Stephen Chase
@stephenchase.bsky.social
musicking, wandering, occasional mumbling https://linktr.ee/stephenchasesound
(Also part of @nairnbooks.bsky.social)
(Also part of @nairnbooks.bsky.social)
Felt absolutely tip-top afterwards!
October 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Felt absolutely tip-top afterwards!
Today began with James Weeks' Blue Hours conjuring blues and wooze on the cusp of alpha and beta waves, welcoming in GMT with a fantastically poised performance from GBSR Duo at Sound Festival Aberdeen. And the spinning and waves continued at Fraserburgh lighthouse museum...
October 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Today began with James Weeks' Blue Hours conjuring blues and wooze on the cusp of alpha and beta waves, welcoming in GMT with a fantastically poised performance from GBSR Duo at Sound Festival Aberdeen. And the spinning and waves continued at Fraserburgh lighthouse museum...
A swift jaunt to Sheffield catching up with a bunch of excellent people (including, at last again, the inimitable indomitable @philipthomas.bsky.social ) and amazing sounds from #FredericBlondy #AngharadDavies #RhodriDavies & #DominicLash
October 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A swift jaunt to Sheffield catching up with a bunch of excellent people (including, at last again, the inimitable indomitable @philipthomas.bsky.social ) and amazing sounds from #FredericBlondy #AngharadDavies #RhodriDavies & #DominicLash
Crikey! a deceptively slim volume but plenty to get stuck into...
#LeafePress #LindaKemp www.leafepress.org
#LeafePress #LindaKemp www.leafepress.org
October 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Crikey! a deceptively slim volume but plenty to get stuck into...
#LeafePress #LindaKemp www.leafepress.org
#LeafePress #LindaKemp www.leafepress.org
![handwritten text score sketch:
'somewhere further you can go'
[percussionist and pianist parts presented parallel to each other]
"percussionist:
2 items that produce rich, resonant inharmonic sounds
***
play one item over and over for a long time, aiming for a consistent repeatable sound
~ pause ~
play the other item over and over for a long time, aiming for a consistent repeatable sound
~ pause ~
play one of the items again over and over for a long time, transforming/merging gradually into the other item until the first item has disappeared
***
***
pianist:
The available resources of your instrument (can include inside/outside piano and preparations)
***
match/merge with the sounds you hear as closely as you can
~ pause ~
match/merge with the sounds you hear as closely as you can
~ pause ~
find sound that causes the percussionist's sound to be heard to be in friction/in tune with itself
(for LMY at 90, October 2025)
(“Even while laying down the rigorous mechanical laws that determine every event, he feels the need to allow atoms to make unpredictable deviations from the straight line, thereby ensuring freedom both to atoms and to human beings.”)"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nccxd43pxkdc5sn32e6o3y3c/bafkreihcu2p3es7e74rp4awu6wmgtaftm5bqet7fkd4rgcez4fs4oks4a4@jpeg)
It's Ernst Jandl's 100th anniversary this year and I'm edging slowly and surely (surely!) ever closer to completing Jandl Songs, started in 2007...
October 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's Ernst Jandl's 100th anniversary this year and I'm edging slowly and surely (surely!) ever closer to completing Jandl Songs, started in 2007...
This is some fine sounds
September 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This is some fine sounds
Think yourself lucky, some people have to burn their premature antifa cards
September 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Think yourself lucky, some people have to burn their premature antifa cards
Improvisers, composers and their slippers, 1/53
August 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Improvisers, composers and their slippers, 1/53
Cor, what a scorcher! @leochadburn.bsky.social new thing Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator
Sounding pretty great.
Sounding pretty great.
August 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Cor, what a scorcher! @leochadburn.bsky.social new thing Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator
Sounding pretty great.
Sounding pretty great.
Headspinning start to the day with this great new collection from #exaudi #winterandwintermusic
July 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Headspinning start to the day with this great new collection from #exaudi #winterandwintermusic