Emma Welton
@emmawelton.bsky.social
violin, listening, sound walks, music of the outdoors, activist
Signatory to Culture Declares Emergency https://www.culturedeclares.org/
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Signatory to Culture Declares Emergency https://www.culturedeclares.org/
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Then they came for the talk show hosts and I was like yeah whatever... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
They have come for the talk show hosts – and that’s actually bad
Is simply describing reality an act of insurrection now?
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Then they came for the talk show hosts and I was like yeah whatever... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I love London so much. So much.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
September 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I love London so much. So much.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
Exeter Sound Walks
I’m thinking of leading Sound Walks in Exeter every couple of months from October.
Listening together through the seasons is intriguing and revealing. I love it.
If this appeals to you, please send me a sentence of support. This will help me raise some funds for the series.
I’m thinking of leading Sound Walks in Exeter every couple of months from October.
Listening together through the seasons is intriguing and revealing. I love it.
If this appeals to you, please send me a sentence of support. This will help me raise some funds for the series.
September 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Exeter Sound Walks
I’m thinking of leading Sound Walks in Exeter every couple of months from October.
Listening together through the seasons is intriguing and revealing. I love it.
If this appeals to you, please send me a sentence of support. This will help me raise some funds for the series.
I’m thinking of leading Sound Walks in Exeter every couple of months from October.
Listening together through the seasons is intriguing and revealing. I love it.
If this appeals to you, please send me a sentence of support. This will help me raise some funds for the series.
Slow Ways for everyone who🚶🏃🏾♀️👩🏻🦽🚴🏇🏾! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways?u...
Slow Ways for everyone who🚶🏃🏾♀️👩🏻🦽🚴🏇🏾!
Now’s the time - back our project to develop the ultimate walking, running, wheeling, cycling & horse riding network for Britain and Ireland
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Slow Ways for everyone who🚶🏃🏾♀️👩🏻🦽🚴🏇🏾! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways?u...
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If you can watch this and then think ‘I won’t share because that might be putting myself on the line’ then you know what you’d have done if you were in Germany when your Jewish neighbours were being loaded into to cattle trucks. Nothing. Please share - it’s our ‘I’m Spartacus moments
Today, the UK government intends to ban the non-violent protesters Palestine Action as a "terrorist" group, exposing anyone supporting them to terrorism charges. In 2 days, 380,000 people have watched this video on YT alone.
You're going to need a bigger prison.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkV...
You're going to need a bigger prison.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkV...
Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison
YouTube video by Double Down News
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June 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
If you can watch this and then think ‘I won’t share because that might be putting myself on the line’ then you know what you’d have done if you were in Germany when your Jewish neighbours were being loaded into to cattle trucks. Nothing. Please share - it’s our ‘I’m Spartacus moments
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It gets worse - apparently some people have been adding comments like this when explaining their reason for proposing #StormBP, #StormEquinor, #StormExxon, #StormShell and #StormBigOil on this Met Office form: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
June 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It gets worse - apparently some people have been adding comments like this when explaining their reason for proposing #StormBP, #StormEquinor, #StormExxon, #StormShell and #StormBigOil on this Met Office form: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
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So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms.
And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell...
This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell...
This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
![Screenshot of form on the UK Met Office website. Text reads: "You can provide up to 5 storm names in the boxes below.
Storm Name: [a user has filled this in with "BigOil"]
Storm Name (optional): [filled in with BP]
Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Equinor]
Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Exxon]
Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Shell]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qqz5lt666gxyaxsw3kvswdfs/bafkreifqikwow4ascrvzme7x5rxb7sxha5rrmcgbj3qe5chgn7qu3vopiy@jpeg)
June 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms.
And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell...
This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell...
This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
The Earthlings Family Orchestra has been creating music to, with & about the accompanying ambiences of Exeter's Lower Hoopern Valley. It's been interesting and surprising. I'll write it up soon. In the meantime, these silent pics show a little of the space we shared & the space we made.
June 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Earthlings Family Orchestra has been creating music to, with & about the accompanying ambiences of Exeter's Lower Hoopern Valley. It's been interesting and surprising. I'll write it up soon. In the meantime, these silent pics show a little of the space we shared & the space we made.
I'll never tire of reading about what Sarah Finch and her colleagues have achieved with unshowy commitment, care & tenacity.
Another profile of me, in the @newstatesman.com this time. Much more of this and my "quintessential modesty" could be undermined.
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...
The woman who bested Big Oil
Sarah Finch's victory in the Supreme Court last summer sunk billions of pounds worth of oil and gas projects.
www.newstatesman.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I'll never tire of reading about what Sarah Finch and her colleagues have achieved with unshowy commitment, care & tenacity.
Hugh Nankivell brings 'Fallow' to Lost and Found (keyboards revoiced) with Exeter Contemporary Sounds tomorrow 2.30 Exeter Library #ECSLostandFound #artweekexeter25
'Fallow' is formed of duets between electric pipe organ and pianet, harmonium & melodica. Book via artworkexeter.org.uk/projects/art...
'Fallow' is formed of duets between electric pipe organ and pianet, harmonium & melodica. Book via artworkexeter.org.uk/projects/art...
June 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hugh Nankivell brings 'Fallow' to Lost and Found (keyboards revoiced) with Exeter Contemporary Sounds tomorrow 2.30 Exeter Library #ECSLostandFound #artweekexeter25
'Fallow' is formed of duets between electric pipe organ and pianet, harmonium & melodica. Book via artworkexeter.org.uk/projects/art...
'Fallow' is formed of duets between electric pipe organ and pianet, harmonium & melodica. Book via artworkexeter.org.uk/projects/art...
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the final piece of the jigsaw. The #peppapig drone machine. Want to hear what it sounds like? Come to our concert on Saturday 14th @exeterlibrary tinyurl.com/mrp9hyu2 #JuneBoom #Exeter #InExeter #VisitExeter #artweekexeter @involvingmusic.bsky.social #experimentalmusic
June 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
the final piece of the jigsaw. The #peppapig drone machine. Want to hear what it sounds like? Come to our concert on Saturday 14th @exeterlibrary tinyurl.com/mrp9hyu2 #JuneBoom #Exeter #InExeter #VisitExeter #artweekexeter @involvingmusic.bsky.social #experimentalmusic
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ON OUR RADAR // Lost and Found (Keyboards Revoiced) 🎹🎶
Exeter Contemporary Sounds and Ian Summers perform works on rescued, repurposed and reimagined instruments.
🗓️ Sat 14 June
🕝 2.30pm
📍 Exeter Library
exeterobserver.org/2025/05/27/l...
Exeter Contemporary Sounds and Ian Summers perform works on rescued, repurposed and reimagined instruments.
🗓️ Sat 14 June
🕝 2.30pm
📍 Exeter Library
exeterobserver.org/2025/05/27/l...
Lost and Found (Keyboards Revoiced) - Exeter Observer
Exeter Contemporary Sounds and Ian Summers perform works on rescued, repurposed and reimagined instruments.
exeterobserver.org
June 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
ON OUR RADAR // Lost and Found (Keyboards Revoiced) 🎹🎶
Exeter Contemporary Sounds and Ian Summers perform works on rescued, repurposed and reimagined instruments.
🗓️ Sat 14 June
🕝 2.30pm
📍 Exeter Library
exeterobserver.org/2025/05/27/l...
Exeter Contemporary Sounds and Ian Summers perform works on rescued, repurposed and reimagined instruments.
🗓️ Sat 14 June
🕝 2.30pm
📍 Exeter Library
exeterobserver.org/2025/05/27/l...
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Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.
June 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.
‘Fallow requires things to emerge in their own time’ says Hugh Nankivell whose ‘Fallow’ duets between pipe organ and pianet, harmonium and melodica. The pianet, a poor-man’s Fender rhodes, is small but heavy, and all but obsolete. Sat 14 June. #ECSLostandFound artworkexeter.org.uk/event/lost-a...
June 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
‘Fallow requires things to emerge in their own time’ says Hugh Nankivell whose ‘Fallow’ duets between pipe organ and pianet, harmonium and melodica. The pianet, a poor-man’s Fender rhodes, is small but heavy, and all but obsolete. Sat 14 June. #ECSLostandFound artworkexeter.org.uk/event/lost-a...
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Happy #WildSalmonDay!
You can help us put on the Salmon Run to raise awareness of the plight of wild salmon in the River Exe - AND fund habitat improvements in their spawning grounds - with a donation to our appeal. Aviva will double all donations.
www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/salmon-run...
You can help us put on the Salmon Run to raise awareness of the plight of wild salmon in the River Exe - AND fund habitat improvements in their spawning grounds - with a donation to our appeal. Aviva will double all donations.
www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/salmon-run...
June 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Happy #WildSalmonDay!
You can help us put on the Salmon Run to raise awareness of the plight of wild salmon in the River Exe - AND fund habitat improvements in their spawning grounds - with a donation to our appeal. Aviva will double all donations.
www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/salmon-run...
You can help us put on the Salmon Run to raise awareness of the plight of wild salmon in the River Exe - AND fund habitat improvements in their spawning grounds - with a donation to our appeal. Aviva will double all donations.
www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/salmon-run...
ORGANS! clavichord, bon tempi organ, pipe organ, Venta organ, stylophone - Simon Belshaw has been 'converting pieces written to be played by a computer into pieces playable by musicians.' for our ECS concert 14/6. #ECSLostandFound #artweekexeter #artweekexeter25 #awe25
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June 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
ORGANS! clavichord, bon tempi organ, pipe organ, Venta organ, stylophone - Simon Belshaw has been 'converting pieces written to be played by a computer into pieces playable by musicians.' for our ECS concert 14/6. #ECSLostandFound #artweekexeter #artweekexeter25 #awe25
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'...the keys of the organs become worn with the finger fall of those who have played them like the wear of footsteps on stone steps over centuries or the cutting of desire paths... a record of the use of the instrument over several hundred years...' Paul Whitty about his music for ECS on 14th June.
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photo by Wilf Whitty
#NewMusic #ArtAgainstTedium @avantmusicnews.bsky.social @experimental @musicsky @experimentalmusic @artweekexeter #artweekexeter25 #awe25
photo by Wilf Whitty
#NewMusic #ArtAgainstTedium @avantmusicnews.bsky.social @experimental @musicsky @experimentalmusic @artweekexeter #artweekexeter25 #awe25
Lost & Found Paul Whitty
“Ancient & modern 14062025”
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June 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
'...the keys of the organs become worn with the finger fall of those who have played them like the wear of footsteps on stone steps over centuries or the cutting of desire paths... a record of the use of the instrument over several hundred years...' Paul Whitty about his music for ECS on 14th June.
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Calling people who love rivers!
Please help us put on the Salmon Run! to tell communities along the Exe about the plight of the Salmon, and fund river restoration projects.
www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/salmon-run...
@tweedpipe.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @sophiepavs.bsky.social
Please help us put on the Salmon Run! to tell communities along the Exe about the plight of the Salmon, and fund river restoration projects.
www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/salmon-run...
@tweedpipe.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @sophiepavs.bsky.social
Salmon Run 2025
#StrongerCommunities 💛 Fund Salmon Run running event + WRT restoration projects raising awareness of the endangered salmon, improving habitats, linking communities
www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Calling people who love rivers!
Please help us put on the Salmon Run! to tell communities along the Exe about the plight of the Salmon, and fund river restoration projects.
www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/salmon-run...
@tweedpipe.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @sophiepavs.bsky.social
Please help us put on the Salmon Run! to tell communities along the Exe about the plight of the Salmon, and fund river restoration projects.
www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/salmon-run...
@tweedpipe.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @sophiepavs.bsky.social
My Wet & Dry Musical Life
mussels, sea lamprey, pipe organs, fiddles… and an actual concert from Exeter Contemporary Sounds on Sat 14th June
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mussels, sea lamprey, pipe organs, fiddles… and an actual concert from Exeter Contemporary Sounds on Sat 14th June
emmawelton.net/news/
News – Emma Welton
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May 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
My Wet & Dry Musical Life
mussels, sea lamprey, pipe organs, fiddles… and an actual concert from Exeter Contemporary Sounds on Sat 14th June
emmawelton.net/news/
mussels, sea lamprey, pipe organs, fiddles… and an actual concert from Exeter Contemporary Sounds on Sat 14th June
emmawelton.net/news/
You forgot 'lost and found (keyboards revoiced)' concert, Sat 14th June Rougemont Room! Giving new life to rescued organs, dusty keyboards, salvaged circuits. Music by Simon Belshaw, Hugh Nankivell, Emma Welton, Paul Whitty with voices of Jez Winship and Alison Sweatman. #ECSLostandFound
May 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
You forgot 'lost and found (keyboards revoiced)' concert, Sat 14th June Rougemont Room! Giving new life to rescued organs, dusty keyboards, salvaged circuits. Music by Simon Belshaw, Hugh Nankivell, Emma Welton, Paul Whitty with voices of Jez Winship and Alison Sweatman. #ECSLostandFound
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Don’t let this fly past you! The early bird catches the worm! 🕊️
Have you started your Lark Music-Making Competition entry yet? The Competition is open to all amateur instrumentalists (18+). There are three age categories,18–24, 25-39 and 40 plus.
Have you started your Lark Music-Making Competition entry yet? The Competition is open to all amateur instrumentalists (18+). There are three age categories,18–24, 25-39 and 40 plus.
May 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Don’t let this fly past you! The early bird catches the worm! 🕊️
Have you started your Lark Music-Making Competition entry yet? The Competition is open to all amateur instrumentalists (18+). There are three age categories,18–24, 25-39 and 40 plus.
Have you started your Lark Music-Making Competition entry yet? The Competition is open to all amateur instrumentalists (18+). There are three age categories,18–24, 25-39 and 40 plus.
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With this funding we aim to make a real difference in Devon - watch this space! www.librariesunlimited.org.uk/libraries-un...
Libraries Unlimited and grassroots groups join forces for region-wide programme backed by the National Lottery - Libraries Unlimited
Communities across Devon are set to benefit from a major new climate action initiative thanks to £1.5 million in National Lottery funding.
The five-year project – Together for Tomorrow – will be led b...
www.librariesunlimited.org.uk
May 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
With this funding we aim to make a real difference in Devon - watch this space! www.librariesunlimited.org.uk/libraries-un...
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Tickets are now available for lost and found (keyboards revoiced) at Exeter Library, Exeter. www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/exe...
#experimentalmusic #contemporarymusic #noisemusic #musicsky #electronicmusic #coding #music
#experimentalmusic #contemporarymusic #noisemusic #musicsky #electronicmusic #coding #music
May 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Tickets are now available for lost and found (keyboards revoiced) at Exeter Library, Exeter. www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/exe...
#experimentalmusic #contemporarymusic #noisemusic #musicsky #electronicmusic #coding #music
#experimentalmusic #contemporarymusic #noisemusic #musicsky #electronicmusic #coding #music
Lost & Found, keyboards revoiced. Dusty organs, salvaged circuitry...Exeter Contemporary Sounds, Saturday 14th June, 2.30, Exeter Central Library. Part of Art Week Exeter. Music by @simonbelshaw.bsky.social, Hugh Nankivell, Emma Welton, @paul-whitty.bsky.social. #ECSLostandFound @artworkexeter
May 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Lost & Found, keyboards revoiced. Dusty organs, salvaged circuitry...Exeter Contemporary Sounds, Saturday 14th June, 2.30, Exeter Central Library. Part of Art Week Exeter. Music by @simonbelshaw.bsky.social, Hugh Nankivell, Emma Welton, @paul-whitty.bsky.social. #ECSLostandFound @artworkexeter