Tim Richardson
@timorichardson.bsky.social
academic, sound studies enthusiast, whatever
In our sound course today we performed much of Paragraph 7 of Cardew's "The Great Learning." I didn't record; it was just for us. And it was at times goofy and occasionally seriously lovely.
NMNC—Cardew's The Great Learning
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October 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
In our sound course today we performed much of Paragraph 7 of Cardew's "The Great Learning." I didn't record; it was just for us. And it was at times goofy and occasionally seriously lovely.
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When I was working at a Hastings Records in 1987 or 88, an old guy came in looking for Zamfir records. I took him to the correct bin, and he pulled out an album, gazed at it admiringly, and said, “You know, a lot of people play the pan flute, but he’s the MASTER.”
October 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
When I was working at a Hastings Records in 1987 or 88, an old guy came in looking for Zamfir records. I took him to the correct bin, and he pulled out an album, gazed at it admiringly, and said, “You know, a lot of people play the pan flute, but he’s the MASTER.”
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Thanks to American Campus, the podcast about the history of higher education, for featuring my book. We talk about how NPR and PBS emerged from equal access to education discourses. And how Media Studies originated as a strategy of public media activism.
How universities created NPR and PBS with Josh Shepperd - American Campus Podcast
How public universities gave rise to public mediaReferences and suggested readings:Josh Shepperd. 2023. Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting. University of Illinois Press.Laura G...
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October 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Thanks to American Campus, the podcast about the history of higher education, for featuring my book. We talk about how NPR and PBS emerged from equal access to education discourses. And how Media Studies originated as a strategy of public media activism.
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Great piece by William Robin - I especially love the John Adams quote "...it was also marvelously provocative, giving an R. Crumb middle finger to the crabbed, pedantic world of academic modernism.”
How Terry Riley’s “In C” became a generation-defining crossover hit, marking the major-label arrival of a pulse-based musical revolution—now known as minimalism.
When the Man Tried to Sell Minimalism to the Counterculture
Columbia Records saw Terry Riley’s “In C,” now rereleased for his ninetieth birthday, as a perfect anthem for the psychedelic Zeitgeist, but the mainstream couldn’t contain the composer’s utopian ener...
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August 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Great piece by William Robin - I especially love the John Adams quote "...it was also marvelously provocative, giving an R. Crumb middle finger to the crabbed, pedantic world of academic modernism.”
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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
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August 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Welp, it’s really gonna happen. The Big Cats (my band) are releasing an album next month.
Tell Me Where to Go by The Big Cats
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August 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Welp, it’s really gonna happen. The Big Cats (my band) are releasing an album next month.
It IS great
Turns out there’s a movie adaptation of LAST AND FIRST MEN?
Narrated by Tilda Swinton??
It covers the final sequence about the 18th men (on Neptune in two billion years) and is spoken word over moody panning shots of brutalist war memorials in the former Yugoslavia
Is great.
youtu.be/f-lBSl4MqWY
Narrated by Tilda Swinton??
It covers the final sequence about the 18th men (on Neptune in two billion years) and is spoken word over moody panning shots of brutalist war memorials in the former Yugoslavia
Is great.
youtu.be/f-lBSl4MqWY
Jóhann Jóhannsson's LAST AND FIRST MEN [Official Trailer]
YouTube video by Metrograph
youtu.be
August 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
It IS great
ChatGPT tells me that Voltaire said “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude,” and it occurs to me that the promise of agential ai is that it gets rid of both.
August 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
ChatGPT tells me that Voltaire said “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude,” and it occurs to me that the promise of agential ai is that it gets rid of both.
morning patch to get gathered
(long version here: youtu.be/a7SIr4De6CU?... )
(long version here: youtu.be/a7SIr4De6CU?... )
August 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
morning patch to get gathered
(long version here: youtu.be/a7SIr4De6CU?... )
(long version here: youtu.be/a7SIr4De6CU?... )
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AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make 120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.
August 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make 120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.
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For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
August 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
Took a few days off and this happened. Now time to pull the patch and it’s back to work tomorrow. Full thing here youtu.be/kKE4MYNaHMc?...
August 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Took a few days off and this happened. Now time to pull the patch and it’s back to work tomorrow. Full thing here youtu.be/kKE4MYNaHMc?...
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I gave an in-depth interview with my hometown Chicago Tribune about what’s going to happen to NPR and PBS, and how cutting public media is part of a broader anti-democratic ideological project.
Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?
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August 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I gave an in-depth interview with my hometown Chicago Tribune about what’s going to happen to NPR and PBS, and how cutting public media is part of a broader anti-democratic ideological project.
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Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
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I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
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Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?
www.chicagotribune.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
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I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
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few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history
Now do the Department of Defense budget, Andrew.
“Washington has thrown billions at NIH for decades with little accountability and few measurable outcomes,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a statement to Future Pulse.
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“Washington has thrown billions at NIH for decades with little accountability and few measurable outcomes,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a statement to Future Pulse.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
NIH spending battle’s ripple effect
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July 29, 2025 at 3:26 AM
few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history
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The fallacye that "higher ed degree must leade to a job wyth same name" ys deeplye harmful to present-daye societye. A philosophye major kan do businesse just as well as a businesse major. Yn some wayes perhaps even bettir. Thys fallacye ys useful onlye to those who seeke to kill higher ed.
July 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The fallacye that "higher ed degree must leade to a job wyth same name" ys deeplye harmful to present-daye societye. A philosophye major kan do businesse just as well as a businesse major. Yn some wayes perhaps even bettir. Thys fallacye ys useful onlye to those who seeke to kill higher ed.
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Allow me to just say that if you were able to accumulate a billion dollars, then business is, in fact, easy there.
Burger billionaire Lynsi Snyder is saying goodbye to the West Coast.
'Business is not easy here': In-N-Out's owner is leaving California
Burger billionaire Lynsi Snyder is saying goodbye to the West Coast.
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July 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Allow me to just say that if you were able to accumulate a billion dollars, then business is, in fact, easy there.
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What will defunding NPR, PBS, and public media affiliates mean for democratic media, and how will the rescission bill affect First Nations communications? I wrote a concise analysis with Allison Perlman (UC-Irvine).
Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism
Public broadcasting has long been a target of conservative Republicans.
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July 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
What will defunding NPR, PBS, and public media affiliates mean for democratic media, and how will the rescission bill affect First Nations communications? I wrote a concise analysis with Allison Perlman (UC-Irvine).
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I'd like my first-year students to spend time exploring how the act of reading words compares to engaging with other forms of content (audio, video, etc.). Do you have any favorite readings / content / activities on that topic that you've used in class?
July 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I'd like my first-year students to spend time exploring how the act of reading words compares to engaging with other forms of content (audio, video, etc.). Do you have any favorite readings / content / activities on that topic that you've used in class?
"The trouble with all this junk is that it lacks purpose. While people have found uses for tools marketed as AI, they are not designed to be purposeful. They show up in our lives through a corporate mandate, and we must expend energy on finding a place where they can fit."
Imitating the future, breaking the present
Tech companies are only pretending to innovate, through copying futuristic aesthetics from science fiction without understanding their purpose.
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July 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"The trouble with all this junk is that it lacks purpose. While people have found uses for tools marketed as AI, they are not designed to be purposeful. They show up in our lives through a corporate mandate, and we must expend energy on finding a place where they can fit."
There are people who will do everything they can to prove to others that they’re not afraid. Those folks scare me.
June 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
There are people who will do everything they can to prove to others that they’re not afraid. Those folks scare me.
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It was such a blast and honour having the opportunity for this exchange with Peter. Big thanks to him and @thequietus.com
Wicked interview here between two faves, @coseyfannitutti.bsky.social and Peter Strickland.
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Peer Review: Peter Strickland Interviews Cosey Fanni Tutti... and Vice Versa | The Quietus
Musician artist Cosey Fanni Tutti interviews film maker Peter Strickland... and vice versa, with no interference from us.
thequietus.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It was such a blast and honour having the opportunity for this exchange with Peter. Big thanks to him and @thequietus.com