Stephen Chase
@stephenchase.bsky.social
musicking, wandering, occasional mumbling https://linktr.ee/stephenchasesound
(Also part of @nairnbooks.bsky.social)
(Also part of @nairnbooks.bsky.social)
I had hoped that this was the translation
January 29, 2026 at 12:03 PM
I had hoped that this was the translation
Werk-in-progress
January 27, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Werk-in-progress
The Tudor-less photo is more famous, taken presumably seconds later, but none of the 4 would have got where they got or did what they did without him (obvs)
January 20, 2026 at 12:30 PM
The Tudor-less photo is more famous, taken presumably seconds later, but none of the 4 would have got where they got or did what they did without him (obvs)
January 20, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Perhaps it was an early version of Purrfleet and the Essex Shore
January 18, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Perhaps it was an early version of Purrfleet and the Essex Shore
A couple of extraordinary looking things*, String Music for Aki Takahashi and Ko Ishikawa by Rhodri Davies, and artwork by Dejan Mrdja from the new Morton Feldman Trios set by GBSR Duo & Taylor MacLennan @anothertimbre.bsky.social (slowly wending my way through that extraordinary sounding thing)
January 18, 2026 at 3:44 PM
A couple of extraordinary looking things*, String Music for Aki Takahashi and Ko Ishikawa by Rhodri Davies, and artwork by Dejan Mrdja from the new Morton Feldman Trios set by GBSR Duo & Taylor MacLennan @anothertimbre.bsky.social (slowly wending my way through that extraordinary sounding thing)
New Year pic from my work place
January 3, 2026 at 6:34 PM
New Year pic from my work place
...&c for sounds...
January 2, 2026 at 3:41 PM
...&c for sounds...
The reading that most stuck with me this year
December 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The reading that most stuck with me this year
I wonder if her sister ever regretted marrying
(I doubt she herself did by the sounds of it)
(I doubt she herself did by the sounds of it)
December 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I wonder if her sister ever regretted marrying
(I doubt she herself did by the sounds of it)
(I doubt she herself did by the sounds of it)
Further tootings
December 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Further tootings
Bit of paper rediscovered
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Bit of paper rediscovered
Still plenty of things on the bucket list
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Still plenty of things on the bucket list
Felt absolutely tip-top afterwards!
October 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Felt absolutely tip-top afterwards!
Today began with James Weeks' Blue Hours conjuring blues and wooze on the cusp of alpha and beta waves, welcoming in GMT with a fantastically poised performance from GBSR Duo at Sound Festival Aberdeen. And the spinning and waves continued at Fraserburgh lighthouse museum...
October 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Today began with James Weeks' Blue Hours conjuring blues and wooze on the cusp of alpha and beta waves, welcoming in GMT with a fantastically poised performance from GBSR Duo at Sound Festival Aberdeen. And the spinning and waves continued at Fraserburgh lighthouse museum...
A swift jaunt to Sheffield catching up with a bunch of excellent people (including, at last again, the inimitable indomitable @philipthomas.bsky.social ) and amazing sounds from #FredericBlondy #AngharadDavies #RhodriDavies & #DominicLash
October 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A swift jaunt to Sheffield catching up with a bunch of excellent people (including, at last again, the inimitable indomitable @philipthomas.bsky.social ) and amazing sounds from #FredericBlondy #AngharadDavies #RhodriDavies & #DominicLash
Crikey! a deceptively slim volume but plenty to get stuck into...
#LeafePress #LindaKemp www.leafepress.org
#LeafePress #LindaKemp www.leafepress.org
October 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Crikey! a deceptively slim volume but plenty to get stuck into...
#LeafePress #LindaKemp www.leafepress.org
#LeafePress #LindaKemp www.leafepress.org
![handwritten text score sketch:
'somewhere further you can go'
[percussionist and pianist parts presented parallel to each other]
"percussionist:
2 items that produce rich, resonant inharmonic sounds
***
play one item over and over for a long time, aiming for a consistent repeatable sound
~ pause ~
play the other item over and over for a long time, aiming for a consistent repeatable sound
~ pause ~
play one of the items again over and over for a long time, transforming/merging gradually into the other item until the first item has disappeared
***
***
pianist:
The available resources of your instrument (can include inside/outside piano and preparations)
***
match/merge with the sounds you hear as closely as you can
~ pause ~
match/merge with the sounds you hear as closely as you can
~ pause ~
find sound that causes the percussionist's sound to be heard to be in friction/in tune with itself
(for LMY at 90, October 2025)
(“Even while laying down the rigorous mechanical laws that determine every event, he feels the need to allow atoms to make unpredictable deviations from the straight line, thereby ensuring freedom both to atoms and to human beings.”)"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nccxd43pxkdc5sn32e6o3y3c/bafkreihcu2p3es7e74rp4awu6wmgtaftm5bqet7fkd4rgcez4fs4oks4a4@jpeg)
It's Ernst Jandl's 100th anniversary this year and I'm edging slowly and surely (surely!) ever closer to completing Jandl Songs, started in 2007...
October 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's Ernst Jandl's 100th anniversary this year and I'm edging slowly and surely (surely!) ever closer to completing Jandl Songs, started in 2007...