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Rob Colling
@skatingmusicguy.bsky.social
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Professional figure skating music editor. He/him. Clients from beginners to Olympians.
"Our music genius" - Carol Lane
"A wizard" - Dream Edges
Go #TeamTSMG!
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"We are an arts directory using AI! See how great AI is! It can make things like this picture, where two men are jointly operating a laptop with one hand each! And one of those hands isn't joined to their body! And the guy in the background has three arms! AI is so great! Join us!" #ummmnothanks
A mailout for an online arts directory called Glartent, featuring an AI-generated picture of three people sitting at a laptop, engaged in a creative task. The woman on the left is holding her phone and looking over it at the laptop screen. She appears to have the correct number of arms and fingers. The man on the right is operating the laptop trackpad with his left hand. His right hand disappears up the shirt of the man in the centre, who is holding his phone in his left hand and operating the laptop's trackpad with his right hand. His hand and wrist do not join up with the rest of his arm, and the fingers on his hand are weirdly distended and look like noodles. On the desk are various pots full of paintbrushes and an antique camera from the early 20th century, mounted on a modern desktop camera stand and apparently in use as a livestream camera. In the background of the shot is a fourth person, a bearded man, who clearly has three arms. He is wearing a grey denim shirt from his chest downwards, and a dark grey-green blazer from his chest upwards. The text surrounding the picture extols the virtues of AI and how it can benefit the reader's arts organisation.
May 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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An appreciation post for my clients Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel. Their current Falco FS was exceptionally hard to create and is equally hard to skate. Rap music is seldom used in pairs because it's so hard to skate to, so 👏 from me for a team who prioritised their artistic vision above all else!
German pair skating team Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel executing a difficult lift at a skating competition. Robert is lifting Annika above his head, his arms at full stretch. Annika is striking a badass pose and grinning from ear to ear. The photographer is Mao Yanzheng.
January 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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I've been too ill to work for 12 of the last 24 weeks, and in between I've been packing for a house move, 500km due south, to Helsinki. It's been a pretty strange time! But I'm in the new place now, unpacking and getting healthy as fast as I can, ready to work on everyone's programs for next season.
The top half of the image depicts me in my nice, orderly recording studio, surrounded by instruments and equipment, with the caption "how it started". The bottom half of the image depicts a big pile of moving boxes and furniture, in a totally disorganised room, with the caption "how it's going".
January 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Shout out to longtime clients Dream Edges for winning 🥇 at the first Finnish synchro qualifiers. Both the music programs I made for them are infernally complicated and hugely ambitious, and I'm thrilled to see the team putting so much heart and soul into them. ⛸️ #figureskating #synchroskating
Four members of Dream Edges, a synchronised skating team from Kaarina in Finland, on an ice rink performing their 2024 free skate. They are wearing flowing blue dresses, they are leaning on each other and linking their arms, and their faces are filled with emotion.
November 7, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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OK, so if you don't know me already from The Other Place this might be a bit of a show-off way to introduce myself. 😂 But congrats to my clients Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier for winning their fifth Canadian GP in a row. I produced their music for all five wins. Having a little celebratory dance rn. 🕺
Canadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, standing on an ice rink immediately after winning gold at the Skate Canada International grand prix. They are still wearing their competition costumes - a flowing gold dress with red and silver crystals for her, a bright red backless suit, shirt and tie for him - and they are draped in a Canadian flag. They are peering at the photographer through their transparent medals, as if the medals were monocles. The photograph is by Danielle Earl.
October 29, 2024 at 8:36 AM