Kate Arnold

Kate Arnold

@dulcimerkate.bsky.social

Musician/Composer/Electro-Medievalist. PhD (Arabic poetry, Old French song). Hammered dulcimer, vielles/viols/violins. Inventor of the phantasmaphone. "Absolutely extraordinary" - BBC R3 https://katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/ https://katearnoldmusic.com/

742 Followers 638 Following 528 Posts Joined Jan 2024
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This is what I'll be doing later.

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Art of the day

Tokuhiro Kawai aka 川井徳寛 aka Kawai Tokuhiro (Japanese, b. 1971, Tokyo, Japan) - From exhibiton Altarpiece of Cat Adoration, Paintings: Oil Tempera, Gold Leaf on Panel

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Had a walk along the prom & met some hells angels.

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getting comfortable with being uncomfortable Good academic writing means sitting with a discomfort that never entirely goes away. It’s not a discomfort that comes from having nothing to say. Most of us have more than enough ideas crowding the…

Academic writers often feel uncomfortable but that’s often OK Here’s why patthomson.net/2026/03/08/g...

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WHS Research Bursary – Women's History Scotland

Until 31st May applications for the Research Bursary are open!
We’re offering one £500 bursary to support research in women’s and gender history.

Find out more and apply via the link below. Let’s keep discovering and sharing Scotland’s women’s histories!

womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

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These are smashing!

Gordon Frederick Browne (1858- 1932) a prolific English Illustrator.
Illustrated Victorian phrases

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I was thinking of 'Imitation of Christ' only yesterday.

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1 week ago

The really outrageous thing here is that Spicy Nik-Naks were not the first choice.

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Do listen to Kate’s stylings

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1 week ago

Thankyou Liza for your sharings!

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I LOVE HAMMERED DULCIMER AND SO SHOULD YOU

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Kate Arnold Electro-medieval loopery on hammered dulcimer, strings and vocals. https://katearnoldmusic.com/ Also fronts https://fearoftheforest.bandcamp.com/

Electro-medieval hammered dulcimer weirdness 🎶🎵
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com

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Fairy Tale Ending, by Fear of the Forest 10 track album

There are only 22 left of the original CD pressing of this, the album I made with my 'punk baroque' band Fear of the Forest.
Today would be a good day to snap 'em up, it being #BandcanpFriday.
All sales help fund the release of the new album!
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/album/fairy-...

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Fairy Tale Ending, by Fear of the Forest 10 track album

There are only 22 left of the original CD pressing of this, the album I made with my 'punk baroque' band Fear of the Forest.
Today would be a good day to snap 'em up, it being #BandcanpFriday.
All sales help fund the release of the new album!
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/album/fairy-...

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It's 45 years since New Order released their first record - the 7" of Ceremony, which was followed by the two 12" editions later in 1981 (THREAD)
Version 1: youtu.be/IxIoTBp22Sg
Version 2 with Gillian: youtu.be/eNdNxcWz-fE

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1 week ago

Check out the marvellous @musicasecreta.bsky.social !

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A sepia toned photograph looking down on to a street scene. A wide open expanse in the foreground with pedestrians and lamp posts liberally dispersed. A large building in the mid background with the facia Corbett’s Temperance Hotel between the various rows of windows. An advertisement hoarding attached to the roof of the building. A street leading off on the left of the photo and another on the right.

#PhotoFriday today is Corbett’s Temperance Hotel, Paradise Street. Opened in 1842 by Joseph Corbett as a boarding and coffee house. The hotel was demolished c.1888—89 to make way for the building of the Post Office. Ref: WPS Large Views #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

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1 week ago

This will be good!

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Do you remember that guy in the black teeshirt on the coach? His name is Trevor and he lives in Pontefract and keeps phoning me up. I've bought some black stilettoes and also the Tubeway Army LP which is really ace.

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That's wonderful!
My vaguely similar anecdote is that I once visited the Topkapi Palace in the off season and the only other person in there was Ralph Fiennes.

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There is circumstantial evidence that I may be related to Edgar Allan Poe.
(Yeah, yeah, "explains a lot", I know, don't start.)

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Will the tickets be affordable?

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Interesting. There are elements of this track that would probably have made me put it 5-6 years later.

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Academics have two and only two speeds:
1. Can you review this manuscript by this afternoon?
Or
2. Sorry I missed your email in 2016 - do you still want to chat? #academia

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It's a big yes to this from me.
Can't help comparing it to the UK, where it doesn't seem possible to get to the other end of the country for less than about £200; if your train isn't cancelled.

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Arabic 'anti-Frankish' poetry of the crusading era: an introduction and some practical approaches Seminar presented by Kate Arnold (Nottingham Trent) as part of the SOAS History Seminar Series.

Looking forward to this at @soasuni.bsky.social in a couple of weeks. I'll be talking about Arabic poetry related to the Crusades, sharing some of my PhD research and discussing sonic/musical approaches to the poems.
May include performance! 🎶🎵
Hybrid and open to all:
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

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Arabic 'anti-Frankish' poetry of the crusading era: an introduction and some practical approaches Seminar presented by Kate Arnold (Nottingham Trent) as part of the SOAS History Seminar Series.

Looking forward to this at @soasuni.bsky.social in a couple of weeks. I'll be talking about Arabic poetry related to the Crusades, sharing some of my PhD research and discussing sonic/musical approaches to the poems.
May include performance! 🎶🎵
Hybrid and open to all:
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

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1 week ago

I love these posts. They are life-enhancing.

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