Emma Welton

They have come for the talk show hosts – and that’s actually bad Is simply describing reality an act of insurrection now?

Then they came for the talk show hosts and I was like yeah whatever... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I love London so much. So much.

Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?

Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Exeter Sound Walks
I’m thinking of leading Sound Walks in Exeter every couple of months from October.
Listening together through the seasons is intriguing and revealing. I love it.
If this appeals to you, please send me a sentence of support. This will help me raise some funds for the series.

Quiet

Slow Ways for everyone who🚶🏃🏾‍♀️👩🏻‍🦽🚴‍🏇🏾! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways?u...

Lots

that today? bother

If you can watch this and then think ‘I won’t share because that might be putting myself on the line’ then you know what you’d have done if you were in Germany when your Jewish neighbours were being loaded into to cattle trucks. Nothing. Please share - it’s our ‘I’m Spartacus moments

Screenshot from form on Met Office website. A box headed "Reason for name choice(s) (optional) has been filled out: "In recognition of the outstanding contribution made by these fossil fuel giants to the extreme weather we're seeing as a result of climate change, with storms, floods and heat waves devastating communities across the world."

It gets worse - apparently some people have been adding comments like this when explaining their reason for proposing #StormBP, #StormEquinor, #StormExxon, #StormShell and #StormBigOil on this Met Office form: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

Screenshot of form on the UK Met Office website. Text reads: "You can provide up to 5 storm names in the boxes below. Storm Name: [a user has filled this in with "BigOil"] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with BP] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Equinor] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Exxon] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Shell]

So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms.

And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell...

This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

This is a Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Participate project, part of BSO's partnership with the University of Exeter.

In the photo without the harp, the human musicians are so much towards the edge that bsky crops them out unless you click to view the full picture...

The Earthlings Family Orchestra has been creating music to, with & about the accompanying ambiences of Exeter's Lower Hoopern Valley. It's been interesting and surprising. I'll write it up soon. In the meantime, these silent pics show a little of the space we shared & the space we made.

Sarah and I are compost buddies.

I'll never tire of reading about what Sarah Finch and her colleagues have achieved with unshowy commitment, care & tenacity.

Hugh Nankivell brings 'Fallow' to Lost and Found (keyboards revoiced) with Exeter Contemporary Sounds tomorrow 2.30 Exeter Library #ECSLostandFound #artweekexeter25
'Fallow' is formed of duets between electric pipe organ and pianet, harmonium & melodica. Book via artworkexeter.org.uk/projects/art...

the final piece of the jigsaw. The #peppapig drone machine. Want to hear what it sounds like? Come to our concert on Saturday 14th @exeterlibrary tinyurl.com/mrp9hyu2 #JuneBoom #Exeter #InExeter #VisitExeter #artweekexeter @involvingmusic.bsky.social #experimentalmusic

Lost and Found (Keyboards Revoiced) - Exeter Observer Exeter Contemporary Sounds and Ian Summers perform works on rescued, repurposed and reimagined instruments.

ON OUR RADAR // Lost and Found (Keyboards Revoiced) 🎹🎶

Exeter Contemporary Sounds and Ian Summers perform works on rescued, repurposed and reimagined instruments.

🗓️ Sat 14 June
🕝 2.30pm
📍 Exeter Library

exeterobserver.org/2025/05/27/l...

Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.

‘Fallow requires things to emerge in their own time’ says Hugh Nankivell whose ‘Fallow’ duets between pipe organ and pianet, harmonium and melodica. The pianet, a poor-man’s Fender rhodes, is small but heavy, and all but obsolete. Sat 14 June. #ECSLostandFound artworkexeter.org.uk/event/lost-a...

Happy #WildSalmonDay!

You can help us put on the Salmon Run to raise awareness of the plight of wild salmon in the River Exe - AND fund habitat improvements in their spawning grounds - with a donation to our appeal. Aviva will double all donations.

www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/salmon-run...

ORGANS! clavichord, bon tempi organ, pipe organ, Venta organ, stylophone - Simon Belshaw has been 'converting pieces written to be played by a computer into pieces playable by musicians.' for our ECS concert 14/6. #ECSLostandFound #artweekexeter #artweekexeter25 #awe25
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#ecslostandfound

'...the keys of the organs become worn with the finger fall of those who have played them like the wear of footsteps on stone steps over centuries or the cutting of desire paths... a record of the use of the instrument over several hundred years...' Paul Whitty about his music for ECS on 14th June.

Calling people who love rivers!

Please help us put on the Salmon Run! to tell communities along the Exe about the plight of the Salmon, and fund river restoration projects.

www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/salmon-run...

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My Wet & Dry Musical Life
mussels, sea lamprey, pipe organs, fiddles… and an actual concert from Exeter Contemporary Sounds on Sat 14th June
emmawelton.net/news/

You forgot 'lost and found (keyboards revoiced)' concert, Sat 14th June Rougemont Room! Giving new life to rescued organs, dusty keyboards, salvaged circuits. Music by Simon Belshaw, Hugh Nankivell, Emma Welton, Paul Whitty with voices of Jez Winship and Alison Sweatman. #ECSLostandFound

You forgot 'lost and found (keyboards revoiced)' concert, Sat 14th June Rougemont Room! Giving new life to rescued organs, dusty keyboards, salvaged circuits. Music by Simon Belshaw, Hugh Nankivell, Emma Welton, Paul Whitty with voices of Jez Winship and Alison Sweatman. #ECSLostandFound

Don’t let this fly past you! The early bird catches the worm! 🕊️
Have you started your Lark Music-Making Competition entry yet? The Competition is open to all amateur instrumentalists (18+). There are three age categories,18–24, 25-39 and 40 plus.