🚨Big day!🚨 My book on Austrian composer Bernhard Lang is now officially out! Get your copy here 👉 https://t.co/OfC0mMWlUf (EU)👈, here👉 https://t.co/PinIq0Jds8 (US)👈 or wherever books are sold! @IntellectBooks @UChicagoPress

I'll be over on Bluesky should anyone need me 👋 https://t.co/UKRNDuy42u

Yes, thanks, I do in fact see the irony of trying to write at 11 p.m. on a Friday night and citing Jonathan Crary's '24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep'. 🤦‍♀️

Coming to a bookshelf near you in late 2025!

📢Judy Lochhead, @PeteEdwa and I just signed a contract with @EdinburghUP for our edited collection 'The Music of Absence: An Aesthetics of Loss in the New Millennium'. The book traces absence as a key theme in 21st-century music + highlights the philosophical potential of sound.

I was working on a conference presentation on music in a time of heightened uncertainty this afternoon and had this meme up on my screen when HR and HoD walked into my office, whoops

Academic hivemind, what's your recommendations for philosophical/theoretical reading on marginalia, footnotes, exegesis and the likes? #academictwitter

First day back on campus today and dressed all in black because I’ve returned equal parts corporate goth, contemporary art stereotype, mournful over my mat leave having ended, and a mum who’s learnt black is less prone to staining 🤓

What amount of swearing in a vocal work is acceptable to include as an audio excerpt in a conference paper? Asking for a friend #musicologytwitter #newmusictwitter

I just got an out-of-office reply that said 'if this is an emergency, please contact 911' and I am so here for it

When I told Lang I would be analysing his ‘Monadologie IX’ as part of my PhD project, he shook his head in deep concern and, after a few moments of silence, quietly said: “My god. Poor you.” 😟 You can read the full analysis here ➡️ https://t.co/pTtq7RYtNy ⬅️ (6/6)

In 2017, I spent some days in Lang's studio in Vienna. When I asked if we could have a look at the software he wrote and uses to compose most of his music, it took him several hours just to get the program running. He casually noted that composing was very time-consuming.⌛️(5/6)

In late 2020, I went to a festival featuring a couple of new Lang premieres. Forced to limit audience capacities due to the pandemic’s social distancing measures then in place, they programmed every concert twice. I sat through all of them — twice. 👯 (4/6)

Now, for the fun part: three ✨core memories✨ from the writing process (3/6)

Before we begin: the book is a deep dive into the work of composer Bernhard Lang. He is obsessed with repetition and calls himself a ‘repeat offender’ (lol). It is the result of 10 years (!) worth of research and is published with @IntellectBooks. https://t.co/gnk2L0ZK6N (2/6)

A little over a year ago, I had 2 babies. One had 10 little fingers and 10 little toes, the other just under 200 pages. As the arrival of the one (👶) eclipsed that of the other (📘) and my mat leave is now ending, I wanted to share some fun memories from the writing process.🧵

You with your fancy Zotero v. me manually inputting every bibliographic reference ever

Again, not exactly the type of aesthetics I'd be good at

Feeling ancient after the ✨ hip and trendy ✨ restaurant that just opened in the neighbourhood served me the bill in a cd case because that’s ✨ retro ✨

Paris Opening Ceremony Features Tedious 45-Minute Discussion Of Godard’s Early Works

Not me who just read through a whole job advertisement for 'lecturer in aesthetics' thinking I should apply just to find out at the end that they were talking about a whole different type of aesthetics 💄💇‍♀️💅