artsyhonker / Kathryn @artsyhonker@sonomu.club

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.

I'm a choral composer; I like to release my music under free culture licences, usually CC by-SA.

I'm working on a PhD in contemporary sacred choral composition.

I'm neurodivergent, and I have multiple healthcrap issues. I'm a migrant. I'm Christian.

You can find my work at http://www.artsyhonker.net/ and fund it at http://www.artsyhonker.net/support

I also run Cecilia's List, a project to highlight Christian sacred music composed by people who are not men. That's very much on the back burner for the time being because of PhD stuff, though.

http://www.ceciliaslist.org

New rule:

You don't get to say "oh, you could sell that on Etsy/set up a Patreon/write an e-book and sell it/etc" unless you promise to buy stuff from the person you are saying it to, at a price that pays them a living wage for their time *after* material and admin costs.

I'd say "I don't make the rules" but I totally just made a rule, there, so.

Open letter from cisgender women to Liz Truss:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaehd5E-rMCT_mmYpk4QpkKlLGig-bFicgQUwOFngP1tP-bg/viewform?fbzx=5327734530254660734

One of the areas in which I lack confidence and which is absolutely essential for a freelance musician is professional networking skills, which in my niche are very much personal networking skills too.

If you were going to try to learn these from scratch, what resources would you use and why?

This is excellent:
https://alicedillon.bandcamp.com/track/hide-away

Or maybe I'll just nap a little longer. So tired.

not sure why that posted with a weird image, will try again.

OK, composers who self-publish music, who do you use for reprographics? That is, who prints your scores for you?

In my niche people will still pay extra for deadtree format, I'm kindof sick of trying to use Lulu, and I don't want to print at home because I don't have appropriate equipment (and I value my sanity).

Is there anyone here who has used https://consortio.io/ for commissions?

Most holy God, the ground of our beseeching,
who through your servant Julian
revealed the wonders of your love:
grant that as we are created in your nature
and restored by your grace,
our wills may be so made one with yours
that we may come to see you face to face
and gaze on you for ever;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.

I realised this because I saw a season wheel thing with spring at the top left and I was all "that's NOT where spring goes!"

But thinking about it, I realise I visualise this pretty much anytime I am referring to dates.

I'm not sure if this is synaesthesia or something else, but when I visualise numbers -- counting them or anything else -- they have a particular layout, and are in coloured blocks (the colours are not consistent though).

I've just realised I have a similar thing for seasons, dates and months! In my head they are on a sort of ellipse, with Christmas at the top, and going around clockwise.

...I think I'm done the text edits for my dissertation.

I still gotta do some diagrams and references, though.

#Compline *right now* at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AkNECS0xCg

Video from my parish priest for the start of Passiontide in these strange times:
https://youtu.be/I7xI0pY3xlo

I've just written a hymn tune; does anyone want to write a text for it?

Details:
https://artsyhonker.dreamwidth.org/65429.html

In general I prefer to work with CC by-SA texts.