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galescafe · 8 months ago
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tried studying to mahler symphony no. 5 and almost had a breakdown i was so overstimulated
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jgthirlwell · 10 days ago
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2024 Year In Review
2024 was another intense year. It was the first time in twenty years I wasn’t scoring a show for TV, and I got to concentrate on finishing albums and starting new projects. The year began with the premiere of my chamber symphony for Alterity Chamber Orchestra in Orlando and ended with guest-vocalizing with the Losers Lounge Band on a Bowie classic at Joe's Pub in NYC. I completed new albums for Xordox and Venture Bros, to be released in 2025. I released an Archer Soundtrack album and scored a Harry Smith film for L’Etrange Festival in Paris. Worked with Laura Wolf on a new project and premiered my Ensemble project at the Big Ears Festival in Tennessee. Recorded many overdubs for the next Foetus album, also to be released in 2025. Began a new series of sculptural wall pieces. We lost Phill Niblock in January and Steve Albini in May. We lost my colleague Roli Mosimann in September. I still woke up 5am in a panic on too many occasions. As a cultural omnivore, many sights, sounds and stimuli penetrated me.
Albums that I enjoyed in 2024
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being (Pelagic) Present This is not the end (Cuneiform) Tristan Perich/Ensemble 0 Open Symmetry (Erased Tapes) Drew McDowall A Thread Silvered and Trembling (Dais) Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan Your Community Hub (Castles In Space) Extra Life The Sacred Vowel (Bandcamp) Geordie Greep The New Sound (Rough Trade) D-en Haut D-en Haut (Pagan) Aksumi Fleeting Future + Lines (Tonal Union) Louis Cole Nothing (Brainfeeder) Uniform American Standard (Sacred Bones) Zeal and Ardor Greif (Redacted) Shellac To All Trains (Touch and Go) Bangladeafy Vulture (Nefarious Industries) Ekko Astral Pink Balloons (Topshelf Records) Kee Avil Spine (Constellation) Fennesz Mosaic (Touch) Marewren Ukouk Round singing Voices of the Ainu 2012-2024 (Pingipung) Elysian Fields What The Thunder Said (Ojet) Melvins Tarantula Heart (Ipecac) Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media) Aoife O’Donovan All My Friends (Yep Roc) Anna Thorvaldsdottir Aerial (Sono Luminus) Grace Bergere A Little Blood (Casa Gogol) Bob Vylan Humble As The Sun (Ghost Theatre 2) Andy Akiho Kin (Aki Rhythm) Yannis Kyriakides Hypnokaseta (Unsounds) Big | Brave A Chaos of Flowers (Thrill Jockey) The The Ensoulment (CinĂ©ola / earMUSIC) Beth Gibbons Lives Outgrown (Domino) Beak >>>> / Kosmik Musik (Invada) Sebastian Tropic OST (Ed Banger) Chaser Planned Obsolescence (Decoherence Records) Jesus Lizard Rack (Ipecac) Ex East Islander Norther (Rocket Recordings)
Some books I enjoyed
Yuval Noah Harari Nexus Chris Stein Under A Rock Bill Buford Among The Thugs Patricia Highsmith The Talented Mr Ripley Sy Montgomery Soul Of An Octopus Malcolm Gladwell Revenge Of The Tipping Point
Some films I enjoyed
Furiosa ZEF Story Of Die Antwoord Joker Folie A Deux Kneecap Bad Faith Rebel Ridge Hundreds Of Beavers Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Behavior Teachers Lounge
I saw hundreds of concerts in 2024. Some highlights:
01.24.24 The Chisel at Bowery Ballroom 02.15.24 Jack Quartet play Austin Wulliman at Roulette Intermedium NYC. 03.09.24 Louis Cole / Genevieve Artadi at Brooklyn Steel 03.14.24 Kate NV at the Atrium at Lincoln Center 03.18.24 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum at Elsewhere in Brooklyn 03.23.24 Secret Chiefs 3 at Big Ears Festival 03.23.24 Hatis Noit at St John’s Cathedral in Knoxville TN for the Big Ears Festival 03.24.24 Kenny Wollesen’s Sonic Massage at Knoxville Art Museum for the Big Ears Festival 03.24.24 Elliott Sharp’s Void Patrol (with guests Cyro Batista and Colin Stetson) at Big Ears Festival 03.24.24 Aoife O'Donovan with the Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra at the Big Ears Festival 04.01.24 Caleb Landry Jones at The Sultan Room i 04.06.24 Lovely Little Girls at Hart Bar. 04.19.24 Keith Fullerton Whitman performs ‘Playthroughs’ at Ambient Church 04.23.24 Mandy Indiana at Elsewhere in Brooklyn 04.26.24 Knower at the Brooklyn Bowl 05.04.24 Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, directed by Tim Weiss, play Alex Paxton at Long Play Festival 05.04.24 Fuji|||||||||||ta at Long Play Festival 05.05.24 Ligeti Quartet perform Ligeti + Anna Meredith at Long Play Festival 05.17.23 Swans at Music Hall of Williamsburg 05.23.24 The Rolling Stones played at Met Life Stadium in New Jersey. 05.24.24 John Zorn’s ensemble, the New Masada Quartet 06.08.24 Rebekah Heller’s Bassoon Ensemble 06.25.24 Mdou Moctar at Bowery Ballroom NYC 07.12.24 C.Gibbs Review at Barbes 07.23.24 Bangladeafy at The Sultan Room in Brooklyn 08.18.24 Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds at Union Pool 08.23.24 Alarm Will Sound play Marcos Balter’s Code-Switching, 09.30.24 Uniform at Bowery Ballroom 09.04.24 King Dunn aka King Buzzo (Melvins) and Trevor Dunn (Mr Bungle etc) at Music Hall of Williamsburg + White Eagle Hall in Jersey City. 09.13.24 Steven Bernstein and Nels Cline with the Arturo O'Farrill Latin Jazz Orchestra, playing James Bond themes. At Bryant Park in NYC. 09.15.24 PJ Harvey at Terminal 5, NYC 10.11.24 John Zorn’s Cobra in a 40th anniversary performance at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn 10.17.25 The The played at the Beacon Theater 10.22.24 Die Antwoord at Brooklyn Steel, 10.23.24 Boris played at Racket in NYC. 11.01.24 William Basinski for Age Of Reflections 11.04.24 Growing performing for Abasement at Artists Space in Manhattan 11.06.24 Pioneer Works presented a concert of Louis Cole Choral Music. 11.08.24 Lankum at Warsaw in Brooklyn 11.17.24 sunn o))) at Lincoln Center for the Unsound Festival 11.21.24 Extra Life at TV Eye. 11.24.24 Zeal and Ardor at Le Poisson Rouge NYC 11.25.24 Axiom, comprised of Juilliard students and conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky playing Solstice Ritual by Augusta Read Thomas 11.26.24 Blood Incantation at Elsewhere 12.01.24 Pharmakon’s awesomely unhinged performance at Union Pool. 12.11.24 Jesus Lizard played a great set at Brooklyn Steel 12.28.24 Grace Bergere / Jon Spencer / Gogol Bordello Capitol Theater Port Chester
Honorable mention to the multiple concerts I attended at the Abasement series at Artist Space, as well as multiple shows by S.E.M. Ensemble and Wet Ink Ensemble
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quasi-normalcy · 11 months ago
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Surprising Things I Learned From Rewatching All of Star Trek (as of mid 2022)
The first season of the original series is good. Like really, really, good. You can definitely see why it caught on.
"Spock's Brain" isn't actually all that bad. Like, for all it's infamy, I wouldn't even put it in the bottom 5 episodes of TOS. Maybe not even the bottom 10.
The Motion Picture is an amazing movie if you watch it like a symphony with incredible visuals, rather than an action movie.
The weird utopianism of TNG season 1 is actually really appealing now
Wesley was just as bad as I remembered
I actually like Worf. Quite a bit, actually.
Kinda wish that Deep Space Nine had kept a major focus on Bajoran politics. Like, the Dominion War stuff is good, but the political arc in the first few seasons is actually really fascinating.
Voyager has lots of absolute banger episodes, and they're good enough to forgive the overall lack of continuity
Seven of Nine's arc has uncomfortable overtones of reparation therapy when you know that she's queer (and even when you don't, it's basically seems like learning how to mask neurodivergence)
Tuvok is actually a brilliant detective. I didn't notice before.
Enterprise is...well, I'm not going to say "good", but I get what it was going for now. And the Xindi arc is way less jingoistic when considered as a whole than I remember it being.
(The fourth season isn't as good as I remember, just because the constant continuity references have gone from being an exciting novelty to being freaking everywhere)
The 2009 movie really doesn't have a lot going for it, in retrospect. The cast are good, though.
Into Darkness...was even worse than I remembered. Like I'd forgotten just how unlikable it made Captain Kirk. That said, the "anti-militarism" messaging felt somewhat less "tacked-on to the last five minutes of screentime" than I recalled
Even though I don't think it ended well, the first season of Discovery is actually a lot better than I remembered when I already knew where it was going.
The second season of Discovery fares much worse, though. Strange, because I'd thought it an improvement over the first when it was airing.
I'd been disappointed by how the first season of Picard had wrapped up it's plot threads, but on a rewatch, I actually thought it was close to being a masterpiece
The first season of Lower Decks is kind of lacklustre compared to all of the subsequent ones.
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beevean · 1 month ago
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Speaking of nocturne, that whole show kinda feels like "look how many lore and character changes we got away with in the first show, i wonder how many more can we cram in there" like why is the bloodlines villain vampire jesus in the rondo era
The absolute testicles of claiming that Nocturne is an adaptation of Rondo of Blood when the only thing it shares with that game are the characters in name and sometimes design 😭 the plot is clearly a mangling of Bloodlines! Which I can't even be happy about (Bloodlines is a banger game don't @ me) because they also inserted a shallow depiction of the French Revolution and the most clichĂ© story about slavery! And Elizabeth Bartley was no vampire furry Jesus, she was Dracula's niece with green hair and a dead hand causing a whole ass world war to resurrect her uncle! She was way more interesting!
"uhhhhh but RoB has a stupid story, they can't make a show about Richter saving Annette in Dracula's castle" then don't fucking adapt it??????? This is what really boils my balls. Because we all know why they went straight for RoB. Because Ricther is popular, the second most popular Belmont after Simon, but Simon's story is even less easily adaptable than Richter's... but you know who Richter is associated with?
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The blorbo of the masses himself.
There is no love in this project, I swear. They just want to suck Alucard's dick as long as possible because the fans cream themselves at the sight of him. Everything else is just accidental to pretend this mess still has any connection with the games.
Just look at how they did Juste dirty. Harmony couldn't even happen, because you know, with Dracula vacationing in the Hawaii he can't have left relics. They fridged Maxim and Lydie in an afterthought. No one cares about them, right? No one cares about Harmony, because it's a bad game. No, it's all about Alucard, and Symphony, and the lowest common denominator, and nothing else deserves care and respect.
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tragicallycrispygirl · 8 months ago
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I haven't listened to anything but Guilty Gear soundtracks for like a month (since Symphony released) and for a while I didn't really appreciate how fucking good the songs were but they're SO GOOD
A super underrated part of their composition that I don't really see people talk about is the level of complexity that the instrumentals get into without being overwhelmingly loud. It adds such beautiful relistenability, because you can seemingly always hear something new in a lot of the songs. ON TOP OF THAT, they help to capture the vibes of a character supremely well
For example, Sol's Xrd theme, Give Me a Break, starts with a thick, grindy, intense guitar riff. Then slow, crashing drums and cymbals come in, adding to the sense of weight the song already has, along with subtle clacking (i don't know what the instrument is but clacking is the best descriptor, it might be a cowbell?) to help keep the pace and fill out the song. A bass is there too, adding a nice smooth underlying layer of deep notes to the song. Finally, a lead guitar comes in and the grindy rhythm guitar moves to the background of the song, exchanged for a more melodic guitar in a higher pitch, but still with the longer, more intense notes. This is in the first 10 seconds.
It all blends into a rich and dense layered cake of a song, allowing for freedom of expression from the lead guitar, while not relying on it too heavily to carry the song. (It absolutely is the best part of the song, but the background instrumentals are just as important)
Drift (Happy Chaos' theme) does this so fucking well, so fucking fucking beautifully well. When the outro starts, you hear Naoki's vocals, over a piano and some sparse strings, before cymbals crash in with trumpets and a choir and booming drums to accentuate the climax of the song, cutting out as Naoki says "Please don't stop the flow!" It then goes back to the very fast heavy-metal-esque drums and guitar and bass, but WITH the strings and choir backing up Naoki's singing and holy fucking shit it's amazing amazing oh my goooood
Symphony (A.B.A.'s Strive theme) was what really got me hooked onto it, though. The last two minutes of that song are fucking PEAK music. It starts with light drums, an organ, and a bass backing up a piano, cutting the formerly intense tone of the song for a nice break from the intensity. Naoki comes in, shortly followed by that classic grindy Guilty Gear guitar, as the piano and drums speed up to match a slowly rising intensity, before breaking into the final verse and chorus, with Naoki vocalizing over intense drums and guitar (as well as a bass but i do struggle to pick it out,) with the piano providing the main melody. Choral "la la la la" chants accompany the cries of "Break out, break out," filling it out perfectly for the tone of the song
It's honestly extremely difficult to properly articulate how it all comes together in the end for the songs. It ends up being a complex, emotional, BANGER. Go listen to the music from these soundtracks and when you do, pay attention to the main melody, then listen to them again and again and again and again and pick out the little extras in the background to truly understand WHY Guilty Gear music is so good.
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7grandmel · 3 months ago
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Bonus Rip! [07/10/2024]
Another Stickerbrush
Season 4 Episode 1 Featured on: Now That's What I Call Quality! 2
Ripped by pedipanol
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Surprise!
I was feeling a bit bad over how long Week 4 ~ Wanting to Funk the Truth was taking to come out, but wasn't quite sure what I could do to make up for it: I've been a bit bad at planning my posts ahead of time, so I couldn't really throw out a Character's Archives post or something along those lines out just yet. But I figured its best to return back to basics and do things the way I did back on the blog's first year: Put out a shorter, more concise post out of schedule! Can you believe I used to do this stuff DAILY?!
Another Stickerbrush is a rip with a very simple appeal, a rip you can pretty much already know is S tier through just looking at its name, thumbnail, and ripper. To some, that may not be immediately obvious, but back on Viva la Robocop and Thwùmpröck Desert, I wrote about how there are certain very bizarre games held in incredibly high regard by the chiptune community for the ambitious soundscapes they contain contrary to what you'd expect on the surface. Be it Robocop, Solstice, Plok!, Pictionary or indeed The Smurfs, true gems can come in the most bizarre packages possible, all thanks to the work of the incredible composers and sound engineers working on these projects. And sitting right alongside treasured names like Tim Follin, David Wise, Naoki Kodaka and more, is one Alberto José Gonzålez.
The composer of games such as The Smurfs on Game Boy and... The Smurfs on NES - which was featured on here way back with The SiIvaGunner Smurfs Collab! While perhaps not as well known to the mainstream eye as Follin or Wise, GonzĂĄlez's work is revered in chiptune spaces for reasons that I hope Another Stickerbrush alone make obvious: There's a spaciness, a perfect implementation of a dreamy reverb, found in so much of his work for The Smurfs games in particular, that sticks with you unlike anything else you can find on the Game Boy. And sure enough, ripper pedipanol is one of those chiptune artists well aware of GonzĂĄles' work, and one who's deeply talented in the art of chiptune herself! I've covered her on here before with Beautiful! ~ Curveball of Sean Kingston, which was another rip utilizing the sound of a rather obscure and out-there game, but pedipanol - aka Saria Lemes - is absolutely the real deal, having done substantial work on indie games such as Yokai Inn and Evertried, in the years since her time on SiIvaGunner. From Season 1 to Season 6, she was contributing bangers just like Another Stickerbrush left and right and showing just how many sides there are to the world of chiptune.
So I said at the post's beginning, and with all of that additional knowledge in mind, this is the kind of rip that you're able to just SENSE is going to be a banger - with the cherry on top being the choice to rearrange Stickerbrush Symphony in particular. Its one of the most classic, revered pieces of old-school VGM out there, one I've covered many times on here before, be it with toonlink's Stickerbrush Queen, or eva "hawk tuah" twin's Sable's Stickerbrush, or l4ureleye's Sidelined Symphony, or eg_9371' Satinpanties Symphony, or wheel able's Stickerbrush State of Mind...like with The Smurfs games, or Robocop, or all the other silly examples I listed above, there are certain core pieces of the chiptune community that feel ever-present, ever-enduring, forever to be cherished by members old and new - some of the rips listed above are pushing 8 years old, Another Stickerbrush is sitting at 5 years old, and we're still getting rips of the tune made today. It's like a recurring ritual, a historic anthem for all the atmosphere that video game music can instill without a single live instrument employed: the magic of video gaming's bleeps and bloops, distilled into its purest form.
Another Stickerbrush is one in the line of many, yet done with the finesse of an amazing chiptune artist in the sound of one of the medium's forgotten greats. There's very little I can say about it that the tune itself doesn't already convey: So I suggest just hitting play and letting the sounds wash over you.
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symphonybracket · 1 year ago
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YouTube Links: Dvoƙák 9, Brahms 1
Submitter's Comments:
Dvoƙák 9 (6 submittals)
I know it's gonna get nominated a hundred times, but I have listened to it four times in a row in the past week so I gotta mention it. Exquisite bliss from first to last note.
it slays <3
When I heard the first movement for the first time, I was GRINNING LIKE AN IDIOT because of how much I loved it. LIKE THIS IS SO YUMMY (link opens to the timestamp)
it's got everything. the interplay between minor and major. themes from the early movements that come back in the finale. the most iconic english horn solo in all of classical music. dvorak wrote it while traveling across the US and was directly inspired not only by his native czech/bohemian soundscapes but the musical languages he heard from black and native americans. there's a tuba part but it only plays for like five measures. fantastic orchestrations, making full use of all the different colors of the orchestra. the start of the finale sounds kinda like jaws. it is physically impossible for me to feel upset while i'm listening to it it's the first symphony i ever played in orchestra and i'm so normal about it that i want to get that EH solo tattooed on my art and also i wrote a paper about it for a university music history class and i got an A on it so it should definitely win the bracket or i'll cry
Brahms 1 (1 submittal)
2nd and 4th mvt absolute bangers
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supercantaloupe · 5 months ago
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happy sleepover saturday! any thoughts about Beetlejuice the musical (positive/negative/etc)? I've really liked what I've seen/heard but I'd be interested to know what you think. additionally, as a guy who rarely listens to any kind of classical music because he is bad at remembering the titles đŸ˜« what are some bangers i should put on tonight while i assemble a gerbil cage? (preferably the smaller... songs? numbers? please no longer than 10 minutes per. concerto???? idk what they're called im so sorry. last thing these are my three beautiful boys im adopting tomorrow!
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OHH THREE BEAUTIFUL BABY BOYS. i like that that two of them appear to have airbender arrows on their heads
i! don't have very strong opinions on beetlejuice the musical, to be honest. i haven't seen it and it's been a few years since listening to the soundtrack. i remember it being decent, a few clever lines and composition moments here and there, there was clearly some creativity and heart put into it. it didn't seem to have like the kind of lazy cashgrab project vibes that other movie-to-stage musical adaptations sometimes, like sure the original movie here was a cult classic already but the team turning it into a musical seemed really interested in making into its own thing that adds to the creative idea. it's not really my cup of tea these days but it seems like a fun time, and you can absolutely do worse
HMM...well i am very much at heart a symphony girlie and symphonies tend to be quite a bit longer than ten minutes, But i shall try to come up with some shorter selections...
the overture to die meistersinger is genuinely a work of genius. i regret having to recommend a wagner piece because philosophically (and also at times musically) i disagree with the man intensely, and he was a massive piece of shit. but damn could he write an overture. he should have been a symphonist. and left it at that.
in that vein actually opera overtures are gonna offer a lot of great options for exciting classical music pieces that don't go on for too long. rossini has a ton of classics to choose from, many of which are very famous and also might be recognizable, like the barber of seville, la gazza ladra (the thieving magpie), l'italiana in algeri (the italian girl in algeria), la scala di seta (the silken ladder) and william tell.
some of my other personal favorite overtures are mozart's le nozze di figaro (the marriage of figaro) and the magic flute, weber's der freischĂŒtz, donizetti's la fille du rĂ©giment (the daughter of the regiment), and bernstein's candide.
also! the dance of the hours is a classic, it comes from the ballet la gioconda and also was featured in the original fantasia so it might be familiar!
finally i'll recommend some concert band music which i think is often overlooked in the classical music world. and no one does concert band better than brits and americans. holst first suite in Eb and second suite in F are both great, same for vaughan williams' english folk song suite. and william walton's crown imperial coronation march.
OH and arturo mĂĄrquez's danzĂłn no 2. okay love you bye
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chadhunkler · 9 months ago
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5 SONGS YOU'RE INTO RIGHT NOW
tagged by @sealrock and @verysmallcyborg thank you!!!
tagging uhh @ahollowgrave @duchessdynamic @dragonsongmakhali @desertdragon @shroudkeeper and anyone else who'd want to!
I had a lotta trouble picking JUST 5, so i just looked through my On Repeat playlist
Old Ocean - Cosmo Sheldrake Cosmo Sheldrake always good, releases seem to be sporadic but always welcome.
Gone - Sonic Boom (Andrew Huang and Rob Scallon) I enjoy both artists, so having them make a bunch of songs together is very fun! This one I had on while I was at work, just had it on repeat. Very good.
Symphony - NAOKI New Guilty Gear character new music! Absolutely crazy, just like A.B.A. All the GG music is jammin
Dragon - SenbeĂŻ Had this on a while when working on some pictures, pretty cool song, enjoy Senbei.
Solo Leveling - Daddyphatsnaps, Mix Williams gotta have my boy DPS on here somewhere, every three weeks he drops a banger rap about anime!
I've got a playlist on spotify that houses all the music i listen to, it has... lemme check... 3871 songs on it, totaling 240 hours of music!
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th3-0bjectivist · 1 year ago
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Dear listener, this will be my final musical post of this year and you know I’m gonna end it on an eternal banger. Godspeed to ALL my followers on Tumblr, happy holidays! Let’s have a great, and positive 24'. Fret thee not, I will be back with more tuneskis next year. That said, I’ve been commenting on classical music for the end of 23'. If you’re just joining me on my page I alluded to Bach and Vivaldi in previous weeks
 along with a generous peppering of pejorative comments when I was describing myself listening to modern radio. Modern radio was the REASON I started listening to classical music again this year. Why? Because radio BLOWS. Actually, the programming blows and modern music SUCKS. Classical music on the other hand, for all its technological limitations and despite its clear crow’s feet, is at least quality music. Timeless even! So, for Christmas this year, let’s focus on the excellence of execution for music in the 1800’s, Johannes Brahms. Inventor of great individual and collectivized musical works, and the final exhibition in my three-part 23' classical showpiece. At the end of 24', join me for the likes of Mozart and Beethoven, but for now, smash play and enjoy the uniquely holiday and dream-time piece above. Recognize it? Thought you might, dear listener. For those of you who stay and read my little commentaries on these musical posts I really appreciate it. When you read them, you’re spending time with me in a way. Thanks for your time!
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For his time, the mid to late 1800’s in Europe, Johannes Brahms became the tip of the spear in Germanic symphonies and sonatas. Writing something like two hundred songs in his lifetime, he started off in his young teens as a naturally talented pianist and played in inns and brothels around the docks of Hamburg to help his family generate money. For such humble beginnings, he also began composing his own music and performing concerts with other notable musicians such as Eduard RemĂ©nyi. Through further networking, Brahms became closely associated with other virtuosos and composers like Joseph Joachim and Robert Schumann. Schumann helped boost Brahms’ career when his compositions were featured in a media periodical called Neue Zeitschrift fĂŒr Musik. Now, I’m not gonna lie, this guy is not my favoite composer and if I’m being 100% honest, I think his symphonies are a little boring. A lot of it is just too lite and plodding for my taste. Don’t get me wrong, the man was a God among normal humans, but when it comes to personal taste, I prefer orchestral symphonies by the likes of Bach and Vivaldi. However, where I think Brahms’ truly excelled was in his original solo piano works, as he was truly a master of vastly intricate mechanisms and capable of very technical applications with music. He invented harmonies with an almost entirely different kind of emotional resonance than other contemporary classical artists; often using instruments to create a warm and introspective noise rather than a lot of the LOUD AND GALIVANTING classical music that you can find a lot of in the 1700’s. In the 1800’s, the tail end of the Romantic period, concerts and festival overtures were the Taylor Swift venues of the time, and the music of Brahms sold BIG in an international way. He also held the Masters of Composition that came before him in high regard, attempting to cling hard and fast to the idea of ‘absolute music’ (the idea being that music should carry no specific or primary meaning) like composers before him. This conservative view of music put him at odds with composers like Wagner, who wrote program music (introducing literary ideas, a subjective drama, an actual scene, etc). Brahms never married but had a few flings. He was known as being prickly and reserved with adults, but kind-hearted and warm around children. He also died of liver carcinoma in Vienna in the late 1800’s after nearly three decades serving as a musical director, principal conductor, educator and perhaps one of the most influential European composers of all-time.
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I should also be diligent and let you know that his most concentrated and vital works came along after he began visiting Vienna around the 1860’s. His mother passed in 1865, and he afterward created German Requiem, which is widely considered to be a mass for the living. His works such as Hungarian Dances, Violin Concerto, Wiegenlied (also known as Lullaby or the Cradle Song), and his Piano Quintet were all generated in his later years from 1860 to 1885 or so, gimme a break folks I’m not a historian. It’s all about subtle movements with Brahms, or just his harmonic movement in general. On Christmas this year, or every year, consider coming back to this post and clicking on the Best of Brahms. Spend time and mend with family folks! One more musical post and then I need a long break. Enjoy! Image source: https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/best-looking-composers-musicians/johannes-brahms/
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nintendofuck · 1 year ago
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Ok holy fuck, i never really make personal posts on here but I saw the Sonic Symphony in Seatle on friday and it was truly one of the best nights of my life. It was pure autistic joy. I'm a sonic the hedgehog autistic for as long as i can remember and seeing crush 40 has always been a dream of mine. I have a tattoo of adventure 2 soap shoes Sonic playing the iconic black crush 40 sonic guitar.
My show had Jun Senoue as a guest (he is not doing the whole tour, and Johnny Gioeli was only at select shows ((not mine)), he was doing autographs in the lobby before the show and I met him a got a picture. He was super cool and nice! I showed him my tattoo and he said it was awesome and took a pic on his phone. This happened 2 days ago and I still can't believe I got to meet him, I am fangirling so much
And wow, the show was INCREDIBLE. The symphony was beautiful and the rock show half of the show was phenomenal. The setlist had BANGERS, every single song made me grin from ear to ear and when the rock show part started the venue roared, EVERYONE was singing. Also Jun actually playing the fucking crush 40 guitar solos in front of my eyes was amazing.
I just can't stop thinking about it all. If you have a show playing somewhat close to you and you like Sonic you should absolutely go. One of the coolest things I've ever done.
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ladyhoneydee · 1 year ago
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30 Day Song(fic) Challenge: Day 29
It's the penultimate day of my Song(fic) Challenge! And today, for once, I'm not even late! The prompt for today was "A song by your favorite artist right now". I don't really feel as though I have a particular favorite right now, so I went with an old standby: dodie. Although she has some absolute bangers with a great deal of emotional storytelling, her song "Air So Sweet", which I've loved since it was just a little demo five years ago, captured the exact peacefulness I needed tonight, for myself and for my writing.
in the light and the air
Game: Tears of the Kingdom, post-game
Pairing: Zelda/Link
Word Count: 1080
Keywords: peaceful, happy ending, domestic bliss
It was an ordinary night. She’d had dozens like it in this summer alone; hundreds over the years since they were finally freed from the pitiless jaws of fate. She would have dozens more before the apples in the trees began to drop, and the nights began to crisp and chill and remind her of the air of her almost-endless flight. And yet, with the earth beneath her hands and the air caressing her hair; the water droplets gracing her still-drying legs and the fire of his presence and skin warming hers
this was all she needed.
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Hateno summers were notoriously long, warm, and sticky. The moisture from the ocean would rise under the heat of the sun, and get pushed inland by the westward-blowing winds. It’d linger, heavy and wet, over the fields, unless a storm swept over the land in its place, and leave the air clear and sparkling after its passage. Even in the evenings, the humidity could linger heavily in one’s lungs, like a breath held so deep it couldn’t be fully expelled. 
Zelda often chose to spend these nights outside, as the stars blinked their eyes open above her head, and the moon rose to greet her with cool rays that made her horns shine silver. She would sit on the familiar wooden porch, or take a nude dip in the pond in front of their house, or climb a tree to fulfill that intermittent craving for the sky. 
Tonight, she chose to run.
She’d not bothered to put on any shoes on her way out. The thick, scale-lined callouses on the pads of her feet saw to it that very little debris could injure her. Instead, as she dashed up the Firly Plateau back towards their humble home, she could feel every cool tickle of the summer-plush grass beneath her, kissing her heels with each thudding impact upon the welcoming earth. Any twig she landed on snapped cleanly beneath her weight and added delightful percussion to her sprint. The roughness of rocks underfoot only supplemented the symphony of texture.
The night air was so, so still; sweet with the perfume of wildflowers and wetness on her every inhale, and she gulped and gasped for more, eager, eager, eager. She couldn’t get air like this in the heavens she’d flown through for thousands of years, with its preserving, frigid thinness; its presence in the lungs like icy knives of a deathless Death. Only down here, on the surface—as herself—could she inhale pure Life. 
She relished in the sensation of her body. The way it felt to run on two legs, with toes instinctively gripping to and pushing off from the earth; with the echo of impact ringing in her knees as they absorbed the pounding of her footsteps; with the call-and-response of the muscles in her left calf stretching and thigh pulling as she bounded forward, followed by the return of the melody in the right. The sinuous swinging of her tail behind her like a metronome. The burn in her diaphragm and lungs at the lack of air even despite how deeply she inhaled. The tightness of her core muscles, held firm to keep her strong. The reaching swing of each arm, and the warm clenching of her fists, each finger nestled in tightly. 
It had been years since she’d last had to call upon the golden power of the goddess, although she knew it still coiled deep within her, nesting somewhere in her stomach lining like a divine ulcer. When she ran like this, so in tune with Life that it felt like her very soul was rising from her body to sing with the currents of the air and the beating heart of the earth, she could taste a very different flavor of gold: the pure honey of sunshine, rather than the blood-tang of metal. Something all her own.
She crested the final hill, and the familiar taupe stucco of their house came into view. In the air, she could taste rather than smell the dissipating dregs of smoke from that evening’s cooking fire. From the singular window visible at this angle, a gentle light glowed: one of Zelda’s favorite beeswax candles. And above, the stars, fully fruited in the night sky, washed her in light like the softest of summer rains. 
Laughter, breathless and joyous, bubbled up from her chest. It only crescendoed further as she ran straight into the shallows of the pond, feeling the shocking splash of coolness on her shins and spraying all the way up to her torso with the force of her entry. She submerged up to the knee. The water soaked the tea-length, sky-blue skirt of her home-stitched dress, and she didn’t care one jot, letting it swirl around her as she turned to face north, over the glowing windows and darkened fields of the town she called hers. 
Little by little, the temperature cooled, and the air lightened as the humidity bedded down for the night. The shadows of the pond’s fish emerged cautiously from the holes they’d fled to at her tumultuous entry, although they gave Zelda a wide berth from where she still stood in the shallows. Sunset fireflies, with their quintessential gold-green hue, gathered in the yard; bioluminescence below to duet with the stars above. 
Finally beginning to shiver from the chill, Zelda waded slowly from the pond, and sat in the sweet summer grass. It accepted her form—tail and all—like a hug. She watched the glide of the moon across the sky. 
The wooden door swung open behind her and to her right. She could barely feel the impact of his footsteps through the earth, but she could hear the way the grass whispered around his legs as it parted for him like an old friend. 
He sat beside her, and the ember-glow of their touching knees sent her soul spinning into the air once more. She lifted one dirt-smudged hand from where it propped her up to rest it atop his own, feeling his fingers staggered between and beneath her own like the interlinked logs of a cabin, shaped and reshaped by their wholehearted efforts until they fit together just right.
It was an ordinary night. She’d had dozens like it in this summer alone; hundreds over the years since they were finally freed from the pitiless jaws of fate. She would have dozens more before the apples in the trees began to drop, and the nights began to crisp and chill and remind her of the air of her almost-endless flight. And yet, with the earth beneath her hands and the air caressing her hair; the water droplets gracing her still-drying legs and the fire of his presence and skin warming hers
this was all she needed.
It was what she had forced herself to survive for, for all those long years, even when it was a distant dream her dragon-self wasn’t even capable of calling up. 
And it was what she lived for now, in this life that was, at long last, all their own. 
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aerowolf · 9 months ago
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My band director has pulled out some absolute bangers for the next concert.
not to mention my favorite jazz song: Sing Sing Sing
GIRL YOU KNOW WHAT THAT SONG WAS THAT I DID SWING DANCE TO AT THE SYMPHONY. IT WAS SWING SWING SWING THIS IS SPECTACULAR
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aphroditestummyrolls · 2 years ago
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For the WIP ask: 21 - 3 songs
AH! Thanks for asking! I’ll give you three for each of the three WIPs I’m actively working on right now 💕
Color and Light (joe/nicky)
Shim el Yasmine by Mashrou Leila
Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful? from Brandy’s Cinderella
Symphony no. 2, opus 27, adagio by Rachmaninov (literally the most romantic song ever written)
I Travel Alone (pierre/mickey)
(Don’t Stand) A Ghost of a Chance with You by Ted Fio Rito, sung by Vera Van
Valse Sentimentale by Tchaikovsky (the Mickey Miranda Thesisâ„ąïž for me)
Solitude sung by Billie Holiday
Untitled Star Wars Pride and Prejudice AU (Din/Luke)
Dawn from the 2005 Pride and Prejudice (shocking, I know)
SOS by ABBA
Victory Celebration (the Endor party music from the end of RotJ) by John Williams
Absolute bops, every single one of them. Bops and bangers ✚✌ maybe one day, I will actually finish something and be able to share it with you all 💕 thanks for playing!
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lynslegion · 1 year ago
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Heya! I'd be so excited to hear some of your answers! Perhaps for 8 & 9? And maybe 16 to! 💜
Heyyyy :D Sorry it took me a few days ^_^ 8. Who are some of your favorite characters? Hmmmm I feel like the answer changes every so often but my most common ones would be Marisa, Lyn, and Constance! 9. Which game has your favorite soundtrack? What are your favorite songs from it? Nostalgia makes me want to say FE7 with "Everything into the Dark" and "Campaign of Fire", but honestly if I'm being realistic the FE Warriors Three Hopes OST has some absolute fucking bangers that I often come back to, especially "Between Heaven and Earth" and "The Apex of the World" 16. What do you love most about the series overall? Probably the gameplay tbh! There's not really many other games/series like it(until recently with games like Darkest Deity and Symphony of War) so it was always very uniquely enjoyable to me. Ofc I love the characters and story as well but the gameplay is what always has me coming back.
Thank you so much for the questions!!
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a-ratt · 2 years ago
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POV: It's a lazy weekend and you're sifting through your many streaming services in search of a good movie. Then I bang on your door and demand that you go watch Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse.
Why?
Because it's the best animated of the movie of the year. 100/10. Certified banger. Absolutely magnificent.
It has everything! Non-stop action that gets th e blood pumping and the heart thundering! Beautiful, cinematic animation on a level that is out of this world! A story with so much heart and love you couldn't believe it exists in this era of terribly flimsy films with plots as flat as cardboard! And music that just builds and builds and builds with the story or characters until it's an epic symphony!
Okay, so basically, go watch Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse. 100/10 movie. Would recommend again and again and again.
And don't watch Disney "live action" films, they ruin the industry.
And supports the Writer's Guild of America! They're out there fighting for their lives to make sure YOU get the quality movies you're looking for!
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