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Richard Birkin
@rjbirkin.bsky.social
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I write music and make things.

At present:
Design in Innovation Ecosystem at Innovate UK / Soft solo music / Loud guitar and shouting in Crash of Rhinos / a music royalties startup called TrackShift

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Best work to date from @rivalconsoles.bsky.social I reckon. Especially this track.

tidal.com/track/401800...
Rival Consoles - Gaivotas
Listen to Gaivotas on your streaming service
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December 4, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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One of the most stunning solo piano pieces ever:
open.spotify.com/track/17bTg4...

from the new album 'Distant Landscapes' by Rikuto Fujimoto, out now on 130701/FatCat Records

#piano #newmusic
Leaving Afar, Into The Blue
Rikuto Fujimoto · Distant Landscapes · Song · 2024
open.spotify.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 15
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#booksky
#books
November 30, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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Having a walk-think this morning and realised that my main employment is the side hustle because the main hustle (music, for me) is a thing whose value is not inherently monetary, and to prioritise growing its monetary value would require comprises in areas of life whose quality is the value.
November 29, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 14
💙📚
#booksky
#books
November 29, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13
💙📚
#booksky
#books
November 28, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 12
💙📚
#booksky
#books
November 27, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11
💙📚
#booksky
#books
A paperback copy of William’s Wife by Gertrude Trevelyan
November 26, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10
💙📚
#booksky
#books
A paperback copy of The Tree of Man by Patrick White
November 25, 2024 at 8:47 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9
💙📚
#booksky
#books
A well thumbed paperback of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace placed on a white surface.
November 24, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8
💙📚
#booksky
#books
A photo of a paperback book on a floral bed spread. The book is Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami and the cover depicts the corner of two faces that appear to be the mirror image of each other
November 23, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7
💙📚
#booksky
#books
A hardback copy of The Offing by Benjamin Myers on a white background
November 22, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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At least once a month I wish that they’d make more episodes of Zen starring Rufus Sewell as Aurelio Zen…the Bergerac of Rome.
November 21, 2024 at 8:32 PM
rjbirkin.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6
💙📚
#booksky
#books
A paperback book on a piano. The book is The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers and shows a cowboy type man looking away to the right with his hands in his pockets
November 21, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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I want to beatifically levitate above the city while a PA System plays Johann Johannsson’s ‘Fordlandia’ and anyone who hears it begins to beatifically levitate until we’re all there just floating and bathing in sound and light
November 21, 2024 at 9:51 AM
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In a somewhat definitive happy place listening to Squarepusher far far too loudly
November 20, 2024 at 12:30 PM
rjbirkin.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 5
💙📚
#booksky
#books
A hardback book on a wooden floor. The book is Census by Jesse Ball
November 20, 2024 at 9:13 AM
rjbirkin.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 4
💙📚
#booksky
#books
A paperback novel on a wooden floor. The novel is This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan
November 19, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 3
💙📚
#booksky
#books
A picture of a worn paperback copy of The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
November 19, 2024 at 9:06 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 2
💙📚
#booksky
#books
November 17, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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Anyone in London want to go and see Michael Palin at King's Place tomorrow? I have two seated tickets and can't make it anymore. Will sell at face value or less. Tickets sold out aaaaaaages ago. #michaelpalin #guardianlive
November 17, 2024 at 9:53 AM
rjbirkin.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 1
💙📚
#booksky
#books
A paperback book on a wooden floor. The cover of the book shows a boy staring intensely. There is no title shown but the book is The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson
November 16, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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Rediscovering the simple pleasure of microblogging.
November 16, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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Milestone Marker: 32 weeks of no booze
November 16, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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This afternoon I sat and listened to the first Drive Like Jehu record and read some of Sandra Newman’s ‘Julia’ and felt content, just for a moment, to be here in this tiny blip on the map of Deep Time.
November 16, 2024 at 4:40 PM