Will Schrimshaw

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Ellie Colton at Breakfast - 20/02/2026 - BBC Sounds Wake up with a smile with Ellie and everything you need to know in South Yorkshire.

Here you go: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Squeezing Cabaret Voltaire, La Monte Young, The Black Dog, R. Murray Schafer and the No Bounds festival into breakfast radio from 1:23:00

An article I wrote about electronic music in the home has just been published by Organised Sound

Ambient Machines: synthesis in the domestic sphere www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Was just interviewed for the BBC Radio Sheffield breakfast show about the sound of my local co-op's fridges.

"Tomorrow, let's not use our thumbs and live like foxes" (overheard at the kids' half-term sleepover).

South Yorkshire's Tone of Prime Unity

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‘Like an electrical gong bath!’ The Sheffield supermarket going viral for the symphonic sound of its freezers Redditors are thrilled by the Co-op on Ecclesall Road, where a magnificent drone is reminiscent of Brian Eno’s ambient music. We take a visit to the back aisles

Eccy Road freezer music in the guardian: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

#sheffield

... and having Jim Phillips dig out gig posters made for Strange and Buchla

And finding Jason Lim walking his dog through Pollockshields while on the way to interview him.

The first output from this project is soon to be published with Organised Sound, the manuscript is available here:

Ambient Machines: Synthesis in the Domestic Sphere
eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/23...

Highlights also include the Ballardian vibe of navigating the Leeds ring road on foot with Chris Haworth on the way to an Autechre gig.

Looking back over interviews is accompanied by the imaginary sound of thousands of pennies dropping and pieces falling into place.

Today is the last day of research leave working on the Composing (with) Systems project. I'm spending it tidying up transcripts and being amazed by the wonderful people I've spoken to and how generous they've been with their thoughts and time.

Grindleford Gallop - Saturday 14th March 2026 Covering approximately 21 miles/35 km and 3000ft/850m of ascent the course takes in the villages of Grindleford, Froggatt, Eyam, Great Longstone, Edensor and Baslow linking them together with paths, t...

I'm on the lookout for a nice long summer run through the wilderness actually. The local one I had in mind has taken a fallow year. Currently hoping for cancellations so I can squeeze into the Grindleford Gallop: www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?ev...

Do you follow a structured plan preparing for that distance, or just run lots?

A friend of mine did this, think he came 14th, looked wild.

Does Spring Hide Its Joy v1, by Kali Malone (featuring Stephen O’Malley & Lucy Railton) from the album Does Spring Hide Its Joy

Really enjoying Does Spring Hide Its Joy + the hum of the dehumidifier this afternoon.

kalimalone.bandcamp.com/track/does-s...

Congratulations Pete, great to see this in print.

Surprisingly the Leeds Autechre gig was a bit of a retrospective.

Sound Junction - Stephen Carley / Lou Barnell - Performance Venues Lou Barnell is an award-winning vocalist, sound and performance artist. These performances are part of Sound Junction.

Really excited about this month's Sound Junction concert featuring the music of some amazing recent graduates as well as @loubarnell.bsky.social, Jake Parry / Unperson and Stephen Carley. A great all-sheffield lineup.

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A road curving to the left, moorland to it's right, a yellow-orange sunset straight ahead.

Rode into the sunset last night, first ride in the dark for a while, felt like returning to an old haunt, like the darkness was a place.

The childminder's doorbell doesn't work because of the AWS outages 💩

Hearing Occam I nestled among six others felt like being led slowly to the kernel, a really enlightening way to hear this work.

Occam XXV was beautiful, I felt like a guild navigator preparing to fold space.

Deep empathy.

SOUNDS OF NOW: ÉLIANE RADIGUE FOR HARP, VIOLIN & DOUBLE BASS SOUNDS OF NOW: ÉLIANE RADIGUE FOR HARP, VIOLIN & DOUBLE BASS - Music in the Round %

It's Éliane Radigue weekend in Sheffield thanks to @musicintheround.bsky.social

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In the latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, journalist @reveleth.com joins @alexhanna.bsky.social & @emilymbender.bsky.social to talk about how tech bosses love science fiction novels, but can't seem to understand them!

Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

"Yes! What a pleasure to play and be part of a dynamic musical cybernetic process! To explore catastrophy hyper-surfaces in the relative safety and comfort of involvement with one's friends and neighbors" (Bischoff et al. 1978: 28).

Finding the balance between high connectivity and hierarchy is an ongoing challenge in working with these systems.

I think the article also makes an odd argument in that thinking often happens in the practice of note taking, they're not necessarily separate things.

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post Human Landscape, a nonfiction book by Cal Flyn — Cal Flyn, author and journalist Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn is a nonfiction book about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places: how nature reclaims the landscapes left behind, and how they make us feel.

Good soundtrack for this: www.calflyn.com/nonfiction-b...