...

Table of contents - available through link in post.

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Ivan M @specwrites.bsky.social · Jan 24

En route to Berlin for #dc25 - speaking on an awesome music and the internet panel Saturday. We'll be talking archives, ephemerality, and platformization.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · Jan 24

If you want to listen to a music provider you can feel good about (not Spotify), may I suggest Inhailer radio, which is currently playing "Free Nelson Mandela" in honor of Peltier's release?

inhailer.com

Inhailer Radio | Cincinnati | Independent Radio | Indie Music

Inhailer Radio is Cincinnati independent radio. Founded in 2017 to fill the void left by beloved radio station WNKU.

inhailer.com

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Jan 22

Do you have questions about #OpenAccess? We're happy to answer them! #AskUP by submitting your questions on the
@aupresses.bsky.social website: https://ask.up.hcommons.org/submit-a-question/

Promotional image for #AskUP reads "Authors seeking knowledge from university presses." The MIT Press and AUP logos are included.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jan 21

Microsoft have finally added a clear option to disable copilot - I take this as a good sign that enough people cancelled or threatened to cancel their 365 subscriptions

Options for working with Copilot in Word. Enable Copilot Enable Copilot Turn off this option to disable Copilot features.

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Repeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social · Jan 17

Less than a week to go until Dr Joy White introduces her latest book "Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid" at UD music in East London! Get your ticket via www.isrf.org/events/book-...

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