#mandy parnell

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I Will by Samaris from the album Black Lights

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Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering (Gatefold)

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THANK YOU

Max Richter for patience and wisdom and shining music

Yulia, Lucie and Noah for Max’s hours and hours

FatCat’s Dave Howell, Alex Knight, Dave Cawley and Marcus Thorne for their faith

and Gary Held of DiCristina for his

Dave Thomas for all the time and hand-painted writing

Paul Lambden for being solid ground while I was all at sea

Glen Johnson who invited me back

Simon Raymonde who started the new

Devendra Banhart for sooooooo much

Robert Kirby for trumpet, French horn and remembering

Marcelo Oliviera who told me I could play guitar for myself

Adem for playing and carrying the harmonium and everything so far

Joanna Newsom who had little time and yet gave us so many notes

Otto Hauser and Kevin Barker and Andy Cabic for coming by to play

Adam Pierce for the hammer dulcimer

Dave Gray, David Paterson, Philip Bagernal and Anna Tjan for engineering

Mandy Parnell for welcome and mastering

Elise McKay who listened to the words

Jenny Wright for imploring the air to make Jenny Richardson better.. it did

Corrina Seddon for good friendship

My children - Leif who gave me his beloved old Martin guitar, Whyn for letting me have her luminous paintings here, and Benjamin for always going his sweet way

Rowan, Rachel and Patrick

sister Sue Heath, Inda Bunyan and missed brother John

Al Campbell.. thankyou always

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“I have stated in a public post, that I stand for JK Rowling and Kathleen Stock and I’m against calling women ‘menstruators,’ ‘birthing people’ and other dehumanizing slurs. Consequently, I was told I’m a transphobe and homophobe, which is absolutely untrue.” 

By Bryndís Blackadder. October 8, 2023

An award-winning Polish electronic and noise musician has found herself “canceled” after speaking out against gender ideology. Ewa Justka, a musician and electronics teacher, has spoken exclusively to Reduxx about her experience becoming the target for harassment and abuse because of her views.

Justka’s ordeal began on July 1, when she posted on her Instagram in support of Harry Potter creator JK Rowling and professor Kathleen Stock. Justka uploaded multiple screenshots, including one with the definition of “lesbian” as a “female homosexual,” and another of a Telegraph article which denounced the term “TERF” as “the ultimate slur against women.” TERF is an acronym meaning “trans exclusionary radical feminist,” but has been applied more broadly to any woman who criticizes gender ideology, often accompanied with threats of violence.

“Are you a woman who experienced sex-based discrimination? Have you been canceled for expressing your views regarding recent misogyny and hatred towards feminists like JK Rowling, Kathleen Stock, and other brave women having the balls (metaphoric ones) to speak out?” Justka began her Instagram post, continuing that she wanted women who fit her description to contact her.

But shortly after the post was uploaded, Justka found herself the target of a cancellation campaign intended to penalize her for her views.

Following her post on Instagram, Justka received hate mail in her direct messages and emails, angry comments on her post, a removal from a pending compilation album, and the cancellation of workshops and gigs.

One of her shows, which had been arranged at The Old Hairdressers in Glasgow, was cancelled, and Justka began to receive intense online and in-person harassment from local musicians. One local establishment, Stereo, even refused her service due to allegedly making patrons “feel unsafe” because of her views.

One of the hateful messages Justka received included a threat from music journalist Peter Kirn who stated “…tell you what, Ewa- we’ll beat you. I’ll do my best to absolutely makes sure no one works with you. So you want to see the power of this patriarchal system you’re so upset about? Watch me.”

While she was immediately struck off from some events she had been scheduled at, one of her most pressing concerns was her appearance with an influential artist.

Justka was due to perform alongside British electronic musician Mathew Herbert in October of 2023 at the Gulbenkian Art Centre in Canterbury, an event associated with the Oram Awards. Worried the campaign against her would reach the Awards administration, she contacted them for support and assurance that they would not cancel her appearance. But she found that her invitation to perform was being rescinded.

Justka won the Oram Award in 2017 and is an alumna of the institution, having won the “inaugural” competition judged by Róisín Murphy and mastering engineer Mandy Parnell. As described by FACT magazine: “The PRS Foundation and The New BBC Radiophonic Workshop have announced a new awards initiative to celebrate women innovating in the fields of sound and music. The awards are named after BBC Radiophonic Workshop co-founder Daphne Oram and purport to “build on her legacy.”

Justka was offered the invitation in May to travel to appear in the October 7 event where she was contracted to run an audio-visual synth workshop, appear in a Q&A panel, and do a performance, with brochures for the event being produced.

In an email seen by Reduxx, Justka reached out to The Oram Awards on July 7 to ask whether they were planning on removing her from the event due to her opinions.

“I’m not sure if you are aware, but during the last few days I have experienced quite a big wave of harassment, attempts of intimidation, bullying and I lost numerous workshops and gigs,” Justka wrote. “I have stated in a public post, that I stand for JK Rowling and Kathleen Stock and I’m against calling women ‘menstruators,’ ‘birthing people’ and other dehumanizing slurs. Consequently, I was told I’m a transphobe and homophobe, which is absolutely untrue.” 

She then elaborated on her opinions on the political situation, linking it to the Oram Awards’ mission statement.

“Please let me know where you stand on that, as I won’t stay silent about this, and also I want to have an actual discussion with people about this topic, no matter what they identify as. Unfortunately I wasn’t given this opportunity yet.”

Days later, the Oram Awards responded:

“Thank you for reaching out to us about this. We weren’t aware of this situation and sorry to hear how this experience has affected you personally and professionally. We want to carefully discuss this and reply to you when the rest of the team comes back from holiday next week.”

Justka chased them up a week later as she had received no further communication, and finally received a reply on July 18.

“We are an organization fighting for women’s rights in the music industry by providing a much-needed platform for their work and supporting their creative development,” an Oram Awards organizer wrote. “Our position on trans rights is that trans women are women and we hope that everyone we work with responds to that respectfully.”

Confused, Justka asked for an elaboration, and inquired as to whether the Awards was suggesting that males could change their sex or identify into womanhood.

On July 20, Justka received a response condemning her “negative emails” towards the Awards, and stating that “it has become clear that we can no longer work with you.”

It continued: “This email is confirmation that the invitation to participate in our event at the Gulbenkian on October 7th has been revoked.”

Following the months-long ordeal, Justka continued to lose work, including a provisional arrangement to lecture for the London College of Communication at the University of the Arts in London. She has since moved to Italy in order “to escape” the situation.

While continuing her work in solitude, Justka has created an album in response to her cancellation and started a women-only project to encourage female musicians to create and build their own electronic synthesizers.

Speaking to Reduxx, Justka explained that her July comments came from a place of concern for the impact gender ideology was having on women’s rights.

“I’ve been listening to women’s voices and hearing about the discrimination so many of them went through just by stating biological facts and by sharing their concerns about having dangerous men in women’s prisons, and predators who take advantage of self id laws in UK,” she said. “Moreover, I’ve experienced domestic abuse throughout my life, I couldn’t stay silent anymore.”

Calling gender ideology “extremely dangerous,” Justka notes that the language employed by trans activists often dehumanizes women and erodes women-only spaces.

“This all damages women’s rights so many feminists fought for. The art scene that celebrates this ideology is, in my view, extremely hypocritical and I could not subscribe to their agenda anymore.”

Justka notes that her expulsion from the Oram Awards was the most hurtful incident in her ordeal.

“The Oram Awards claims to be a ‘women-supporting foundation,’ yet it clearly does not stand for women since, in their view, men can be women and they’ll drop a female artist in a whim if she dares to question gender ideology,” she says. “I moved to the UK from Poland as I believed I would be valued according to my work, knowledge, and capabilities. Clearly, I was wrong – it’s unfortunate, but in UK, if you’re a female artist and don’t subscribe to gender ideology, you will be cancelled, and your work opportunities will be taken away. It’s very clear to me, that this is vindictive, Stasi-like discrimination of women and girls and we must speak out against it and stand for women’s rights.”

Ironically, one of the judges who awarded Justka the Oram Award in 2017, pop-musician Róisín Murphy, also recently found herself being attacked for making a statement against gender ideology.

Murphy made international headlines after screenshots of a comment she made on her personal Facebook page began circulating on X (formerly Twitter). In the post, Murphy stated: “Please don’t call me a terf, please don’t keep using that word against women. I beg you! But puberty blockers ARE FUCKED, absolutely desolate, big pharma laughing all the way to the bank. Little mixed up kids are vulnerable and need to be protected, that’s just true.”

Murphy soon after penned an apology following some backlash from trans activists, and it is alleged that the BBC refused to play tunes from her chart-topping album as a result of her comments.

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Goldsmiths University

We’ve been running workshops at Goldsmiths Music Studios since 2016. These have included hands on studio engineering workshops, mixing one on ones and talks with some of the top engineers in the industry: Mandy Parnell (Aphex Twin, The XX, Sigur Ros), Marta Salogni (Bjork, Bon Iver, Frank Ocean) and Steph Marziano (Denai Moore, The Prodidgy, Kasabian).

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HARRY IS TEAM MANDY

Broke, got kids, owes money, standing on her own against the Wicked Stepmother, we are now, TEAM MANDY. Parnell wants this off the internet because it’s HERE, well, old man, shame on you. ANY AND ALL WHO WANT TO TAKE UP FOR MANDY, THIS BLOG IS OPEN FOR YOUR VOICE. If Parnell had paid Mandy back HER money, the $60K she’d be doing well. She loved her daddy and didn’t do it. How does he repay…

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When it comes to technical jobs in audio, women often need to work twice as hard.

Not because they’re less capable. Rather, the boys’ club of audio production often doubts their talent to begin with.

Historically, girls have been denied or discouraged from pursuing technical jobs in STEM fields—science, technology, engineering and mathematics. When they do, they’re often held to a much higher standard and expected to continually prove their worth.

But the tables are now turning. How do we keep changing the imbalance—and give credit where credit is due?

Get to know the women who are doing exceptional work—they exist and they’re killing it across genres. Give credit to the work of women working both in front and behind the scenes in audio production. Treat your females colleagues in the audio industry with respect—create a collegial environment. This will inspire a new generation of girls to enroll in audio engineering programs and make tomorrow’s hits.

Meet the visionary women behind the sound of Jay-Z, Prince, Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Jamie xx, Pearl Jam, Sia, Timbaland and more.

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Sit DOWN Sunday Comic Book News Livestream - 22 August 2021 Edition

Sit DOWN Sunday Comic Book News Livestream - 22 August 2021 Edition | #comics #indiecomics #comicbooks #toys #crowdfunding

On the latest installment of Sit DOWN Sunday (hosted on Patrick Thomas Parnell’s YouTube channel Riot Press Productions), The Splintering founder Blake Worrell and fellow Splintering contributor George Travlos got another chance to discuss recent comic book news with Parnell and Wart the Wizard creator Mandy Summers. This week, we discussed the closing of Parnell’s Ultra Star campaign, the…

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Mandy Parnell = 🙌🙌🙌🙌

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Interview with Mandy Parnell, one of the world’s leading mastering engineers. 

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A tweet from Clifford Simon: RIP @MandyJClark a lady who i never met in person even though we were born just days apart. I met her on Twitter and also FB. A truly beautiful lady i will miss her. She was also a massive @eddieizzard fan, she ran a great fan page on FB which is what got us talking.Very sad 💔

An image of a smiling woman with blond hair and a yellow t shirt that reads “Canada” with a maple leaf. Text on image: Mandy Clark 6.5.61 - 7.12.22. This image accompanied Clifford’s tweet.

A tweet from Verna gene: @eddieizzard I just wanted to let you know that your biggest fan @MandyJClark has passed away unexpectedly yesterday. She had the amazing group on Facebook Eddie Izzard Appreciation with 12.5 K members and loved you with all her heart. She will be missed x Verna gene

A tweet from Liz Britton: @MandyJClark Shocked and saddened by your passing. Thank you for everything you did for @eddieizzard fans. You will be greatly missed. Rest in peace lovely lady. xx

A tweet from Emma Parnell: @eddieizzard my auntie was a huge fan of yours and ran a fan page which united many fans across the world. She sadly & unexpectedly passed away on Tues. Thank you for filling her world with joy and giving her lots of extra friends as a result of your group

A Facebook post from Eddie Izzard: Apologies for being slow to respond but I have been away filming on a rather intense schedule. But I would like to say I am deeply saddened to hear about the loss of Mandy Clark (Mandy.Clark.94) She was a tremendously supportive and committed person and I am so grateful for the time, effort and love she put into everything she did for me. I send my deepest sympathies to her family and friends on their very sad loss. Her energy and positive spirit will be sorely missed. Eddie Izzard

A tweet from Emma Parnell: @eddieizzard Thank you !! My auntie would’ve been absolutely cock-a-hoop to get a response from you. Our family thank you for the pleasure you gave her over the years and the friends she made as a result of running your fan club x

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A very sad loss to the Eddie Izzard fandom this week. Mandy Clark, who ran the very popular Facebook groups Eddie Izzard Daily News and Eddie Izzard Appreciation, passed away this past Tuesday.

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Wanted 2 Say by Samaris - Music video directed by Thora Hilmars

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knitting circle vibes

Come, come, come, come, come along now Run away from the hum-drum We'll go to a place that is safe from Greed, anger and boredom

We'll dance and sing 'til sundown And feast with abandon We'll sleep when the morning comes And we'll rise by the sound of the birdsongs

( @raspberryzingaaa​ for some reason our little conversation reminded me of this???)

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Mikko has mixed the new FEMME track ‘Fire with Fire’. The song was featured on Spotify’s New Music Friday and was in the Viral Top 50 Chart. The video premiered on the FADER.

The track was mastered by Mandy Parnell, who Mikko has a close working relationship with.

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RWL// 9#

Hi all, welcome to this week’s posting, and the last before all my stuff for this denotive project gets submitted to the uni powers that be, so hopefully it’s been fairly good up to now. Anyway....

Reading //

This week for once I bring plentiful reading material, largely thanks to the good people of the Guggenheim, who have just shared over 200 free art books online for everyone’s perusal. Naturally a week is not long enough to consume so much, but there’s some brilliant stuff on Rauschenberg, Kandinsky and the likes in there that is more than worth going through over the course of the next few years or something.... 

In other reading, this piece with Slowdive’s drummer and also ambient solo musician Simon Scott, mostly focused on the bands new record is worth a read for general inspiration and insight. 

This brilliant rare recent interview with Nick Cave, who is still as admirable as ever.

And should you want something more involved than just books, this week I was alerted to the fact an incredible amount of Ólafur Arnalds sheet music is avaliable for free on his website, which is going to take up hours of my time I’m sure. 

Watched // 

Due to impending uni deadlines and far too much overtime at work, the watching and visiting of cool things in London has been low on the ground this week bar one frankly life altering musical experience on Saturday night. 

We headed down to Camden Assembly to catch Sykoya (a really quite cool trip hop-y esque band that were very good indeed), however the headline act turned out to be a Spanish Europop duo consisting solely of an ableton setup, vocals, a questionable amount of shiny silver plastic clothing and a flute - yeah a flute. With their self titled ‘Electroverse’ (Flute Europop to you & me), they proceeded to play musically a typically pop banger quite good set, bar the slight confused comedy of the room at the novelty of the aforementioned tight vested flute/ableton player. To make matters more bizarre, their entire set was graced with the dancing of a sole lone man, moving as if his life depended on it, and making intense eye contact with everyone in the room for the whole duration - see the video below. So if you like europop sounds with the addition of a flute, slight comedy and incredible dancing, maybe go and see JANKSY, they probably wont disappoint you.

Additionally tonight (though you’re reading this on Friday I am a fake and write it on Thursdays as if it were Friday because I have lectures all day), I am going to the Fabric Women In Music Production event, which I’m extremely excited for down to there being a panel of really great influential figures under that guise, including an absolute hero in Mandy Parnell (I posted this piece about her in my very first blog on here and it’s still very much brilliant). I’m also taking some unheard music to play to them for critiquing so that may emerge provided it is salvageable from my inexperienced hands via their advice, I’ll let you know.

Listening //

This week is truly exciting for listening because it’s finally the week the Penguin Cafe record (the one i waxed about seeing live twice in a weekend on one of the early blogs here) is finally released today, and thanks to the powers of the internet, it’s been streaming in advance all week and with my copy yet to grace the post, - i’ve been taking full advantage. As I said when I posted about seeing them, the record is nothing short of incredible, but the recording thankfully also does it complete and utter justice. The entire record is a high point, but my own personal standouts are Cantorum (which has been out ages and you should’ve listened to by now), Rescue (which is completely spellbinding and made my eyes go all teary when I first heard it at the shows, and still does) and Wheels Within Wheels (a cover of the Simian Mobile Disco track like you’ve never heard it before), so if you can’t find the time for the whole thing, get those on your list at least.

Elsewhere, both the Mac DeMarco and Slowdive records are also out today, I’ve not heard the former just yet but I’ve been playing the latter on repeat loads the past few weeks and it is incredible, and i don’t doubt DeMarco for a minute either - it’s a beautiful day out there for releases. On a side note, Avalon Emerson just put out a brilliant rework of Slowdive’s Sugar For The Pill worth playing a lot here.

And finally, this A.G. Cook remix of the new Danny Harle track is incredible listening, and part of PC Music’s May Madness which brings a new piece of music every day this month, and is yet to disappoint.

Speaking of beautiful day for releases, today I’m also really very excited to say my first single as INEXUNIN with Noise Is Therapy records is out - it’s a split collaborative double A side with my pal and ace musician Bouquets and comes up to a hefty 15 minutes of ambient experimental noise for a mere few pennies over on bandcamp, so if you’re down for that kind of thing, feel free to check it out and maybe send some money to our struggling student weird musician bank accounts (I promised you all music and we’ve finally got there, success). (On a side note, you can now ‘like’ me on Facebook under  that moniker, or Twitter or whatever other media outlet you please, more info etc. on the website) And that’s enough talking about myself for one week, until next time...