Distant Animals

Composer, performance artist, video maker and writer Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully. Painfully pretentious, dresses like a rabbit. Writes for the Quietus.

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Good news everyone, it's Friday, so we can all listen to the greatest song ever composed.

https://t.co/lsf4Q6HcUs

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@KlausVonMork @DAAM_records @BeKindCadaver Moving on to the Guzheng. Remember folks, we used to be a punk band :)

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In the studio, recording melodica, tongue drum, and singing bowls for the new @BeKindCadaver release.

This is turning out to be a really, really special / strange project.

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My prompts + CHAT GPT = best book ever written?

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2/2

'...the repeal of the swimming ban. McTufftenPop's life was a testament to the indomitable human spirit and the transformative power of a single act of defiance. His name echoed through the waves of Aqua Prohibita, forever linked to the liberation of a people'

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1/2

Preparing an 'alternative history of swimming':

'Sydney McTufftenPop's sacrifice became a catalyst for change. The phrase "going swimming" igniting a global movement against the Hydrophobes. Protests erupted, and the people, inspired by Sydney's unwavering spirit, demanded

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Finished new piece. I never make any money so can't pay, but does anyone WANT to do some light mix/master/eq-tweaking of a long-form sound-art piece?

I won't even promise you exposure, but if your in South-East UK I'll buy you a beer...

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Reminder that I am available for children's parties, wakes, Bar Mitzvah's, etc.

(also will do performance art nights or punk dive shows).

https://t.co/zshZzydXMA

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Finished the new album. This was probably the hardest to make - but 90% of the work was in figuring out how to present the concept without being unethical / exploitative.

For lack of a better description, it 'sounds like that famous Gavin Bryars piece if it was made by Eleh'.

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@thisisduster is the best band in the world.

Fight me (but do it very slowly and with no small amount of existential melancholy).

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Did a track for the new @CastlesInSpace Participation album. Been working on the first full release of this new project for a while now, and it's getting pretty close.

https://t.co/1YY4L4Z0Qb

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popped along to a modular synth gig happening round the corner. Decided I would only stay if it wasn’t comprised entirely of very serious white 45 year old men.

I didn’t stay.

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My twitter feed is now basically just a mixture of irrational Terfs and people beating up Just Stop Oil activists, two of the worst examples of humanity. It's all a little depressing.

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Is there any music sites/blogs at all that write about sound art, apart from myself???

I know @acloserlisten and @foxydigitalis do, along with everything else they cover. Are there any others??? I'd love to know...

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Shameless self promotion of a release you all overlooked:

https://t.co/I2X1aInCAr

A live street performance of drone music on a cheap battery powered synthesiser whilst dressed as Santa on Xmas day in Brighton, processed via a spectral resonator.

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Finished first week of new job, doing awesome music research things for ambitious people.

Congratulate me or hold your peace.

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Update (for those invested in my inane opinions) : The Hives are still great. Plus I got watch a charismatic cool 50ish singer with a security entourage try and fail to climb on to the bar mid-song, which was very, very punk.

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Taking my inner teen punk to Brighton to watch The Hives tonight.

Distinctly recall them being one of the best live bands i’d ever seen, about 15 years ago.

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@AquietroomL @RecordsPoison @CastlesInSpace @feinstruktur @AJOGmusic @AnthonyMorrow83 @AoftheH @weareall_ghosts @MyrdalMx @SoundLAB_Mx @priestofbeards @WormholeWorld Thanks!