Eoghan Desmond
@eoghandesmond.bsky.social
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Boycotting Pepsi only for the reason that their new ad contains an English translation of “Je ne regrette rien”
Edith in the original French or bust
Edith in the original French or bust
June 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Boycotting Pepsi only for the reason that their new ad contains an English translation of “Je ne regrette rien”
Edith in the original French or bust
Edith in the original French or bust
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The way of the future:
"It's hard enough for people in the creative industry to sustain careers but to be competing with a robotic version of yourself just adds insult to injury."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"It's hard enough for people in the creative industry to sustain careers but to be competing with a robotic version of yourself just adds insult to injury."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
‘Stop using my voice' - ScotRail's new announcer is my AI clone
Voiceover artist Gayanne says an AI used on ScotRail trains was trained using her voice.
www.bbc.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The way of the future:
"It's hard enough for people in the creative industry to sustain careers but to be competing with a robotic version of yourself just adds insult to injury."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"It's hard enough for people in the creative industry to sustain careers but to be competing with a robotic version of yourself just adds insult to injury."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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They never have to take any responsibility for the livelihoods of the people they are entirely reliant upon. It would be more accurate then, to think of artists as a natural resource to be mined by others, rather than as valued workers in an economy. Let’s take publishing as an example . . . 5/
January 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
They never have to take any responsibility for the livelihoods of the people they are entirely reliant upon. It would be more accurate then, to think of artists as a natural resource to be mined by others, rather than as valued workers in an economy. Let’s take publishing as an example . . . 5/
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I'm still looking for a tenor for the MA in Solo-Voice Ensemble Singing at the U of York this September. A year's course, coaching every week from me and top quality singing lessons (not from me...) Please be in touch if you're interested - and do pass on. Current lot (2 groups) pictured.
April 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I'm still looking for a tenor for the MA in Solo-Voice Ensemble Singing at the U of York this September. A year's course, coaching every week from me and top quality singing lessons (not from me...) Please be in touch if you're interested - and do pass on. Current lot (2 groups) pictured.
These are the twins, Galila and Dot.
April 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
These are the twins, Galila and Dot.
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We said pay what you want for opera — the audience changed overnight
From Pharaoh to impresario: Anthony Roth Costanzo talks to @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/article/dc84...
From Pharaoh to impresario: Anthony Roth Costanzo talks to @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/article/dc84...
We said pay what you want for opera — the audience changed overnight
On stage the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo has bared all as Philip Glass’s Akhnaten. Off it, he runs the only American opera company that has sold out its entire season
www.thetimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
We said pay what you want for opera — the audience changed overnight
From Pharaoh to impresario: Anthony Roth Costanzo talks to @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/article/dc84...
From Pharaoh to impresario: Anthony Roth Costanzo talks to @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/article/dc84...
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"Holy Week is coming" to the tune of the Coca Cola Christmas advert.
April 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
"Holy Week is coming" to the tune of the Coca Cola Christmas advert.
Boulez to Finzi without even a pause for thought just now on BBC radio 3. Quite the gear shift on a Sunday morning!
March 30, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Boulez to Finzi without even a pause for thought just now on BBC radio 3. Quite the gear shift on a Sunday morning!
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Guthanna ar an gCnoc, Foteini Tryferopoulou, Nan Goldin.
Composer, Eoghan Desmond on his nature-infused new work for Chamber Choir Ireland, Guthanna ar an gCnoc; Orit Gat on the slide shows, activism... and playlists of Nan Goldin; and satnav and cacti crash the soundworlds of Foteini Tryferopoulou.
Composer, Eoghan Desmond on his nature-infused new work for Chamber Choir Ireland, Guthanna ar an gCnoc; Orit Gat on the slide shows, activism... and playlists of Nan Goldin; and satnav and cacti crash the soundworlds of Foteini Tryferopoulou.
Guthanna ar an gCnoc, Foteini Tryferopoulou, Nan Goldin.
Composer, Eoghan Desmond on his nature-infused new work for Chamber Choir Ireland, Guthanna ar an gCnoc; Orit Gat on the slide shows, activism... and playlists of Nan Goldin; and satnav and cacti crash the soundworlds of Foteini Tryferopoulou.
www.rte.ie
March 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Guthanna ar an gCnoc, Foteini Tryferopoulou, Nan Goldin.
Composer, Eoghan Desmond on his nature-infused new work for Chamber Choir Ireland, Guthanna ar an gCnoc; Orit Gat on the slide shows, activism... and playlists of Nan Goldin; and satnav and cacti crash the soundworlds of Foteini Tryferopoulou.
Composer, Eoghan Desmond on his nature-infused new work for Chamber Choir Ireland, Guthanna ar an gCnoc; Orit Gat on the slide shows, activism... and playlists of Nan Goldin; and satnav and cacti crash the soundworlds of Foteini Tryferopoulou.
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A reminder that Ukraine was once the third largest nuclear power in the world and voluntarily gave up those weapons. In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia guaranteed Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum.
www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1...
www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1...
Why Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons — and what that means in an invasion by Russia
Three decades ago, the newly independent country of Ukraine was briefly the third-largest nuclear power in the world. A lot has changed since then.
www.npr.org
March 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A reminder that Ukraine was once the third largest nuclear power in the world and voluntarily gave up those weapons. In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia guaranteed Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum.
www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1...
www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1...
Love going on a podcast to talk about my work and the first thing the presenter does in the introduction is wildly mispronounce the title of the work even though I say it multiple times in the (pre-recorded) podcast.
February 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Love going on a podcast to talk about my work and the first thing the presenter does in the introduction is wildly mispronounce the title of the work even though I say it multiple times in the (pre-recorded) podcast.
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In Liverpool today with Exaudi, for two performances of “Hello Halo” by @rubycolleymusic.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
In Liverpool today with Exaudi, for two performances of “Hello Halo” by @rubycolleymusic.bsky.social
Ask me about what I want to do
January 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Ask me about what I want to do
First double bar line of the year
January 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
First double bar line of the year
One of the most bleak truths about modern public discourse is that some of the people who are doing absolutely nothing in real life are all over social media, berating the rest of us for not posting enough on social media.
I would like this comic I drew in 2017 to stop being relevant pleeeaaaaase
January 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
One of the most bleak truths about modern public discourse is that some of the people who are doing absolutely nothing in real life are all over social media, berating the rest of us for not posting enough on social media.
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A 34-year-old New Jersey man has shown a global audience that the spoken Irish language is indeed not so difficult at all to learn
US YouTuber shows off cúpla focal in Donegal Gaeltacht
A 34-year-old New Jersey man has shown a global audience that the spoken Irish language is indeed not so difficult at all to learn.
www.rte.ie
January 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A 34-year-old New Jersey man has shown a global audience that the spoken Irish language is indeed not so difficult at all to learn
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...and the line I may quote forever more to anyone who says climate reporting is too doomy:
"The problem is that the problem is so big that to even describe it factually sounds like scaremongering"
"The problem is that the problem is so big that to even describe it factually sounds like scaremongering"
January 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
...and the line I may quote forever more to anyone who says climate reporting is too doomy:
"The problem is that the problem is so big that to even describe it factually sounds like scaremongering"
"The problem is that the problem is so big that to even describe it factually sounds like scaremongering"
HOW am I only just discovering Inside No. 9 now? I watched the first four episodes today and every single one is a miniature masterpiece. I’m not surprised it’s sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes!
January 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
HOW am I only just discovering Inside No. 9 now? I watched the first four episodes today and every single one is a miniature masterpiece. I’m not surprised it’s sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes!
First flight of the year booked and BA really really need to sort out their app functionality
January 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
First flight of the year booked and BA really really need to sort out their app functionality
Really looking forward to visiting this beautiful work
On Sat 1 Feb, across a matinee performance and evening concert, Ruby shares her new vocal work Hello Halo inspired by her non-verbal brother's modes of communication, performed with vocal group EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble and ensemble.
Tickets and full prgram in link below!
Tickets and full prgram in link below!
Ruby Colley & Exaudi: Hello Halo • Classical • Kings Place
Composer, violinist & sound artist Ruby Colley, shares her new vocal work ‘Hello Halo’ inspired by her non-verbal brother's modes of communication, performed with vocal group EXAUDI and ensemble.
www.kingsplace.co.uk
January 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Really looking forward to visiting this beautiful work
Mark Gattiss is bloody brilliant in season 1 of Wolf Hall, but I do have a hard time not seeing him as Val Denton basically at all times.
January 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Mark Gattiss is bloody brilliant in season 1 of Wolf Hall, but I do have a hard time not seeing him as Val Denton basically at all times.
First double bar line of the year! It’s a shame it was due before last Christmas but that’s how life goes sometimes eh?
January 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
First double bar line of the year! It’s a shame it was due before last Christmas but that’s how life goes sometimes eh?
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Woke up this morning with this guy on my mind and thought "I simply must cross stitch him" and so, hours later, here he is.
January 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Woke up this morning with this guy on my mind and thought "I simply must cross stitch him" and so, hours later, here he is.
What does writing music even look like? Most days it’s just scribbling, planning, scheming, plotting. Most of the actual artistic bit happens on scraps of paper. The finished product that a choir sings from is just a lot of tedious typesetting.
December 30, 2024 at 11:33 AM
What does writing music even look like? Most days it’s just scribbling, planning, scheming, plotting. Most of the actual artistic bit happens on scraps of paper. The finished product that a choir sings from is just a lot of tedious typesetting.