Any time period, any style -- I'm interested in seeing different ways of combining these forces, and studying the nuts and bolts of #orchestration.
If you're a #conductor, #choral director, or #composer who has wrestled with this, what would you say are the key do's and don'ts of writing for this combination?
I've been at #Pixar for quite a while, working on #computergraphics#rendering for animated films and visual effects. I play #ChamberMusic (cello/piano), play in a local community #orchestra, and have various other interests from #Lego to #cooking. Hoping to see a vibrant computer graphics community spring up here on Mastodon!
Neoliberal economics is killing the arts
By Tim Lutton, originally published by Red Pepper May 28, 2024
"...As a society, we must resist art-as-capital, where it is reduced to pure exchange value in a market of commodities. There, any politically-charged and counter-hegemonic content is rendered powerless, constituted as a stable harmonisation of the dominant socio-political order and drowning out all contradictions.
...In the present era, the tendency towards total marketisation of artistic production accompanies perpetual austerity and an atomised rentier economy that is shrinking public and social life. Without a rupture from neoliberal capitalism in general, the means to make new, generative and disruptive art disappears, and much else that is meaningful in our lives will follow after. The rest is silence."
I'd like to invite you to nominate your favourite pieces of classical music. For example: Pachelbel - Canon, Ravel - Bolero, Vivaldi - Spring. If there's enough interest I'll run a poll.
A chamber orchestra composition I recently put on PeerTube! One of the percussionists is placing a contact mic on a large speaker to make flabby feedback; the pianist is using a contact mic/transducer against the piano strings; and there's lots of microtonal/noise sounds from the rest of the ensemble.
This interests me. There's a classical orchestra in Stockholm, founded in 2005, that is not a public institution but a joint-stock company, Sw. aktiebolag. They've been commercially viable for 19 years and counting. Most rock bands aren't.
My sister has 1 ticket for the Final Fantasy distant worlds San Francisco performance June 1 she would like to sell as she cant make it. It's really close to the orchestra. She bought it for $149 and the event is sold out!
William Harris Lee hosts an open house during Second Fridays at the Fine Arts Building, located on Michigan Avenue. In addition to featuring live music, people can tour their workshop and see how violins & other string instruments are made.
🧵 A project idea has been stuck in a brain coil for a week and won't come out. I'll blow it free very carefully with music ... Inspiration, come on! You'll get Satie as well ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVW8NxlkE4c
My wife is in a small #orchestra (NULCO: Newcastle-under-Lyme Community Orchestra) and they have a chance to get a grant which would make a huge difference for them. Please help by voting, and by sharing the link.
They have #musicians of all ages and abilities, and play for the love of sharing #music.
You'll need to put your email address in, tap/click to send a confirmation email, then tap/click the link in it.
We're climbing the rankings a little but we need your help!
This vote will help a #community#orchestra put on our Christmas concert and share our love of #music. NULCO have been more than happy to adapt to my #disability needs by, eg, carrying my things and making sure I have a lift.
Really, they've been a lifeline during a time when I've been able to do very little. It's super important to me that we can keep doing that for all our members.