Rather nice to see the heath packed out with families at this annual event with lots of people having a go at kite-flying. Steel drum band were also great.

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I'm having a lovely time playing about making entirely unnecessary but very enjoyable art. Since Reddit / Facebook etc seem to be a hive of art theft I've purposely made it low res (as I did for the Miffy de Poitrine laptop stickers).

Possibly aliens don't use a postal system that's similar to those on Earth but I decided to imagine that they did and here's what I came up with. The one on the left shows the three Moons of Poitrine (they did say we could make up lore!) and the one on the right shows a tohogd-powered rocket* from the Agence Spatiale Poitrinienne heading off to visit the pale blue dot (that's us!).

Possibly these would be interactive stamps which would play music in some way. This has precedent; in 1972 Bhutan produced a set of playable phonographic 'record' stamps which could be played on a turntable. There's also the Voyager space probe golden records - those were 'posted' into space with a rocket launch.

*it's actually what I think is a water tower next to the Chicoutimi pulp mill where the annual 'La Noce' festivals take place. (personally I think it's their spaceship).

Jo

Unofficial Poitrinian postage stamps displaying features and activities of the planet.

Face value UK tickets seem to be somewhere between £27 and 35 (depending on booking fees etc) and resale values are obviously much higher than that. Assuming that the tickets on sale here are genuine what happens if people don't want to pay that much. Will the ticket owners just not sell them and so there will be 'gaps' among the audience as tickets are taken out of play?

https://www.stubhub.co.uk/angine-de-poitrine-tickets/performer/102850449/

StubHub apparently has 28 tickets for London 19th October concert and 21 for the Tuesday 20th gig.

Also is there is a single centralised pot of tickets or do each of the various ticket-selling websites have their own batch to sell?

Jo

I was in Orkney recently for their science festival and visited a shop (Judith Glue) on Broad Street that has delicious tea and carrot cake as well as gifts and souvenirs. These decorations relate to the 'Orkney Ba', a rugby-like game played with multiple tens of players that has been played for hundreds of years during Orkney's Christmas or New Year celebrations.

https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/orkney-blog/beginners-guide-to-the-ba/

Ceramic deorations from Orkney

They seem to be quite keen to do extra gigs so I wouldn't put it past them but hopefully they're going out tonight for nice pizza, or putting their feet up and watching TV, or generally socialising with their pals.

I'm in Orkney*, Scotland so have no skin in the game as I'm nowhere near New York but always interested in hearing about spontaneous gigs, wondering where they might be, and then updating the map ;)

*I'm further North than Québec! Also I visited Stromness museum yesterday and learned of lots of 1800s toing and froing between Orkney and Canada and much trading going on. Orkney also has a rock festival... (I'm here for their science festival).

Jo

These are stereoscopic pairs taken with an old-ish iPhone. You stand with your feet a short distance apart and take a photo with weight on one foot and then shift weight to the other foot to take the second in the pair. Then you line them up (I used Keynote which is bundled with my Mac laptop but a free thing is Google Slides - just need a Gmail account to access that). Explanation below the 3 images. Also PowerPoint is great for this if you have that.

Happy for anyone to use these images for any purpose, consider them CC0 (me putting them into the public domain). Eventually I'll add them to Flickr along with a few more.

One of the entrances to Skaill House

One of the dwellings at Skara Brae

Another dwelling, or possibly a workshop at Skara Brae

These are arranged with the LEFT photo on the left and the RIGHT photo on the right and will produce a 3D / depth perception effect image (once focused it will look like there are three copies of the image, the '3D' effect one is between the other two) if you are able to 'parallel focus'. Later on (am at a series of talks at the science festival, so once I'm back at my hotel this evening) I'll reverse the images so that the LEFT is on the right and the RIGHT image is on the left - this is for people who naturally do 3D stereoscopy by crossing their eyes. Either method will produce a 3D effect but only one layout will look right for you.

Most people don't need any special equipment to view these but you do need reasonably good binocular vision (I don't think spectacles make any difference). It's quite a nice effect as you get to see it a tiny bit more closely to reality - your two eyes are feeding a constant 'TV feed' to your brain which is easily converting the two images into a coherent 3D effect. When taking these photos I'm aiming for two pictures taken a few inches apart (to reflect the short distance betwen your two eyes). Images taken further apart would probably be a bit painful to try and line up.

In the first image you are trying to make the two inner arches, left and right, into a single inner arch in the middle. Hope you enjoy having a go :) In the third image the sea, as an object that moves, is a bit unobliging for this sort of thing ;)

I'm enjoying your beautiful islands
Jo

Edit: the same photo pairs as above but ordered R-L instead of L-R for cross-eyed focusers.

An entrance to Skaill House

One of the Skara Brae dwellings...

...and what might be a workshop.

The full set of L-R pairs are in this Flickr album https://www.flickr.com/photos/jodiepedia/albums/72177720335509964

Montréal Jazz Fest had an enormous crowd for Angine de Poitrine (of the order of 100,000 people, about the same or possibly larger than the festival's audience for Stevie Wonder) and there are lots of video clips of the fantastic concert. I've been enjoying this little TikTok video of Menk de Poitrine crowdsurfing the audience in a small inflatable boat https://www.tiktok.com/@doodle187/video/7656489652240633095 and AdP saying 'MEEEEEENNNNNKKK DE POITRIIIIIINE' :)

Menk de Poitrine in his 'chasse-galerie' above a sea of hands.

The context for this is 'La Chasse-Galerie' a mythical folk tale from Québec about a group of woodsmen of yore, deciding to go and visit their girlfriends at Christmas / New Year. They have to make a deal with the devil to bewitch their canoe to fly them home and you can read all about the tale in this Reddit post by lawkktara - https://www.reddit.com/r/AngineDePoitrine/comments/1umeu2o/angine_de_la_chassegalerie_angine_of_the_flying/

It felt like a story that must have been made into a film or cartoon and I found that there is indeed a film, from 2016, called Chasse-Galerie: La Légende which is on YouTube (alas without any English subtitles) and I went looking to see where else it might be streaming or if Québec films are ever shown in London UK. It appears to be streaming on a few places but I've not tested this https://www.justwatch.com/ca/movie/wild-run-the-legend

That also led me to the Québec cultural diary in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Nordic countries https://www.quebec.ca/en/gouvernement/ministeres-organismes/relations-internationales/quebec-government-offices-abroad/london/mission-mandates/cultural-agenda-quebec#c337549 which mentions the UK-based Angine de Poitrine concerts :)

The Government of Québec also supported Angine de Poitrine's concerts at The Great Escape as you can see from these two Facebook posts https://www.facebook.com/reel/1509473344209437 and https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1400278848803838

Jo

I am up to 14th July 2026 so another 22 concerts to add to take us up to 'today' (these 22 are not yet added) and then the further 55 concerts between tomorrow and the end of the year. I've placed those 55 on the map but put them in a separate layer and greyed them out (cos they've not happened yet). Once done I'll recolour them and move them to the 'active layer'.

Every few days I'll add in links to videos, photos, articles etc for completed concerts which means that the map can't actually be complete until after the last concert on 13 December.

The map | The Google sheet that drives it

Click on a map marker, or one of the concert listings in the left, to see information about that event (including pics and vids where I've found them, and other info). The one in the middle of the ocean is the Azores / Portugal concert.

A screenshot of what people see when they visit the Angine de Poitrine concerts 2020-2026 map.

Please let me know of any mistakes or bits missing (I'm aware I need to backfill a few of the setlists).

Ta, Jo :)

Lovely stuff, solidity of Klek, fluidity of Khn, enjoyment of crowd, chef's kiss https://www.facebook.com/100002017655894/videos/1516856476736480/ - from Anna Rumyantzeva who recorded it and then made the clip public, thumbs up all round.

From what I think is their 105th concert, according to the map stats :)
Jo

Found these. Note that "peer review" means the slightly-imperfect-but-better-than-nothing method journal editors use to assess whether they should publish an article. Submitted draft articles are shared among experts in the topic at hand (peers) who read the text to make sure there are no obvious errors (e.g. in data collection, analysis) and that the thing makes sense. Sometimes articles are published on pre-print servers for anyone (peers and everyone else) to look at and comment before a final version is produced.

The first one is free to download as a PDF. The 2nd one requires institutional access (or I assume you can buy a copy) and my university is sadly not a subscriber. If anyone does have institutional access it might be worth sending a copy to Spectacles Bonzaï as they might be interested to see it.

Jo

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Grantham, Michael Deahl (June 13, 2026) When Weird Wins: Algorithmic Attention and the Reconfiguration of Musical Breakthrough. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6535759 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6535759

Abstract: The Québec duo Angine de Poitrine accumulated 4.2 million views on a single KEXP recording within weeks of its February 2026 release, sold out a French tour, and conducted a national television interview in an invented language. By mid-June 2026 the recording had passed 15 million views, Vol. II had been released on schedule, the world tour had been extended a third time, and Billboard Canada had given the duo its Global Breakthrough Award, accepted in silence from the stage. The case sits awkwardly with prevailing accounts of platform-mediated breakthrough. The aesthetic vocabulary – microtonal guitar drawing on Turkish, Japanese and Middle Eastern systems, oversized papier-mâché masks, refusal of genre, anonymity – was forged across two decades of DIY practice in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean rock scene, conditions structurally remote from the optimisation logics platform studies has identified as the precondition for visibility. The paper works through four frictions: a causal-direction friction (platform selection versus aesthetic arrival from a non-platform path); a curatorial friction (the persistence of human-curatorial selection inside algorithmically distributed material); a durability friction (the virality–durability gap as structural feature, distributional outcome, or mixture of mechanisms); and an inferential friction (what can be claimed from a single ongoing case). The causal-direction friction is met by splitting the selection-signal indicator into three sub-indicators, so the case becomes adjudicable rather than over-determined. The curatorial friction is met by extending the four-step chain to admit peer-celebrity endorsement and downstream commercial absorption. The durability friction is met by separating operationalisation from comparison class from mechanism, and by substituting a mixture reading for the structural-versus-distributional dichotomy. The April–June 2026 portion of the test window is reported in Table 2; the 12-month horizon remains open. [Jo - I've no idea what that last sentence means, possibly the paper will explain it]

Keywords: algorithmic amplification, attention economy, platform capitalism, music virality, digital cultural intermediaries, pattern disruption, cultural production, curiosity gap

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Viel, Nicolas (08/06/2026) Musique: Angine de Poitrine https://shs.cairn.info/revue-france-forum-2026-2-page-91?lang=fr

Abstract: LA MUSIQUE demeure fort heureusement une république où la liberté d’exprimer ses goûts reste une valeur d’autant plus salutaire qu’elle s’appuie sur des critères objectifs et universels. L’ équivalent musical du tribunal de l’Histoire produit son œuvre. Avec l’aide des musicologues, mélomanes et archivistes de tous poils, les qualités ou défauts véritables d’une œuvre apparaissent une fois remis dans leur contexte socio-culturel, reflétant le degré de courage inventif dont elle est le produit, ou le flair commercial de son compositeur. L’ avis d’un critique chevronné peut parfois, sur le coup, endommager une carrière mais ce n’est heureusement pas le cas général. Le talent retrouve ses droits la plupart du temps et la redécouverte tardive d’un génie méconnu reste exceptionnelle.
Aujourd’hui, le débat fait rage autour d’un groupe québécois, Angine de Poitrine (sic), spécialisé dans le math rock. Cette délicate discipline plutôt expérimentale, proche parente du rock progressif, suppose l’usage maîtrisé des mathématiques dans la musique. Pas vraiment une nouveauté puisque Pythagore en avait fait une philosophie. Plus près de nous, dans les années 1960, on se souvient que Pierre Barbaud et Iannis Xenakis en faisaient un emploi régulier. Le compositeur américain Tom Johnson, décédé à Paris il y a un an et demi, y faisait appel pour de courtes pièces minimalistes et pleines d’esprit.
Le duo Angine de Poitrine, un guitariste et un batteur, se présente costumé en noir et blanc de façon insolite, voire loufoque, portant des masques qui leur cachent entièrement la tête…

Have I missed a concert or made a mistake? I bet I have ;)

Here's the map... https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1dikHVAqeyQAqhopPr8SlV9PhxUu3X7I&ll=45.606407033130125%2C-74.26938746533473&z=6

...and the data table from which Google Maps creates the map https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GHvHkp1rRN5yFL0-VKzYS5-yesf1B5f8NJsSVZ-KO8M/edit?gid=0#gid=0 (view only, make a copy if you want the data).

Screenshot of the map showing concerts between 2020 and 2025.

The view from telescopes on Poitrine.

Google Earth version of the map.

Next is 2026. That should keep me busy for a while!

But for now, bedtime :)
Jo

Angine de Poitrine's concert at the Corona Capital 2026 festival takes place at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City later this year (Sun 22 Nov 2026) and I can see that previous festival events have been livestreamed (Chappell Roan and Foo Fighters for example) and it looks like the whole 2024 event was streamed on various platforms.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCbr8SLg22l/

This is a link for Facebook streams and presumably there are links for the other platforms too so I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for that.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/AutodromoHermanosRodriguez

Jo

I enjoyed this post from Marc on one of the umpteen Facebook fan groups, have double-checked and it is genuine.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2650026258716737?multi_permalinks=2805779043141457

If you don't have Facebook then search for the logo belonging to the Association Forestière Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. I assume the sign is near where they landed and they've been making the sign back to Earthlings thinking that's how we greet one another ;)

I had not come across this before so sorry if it's old news (nothing came up on search).

Jo

Note that the thumbnail to this post shows an unrelated map of London!

First 25 gigs mapped :)
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1dikHVAqeyQAqhopPr8SlV9PhxUu3X7I&usp=sharing

Ever since someone u/YanikLD asked here about a map of the concerts I've not been able to get that idea out of my mind and so have been doing some groundwork to gather data (I love gathering data!) to create a nice wee map of all their gigs.

A very basic map with blue marker points for each concert - there are about 180 here, more to add.

I want the final map to also be useful (beyond just locations) which is why I'm collecting info about photos, videos, setlists and so on so that if you were to click on any map marker you'd find out some more about the event (where info exists) - this is why there are lots of posts from me recently about things I've discovered (or rediscovered as obviously other people will have seen them before me). I'm having a lovely time :D

A more developed version (with a few test gigs in Canada), with gold triangular markers.

Gosh I wish you could resize images on Reddit, this is a bit shouty!

It's driven by a Google Spreadsheet which is then imported into Google Maps which automates the placement of the map markers following the location and venue information. It's possible to adjust (sometimes a venue doesn't have an official location code, such as the Brighton gig on the beach which was in a pop up tent), and edit the fields for each event.

I'm in no rush so can't give an estimated completion time but I will post an update in a month. Actually things might slow down a bit now that the weather has cooled to the point where I might leave my house and do stuff in the real world again ;) This was fun to do while I was pinned to the sofa by the London heatwave!

Previous maps of mine include the map of some of the lamps in London that are still lit by gas (there are 1,300 lamps and I've captured a little over a tenth!) and the location of cherry blossom trees in Greenwich Park and surrounding areas, for blossom hunters in April. I like mapping things ;)

edit: Adding link at the bottom too as trying to change the accompanying icon which used the London lamps map instead.

Angine de Poitrine concerts 2020-2024 map.

Jo

The rewind option stopped working and the link has refreshed for the next session, sorry!

Livestream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Lxn_TLHg4

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No sound as yet, just setting up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Lxn_TLHg4

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