As I haven’t shared it here before, here’s a little excerpt of my film/album, A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of time, shortlisted for an Ivor Novello Award at this year’s Ivor’s Classical Awards.

More info (and the entire film): benjamintassie.com/a-ladder-is-...

Delighted to say that my project ‘A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time’ has been shortlisted for an Ivor Novello Award for ‘Best Sound-art’ in this years The Ivor’s Classical awards ivorsacademy.com/awards/the-i...

For the (admittedly, vanishingly small number of) people for whom this might be of interest, my university has now uploaded my PhD thesis, together with the recordings and films www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/15895/

Here’s a short video from my ‘Augmented Harpsichord’ workshop at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama earlier this week. I’m exploring the technological augmentation of a virginal using Arduino circuits, sensors, Spectral processing, & more.

Looking to follow more people on here. Composers, sound-artists, academics, Early Music folk, technologists - say hi 👋🏻

People of London! The Listening Project are performing my electric guitar quartet - 45 mins of music on the subject of football TONIGHT! Get ye down to Deptford Town Hall. Is Free and BYOB. Brilliant…

Here are my good friends Ensemble Krock playing it: youtu.be/AFDdLS9sO74?...

Enjoying this BBC Mozart documentary series. A little sensationalised for my taste (reminds me of that Daniel Leech Wilkinson thing about musicology being a mirror of ourselves) but not overly patronising and - it’s in the top streamed shows - perhaps doing some good! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

First week back of the new academic year at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Sharing all this gorgeous music with the second year undergraduate composers over the coming weeks 🍃🕊️

Please welcome my wonderful colleague @benjamintassie.bsky.social lately of the other parish, now dipping his toes here. Fantastic composer, researcher and concert programmer

What’s it like over here, then?