{"id":3378,"date":"2025-09-29T09:45:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:47:31","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/29\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Not everything worth listening to comes from a concert hall, and not everything worth reading comes from a book. This blog sits somewhere in between.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello, I\u2019m Andrew Hugill. I compose music, study musicology, and spend a lot of time thinking about sound, culture, disability, \u2019pataphysics, technology, and the odd intersections between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here I share reflections on my compositions and installations, research insights, musings on academia and retirement, and anything else that catches my curiosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you enjoy unexpected connections, you\u2019re in the right place. You can also visit my other blog,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autisticprofessor.uk\">Autistic Professor<\/a><\/strong>, where I write about autism, neurodiversity, and related topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for stopping by! I look forward to sharing ideas with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everything worth listening to comes from a concert hall, and not everything worth reading comes from a book. This blog sits somewhere in between. Hello, I\u2019m Andrew Hugill. I compose music, study musicology, and spend a lot of time thinking about sound, culture, disability, \u2019pataphysics, technology, and the odd intersections between them. Here I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[25,26,23,27,24,28],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-culture","tag-disability","tag-music","tag-pataphysics","tag-sound","tag-technology"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3380,"href":"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/3380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}