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Composer/performer writer/researcher | Contemporary music; jazz-grunge math-song; noise, speech, & poetry | Ivors nominee (2016) | Accidental photographer...
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Lovely to meet you new followers! I’m Sorana 👋 Music obsessive/collector/nerd, synesthete (sound-colour) & contrarian (!) Work more behind the scenes commercially atm but’ll release my music again soon. Teach a bit. Laugh a LOT. Love all the stuff in my emoji list ⬆️ Felt cute, might delete later.
Sign the to stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at Nottingham Uni.

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Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
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November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A non-musician friend thought I'd gone to a fancy dress Halloween party. The evidence? The 'costume' I posted on social media ⬇️

Is this what non-musicians think we look like?
#MusicSKy #MusicianSky #Musicians
Phew! Managed to procure tomorrow’s outfit just in time for my annual game of ‘Hipster or Halloween’ on the Hipster Highway (Windrush Line) tomorrow.

Happy Halloween #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Musicians!

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November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I also have a pop-classical crossover for kids called ‘In C wincy Quincy Jones’.

#MusicSky #MusicianSky #Composers
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Music & modern languages courses proposed for closure & suspended from 10th Nov at Nottingham Uni.

#HESky #Music

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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On my dog walk I often chat with right wingers. I pretend I am an ex-Reform voter put off by the utter fuck up of our county council. Then they see me as one of their own, don't get defensive and shouty, and start to question their own opinion of Reform. Honey, not vinegar.
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I have a pop/classical crossover: Tina Turnage.

#MusicSky #MusicianSky #Composers
A grunge/High Renaissance mash up band, Tallis in Chains
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
… & sometimes just one word. I’m calling this one ‘Hope’.

#Photo #PhotoSky #Photos
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This is so true. When I started making photo-poems not only did the pictures find me, the words did too.

I had no idea my creative life would ever take that turn…
"You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU."

-Lee Friedlander
November 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This looks like it'll be an interesting read. Released Feb '26: How the Album Outplayed the Algorithm and Survived Playlist Culture.

I stuck with albums as I love seeing artists explore themes & sound palettes. Why did you stick with them?

#MusicSky
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813195...
Body of Work by Keith Jopling: 9781917516334 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An alternative history of the album, focussing on the format’s turbulent life through the digital music era since 1999 through to today, Body of Work explores why we should still bother to listen...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Happy Halloween from our nations capital where a dozen inflatables are doing the Macarena outside Fox News studios
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Phew! Managed to procure tomorrow’s outfit just in time for my annual game of ‘Hipster or Halloween’ on the Hipster Highway (Windrush Line) tomorrow.

Happy Halloween #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Musicians!

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October 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
🎶 Pass the Duchy to the left hand side…
BREAKING: Prince Andrew is to lose his "prince" title and leave his Windsor mansion, Royal Lodge

Buckingham Palace says the King "has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
Andrew stripped of Prince title and will move out of Royal Lodge
He will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor - Buckingham Palace says
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Phew! Managed to procure tomorrow’s outfit just in time for my annual game of ‘Hipster or Halloween’ on the Hipster Highway (Windrush Line) tomorrow.

Happy Halloween #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Musicians!

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October 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
SO many straight men have ‘befriended’ me on Stand in Pride recently (it matches LGBTQ+ people with stand-in family for support). Their determination to make every thing about ‘conquests’ & infiltrating queer space is genuinely as remarkable as it is exhausting.
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Happy Hallowe’en! #UKHE
October 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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A reminder that the UK’s ban on LGBT people serving in the armed forces was only lifted after a judgment from the European Court of Human Rights.

🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via www.bbcnews.com

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #Article8 #PrivateLife #MeddlingForeignCourt #CreditWhereItsDue
King unveils new memorial to LGBT veterans after gay ban campaign
A memorial is unveiled dedicated to gay military personnel and to those who served during the armed forces gay ban.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:09 AM
RIP Jack DeJohnette. I think we can call that a life well lived - what a contribution to music.

I have to post this concert as I was there... & so it has a special place in my heart.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lupa...

#MusicSky #Jazz #JazzSky #MusicianSky
Keith Jarrett Trio | Orchestra Hall, Chicago, USA - 1999.11.19 | [audio only]
YouTube video by HardToFindThisMusic
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October 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Music conservatoire outreach departments.

#MusicSky
October 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I don’t have a telly, or any subscriptions to anything, but I’ll be beating my friends’ doors down to watch this on November 14th. (I wish I could just buy it, bring it home, & keep it though.)

#AndreaGibson #WriterSky #ComeSeeMeInTheGoodLight
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Last summer day here, exactly a month ago.

#photo #photos #photosky #light #londonsummer #summer #remembersummer?
October 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
What do you mean I have to sit in the dark for three months & January is one of them? Make it make sense.
Without sounding like a ‘why isn’t there an international men’s day’ reply guy: why can’t the clocks go forward?

With bad news all at once, all the time, how much harm would this’ve done? Can we not have just one nice thing? Or must we be as inseparable from misery as Oasis & a pentatonic scale?
October 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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The reform party nativity scene.

No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.

And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
October 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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FFS, just seen an advert on TV for some dogshit ai colouring books. They can afford TV adverts but not to pay artists.
October 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Without sounding like a ‘why isn’t there an international men’s day’ reply guy: why can’t the clocks go forward?

With bad news all at once, all the time, how much harm would this’ve done? Can we not have just one nice thing? Or must we be as inseparable from misery as Oasis & a pentatonic scale?
October 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Asking a straight couple “So which one of you is the guy from autechre and which one is the other guy from autechre?”
October 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM