** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON #MastodonMusic **
Tonight’s theme:
🍃🛫ELEMENTAL🔥💦
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🎵 Post what you’re drinking along with music with a band or song name that mentions Earth, Air, Fire, or Water 🎶
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Every thought is a dream
Rushing by in a stream
Bringing life to our kingdom of doing
Take a ride in the sky
On our ship fantasy
All your dreams will come true
Miles away
🍷 earth, wind and fire - fantasy + ice cold Russian River Blind Pig IPA 🍸
@flexghost I'm drinking bubbly water with lime juice and listening to Joe Burke play The Wind that Shakes the Barley. Wind=Air, Barley=Earth #accordion#BoscaCeoil#JoeBurke
they made a sequel to accordions but no one plays it because the devs patched out the bellows shake and so the community doesn't find it "competitive enough"
@natalie
I’m convinced an open source digital alternative to the $4,000–$10,000 Roland synth accordions could be had for less than $500 and open the EDM/pop market for fun portable maximum-expression wireless midi controllers
But no #accordion manufacturer would want anything to do with a $500 competitor
@luke@natalie@AccordionBruce
They were working on 3-D printing bandoneons at an Argentine university to address the incredibly high cost of instruments
A collectors market led to what were effectively international instrument poachers, making it impossible for young people to learn to play the national music
I have some website links in my digital files if anybody wants
#BlackFriday#BlackMastodon#BlackTwitter#MusicFromTheMotherland#diaspora@BlackMastodon I've been to three East African countries in my travels, but unlike West Africa, I don’t know the music on the other side of the continent. I saw a documentary recently on Zanzibar and it featured a music called "Taarab," which was created in the 1880’s. It blends Omani, Indian, and African cultures together. Thought to be dying old as “old people’s” music, it seems to be making a comeback. ½
@fulanigirl@BlackMastodon
🪗 It can be tricky to use an #accordion with anything but a western 12 tone scale
There’s ways though to detune accordion reeds to play 1/4 tones and other scales 🎶
But it’s a delicate art, more risky for the instrument than retuning piano strings for instance 🎹
But careful retuning made the accordion popular in Egyptian film music and in other parts of North Africa through the 1940s–1960s I think #AccordionHistorian
Hey there! I use the penname Drosophiliac, but you can call me Rae or Drossy (they/it/she). I'm 24, nonbinary, leftist, and autistic. I live in (but am not from) #Vancouver, BC—I immigrated to Canada in 2021 from Houston, TX.
I study #bioinformatics in college (essentially a mix of compsci and biology). My favorite subject is genetics and I hope to do research someday. I'm getting ready to apply to transfer to UBC.
I produce experimental electronic music, working loosely in the genres of outsider house, epic collage, and plunderphonics. I use #Reaper as my DAW. You can see my production notes under #MusicProdLog.
I have a beautiful cat whom I raised on the bottle in 2018 and love very much. You can see him in #FattoushTheCat.
My other interests include: algae/seaweed, cats/dogs/birds/fruit flies, programming (mostly Python), drawing/writing, film, listening to music and vinyl collecting, plant-based cooking, and coffee.
Thanks for reading! I'm super nice so feel free to reach out.
I had a rather half-baked realization today that I want to share with everybody because that's what the internet is for. If anyone else has said anything similar, please point me in their direction!
I've been a huge fan of old-school jazz since I was a teenager. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie were my first and greatest loves but of course I looked outward from there and grew to know and love so many more, from Miles Davis to the Adderly brothers to Blossom Dearie to Ray Brown etc.