It's world curlew day today! The curlew's call is one of my favourite sounds, so was happy to use it to open my set with The Shell, featuring Os and Leigh Chorlton this week: youtu.be/WGx2DLzXSX4?si…

The videos from April's gig are now up. First, it's The Shell (Os, Simon Kirby, Leigh Chorlton):

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My brilliant colleague Gabrielle Hodge has an exciting event later this year - a Thinking Lab for the deaf community in Australia. It will be a space for deaf people to come together to figure what and how they think. A wonderful example of her outreach work! facebook.com/DeafAustraliaI…

We have full videos from our second event featuring Simon Kirby, Os , Darkroom, Elif Yalvaç, and #dirkserries . Subscribe to our YT channel to enjoy the performances! youtube.com/@HeartOfNoiseC…

Lovely to be featured on the blog of an artist I very much admire. Worth a read of the blog post which is a treasure trove of information about the field of plotter artworks: barbegenerativediary.com/en/artworks/ge…

New drawing using two ballpoint pens, a flatbed scanner, and 36 hours of time with an @emsl drawing robot. This is Usnea, based on a sample of beard lichen I collected in western Scotland. One off drawing available in my shop: simonkirby.net/shop

Thrilled to share a review on THE LANGUAGE NETWORK AS A NATURAL KIND—a culmination of ~20 yrs of thinking about+studying language from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and cog neuro perspectives. Nature Rev Neurosci rdcu.be/dEylV
With the amazing Anna Ivanova Tamar Regev 🥳
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Really enjoyed doing this interview for the wonderful Multiverses podcast. Check it out here: multiverses.xyz/podcast/langua…

Great video from Mary Spender on the worrying state of grassroots music venues. Please support local live music, and lobby for a small tax on stadium gigs if you don't want to end up in a purely AI generated musical future. youtu.be/zwCs5GD-_8M?si…

This is a fab interview with the brilliant Kenny Smith
by the equally brilliant Maisy Hallam. Have a listen to see how lucky I am to get to work with these people! pca.st/episode/6b0b66…

At Rahoy, The Early Light
Simon Kirby
(2023) Label: Expert Sleepers Ltd.

Full album buff.ly/43RUwgn

#ambient #ambient music

How do learners figure out what a word is in their language? In this paper with Jennifer Culbertson & I, Elizabeth Pankratz looks at internal immutability and free mobility as cues and finds that both conspire to make word discovery possible. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/IA5WGGNN…

Excited to have my first journal paper (w/ Simon Kirby & Jennifer Culbertson) out today in Cognitive Science! In an experiment + computational model, we test the role of working memory in regularisation of linguistic variation. Read all about it: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Well, this is just utterly extraordinary. youtu.be/uTQKCt-1T6k?si…

Happy to see this paper with Jennifer Culbertson and Aislinn Keogh out! Aislinn manipulates working memory during learning or production (and runs some cool urn model simulations) to uncover the processes that lead to regularisation of linguistic variation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/XUTCWAFR…

Simon Kirby - ’At Rahoy, The Early Light’ (Limited Edition White Vinyl LP) - In the Shop Now - electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/kirby-r…

Played a gig this week with Simon Kirby

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Helloooo friends from Englandshire! I'm promoting my album by playing a gig at the Junction in Cambridge in two weeks on Wednesday 27th. It would be absolutely lovely to see some of you there... junction.co.uk/events/heart-o…

'We show that parts emerge from initially unsegmented sequences, that their distribution becomes closer to a power law over generations, and, importantly, that these properties make the sets of sequences more learnable.' Amazing stuff!