Dr Ellie Chan

Delighted to (at last, at last) announce that my next monograph, Syrene Sounds: False Relations in the English Renaissance, is under contract with Oxford University Press! Massive love to everyone who has supported me and this weird and wonderful project along the way.

Looks like I picked a great week to tentatively return to #AcademicTwitter… If you need me I’ll be looking at some of Toko Shinoda’s late 90s works, thinking about the relationship between calligraphic modernism and the visuality of music, and screaming into the abyss…

Soooo… all those book (forthcoming December 2024) illustrations I have just paid ££££s and cleared copyright for on the basis it is a print book and password-protected ebook… what’s the score with those then…? What publisher will want to publish academic books in future?

Please support this amazing crowd funded project which brings together artists and historians to reimagine the trumpet player John Blanke @WhoIsJohnBlanke crowdfunder.co.uk/p/publishing-t…

Easing myself gently into 2024 (and post another bout of covid) writing about Cornelia Parker’s Breathless (2001) today. Feels awkwardly poignant.

2023 has been horrendous (and somehow worse than 2021 and 2022 which, if you know, is just 😭) But it is also the year that I finally, finally managed to grow an asparagus spear. It might have been stumpy, woody, and snail nibbled, but I am taking every single tiny win.

"The wood in an oud or a violin reflects an old forest, the bodies who played it, and many other things, but in an intrinsic, organic way, transcending abstractions." Jaron Lanier @NewYorker newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

Congratulations to @annaparker_ and @natashakbailey, our #SRSlyGood incoming SRS Postdoctoral Fellows! 💫🥳💫 rensoc.org.uk/funding-prizes…

OMG.

@callanjd @cjfaraday @IsabellaRosner @earlymodernjohn Glad you enjoyed Callan!

Finally got round to this excellent Free Thinking discussion on the Tudor world’s vivid visual environment and culture with @cjfaraday @afalserelation and @IsabellaRosner hosted by @earlymodernjohn. One for the listening lists! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

I’m looking to get in touch with Lady Caroline Knox of Great Pednor House (need to see some of its wall paintings!) - anybody have any connections? Please and thank you! (and would appreciate a R/T).

We're in Tudor mode @BBCRadio3 as @earlymodernjohn discusses #byrd400 + musical notation🎼w/ @afalserelation /needlework 🪡 🧵w/ @IsabellaRosner & #TudorLiveliness🎨+ #PaintedLove show @Holburne w/@cjfaraday Tune in📻10pm or here's the podcast ➡️bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f… . .

Composer William Byrd died #OTD in 1623. Considered one of the most important musical figures of the Renaissance, his music has inspired some incredible compositional responses. One of my favourites is Kyrie After Byrd by @RoxannaPanufnik open.spotify.com/track/7rEzfGEK…

Who owned and read music books in early modern Europe? Who had access to printed musical material, how did they interact with it, and to what end? Join us over the next five years to follow along and see what we find... kcl.ac.uk/research/dorme…

I don’t think people understand the extent to which information on websites like Wikipedia is often catastrophically out of date because it’s from c19th or early c20th texts in the public domain

An online attitude that’s developed in the last 20 years and really bugs me is the idea that all historical information is available somewhere on the web. No, it’s not. There are historians working at the evidential coalface every day to make it available

Unusual 14th c. French manuscript with margins cut like lace. Known as canivet, this method is often associated with much later periods, but this text/image layout suggests maybe the margins were planned this way.