Composer, producer, and academic. No longer active on Twitter - come and find me @TimJComposer on Bluesky (work) or Instagram (friends) instead :)
Joined March 2014
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1 Feb 2025
John Viriamu Jones (1856-1901), first principal of Cardiff University College (what would become modern day @cardiffuni), writing on the merits of music education. The language a little old fashioned, but the sentiment timeless. Take note, Vice Chancellor.
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30 Jan 2025
My letter to the Vice Chancellor of @cardiffuni today, following the shameful announcement of the impending closure of its Music Department @cardiffunimusic. If you haven't done so already, please sign the petition to save this cornerstone of Welsh arts. change.org/p/save-cardiff-un…
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29 Jan 2025
Please sign the petition to save @cardiffunimusic, a stalwart of the Welsh creative arts for generations. We cannot afford a linchpin of creativity to be lost to a failure of imagination. chng.it/KcNfNSsdxX
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10 Nov 2024
Today, we will remember all those who have died in war and conflict, including the 264 students who lost their lives in #WWI and the 103 students who lost their lives during #WW2. Their sacrifice will never be forgotten.
We Will Remember Them - #RemembranceSunday
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1 Nov 2024
I'm so excited to share my latest musical project, 'Tonal Atmospheres: Variations on Three Gloucestershire Folk Tunes', working with the brilliant @ConcertinaRob
and Miranda Rutter at @uniofglos this summer. Available now wherever you get your music!
open.spotify.com/album/6kl9s…
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24 Oct 2024
I have new music coming out soon! Keep an eye out for Tonal Atmospheres arriving in all the usual places on November 1st. For those of you using Spotify, you can pre-save here to get it automatically added to your library upon release.
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23 Sep 2024
An update, three weeks on. The writing is completed. A crappy ebay guitar has been purchased as appropriate therapy.
More writing has commenced, but I'm running out of room for more instruments. I think I need to find a cheaper way of dealing with deadline stress...
5 Sep 2024
How's my writing going? I've made a good start, established a structure, and am now on the "bidding for crappy electric guitars on Ebay" stage... #academiclife
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5 Sep 2024
How's my writing going? I've made a good start, established a structure, and am now on the "bidding for crappy electric guitars on Ebay" stage... #academiclife
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29 Aug 2024
I have a shiny new website! Long over due, admittedly, but I have finally have gotten around to making an online space for finding out about all the musical shenanigans I get up to... timjcomposer.com/
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11 Jul 2024
A fantastic day @uniofglos for Everyday is Spatial 2024 today, listening to some great music and thought provoking presentations. A huge thank you to @ConcertinaRob and Miranda Rutter for all their wonderful playing in my new piece Tonal Atmospheres! 🎶
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8 Jul 2024
Can't wait to play my music in this concert with some brilliant folks, Thursday 11th July! sites.glos.ac.uk/spatialaudi…
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26 Jun 2024
Very excited to be premiering a new piece with @ConcertinaRob & Miranda Rutter at the @uniofglos Everyday is Spatial conference in July sites.glos.ac.uk/spatialaudi…
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2 Jun 2024
Over four years in the making, my PhD is now officially confirmed and passed! You can find virtually all of the music that I wrote for it on my Spotify and Soundcloud, and if you're feeling brave you can now read my academic commentary here: orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint…
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2 Jun 2024
Accompanying portfolio of scores here, for the extra curious: orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint…
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24 Mar 2024
Very flattered to have been nominated for an ESLA for Most Outstanding Learning Experience - it's always a joy to share the adventure of learning with my students, and lovely to think that it's proven to be a good one. @CSUStudentVoice @cardiffstudents @cardiffunimusic
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16 Sep 2023
I have a new YouTube channel! Please do drop me a subscription, and take a look at the music video to 'Y Sguthan', from last year's recording session for Green Grow the Rushes, with the wonderful
@fayhield , Patrick Rimes, @ConcertinaRob, & @shirlsmart. youtube.com/watch?v=LJF51GQN…
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1 Sep 2023
My latest soundtrack, Welsh Awakenings, contains more than three dozen distinct themes and melodies, both original character motifs and numerous musical quotations of Welsh repertoire (and just a handful of Anglo-American ones too!). Can you hear them all in situ?
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1 Sep 2023
Get a copy at timjcomposer.bandcamp.com with 50% off this album, or my complete discography, with the code september50 (offer lasts just for today, September 1st). Includes a digital album booklet which dives into greater detail on musical figures from Edmund Prys to John Thomas.
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30 Aug 2023
I've spent today reading critiques of Nationalism in folk music studies, from Ernest Newman, Francis Toye, and Ross Cole. It's fascinating to read such similar and insightful criticism of 'received wisdom' in folk music (Cecil Sharp's opinions), bridging a century of discourse.
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30 Aug 2023
'The fact of the matter is that folk-music–especially when it is as intrinsically excellent as that of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland–is quite admirable until people begin to make a cult of it.'
- Francis Toye, ‘A Case for Musical Nationalism’ (1918)
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30 Aug 2023
'"[F]olk song" is frequently employed [...] without significant attention paid to the broader political and discursive contexts that afforded its emergence and proliferation within the public sphere.
- Ross Cole, ‘On the Politics of Folk Song Theory in Edwardian England’ (2019)
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