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Film musicologist exploring the piano on screen 🎹🎥

Ireland
Joined October 2010
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absolutely hats off to whatever giant nerd made this graphic. we should go for a drink some time !!!!!
How @cmatbaby's songwriting is subtly disrupting streaming models. CMAT's songwriting techniques and 'Bertie bridges' are a creative disruption of Spotify's belligerent optimisation strategies, writes @AnikaBabel @ucddublin rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0827/…
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How @cmatbaby's songwriting is subtly disrupting streaming models. CMAT's songwriting techniques and 'Bertie bridges' are a creative disruption of Spotify's belligerent optimisation strategies, writes @AnikaBabel @ucddublin rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0827/…
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The story of the pianos made in Shannon, Co Clare loved by ABBA, but hated by tuners. While Lindner pianos were disliked by professionals, these innovative mass-produced instruments are due more credit than they've got to date. By @AnikaBabel @ucddublin rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0327/…
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Very much looking forward to this one!!
Professor Miguel Mira (University of Southampton) delivers "Screening Rites" as the next instalment in the Research Seminar Series. All welcome. 15:00 in J305, Newman Building, 13 November 2024.
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Professor Miguel Mira (University of Southampton) delivers "Screening Rites" as the next instalment in the Research Seminar Series. All welcome. 15:00 in J305, Newman Building, 13 November 2024.
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Very excited to get cracking on this! Subha and I have been talking about collisions for years now — creative and academic endeavours // dance and piano — — very much looking forward to finding the magic and broadening intersections as we bring "Penn" to life #ArtCouncilSupported
Congratulations to doctoral candidate Subhashini Goda Venkataramani and recent PhD graduate @AnikaBabel who have been awarded an @artscouncil_ie Agility Award to develop an original project — marrying their creative and academic work — for dance and piano. #ArtsCouncilSupported
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Congratulations to doctoral candidate Subhashini Goda Venkataramani and recent PhD graduate @AnikaBabel who have been awarded an @artscouncil_ie Agility Award to develop an original project — marrying their creative and academic work — for dance and piano. #ArtsCouncilSupported
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It's that time of year 🥰 – at Marburg, Germany
🚨 CFP: Music and the Moving Image XXI The 21st iteration of @NYUscoring’s screen music/sound conference—certainly the most valuable and endlessly collegial scholarly gathering that I regularly attend—will run from 30 May to 1 June 2025 Deadline: Dec 16 form.jotform.com/24288432662…
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Dr Alisha Lola Jones (University of Cambridge) delivers "Ultrasonic Tastemaker: A Critical Gastromusicology" as the next instalment in the Research Seminar Series. All welcome. 15:00 in J305, Newman Building, 23 October 2024.
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Proposals are invited (deadline 8 November) for the joint SMI and ICTMD-IE postgraduate research conference to be held at Trinity College Dublin on 16-17 January 2025. Details and the call for papers at musicologyireland.com/events…
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Dr Francesco Milella González (IRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCD School of Music) delivers the next instalment of the Research Seminar Series with "Atlantic Modernities on Stage" All Welcome. 15:00 in J305, Newman Building, 8 October 2024.
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Looking forward to this tonight! Book Launch: Perspectives on Conducting Huge congratulations to Ciarán Crilly (UCD) and Róisín Blunnie (DCU) on launching this beaut into the world! Join us this evening for a wonderful event in @TheHughLane
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The UCD School of Music Research Seminar Series starts tomorrow with Prof. Julian Johnson's 'Listening with Debussy'
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How can creative practice bridge the divide? Researchers and artists join their forces and share their insights into ‘(In)Visible Publics: Performing (Non-)Belonging’. Join the UCD School of Music Online Conference. shorturl.at/R4AlC
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Why we need an Irish popular music centre: it's time for a public space where citizens can experience, contribute and interact with the island’s vibrant popular music history. By @JohnHOFlynn @DCU @Music_DCU rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0820/…
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I’m trying to find out more about Irish Lilting - just wondering if this is something that comes up in #musicology or #musictheory? @Music_DCU @MusicMaynooth @MusicUCC @AnikaBabel @MusicGalway @UCDSchoolMusic
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Feeling, in equal parts, grateful for and inspired by Mary Robinson’s compassionate and courageous life, depicted so beautifully in Aoife Kelleher‘s ‘Mrs Robinson’ — specially screened at @IFI_Dub this evening
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Calling all budding film critics! Don't miss a great opportunity to take part in the #LFF @BFI critics mentorship programme and be mentored by publications including @SightSoundmag. Deadline is Thursday 1 Aug. Details on how to apply 👉 buff.ly/46lu3cp
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Tried my arm at some archival research today. LOOK AT THAT FONT 😍 Hoping it will be the first of many deep dives! @UCDLibrary 🙏🎹
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