oddly enough i have been finding gabriel-era genesis to be hitting a sweet spot in my listening preferences
one thing i like is the mix of classical (keyboard) elements within a more contemporary (band) context
very british
lyrics can (occasionally) overflow with clever wordplay
sound color used as compositional element (esp keyboard, but also guitar)
appreciating hackett's unique melodic gifts
also high "rate of information" within music suits my processing
(there is joy in repetition)
school of honk played a (peabody) museum show, about 40 mins N of boston (to use time for distance)
nice to travel in order to play music
it was a good show, with a smaller (self-selected) group ready to deliver a more disciplined while still funky set
even the "smaller" group (40-ish) just overwhelmed the festival ... we were everywhere! (ok, it was only a moderately sized fest ... still-)
heard a few other acts, chatted with many, had a lovely time
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listened (and liked) your fedivision entry- nice work!
a lovely series of melody variations (i thought maybe a slower tempo would emphasize its "heroic" character, but i digress ...)
i kept hearing brass instruments in my mind (and would have benefitted from their breathing enhancing the phrasing (at least in my mind)), maybe in front of a "pop" rhythm section
hopefully, you will get this performed by live musicians, recorded and then posted to mastodon ...
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[ZAMO]
ordered a poetry collection from evie shockley (_semiautomatic_)
i've only read 2 of her poems- each concerned with a gifted black women (, systemic racism, wordplayingaround, and much more)
+ billie holiday
+ ida b. wells
(titles long and clever (and i don't recall and unwilling to look them up))
i have found nothing but inspiration and illumination from her words- so i am psyched af for this book to arrive
https://www.poetryinamerica.org/episode/you-can-say-that-again-billie/
music classification
to me musical categories are just marketing, but i digress
the reason to toot is hearing someone with major arts organization refer to jazz as "american classical music" and having it strike me as eurocentric ...
european classical music (while lovely) is not the eternal archetype that all other music (across time and culture) aspires toward
can we just call it "good"?
good music from ellington
good music from beethoven
religion (refugee (responses))
russia bombs the shit out of chechnya
lots of muslim refugees created
europe enforces strict asylum procedures
russia bombs the shit out of syria
lots of muslim refugees created
europe builds fences
russia bombs the shit out of ukraine
lots of christian refugees created
europe opens arms
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russia is at fault for their barbaric bombing tactics
europe is not a humanitarian agency for russian refugess
but i hoped that racism would not determine refugee responses
here in usa empire i've heard russia has shut off electricity in finland (prolly affects your ability to communicate using mastodon)
to say the least, patriarchy in action (causing misery for many)
maybe you can do something with paper and pencil or maybe you can just take walks, listen to birds, ...
be well ...
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School of Honk playing/dancing to the b52s (along with some potential future recruits)
bandcamp friday (commodity music)
another bandcamp friday ...
nice to offer artists a few crumbs now and again (most businesses just take every crumb imaginable)
then again ...
ends up with artists shilling for bandcamp for free
re-enforces capitalist "market" model so that music/musician becomes (just) another product (an accessory to mobile phone ear buds)- and artists take this upon themselves, "purchasing this is supporting me"
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what is music good for?
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played a may day march within borders of empire
(workers of the world unite!)
a few snares, bass drum, tuba, trumpet
most of the time it was chant support (unfortunately, chant leader always "broke" the meter when starting a new chant ...)
could only do half the march (a few kilometers) as i had already plaid a 2 hour gig beforehand, and "it's not like it used to beβ ...
some of the speakers were truly revolutionary (βworkers need to take back the profits of their labor from the bosses")
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instagram (drumming)
been watching drummers on instagram (π«), playin fast, on stage or in studio ...
it's like watching a gymnastic demonstration (with unclear scoring)- but killer skills is the game
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often when playing, i will hit as few strokes as possible in order to keep time and support the overall musical texture (leaving soloist plenty of room (which they invariably appreciate))
there are no videos like this
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also, hard to do more in 15 seconds than a tiny taste
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school of honk takes on tito (tito wins (this round))
"apartheid clyde"
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maybe you didn't create it (yourself)
but by using it (frequently (enough))
you taught it it (to me)
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it helps to counteract the "arrgh!" feeling i get whenever encountering his name
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danke
replaced keycaps & logic board (now supporting (programmable) tmk firmware) on my hhkb
my magpie tendencies are thusly laid bare
everything apparently still works
(although, to be fair, i have not (yet) attempted to update firmware)
keyboards with the ability to switch "context" (mapping keys differently in different layers) are relatively easy for a vi(m) user like me ...
(still getting the hang of it)
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