I always feel better when I practice piano.
Not in the fact that I feel good in general, I just feel generally less stressed when i practice so I worry less about my lessons.
Woops. Guess who hasn’t liked music in 3 years?
This is first, and foremost, and atheism blog. All other things I blog either stem from ideas and thoughts I have gained through my atheism, or things I genuinely enjoy.
I am a lover of my love, and musician of my music, a humanist of my human nature, and an intellectual of my intellect.
I am a lover of my love, and musician of my music, a humanist of my human nature, and an intellectual of my intellect.
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This fucking digital arts design class is in the music building lab right now and the teacher is an obnoxious little shit.
They were playing a video and someone yelled “son of a bitch” in the video and few people looked over, because it was loud.
The instructor then says “We in the visual arts do not censor ourselves” as a response to people looking over.
Fuck you, you uppity piece of shit. Don’t talk down to music students like you’re fucking better.
Who says that kind of shit?? I was unaware that people could actually be that pretentious.
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Why do I always dread going to work?
I feel as if being nice to people drains everything out of me. D:
And this is why I am majoring in music and not political science (which was in a very close second). I don’t really have to deal with people in music. Just me and my art. Alone.
Well enjoy my queue while I’m working, my lovely followers <3
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I’m doing a minute long electronic music piece using only recorded sounds, so if anyone wants some of their original recorded sounds used in a piece of music, hit me up and I’ll probably incorporate them somehow.
So far the sounds I’ve recorded myself are:
- the bubbling of water in a hookah when you suck through the hose which makes occasional pitched tinkling sounds.
- crinkling tin foil and the scraping of metal against metal.
- crackling of a tin can.
- flicking a tin can half full of liquid to create varied pitches with portamento.
That’s all I have so far, but I have the zoom recorder until this Tuesday, so I have time to record many more things!
I’ve personally been looking for items that makes sounds that you wouldn’t expect to be pitched, but do have pitches to them (e.g. the can with portamento and the bubbling of water).
Any ideas or suggestions for sounds?
(Warning: the piece is not going to contain any sort of traditional rhythm or melody, but I will gladly use recordings of traditional rhythm and melody to use in any which way I desire >D)
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In one sitting.
Yes, I have no life.
Yes, it was fantastic.
Any music related anime people can suggest?
(other than Beck and NANA because I’ve watched those :p)
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12 Piano notes made visible for the first time
Shannon Novak, a New Zealand-born fine artist, commissioned us to image 12 piano notes as inspiration for a series of 12 musical canvases. We decided to image the notes in video mode because when we observed the ‘A1’ note we discovered, surprisingly, that the energy envelope changes over time as the string’s harmonics mix in the piano’s wooden bridge. Instead of the envelope being fairly stable, as we had imagined, the harmonics actually cause the CymaGlyphs to be wonderfully dynamic. Our ears can easily detect the changes in the harmonics and the CymaScope now reveals them—probably a first in acoustic physics.(via we-are-star-stuff)
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For Under the Radar’s Protest Issue artists were given boards and paint to make their own protest signs and were photographed holding them.
Start date of auction: Tuesday October 16, 2012 @ 2:00 p.m. EST
End date of auction: Tuesday October 23, 2012 @ 2:00 p.m. EST
Find the auction at eBay here: http://stores.ebay.com/Under-the-Radar-Protest-Auction
All proceeds will go to War Child - War Child is dedicated to providing urgently needed humanitarian assistance to war-affected children around the world. War Child helps generate awareness, support, and advocacy for children’s rights everywhere.
Cool protest signs made by awesome musicians!
