A Whale's Lantern @awhaleslantern@mastodon.art

many months ago i wrote a little two bar melody that goes "time to blank blank blank" and now it's like an executive function pavlovs bell i hear it and feel conviction run thru my veins and start whining

I just added an RSS feed to the Music Monday archive:
http://music.hcoder.org/music-monday/

And now that there's a feed, it would be a waste to not have any new entries... so I guess I should have a second season at some point 😅

The second season might be more "relaxed", simply songs I like, and something I like about the song (without trying to teach any concepts or going "deep" into it or whatever). We'll see.

#MusicMonday

If you're going to use last year's call for scores as a template for this year's, make sure you double check your search and replace.

Apparently there is a workshop on writing for oboe but you need to submit a viola piece, and it is on the 2nd of November but you must be free on the 3rd to attend.

I don't think I'm up for paying £10 for this if they can't even get those details right.

I kindof want to put a "negative reviews" page on my website just so I can whinge in public about the time [redacted, famous composer] called my work "rudimentary, what I would expect of a first-year undergraduate".

I'm not going to, but the temptation is there.

My friend is looking for an internship, or a volunteering program in Europe.

She's an illustrator, who recently graduated and wants to take a gap year.

If you have suggestions and recommendations, especially from personal experience, please do make them. Your help is much appreciated.

Feel free to boost too.

If you want to learn classical guitar from the beginning this is amazing resource:

https://www.thisisclassicalguitar.com/lessons/

It has videos for all lessons and free PDF downloads, plus many additional video to improve your technique and other tricks. It's all free, no registration required.

#guitar #lessons

I found a wonderful Ben Levin Video in which #drummer Matt Zappa talks about how he as a gay black kid found a home in the #metal scene.

#bagly #queer #lgbtiqa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBzIp4Tv1YQ

Recommend me albums that have the same funk quotient as Herbie Hancock's album Head Hunters, please.

Violin lesson went fine but whyyyy do we always have to do something that's more difficult than what we did before? 😭 #music

Some butterflies I photographed looking very pretty whilst in the process of making more butterflies today:

Thanks to @LogicalDash, I made a remix of the complete Sim City 2000 soundtrack: https://mired.bandcamp.com/album/sim-city-2000-remixed

Relive your glory days of 90's gaming through my hazy, twisted filter of downtempo fuzz and synth cream

Hey, sometime after I finish my PhD...

...would anyone be interested in being in a Fediverse Virtual Choir to sing some of my work so I can put recordings online?

Eric Whitacre did this (not on the Fediverse) and it worked super well. I... definitely don't have his resources, but I can probably film a conducting track that people can sing to.

Listening to music by a fictional boy band for a series targetted at... pre-teens, probably? In Danish (which I don't really understand), for good measure.

Don't ask.

Also: it doesn't even sound that bad, tbh.

On my mission to read a book from every country in the world, I finished all the countries starting with A! And I wrote about them: http://books.balaena.space/a-countries-finished/
#books #reading

"Which 22 artists have you selected to negotiate the slippery slope between Elon Musk and Sun Ra? Which 22 artists could capably and competently reflect on what it means to dream of colonising the universe (à la entrepreneurial oligarchic capital) AND simultaneously manage to compellingly take on the great and visionary legacy not only of Sun Ra and his Arkestra, but also of Afrofuturism in general?"

🔥 🔥 🔥

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/soap-du-jour-kunstlerhaus-bethanien-1612108

All I Want For Christmas Is Peace And Love On Planet Earth by Mariah Peri

Learning an arrangement of "Master of Puppets" for concert guitar. This one makes me want to practice every day just so I can feel the progress I'm making with getting those riffs into my fingers.

I might need to increase my budget for strings, I have the feeling I'm going to destroy strings more quickly with violent playing like that.

La Gomera

More images at https://visible.pictures/2019/07/la-gomera/