draco @draco@sonomu.club

#introduction Hello SoNoMu! I'm looking forward to talking music with y'all.

I'm a classical mezzosoprano and musicologist by training. I love #classicalmusic, #metal (mostly progressive), #ebm and a random assortment of other stuff.

I'm exploring creating my own music through challenges like #fawm and 50/90. I'm still in search of my own style.

I sing #choralmusic and play #classicalguitar as well as singer-songwriter style acoustic #guitar.

worked on something for the #LibreMusicChallenge and boy, is it hard d to write bland, repetitive music! Also, I wonder if my idea will be appropriately elevator-compatible and sonic-wallpaper-y; perhaps a 4-bar chord progression that repeats for all of the song is a little *too* repetitive? Well, I'm just going to go through with it.

I'm having a hard time not making something moody, soundtrack-like instead. Surge and Helm both have so many interesting sounds.

Of course, that implies that I get a hold of the wife so she can teach me more about Ancient Greek pronunciation. Or perhaps I should just go ahead and learn some Greek, there must be some course on the Internet or so.

Ah, and I want to mess around with the Homeric hymns again. Possibly with some weird-ass vocal processing by .

choir rehearsal notes: After being in this choir with its partly jazz repertoire for 3 years, I'm starting to get better at syncopation.

On another note, I'm now officially the resident Latin geek.

I'm also taking my first steps with belting and I'm surprised it doesn't feel more difficult. But also, I should take lessons in it. #singing

ooops, here's the link: https://liberapay.com/modern_dragon/
#liberapay

in other "support a neurodivergent queer artist" news, I finally filled out my #liberapay profile.

wrote an update on my ko-fi page: https://www.ko-fi.com/post/A-brief-update-R5R727BDL

That's not to say that I haven't read terrible defensiveness around the canon, and what is worth teaching/researching, dismissiveness around rock/pop as a possible subject of musicology etc. etc.

and I do have some criticism around the way I was taught harmony and counterpoint (mainly in a fairly ahistoric way, and in an artificial and often overly restrictive framework).

re: Schenkerian analysis - I didn't learn it in music school or university, and AFAIK it doesn't play a role in German musicology. You can absolutely do meaningful analysis without it.

I didn't have to work with figured bass either, except when it came to reading music that uses it. German (at least higher) music education uses functional harmony analysis a lot.

His video mentions Anuja Kamat and her series about the basics of Indian Classical music: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRKReciB2B9fUOgMx-dasWqAm-Y9Y5SLq

Adam Neely on the deeply ingrained racism in music theory: https://youtu.be/Kr3quGh7pJA

o hi club! I have been away for a few days. Went hiking, also passed my driving theory exam this morning :)

I hope you're all doing well!