Finn Upham

I've had a few people mention The So Strangely podcast to me this conference season. Maybe its time to bring it back!

Again enjoying following research on music as part of culture and society in a contrast to my usual focus on music as physical phenomenon investigated through music cognition, music technology, and performance-oriented musicology. Our work shouldn't be so separated
ccrs.ku.dk/research/asi...

A foreground of daisies and overhanging cedar in front a staircase railing with pink purple and blue graffiti on the concrete side of an overpass bridge.

Midsommer, Jyväskylä, 2025

Lovely discussions all through #RPPW20! Sorry to see it end. More about breathing and action coordination to come!

perfection 😂

Protesters sat down outside the embassy with trans flags making bracelets

The signs behind them reading (left to right) "Threads of solidarity" "We Love Our Trans Siblings" "trans kids deserve better" "trans kids deserve better, we are not pawns for you politics"

BREAKING: Trans Kids Deserve Better are currently holding a demo outside the United States Embassy in protest of trans rights

They're making friendship bracelets

Pronouns Are Being Forcibly Removed From Government Email Signatures WIRED confirmed various automated efforts to remove pronouns from both email and Slack at USAID, the EPA, the GSA, and more.

NEW: WIRED confirmed various automated efforts to remove pronouns from both email and Slack at USAID, the EPA, the GSA, and more.

Any countries whose scientific research funding bodies are NOT currently under siege by their own national leadership would do very well announcing investments in bringing in foreign research talent right now

Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism Jewish anarchists weigh-in on how people can organize and act in the changing terrain. For a zine PDF, go here. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it. ...

Things to keep close to keep yourself afloat. 20 things to counter fascism, from Jewish anarchists. Includes a zine pdf if you wish to disseminate in printed form. itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...

I never got to meet Jimmy Carter, but I worked on several projects that involved him and music in both popular and classical and just nothing but respect.

photo of five yellow postit notes on a desk surface with a task on each, and three scrunched up postits of completed tasks in the foreground

Scrunching up To Do postits is satisfying but they look so much smaller than the waiting tasks

Full bracket of 32 names for The Worst Person in Tech 2024

💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS 💥

The tech industry has had quite a year with its billionaires revealing who they really are for all to see. Who will be the WORST PERSON IN TECH?

🗳️ Voting is now open: forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1...

My daughter was one of almost 400 tuba players gathered at the Kauffman Center for A Tuba Christmas.

It was beautiful.

Nice to see replication in pedagogy!

wonder if this might be a good venue for some new work on laughter during participatory dance activities

Of course synthesizing the scatter is doable, and done. The realness of the musicians is more palpable through the arrangement. Like how you can tell when composers understand the physicality of the parts they write for voice, or winds, or strings. Mechanical smoothness is a limiting aesthetic.

I loved the RPWP album because the instrumentals feel more live, more haphazard, messily interactive. Even the claps are a bunch of people in a room instead of staggered layers of tracks. Kind of amazing how the difference is perceivable and enjoyable.

on my way home from RM's Wrong People Right Place, think about this KPop star learning about music built by/with live musicians after years of recording alone in a booth to a producer constructed track.

The interactive part was also good for building shared understanding with visitors who hadn't considered these aspects of how audiences act "together".

i need to rework that exposure dimension. Its trying to capture both the amount of people affected by one audience members actions and the medium of transmission.

hand drawn plot of various audience behaviour labels pinned in the space of Exposure (private to broadcast) vs Simultaneity (time log scale)

Musical events on Exposure to Simultaneity plot, with string connecting pins marking of characteristic audience behaviours.

The result of crowd sourcing the exposure and simultaneity of various audience behaviours via analogue interactive plots at the RITMO Largo poster session yesterday.

Spotify cuts developer access to several of its recommendation features | TechCrunch Spotify will no longer allow developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features within the music streaming platform, such as

Spotify cutting off audio features API access? I'm only half surprised. I wonder what the full story is. techcrunch.com/2024/11/27/s...

almost released a "Dance Bachground" survey yesterday. Dyslexia is more creative than i am.

i have so many questions for these measurements and no time to look 😅

EmbodiedWorkshop2024-dataset Concurrent physiological measurements from participants at a multi-day worshop between education, music, and technology researchers. During a variety of presentations, discussions, and activities on e...

New open dataset of biosignals from academics at a workshop. Why only look at group physiological responses in controlled conditions? osf.io/rk6qs/

A vein of moss in a crack in pebbled asphalt

Moss

Listening to @404media.co complain about python installation management on mac was like looking in a mirror.