Norm Skipp
@normanskipp.bsky.social
composer/sonic artist & video artist who creates innovative sound and visual compositions in collaboration with a diverse range of artists
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
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My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
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November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
This is such a wonderful book. Have read it over and over with my kids
The Sound of Silence – an illustrated serenade to the art of listening to your inner voice amid the noise of modern life www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/08/t...
The Sound of Silence: An Illustrated Serenade to the Art of Listening to Your Inner Voice Amid the Noise of Modern Life
A tender reminder that silence is not the absence of sound but the presence of an inward-listening awareness.
www.themarginalian.org
September 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is such a wonderful book. Have read it over and over with my kids
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Amazing to hear my work tracking Trump's authoritarian actions opening the @npr.org On The Media podcast this week - the TrumpActionTracker is now at over 1100 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
my recent substack:
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www.trumpactiontracker.info?
my recent substack:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi...
pca.st/episode/a2b1...
Is America Becoming an Autocracy?
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August 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Amazing to hear my work tracking Trump's authoritarian actions opening the @npr.org On The Media podcast this week - the TrumpActionTracker is now at over 1100 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
my recent substack:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi...
pca.st/episode/a2b1...
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
my recent substack:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi...
pca.st/episode/a2b1...
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The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.
August 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.
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"With full MMR vaccination rates across the UK down to around 85% and even lower in some cities, we are falling well short of the critical immunisation threshold which would allow us to protect the most vulnerable in society from measles"
@kityates.bsky.social
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@kityates.bsky.social
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July 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM
"With full MMR vaccination rates across the UK down to around 85% and even lower in some cities, we are falling well short of the critical immunisation threshold which would allow us to protect the most vulnerable in society from measles"
@kityates.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
@kityates.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Happy 10 years to this performance of ...tiny lights... (with Vonnegut Collective - live at Siemens 25th June 2015) by Norman Skipp on #SoundCloud
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...tiny lights... (with Vonnegut Collective - live at Siemens 25th June 2015)
Trumpet - Gary Farr
Violin - Gemma South
Bass and E flat Clarinet - Marianne Rawles
Electronics - Norm Skipp
A newly commissioned work with the Vonnegut Collective as part of the Didsbury Arts Festiv
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June 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Happy 10 years to this performance of ...tiny lights... (with Vonnegut Collective - live at Siemens 25th June 2015) by Norman Skipp on #SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/wVZnZAHgZWrI...
on.soundcloud.com/wVZnZAHgZWrI...
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SUCH a beautiful piece of writing from @johnharris1969.bsky.social - manages to simultaneously honour the unique genius of Brian Wilson while also gently making the most civilised-possible argument for society to better understand the fragile necessity of neurodiversity in making a beautiful world.
Latest Maybe I'm Amazed Substack from me: on neurodiversity, creativity, genius & Brian Wilson. It's free, as are subscriptions
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Neurodiversity, creativity and genius: on Brian Wilson
He was hyper-sensitised to sound and able to write modern symphonies; he also found social etiquette and self-promotion impossible. Many people will recognise that cognitive style
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June 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
SUCH a beautiful piece of writing from @johnharris1969.bsky.social - manages to simultaneously honour the unique genius of Brian Wilson while also gently making the most civilised-possible argument for society to better understand the fragile necessity of neurodiversity in making a beautiful world.
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Susumu Yokota - Skintone Edition Vol. 1
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Skintone Edition commemorates the talent of this music pioneer with the re-release of all 14 of his Skintone albums. The first volume coincides with the 10th anniversary of Yokota’s untimely death and the 30th year of Lo Recordings.
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Skintone Edition commemorates the talent of this music pioneer with the re-release of all 14 of his Skintone albums. The first volume coincides with the 10th anniversary of Yokota’s untimely death and the 30th year of Lo Recordings.
June 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Susumu Yokota - Skintone Edition Vol. 1
bleep.com/release/514159
Skintone Edition commemorates the talent of this music pioneer with the re-release of all 14 of his Skintone albums. The first volume coincides with the 10th anniversary of Yokota’s untimely death and the 30th year of Lo Recordings.
bleep.com/release/514159
Skintone Edition commemorates the talent of this music pioneer with the re-release of all 14 of his Skintone albums. The first volume coincides with the 10th anniversary of Yokota’s untimely death and the 30th year of Lo Recordings.
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"[Bill Drummond] phoned up Jimmy Cauty with an offer he couldn’t refuse: to start a hip hop band called The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, that would finish off the job punk started and take down the whole illuminati-controlled music industry once and for all."
The Strange World Of… The KLF:
The Strange World Of… The KLF:
Embrace The Contradictions: The Strange World Of... The KLF | The Quietus
November 23, 1976: Ken Campbell’s Illuminatus! When a young Scotsman named Bill Drummond arrived in Liverpool in the early seventies to complete his art school education, the city was overflowing with eccentric, creative characters, visionaries and dreamers. Perhaps the most influential of these was the beat poet and former merchant seaman Peter O’Halligan, who Drummond […]
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April 22, 2025 at 5:45 AM
"[Bill Drummond] phoned up Jimmy Cauty with an offer he couldn’t refuse: to start a hip hop band called The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, that would finish off the job punk started and take down the whole illuminati-controlled music industry once and for all."
The Strange World Of… The KLF:
The Strange World Of… The KLF:
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Labour are circulating a leaflet bragging that they’ve delivered “the four biggest deportation flights in UK history”.
Their approach of trying to out-Farage the Reform party is sickening and only results in more unnecessary suffering.
What we need is safe, legal routes.
Their approach of trying to out-Farage the Reform party is sickening and only results in more unnecessary suffering.
What we need is safe, legal routes.
April 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Labour are circulating a leaflet bragging that they’ve delivered “the four biggest deportation flights in UK history”.
Their approach of trying to out-Farage the Reform party is sickening and only results in more unnecessary suffering.
What we need is safe, legal routes.
Their approach of trying to out-Farage the Reform party is sickening and only results in more unnecessary suffering.
What we need is safe, legal routes.
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Infliuential Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (1967) #Womensart
April 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Infliuential Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (1967) #Womensart
Vibrant cherry blossom on a glorious spring day in Manchester
April 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Vibrant cherry blossom on a glorious spring day in Manchester
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In Silence (2009), by Japanese installation artist Chiharu Shiota #womensart
March 29, 2025 at 6:53 AM
In Silence (2009), by Japanese installation artist Chiharu Shiota #womensart
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"Depending on the moment, the mood, and the mode, a Coil record could sound like a power drill demonstration, a satanic cult’s dance-club field trip, or Brian Eno propping up his synth with a copy of the Necronomicon."
Dark Dreams and Bright Nightmares — The Mortal’s Guide to Coil:
Dark Dreams and Bright Nightmares — The Mortal’s Guide to Coil:
Dark Dreams and Bright Nightmares: The Mortal’s Guide to Coil
Where to begin with one of the most sinister, subversive bands in the history of heavy music.
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March 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"Depending on the moment, the mood, and the mode, a Coil record could sound like a power drill demonstration, a satanic cult’s dance-club field trip, or Brian Eno propping up his synth with a copy of the Necronomicon."
Dark Dreams and Bright Nightmares — The Mortal’s Guide to Coil:
Dark Dreams and Bright Nightmares — The Mortal’s Guide to Coil:
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Obsidian and the birds — an odyssey in wonder from the Aztecs to the quantum world
Obsidian and the Birds: An Odyssey of Wonder from the Aztecs to the Quantum World
A recent visit to Teotihuacán — the ancient Mesoamerican city in present-day Mexico, built by earlier cultures around 600 BCE and later rediscovered by the Aztecs — left me wonder-smitt…
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March 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Obsidian and the birds — an odyssey in wonder from the Aztecs to the quantum world
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Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin sculpture, Naoshima Island, Shikoku. Her reoccurring pumpkin motif is a form of alter ego or self-portrait #womensart
March 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin sculpture, Naoshima Island, Shikoku. Her reoccurring pumpkin motif is a form of alter ego or self-portrait #womensart
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women have worked so hard and for free for decades to improve life for so many, if you think it is unfair, how the patriarchy is ruining the planet, maybe participate in something for women's day and show your pov #iwd25
#Oulu listening. sound & words exploring
International women´s day
Sat 8.3 at 16-18
Listening to and exploring sounds with sound artist AGF
Refugees of all backgrounds and ages are welcome, for free, International Women´s day in the Refugee reception centre in Heikinharju.
#collectivelistening
International women´s day
Sat 8.3 at 16-18
Listening to and exploring sounds with sound artist AGF
Refugees of all backgrounds and ages are welcome, for free, International Women´s day in the Refugee reception centre in Heikinharju.
#collectivelistening
February 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
women have worked so hard and for free for decades to improve life for so many, if you think it is unfair, how the patriarchy is ruining the planet, maybe participate in something for women's day and show your pov #iwd25
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From Xenakis’s UPIC to Graphic Notation Today
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January 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
From Xenakis’s UPIC to Graphic Notation Today
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