Sam Nichols
@samnichols.bsky.social
teacher, composer, guitarist, electronic musician... husband, father, friend to certain animals
No Kings in Davis CA
October 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
No Kings in Davis CA
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Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!
Resonance | University of California Press
online.ucpress.edu
August 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!
Gauguin Vargas *Vauhini Vara’s! “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age” is amazing and highly recommended by one person you know (or are at least connected to)
April 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Gauguin Vargas *Vauhini Vara’s! “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age” is amazing and highly recommended by one person you know (or are at least connected to)
Did Adrien Brody just back up to throw his gum to his wife? Did she just try to catch it? What is happening
March 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Did Adrien Brody just back up to throw his gum to his wife? Did she just try to catch it? What is happening
Composers, come work with Ensemble Dal Niente and the Empyrean Ensemble, and have a new piece premiered. No fees or restrictions. Please spread the word and make sure people have a chance to consider applying. We're accepting applications until April 15, 2025.
arts.ucdavis.edu/taproot
arts.ucdavis.edu/taproot
Taproot New Music Festival - Music
November 6–9, 2025
arts.ucdavis.edu
February 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Composers, come work with Ensemble Dal Niente and the Empyrean Ensemble, and have a new piece premiered. No fees or restrictions. Please spread the word and make sure people have a chance to consider applying. We're accepting applications until April 15, 2025.
arts.ucdavis.edu/taproot
arts.ucdavis.edu/taproot
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A teenager water skiing as Mount St. Helens erupts in the background (May 18, 1980).
February 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A teenager water skiing as Mount St. Helens erupts in the background (May 18, 1980).
@chaujkelly.bsky.social @lauriesanmartin.bsky.social and I were at Dunloe’s which used to be B & L and look what LSM spotted:
February 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
@chaujkelly.bsky.social @lauriesanmartin.bsky.social and I were at Dunloe’s which used to be B & L and look what LSM spotted:
Bryndan learned how to solder today
February 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Bryndan learned how to solder today
The eagle has landed.
February 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The eagle has landed.
Lynx putting together a project in the Sound Lab.
February 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Lynx putting together a project in the Sound Lab.
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The national news is making my head spin. But I’m so grateful for moments with outstanding people and musicians. Come hear the orange Road String Quartet at Pitzer center thurs, 1/23 @12noon and fri, 1/24 @5PM. Both concerts are free.
January 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The national news is making my head spin. But I’m so grateful for moments with outstanding people and musicians. Come hear the orange Road String Quartet at Pitzer center thurs, 1/23 @12noon and fri, 1/24 @5PM. Both concerts are free.
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"It has been said that climate change looks like the dissemination of ever more alarming amateur footage until, someday, you’re the one making the footage." Teju Cole @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
A City on Fire Can’t Be Photographed
The images of a burning Los Angeles won’t last, simply because our ways of seeing are inadequate to our predicament.
www.newyorker.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"It has been said that climate change looks like the dissemination of ever more alarming amateur footage until, someday, you’re the one making the footage." Teju Cole @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
@lauriesanmartin.bsky.social w Gabriel Duarte DaSilva at the Artzenter reading at Herbst on Friday
January 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
@lauriesanmartin.bsky.social w Gabriel Duarte DaSilva at the Artzenter reading at Herbst on Friday
Was headed to meeting at the library the other day and came across these
January 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Was headed to meeting at the library the other day and came across these
Documenting the birthday cake she baked
January 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Documenting the birthday cake she baked
