Ross Brown
@profrossbrown.bsky.social
Composer, writer, Emeritus Professor at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.
The new poems I was working on with Brian Patten this winter are now out on Spotify and all the other streaming platform. So sad he didn't live to see their release open.spotify.com/album/0oLcYL...
Pipe Dream: Poems with Music
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October 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The new poems I was working on with Brian Patten this winter are now out on Spotify and all the other streaming platform. So sad he didn't live to see their release open.spotify.com/album/0oLcYL...
These four new tracks are from the album Brian Patten and I were working on over the winter of 2024–25. Sadly, Brian finally succumbed to his long illness at the end of September, making this a bittersweet listen.
RIP Brian
rossbrown.bandcamp.com/album/pipe-d...
RIP Brian
rossbrown.bandcamp.com/album/pipe-d...
Pipe Dream: Poems with Music, by Brian Patten & Ross Brown
5 track album
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October 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
These four new tracks are from the album Brian Patten and I were working on over the winter of 2024–25. Sadly, Brian finally succumbed to his long illness at the end of September, making this a bittersweet listen.
RIP Brian
rossbrown.bandcamp.com/album/pipe-d...
RIP Brian
rossbrown.bandcamp.com/album/pipe-d...
The Spotify link to my new single. Please share if you enjoy it. I'm hoping to earn enough royalties this month for a packet of guitar strings.
open.spotify.com/album/3Osttw...
open.spotify.com/album/3Osttw...
Good for Ghosts
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September 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The Spotify link to my new single. Please share if you enjoy it. I'm hoping to earn enough royalties this month for a packet of guitar strings.
open.spotify.com/album/3Osttw...
open.spotify.com/album/3Osttw...
New single out now on all your streamers
September 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
New single out now on all your streamers
Sally Mackey — dear friend and colleague for 30+ years. A driving force in Drama Ed and Applied Theatre and one of the architects of Central as a modern HE drama school that trains practitioners, educators and thinkers under one roof. I’ll miss the long calls, the wine, the cookery tips. RIP.
August 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Sally Mackey — dear friend and colleague for 30+ years. A driving force in Drama Ed and Applied Theatre and one of the architects of Central as a modern HE drama school that trains practitioners, educators and thinkers under one roof. I’ll miss the long calls, the wine, the cookery tips. RIP.
Buy my new single This Winter in London in super stereo 24 bit sound for £1 on Bandcamp, and get my last single for free. Audition for free on MP3 rossbrown.bandcamp.com/album/this-w...
This Winter in London, by Ross Brown
2 track album
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March 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Buy my new single This Winter in London in super stereo 24 bit sound for £1 on Bandcamp, and get my last single for free. Audition for free on MP3 rossbrown.bandcamp.com/album/this-w...
New song! Enjoy. rossbrown.bandcamp.com/album/this-w...
This Winter in London EP, by Ross Brown
2 track album
rossbrown.bandcamp.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
New song! Enjoy. rossbrown.bandcamp.com/album/this-w...
Finally on Apple, Deezer,Qobuz,Tidal, Amazon, Spotify etc after apparently getting lost down the back of the sofa at TuneCore (the distributors). music.apple.com/gb/album/a-m...
A Matsui Vcr by Ross Brown on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 4:31
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February 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Finally on Apple, Deezer,Qobuz,Tidal, Amazon, Spotify etc after apparently getting lost down the back of the sofa at TuneCore (the distributors). music.apple.com/gb/album/a-m...
The new one, now on Spotify
February 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The new one, now on Spotify
Still streaming for free (limited number of plays) or to buy in better quality for a quid. Out on the commercial streaming sites in a week. rossbrown.bandcamp.com/track/a-mats...
A Matsui VCR, by Ross Brown
track by Ross Brown
rossbrown.bandcamp.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Still streaming for free (limited number of plays) or to buy in better quality for a quid. Out on the commercial streaming sites in a week. rossbrown.bandcamp.com/track/a-mats...
A Matsui VCR, by Ross Brown
track by Ross Brown
rossbrown.bandcamp.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
@jonathancoe.bsky.social Truss; death of her maj. Shady thinktanks, grudge / guilt harbouring university chums and poisonous academics in a ‘cosy’ murder mystery. Plus a cameo from the briefly successful author of ‘Quite the Mash-Up’. Fab. Suggestion: Coe bingo cards would only enhance the delight
January 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
@jonathancoe.bsky.social Truss; death of her maj. Shady thinktanks, grudge / guilt harbouring university chums and poisonous academics in a ‘cosy’ murder mystery. Plus a cameo from the briefly successful author of ‘Quite the Mash-Up’. Fab. Suggestion: Coe bingo cards would only enhance the delight
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Dozens of universities, including the UT system and MIT, have announced programs to provide free tuition for undergraduate students from families who fall below a certain income threshold. Here are some of the schools and how these programs work.
Which Colleges Offer Free Tuition?
Dozens of schools say they provide free tuition to students whose families earn under a certain income. How does it work?
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December 7, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Dozens of universities, including the UT system and MIT, have announced programs to provide free tuition for undergraduate students from families who fall below a certain income threshold. Here are some of the schools and how these programs work.
Gear nerd post. Indulge me. Richard Hawley tonight with his 1959 Watkins Scout ( right) and later WEM Dominator (left). My Mersey Super 15 is the Scout in a different casing commissioned by Hessys music shop in Liverpool during Beatlemania in 1963. It didn’t take off and they reputedly only made 18.
December 7, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Gear nerd post. Indulge me. Richard Hawley tonight with his 1959 Watkins Scout ( right) and later WEM Dominator (left). My Mersey Super 15 is the Scout in a different casing commissioned by Hessys music shop in Liverpool during Beatlemania in 1963. It didn’t take off and they reputedly only made 18.
I see a lot of great gigs, but Richard Hawley and guests English Teacher tonight at Hackney Church was special
December 6, 2024 at 11:36 PM
I see a lot of great gigs, but Richard Hawley and guests English Teacher tonight at Hackney Church was special
Whitehall ‘comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline.’ Nice line. Same might be said of the administrations of other sectors in the past ten years.
December 5, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Whitehall ‘comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline.’ Nice line. Same might be said of the administrations of other sectors in the past ten years.
Just finished The Listeners on iPlayer. Remarkable. Clever nods to 70s art house movies. Rebecca Hall is outstanding. For those interested auditory hallucination, the use of sound in meditation and relaxation practices, and the often cultish association between aurality and expanded consciousness.
December 1, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Just finished The Listeners on iPlayer. Remarkable. Clever nods to 70s art house movies. Rebecca Hall is outstanding. For those interested auditory hallucination, the use of sound in meditation and relaxation practices, and the often cultish association between aurality and expanded consciousness.
Just read the following in @msrachelcooke.bsky.social ‘s @newstatesman.com review of the Band Aid doc, which I haven’t seen, and I literally don’t know which one is which: ‘Simon Le Bon sits next to Bono, and it’s like the sixth form, the uncool kid laughing far too hard at the cooler kid’s jokes.’😂
December 1, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Just read the following in @msrachelcooke.bsky.social ‘s @newstatesman.com review of the Band Aid doc, which I haven’t seen, and I literally don’t know which one is which: ‘Simon Le Bon sits next to Bono, and it’s like the sixth form, the uncool kid laughing far too hard at the cooler kid’s jokes.’😂
Excited to be working with Brian Patten again, 25 years after our last collaboration. He was a hero of mine as a young man, and it’s a privilege to wake up to poems from him in my inbox, knowing I’m the first person to read them. Hoping to release some of the fruits of our endeavour by Easter.
November 30, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Excited to be working with Brian Patten again, 25 years after our last collaboration. He was a hero of mine as a young man, and it’s a privilege to wake up to poems from him in my inbox, knowing I’m the first person to read them. Hoping to release some of the fruits of our endeavour by Easter.
Out now for preorder. Foreword by yours truly (which you can read for free in the preview extract ). www.routledge.com/Music-and-So...
Music and Sound in European Theatre: Practices, Performances, Perspectives
The need for a research volume on European theatre music and sound is almost self-evident.
Musical and sonic practices have been an integral part of theatre ever since the artform was first establishe...
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November 26, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Out now for preorder. Foreword by yours truly (which you can read for free in the preview extract ). www.routledge.com/Music-and-So...
The root causes of systemic problems are often technical and their solutions quite boring.
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Rip it up and start again
Too centralised, too short term, too obsessed with Twitter, our political system is a dysfunctional mess. If we don’t fix it, we’ll all suffer
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November 17, 2024 at 1:13 PM
The root causes of systemic problems are often technical and their solutions quite boring.
app.theneweuropean.co.uk/2024/11/17/r...
app.theneweuropean.co.uk/2024/11/17/r...
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This is such a good list
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November 16, 2024 at 7:29 AM
This is such a good list
My music bots indicate that three of you still haven’t listened to Memory Foam yet. I’m not going to name and shame you at this stage but you know who you are. Now available on all your platforms. Even my wife says she likes it and she normally hates my stuff rossbrown.bandcamp.com/album/memory...
April 13, 2024 at 11:12 AM
My music bots indicate that three of you still haven’t listened to Memory Foam yet. I’m not going to name and shame you at this stage but you know who you are. Now available on all your platforms. Even my wife says she likes it and she normally hates my stuff rossbrown.bandcamp.com/album/memory...