#friends of music

[notsolonedesert]

All of them lived happily ever after and nothing bad ever happened, trust me 🥹

Follow up: The wedding

[walkingproof]

Kendrick Lamar x Not Like Us (Live)

[theoldaeroplane]

worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.

[ochiody]

idk why athena didnt interrupt him

[meziniart]

Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves

[theloniousbach]

MUSIC FOR WINDS BY BRAHMS, SMIT, and FARKAS, FRIENDS OF MUSIC, ELIOT UNITARIAN CHAPEL, 21 APRIL 2024

I am becoming a regular at this series now curated by my friends Bob and Jan Chamberlin. Monthly chamber music on a Sunday afternoon. I attended last month later in the week by Zoom to see a former student, but I was back in the room for woodwind music.

I thought I was there for Brahms’ Clarinet Sonata #2 in E Flat Major as that was the one I prepped for by watching a glorious performance by Martin Frost and Yuja Wang on YouTube. I was expecting the wonderful sound of the clarinet and the intertwining support of the piano and I got it as expected. Jake Philipak is an UMSL student planning to be a school teacher and Clarissa Parker gives piano lessons and they made the requisite magic and I got to see it in the room. I have no complaints whatsoever.

I’m fond of and reliant on my streams, but live music is special. Better than YouTube. My jazz has a bit of that lightning in a bottle, each time is different ethos but that’s true of all performance. Improvisation does make a difference, but in this case Philipak and Parker shared Brahms with me and I thank them. And the series.

I had no idea what to expect of the 20th Century works from the Xylem Collective, so named both because of the importance of wood for reeds but also the role of the xylem in bringing forth nutrients through the tree. Leo Smit’s Sextour and Ferenc Farkas’ Serenade were perfectly charming, accessible and intelligent, with plenty to chew over. A wind quintet is a glorious thing for the array of instruments and tonal colors. In the second movement of the Farkas the clarinet and oboe started the conversation but there was a point where the clarinet, oboe, and horn were fully engaged. It was still a conversation with no one talking over one another and I thought I could keep all five voices straight for a moment. The third movement was kicked off by the bassoon and flute, then the clarinet. Undoubtedly all five voices were similarly in play but I could focus on only two or three at a time on this one. Jocelyn Rugaber’s piano was the spine for the Smit and perhaps that deprived the ensemble but even more so Smit the opportunity to build the structure itself. But both pieces were refreshing, forward looking while still being comprehensible.

And I was in the room with this music too.

[notacluedo]

he’s telling Neil to get his gross runners feet off the walls

challengers screencap redraw 🤌🤌

[a-very-sparkly-nerd]

Zeus: "If you don't end him now, you'll have no one left to save."

Athena: "Finish it."

Aeolus: "The end always justifies the means."

Poseidon: "Ruthlessness is mercy."

Hermes: "You can be hurt or you can beat her. ... I'll help you conquer her."

Tiresias: "I see a man who gets to make it home alive, but it's no longer you."

Hestia, probably:

[coddda]

I wish we could have met in some other way.

Lawlight Week Day 2: Soulmates

If you saw me repost and re-edit this several times uh No you didn't </3

Still frames/Individual gifs:

If you know what every frame is from you get a free cookie. by the way

[jq37]

It's super funny to me that, in Suffering, the Siren answers Odysseus's question about how to avoid Poseidon completely truthfully even though she was planning on killing him at first opportunity. It didn't even ping her radar as a suspicious question to ask. It's like her day job is drowning mortal men but her nerdy hobby is nautical navigation and she couldn't help herself. She did NOT have to give him any info but she was like, Ooh fascinating hypothetical question! Here's my analysis on the best way to survive. Anyway, get in the water silly :)

[raointean]

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

Art I did for the csp contest with a music theme :)

[misterpseudonym]

[phantom-of-the-memes]

Saying this as an Irish person since the new Hozier album just came out and there are lyrics in Irish; it’s Irish or Gaeilge (pronounced “gwhale-ga” or “gale-ga” depending on region), not Gaelic or Celtic or any other name people come up with.

It’s just a normal language that people speak in their everyday life. We learn it in school in the republic. People like myself are bilingual in Irish and English. It’s not a “fairy aesthetic cottage core leprechaun” language.

Please respect it. Our language is a touchy subject seen as how England tried to erase it by forcing English on us and severely punishing those who spoke Irish.

At the same time that does NOT mean it is a dead language. Our (in the republic) road and safety signs are in both Irish and English, same with legal documents. Our politicians speak it, and we are trying to preserve the language!

Anyways enjoy the album!

[protagaster]

Penelope: Hey Ctimene, are you free tonight? Like, around sundown?

Ctimene: Yes, I am.

Odysseus: And you, Eurylochus?

Eurylochus: Umm... yes?

Penelope: Great! Because we're not.

Odysseus: You two go out without us. Enjoy your date!

[Penny & Ody run away hand-in-hand, giggling between themselves]

Eurylochus: ...

Ctimene: Did they just-

[hamletthedane]

Still laughing at Brian May offhandedly writing the greatest understatement in the history of academia in his astrophysics doctoral dissertation:

Ah, yes - “various pressures.” Like being one of the greatest guitarists ever and playing/writing/singing for the most legendary rock band of all time.

Those various pressures.