Abi Bliss

Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

Coordinator and Project Producer at Yorkshire Sound Women Network

Puts words, audio & other things in order. @YSWN_ co-director/coordinator/producer, @CoMA_NewMusic digital content & marketing. She/her https://t.co/DVULoWdMHt

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Articles

“Can we think much, much weirder?”: Jennifer Walshe’s book on AI reviewed

1 month ago | thewire.co.uk | Abi Bliss

13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art & Music Jennifer Walshe Fundacja Tone Pbk 52pp “I’m both sublimely excited and blackly horrified about what is coming,” wrote Jennifer Walshe in “Ghosts Of The Hidden Layer”, an essay she delivered at Darmstadt in 2018. If the last two years have seen AI software expand from being a tool of enthusiastic nerds to mainstream ubiquity more rapidly than many anticipated – or are comfortable with – Walshe would be one of those most prepared and least surprised.
The Wire Issue 495

2 months ago | thewire.co.uk | Francis Gooding |Abi Bliss |Daniel Spicer |Misha Farrant

May 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 494. Inside our brand new issue: aya: New album hexed! explores sobriety and neurodiversity through radical tunings and transformed instruments. By Chal Ravens Satch Hoyt: The one-time Burnt Sugar member’s Un-Muting project opens museum archives of stolen instruments. By Francis Gooding Ailie Ormston: The Glasgow composer moves away from the conservatoire to conduct the sounds of the city.
Be the first to hear our new Changing Gear pieces

Mar 3, 2025 | yorkshiresoundwomen.com | Abi Bliss

It’s time to unveil the three new works created for our Changing Gear project. After being selected from all the artists who responded to our callout last autumn, Cherry Seraph, Artists’ Child and Helen Papaioannou have all taken inspiration from the ideas and legacy of electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram.
“This traineeship felt like an opportunity to finally get a foot in the door” - Holly’s blog

Dec 13, 2024 | yorkshiresoundwomen.com | Abi Bliss

Thanks to support from Youth Music’s Incubator fund, YSWN has been able to offer a series of paid traineeship roles to help women and people of minority gender aged 18–25 take a first step into the audio industry. Hosted by AiAI Studios, BeSound Studios, Rare Tone Mastering, PitStop Productions and Club Haus Studios, the placements have given the trainees valuable skills in everything from film sound design and podcast editing to vinyl mastering and games audio.
New opportunity: Audio Trainee, PitStop Productions

Oct 31, 2024 | yorkshiresoundwomen.com | Abi Bliss

YSWN has teamed up with PitStop Productions to offer a paid Audio Traineeship opportunity. As part of YSWN’s mission to provide better opportunities specifically for women and people of minority genders within the music industry, we are working with music and sound industry employers to challenge and change the gender gap.
Changing Gear: meet our chosen creators

Oct 4, 2024 | yorkshiresoundwomen.com | Abi Bliss

Artists’ ChildArtists’ Child is the solo electronic music project of performance designer Bethany Wells. A modular synth alchemist, she sculpts powerful narratively-driven journeys, moving between drone, ambient and techno, with a sonic palette of glitches, wild texture and driving rhythms. Drawing on her background in architecture and performance design, Artists’ Child creates immersive spatial worlds for audiences to enter.
New opportunity: Trainee Assistant with Rare Tone Mastering

Sep 23, 2024 | yorkshiresoundwomen.com | Abi Bliss

YSWN has teamed up with Rare Tone Mastering & Vinyl Production to offer two paid Mastering and Vinyl Production Assistant trainee opportunities. Supported by Youth Music‘s Incubator fund, this is a positive action paid trainee opportunity aimed at women and minority gendered people aged 18-25 years old, with applications particularly welcomed from those of the global majority.
WIRED East Riding returns for the autumn

Sep 10, 2024 | yorkshiresoundwomen.com | Abi Bliss

Our WIRED Music Technology Club is back for the autumn, and if you are or know someone living in the East Riding of Yorkshire who’d like to join in, it’s time to sign up!WIRED is a free music technology club for girls and young people of marginalised genders aged 11–18 and run by YSWN and East Riding Music Hub.
New opportunity: perform at Switched On Festival in Whitby

Sep 9, 2024 | yorkshiresoundwomen.com | Abi Bliss

Are you an aspiring or emerging electronic musician? Would you like support to develop a performance set? And perform at Switched On Festival in Whitby this November? YSWN’s WIRED programme, AMP Music and Flash Company Arts have teamed up to launch an artist development opportunity for women and people of marginalised genders aged 18-25.
Changing Gear commissions: apply now!

Aug 20, 2024 | yorkshiresoundwomen.com | Abi Bliss

As part of our Changing Gear programme, we’re looking for three emerging women or minority gender music creators based in Yorkshire and the Humber to compose and perform new electronic pieces inspired by the ideas and legacy of pioneering composer Daphne Oram and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of her birth. Each selected creator will receive a fee of £1,400, mentoring from past Oram Awards winners and the chance to develop their artistic voice by experimenting with analogue music kit.