I am super proud and excited for this one you guys. Please give this a listen, if you adore music.
The next #music artist in the @ESPR portfolio will be the award-winning Alexis Morrast. A vocal prodigy and Berklee music academic, this winner of the legendary “Live at the Apollo Theatre” is the future of modern jazz music.
When I was a youngster in the late 1980s, I formed an Amiga game dev team with 2 friends.
Before making games, we started by trying to sell game music that used minimal RAM, made with our music editor SIDmon.
To promote our game music, this energetic music module was composed by our musician Ramon Braumuller. The file, including tiny sampled sounds, is only 22 kilobytes.
What is piracy? This is a good definition from Courtney Love...
"Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist's work without any intention of paying for it. I'm not talking about Napster-type software. I'm talking about major label recording contracts."
Louis Daniel Armstrong's relationship with racism influenced not only his music but also the broader discourse on race in America. The barriers he broke as a Black musician are undeniable. The “Uncle Tom” criticism levied at him by some prominent Black Americans of the day was a reflection of the complex & sometimes contentious relationship between art, politics, & race in the United States.
If you're looking to share music, podcasts or other audio on the Fediverse, you might want to sign up on a FunkWhale server.
Funkwhale is a free open source audio platform featuring channels that can be followed from Mastodon etc. You can sign up on servers or start your own.
Masto pals, looking for suggestions. My best friend is battling #cancer and, as a result of that and other conditions, it has become hard for her to play her heavy #guitars. She's looking for a lighter electric guitar so she can continue playing through her treatment. Not necessarily a short scale guitar, just a lighter one. Any #guitarist#musician have any recommendations I can give her on a specific brand or model? Boosts appreciated for reach 🤗🎸 #music
Hello I'm Paul aka BirdsOfPraise, I've been on fedi since maybe 2016 or something. I like #music (making and consuming), #nature (being therein), stand up #comedy, #fringeTheatre, etc etc.
I live in #Leeds UK, I'm a big ol' #queer and I do web dev work for the #BFI
This is currently a single-user instance so I would appreciate a few boosts for visibility!
Hello #fediverse! I hope this toot finds you well.
Dipping in to let you know about 2 things:
If you're feeling the holiday blues, avail yourself of the #JoinIn hashtag, where people are sharing their experiences and helping others feel less alone and more supported.
Beginning at 6ET, GBH will have its annual #ChristmasEve#Music lineup, starting with jazz, and then on to the inimitable underground rock DJ Oedipus' holiday mix, and then The Nutcracker. ▶️ http://gbh.org
Hello Mastodon! My name is Alex and I'm new to your beautiful platform :)
I'm a violinist currently based in Prague, I hope you will enjoy an original song as a little #introduction
I'm still trying to get how things work here, so far I'm managing with the help of @aural, who kindly brought me here and has been very patient 😁
See you around! https://youtu.be/ac5MvX_V1DY
As you might know, it's the Eurovision Song Contest final this weekend. However, did you know there is also a FediVision Song Contest, right here on the Fediverse? :fediverse:
FediVision is an annual festival of music where people from across the Fediverse submit songs and vote on a winner.
There will be more details of the 2023 contest soon, follow the official bot to keep up to date:
Spotify officially demonetises all tracks with under 1,000 streams
This is just an insanely bone-headed move that is so pointless.
These artists don't even get paid that much money, and yet Spotify wants to cut off their revenue.
I'm done with Spotify. In fact, I think I'm flat-out done with music streaming services. All of them are exploitative. back to buying digital albums for me.
Just heard beloved Boston WGBH music presenter Brian O'Donovan — on an encore broadcast of his "Celtic Sojourn" — discussing old guard vs. new guard in Irish traditional music. He capped it with this perfect line from Gustav Mahler:
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."
My debut EP is FINALLY ready for your ears! It's an emotional, melodic journey through love, loss, and personal demons, but wrapped in a catchy, cathartic rock & roll package.
I think you're gonna love it!
It's available at #Bandcamp 10 days ahead of streaming platforms, and each $4 purchase also bundles in the original demos of each song. Turn it up, sing along, and rock out!
Oh this is just wonderful. Read this and listen to Paul playing Claire de Lune to an 80 year old elephant and the world feels better #Piano#Elephants#Music
"This is about failed cultural stewardship, which has been perpetrated for decades. The narrative of rock as a “white straight males only” genre... Any notion espousing that people of color, women, and gender-nonbinary communities having no authority within the rock genre... is not merely tone deaf, but categorically false. "
Calling all #music fans! 📢 (Un)inspired by the non-comprehensiveness of the #1001Albums You Must Hear Before You Die list, we're making a Mastodonian 1001 Albums list! 📝
Tell me THE album(s) you think everyone should hear, any genre/language/year, and I'll add to the list (reply here or DM; let me know if you want the submission to be anonymous). And even if you don't add an album, check out the list - maybe you'll find your next fave. :ablobjam:
Hello friends. Just our recurring note that we don't know what the weekend entails for you but hope our community of artists and friends can help get you through it as a healthy distraction, calming focus, or pure enjoyable discovery.
Do you need it eclectic? Super comfy? Extra loud? We got you across three channels of independent music and spoken word.