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🔎🧪 PhD & lead professor of live electronics @guildhallschool
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♀ For over a year @nmbc and @jennifer.crouch have been building telescopes FROM SCRATCH! Slowly grinding glass into the precise curvature required to see the cycles and phases of Venus.   .𖥔 ݁ ˖?.𖥔 ݁ *ੈ✩ ˖      *ੈ✩‧₊˚ ♀  *ੈ✩‧₊˚   On the 9th of September 2026 at 2pm UTC - we will be sharing our experience in the ℑ𝔪𝔞𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔖𝔭𝔞𝔠𝔢 𝔒𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔴𝔦𝔰𝔢 online seminar, inviting you into our practice of ☆ Mechanical Fracture : Mutation of the Visible ☆ hosted by Center for Performance Studies and the Space Institute at UCLA. All Welcome! Mechanical fracture is the phenomenon harnessed to shape glass into parabolic mirrors for our telescopes. Listening intently to the grain of the particles disintegrating, as they move across and remove microscopic fragments of the glass, tells us when to lubricate with water and add new grit. Intimacy (and anticipation) deepen via the meditative experience of hand-grinding glass mirror blanks with differently graded grits - generating heat.  You are all invited into the sound, gesture and movement of mechanical fracture, as we share technical, critical and sensual aspects of this process. ⋆⭒˚.⋆🔭 Imagining Space Otherwise is an international working group focused on the arts' role in shaping outer space's ethics, politics, and cultural imaginaries. ⋆⭒˚.⋆🔭 Jen and NMBC are making their telescopes at Amateur Telescope Makers London. 🔗 in bio ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠀⠀⠀⡠⠴⠒⠋⠉⠉⠙⠡⣒⡢⢄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⢀⡴⠊⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠑⠤⡘⠣⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠒⠤⡑⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣼⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠪⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠾⢹⢨⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡟⠁⠸⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢤⠤⣘⣧⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡆⡇⠀⠘⠈⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⡕⠊⠈⠉⠐⢿⡂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠁⠃⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡍⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠠⢤⠼⣼⣀⣠⡇⠀⠚⢢⢤⠤⣤⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣦⣨⠦⠀⠀⠀⢣⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⠁⠀⠘⡧⠀⠆⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢣⠀⠀⠀⢸⠅⢔⡛⢣⣢⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡠⠤⠒⢒⡟⠭⠭⢉⡉⠱⠲⡀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠳⣦⣰⢸⠀⠈⠉⠋⢸⡃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡔⠋⠁⠀⠀⢀⡚⠁⠀⠀⠀⠈⠳⣆⢱⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ taken in UCLA by @nmbc
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miracles of friendship w. rose & kasra 🌿🪨❇️ by @nmbc
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well well by @nmbc
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4 months ago
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prayer 3:33 @roxhsana cello, voice @kannukene viola, voice @nmbc live electronics, voice Thank you to @aaronhollowaynahum for engineering and @southbyproductions for the space to explore Supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia 📸 @tasallatabasom x by @nmbc
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5 months ago
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Tonight @lostclubnight beautiful beasts yearning pre portals FANTASY Live Performance & Screening Guildhall Live Electronics Orchestra REMEMBER 04.12.2025 20:00 - 22:00 LOST 135 Shaftesbury Avenue RSVP hello@calumknight.com by @nmbc
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10 months ago
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Acts of Love. Devotional Craft. Ready / Not Ready for this major ritual... Thank heavens for the best company Dr Babe aka @jennifer.crouch 🔭 taken in Telescope Club by @nmbc
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Shout out to the incredible musicians of Channel 22 at @guildhallschool. An iteration of the Live Electronics Ensemble who are researching and performing emergent composition - prioritising interdependence and vulnerability : w/ emotion and somatics as the guide into, through and across sound. Photo by Alfie Johnson Performance at Orpheus, Eurydice and Retold Traces Channel 22 1.0 Ensemble: Xuanni He electric violin & FX, electronics, live processing Frankie Hewett wearable electronics Zaki Hutchings piano Taha Kagzi electronics Andy Leeming trombone & pedalboard FX Theo Lees electric bass Isadora Pulman voice & FX, autoharp Miu Puntoomsitchai electronics & live processing Richard MacKlin electronic upright bass & pedalboard FX Ft. Chris Clarke harp Thank you to @leslie__deere for inviting us to live score an aerialist performance of Orpheus and Eurydice with fantastic dancers @sophpagehall and @mrwillaerialist by @nmbc
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2 years ago
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In these times I just want to uplift how much focused intention through music as a practice can do so much in terms of connection, processing, intimacy and belonging. These stills are from a really precious sharing at @treadwellsbooks with treasured pen pal, charmed musician and mystic ponderer @baal_mortimer. The performance was a wildly vulnerable experience of being present in all the worlds through public ceremony with a collaborator within electronic music practice. To do so at Treadwell's which has always given me so much encouragement, support and understanding, wherever the research has taken me within this particular line of studies, before I had any language for it or any idea of where to start, (both very within and very without the academy).., offering a space where practitioners and researchers with understanding of the intricacies of navigating these various structures - was and is so deeply cherished. I feel beyond grateful. Shout-out to the places, practices and people that encourage and give us space to be our fullest selves. And let's be those people for each other. Thank you Alex, Christina - and a very special mention to the ascended hound Rambo who was there at the beginning, you will always be in my heart. 🎥 Alfie Johnson taken in Treadwell's Books by @nmbc
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2 years ago
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𝖕𝕷𝕰𝖆𝖘𝖚𝖗𝕰𝖘650 Showing at @athens_video_dance_project in December at ASTOR cinema A screendance film which emerged from interdisciplinary improvisation within the Guildhall School of Music & Drama's newly formed Live Electronics Ensemble, led by electronic and produced music professor Nicole Bettencourt Coelho. Improvised sound and movement seeking to find relationship and intimacy between them. A vulnerable exploration of encountering the self, while holding space for the other, as one departs from the named and the known. Focusing on hyper attention to micro-movements both inner and outer, while negotiating between the expressed, the latent and the unexpressed in this process. A haunting unravelling through layers of emotional and aesthetic precarity, as musicians and movement artist meet each other within the crystalline uncertainty of a shared liminal space unfolding in real-time. Directed by Joseph Campbell and Oscar Oldershaw. Movement Artist: Fortune Tailed Beast Costume Designer: Izzi Valentine Stylist: Meg Jordan Verbatim Sound : Improvised and Recorded at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Featuring Eleanor Fineston-Roberston (Violin) and Benjy Sandler (Clarinet) - live sampled and processed by three additional Guildhall musicians Stefano de Stefano (Max), Chloe Mason (DAW) and Henry McLean (Analogue Delay). taken in Guildhall School of Music & Drama - Historical Performance Department by @nmbc
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2 years ago
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🫀🫀🫀 thank you to @poetic_futures_ for bringing us together for this remarkable immersion with cave karst and spring ; skies and underworlds - holding space between ; still processing ... still feeling the echoes ... still raw in the heart 🗡️ @baal_mortimer @free_lvnch @nataliyata @kmila_______________ grateful to have the opportunity to share ideas and spirits with these remarkable beings and potent artists 🧪🐉💎🥀 taken in Saeva Dupka / Cave [obekt nomer 33] by @nmbc
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🐉 💎 taken in Saeva Dupka / Cave [obekt nomer 33] by @nmbc
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happy new moon Leo y'all ❤️‍🔥 hope for today and for everyday that you feel the love . . . 💅🏼@niya___b 📸 @fragile_masculinity by @nmbc
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