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composer | accordionist | tech user/hater | game dev | music on @aerocade | director @pielectro | prof @calpolypomona l โ€œone of those they them peopleโ€

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what if cats were bass clarinets
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Why isnโ€™t AI doing the tedious shit for creative people instead of the creative shit for tedious people
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I dunno exactly why but I love Bayer matrix dithering. Could stare at this all day
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Man goes to see Pagliacci, goes backstage. Tells Pagliacci he thought the show would cheer him up, but he's still depressed. Pagliacci says, "Oh well I'm just a silly clown. Shouldn't you go see a real doctor?" Man bursts into tears. Says, "But Pagliacci,
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wow I can't believe they're really trying this
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Steve Reich: "oh hey a musical idea" Steve Reich's brain: don't phase it don't phase it don't phase it on't phase itd n't phase itdo 't phase itdon t phase itdon' phase it don't hase itdon't p ase itdon't ph se itdon't pha e itdon't phas it don't phase t don't phasei
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"art is like good bread" is something that I keep coming back to
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The Wilhelm scream is a sound effect of a man screaming that has been used in at least 389 films and countless television series since 1951. To facilitate this, Wilhelm has been chained and locked in a studio basement for over 60 years. He never stops screaming
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had a dream I was at a rave talking to a girl and she told me about a genre called โ€œhit emโ€ that is in 5/4 time at 212 bpm with super crunched out sounds thank you dream girl
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In 2004 Autechre was asked to provide screenshots for an article in Sound on Sound and to this day no one knows for sure if this is a functional Max patch or a massive troll
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"let's delete information that's not popular" seems like a very efficient way to destroy civilization
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monolith has Stories now
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I'm gonna miss daft punk
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Koyaanisdisney
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Classical music etiquette tip: Only clap during movements 2 & 4. Clapping during movements 1 & 3 is considered gauche
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every audio person on the planet upon reading this headline: [involuntary screaming]
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music-powered meat car
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vinyl7 records
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"thank you dream girl," you say as you turn to leave. but the door you go through just leads to another room. you search for a way out but you're hemmed in by the crowd and their strange, lopsided dancing. hit em is a dream that never ends. you will never wake up
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had a dream I was at a rave talking to a girl and she told me about a genre called โ€œhit emโ€ that is in 5/4 time at 212 bpm with super crunched out sounds thank you dream girl
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comic sans implies the existence of tragic sans
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โœจHEY COMPOSERS AND SOUND DESIGNERS!โœจDo you want to work on an amazing game with an incredible team and fantastic salary and great benefits? Well, me too
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Oh huh this one? Really?
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Ableton, Logic, Reaper, Pro Tools
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The poor pop musician cannot read music. The sad classical musician cannot play by ear. The true chad musician can do neither
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why write out "lgbtq+" when it's all here in this one convenient glyph
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Ok this one Iโ€™m taking personally
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The CDC says you don't need a sound check
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And the man storms out. Pagliacci takes a deep breath, turns to his manager. "Wow, that guy was a piece of work, huh? If I was a different person, that might really get to me. But I'm fucking Pagliacci, the rich and famous clown. My life rules." And he flies away on rocket boots
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good morning! wake up to asmr breakfast hit em ๐Ÿณ
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had a dream I was at a rave talking to a girl and she told me about a genre called โ€œhit emโ€ that is in 5/4 time at 212 bpm with super crunched out sounds thank you dream girl
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contemporary classical music royalty is so weird because it's like 12 people who are famous but only to each other
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what the actual fuck
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In Germany sheโ€™s called Cardi H
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[Lou Bega voice] Mahler No. 5
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Yay I made an apple theremin! One controls pitch, one controls volume
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Beethoven's 5th but it's ACAB
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the more you learn about music the less you know how to answer this question
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literally WHAT the FUCK IS music, how does it exist, how did we figure this out, how does it elicit emotion like that, what the fuccckkkk dude?? just some air bent this way and that?? sure dude go off i guess
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Tรกr/Maestro double feature but you put on Maestro when Tรกr puts on the Bernstein VHS tape and watch the rest of Tรกr afterward
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@CBSNews @BernieSanders @IsraeliPM Yo itโ€™s anti-Semitic to equate Jewishness with support for the Israeli government
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"... I AM a real doctor. I have a fucking doctorate from Yale in clinical psychology. I've published dozens of papers on mental illness that have been cited thousands of times. And you, you fucking clown, you have the audacity to tell ME what to do? Fuck you, Pagliacci."
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o shit a palpable hit
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me: oh wow this composer has some real Ivesian mulitiplicity going on, very interesting me 2 seconds later: oh heh I had two tabs playing audio open
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we're winning, everyone! keep it up!
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somebody once told me a secret chord they showed me that David played and it pleased the Lord she tied you to a chair broke your throne and cut your hair and from your lips drew a broken and cold hey now hallelujah
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It's called "Behind Bars" because music notation is a prison
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No, Ableton is the name of the company. The software is Abletonโ€™s monster
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Hey composers, if anyone tries to tell you that you should compose at the piano, or shouldnโ€™t compose at the piano, or tries to shame you about some similar aspect of your process, theyโ€™re wrong and you should ignore their advice
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3 years
let the bidding war begin
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Ableton Live implies the existence of Ableton Laugh and Ableton Love
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a freeze on mortgage payments but not rent is a poverty tax
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I'm composing* *listening to the bit I just wrote on endless loop
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@jacobcollier Jacob collier does not exist
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spotted in the wild
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@edzitron
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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future.
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People get really mad when they find out that learning music theory doesnโ€™t make you magically write good music
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Rejected Radiohead album names
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HEY COMPUTERS???? COMPUTERS?????? FUCK YOU
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What is the most ""new music"" instrument? I nominate the bass clarinet
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Pro Tools: Biden Logic Pro: Warren Ableton Live: Sanders Audition: Klobuchar Reason: Yang Cubase: Steyer Digital Performer: Bloomberg FL Studio: Gabbard GarageBand: Buttigieg Reaper: AOC????
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This is so funny because John Williams is literally the most performed living composer
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He offered to send me lossless audio of constructive criticism but I told him I didn't want any flac
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4โ€™33โ€ (Taylorโ€™s Version)
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this aged well
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my hot take is that it's okay to sit in a cafe on your laptop and work or futz around on the internet or whatever. why do people even care about this
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technology standards that have lasted 30+ years: 1. midi 2. legos 3. ???
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Popular music is good because everybody likes it Classical music is good because only a few people like it but they're rich Experimental music is good because nobody likes it and that makes it morally pure
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Who decided to call it โ€œpublic domainโ€ and not โ€œI.P. Freelyโ€
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In light of recent discourse, casual reminder to support Bandcamp United while Epic Games is still union-busting
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Bandcamp United
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We really appreciate all your support! ๐Ÿ™ Keep tagging us in tweets of support & why you (as an artist/fan) support our union at Bandcamp. Please keep supporting artists on Bandcamp! Musicians are workers too, and we want to make sure they get paid ๐Ÿ’ธ Solidarity forever! ๐Ÿค
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I GOT TENURE
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WHO DID THIS?????????
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AI that judges you for your Spotify listening preferences by redirecting your browser to Bandcamp
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wow this new app is super confusing
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I wish some film composer's assistant would publish a tell-all because the process of composing in that medium is so poorly understood. People actually think the named composer wrote all the music, which is very rarely the case
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The writersโ€™ strike has got me thinking about how rad it would be if musicians united against streaming services
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Due to inflation,
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I wish there was more intermediate level new chamber music
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Based on this turnout Pence has a bright future in contemporary classical music
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Dude, just drop out.
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it's a leitmotif
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Ancient โ€˜90s Code From Quake Still Controls Lights In Half-Life: Alyx
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COMPOSERS you can only use one note to convince people to follow you
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I used to have ADHD but then I upgraded to AD4K
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Anyhoo western musical notation is a technology, and like any other creative technology it opens up certain possibilities and closes off others. This is not unique to w. musical notation; it is true of every musical system, every instrument, every piece of software or hardware
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Pagliacci gets out of bed, goes online, and makes an appointment. In the morning, he goes to see his doctor. Music swells. Roll credits. PAGLIACCI: ORIGINS SUMMER 2023
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do re mi fa tigue
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the word โ€œwowโ€ is just a vowel with a lowpass filter
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what about an app called Feds that turns all your data over to the feds oh wait hold on Iโ€™m receiving new info
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oh wow this is what happens when you try and open up a sibelius score in google docs
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Music notation is silly and inefficient. Much better if everyone moved to Max patches. It shows signal flow and is much more visually intuitive.
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do you ever think "I should close some tabs" and then go through your tabs but it turns out you need every single one of them open for some reason
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Musicians buying MIDI Chord Packs is like if writers bought English Vocabulary Packs
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Classical music as a field has told me over and over that I don't really belong there, but it's my responsibility to save it
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art needs backwards compatibility, unfortunately commerce doesn't
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nothing but respect for MY ex
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Gonna do a concert where I just play the easy parts of all 32 Beethoven sonatas
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Uptown girl, she's been living in her 12-tone world As long as anyone with hot blood can And now she's looking for a downtown man Bang on a can
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My opinion on music is that it is good and people should make more of it
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some of the student reactions to Xenakis in class today
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If you're interested to know how a college music program can accommodate students who don't come in reading Western music notation, here's how we did it at Cal Poly Pomona:
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Lynyrd Byrnstyn
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I think it's super interesting that people are under the impression that music school doesn't teach you how to learn things by ear when practically every program has a pretty intensive aural skills component
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One weird trick to learn to play polyrhythms is to rewrite them without tuplets
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