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microtones, 27 days ago to AmbientMusic

https://davidbeardsley.bandcamp.com/

On my last two albums, I've slid down the path past minimalism and post-minimalism to slow, quiet piano music with changes. I'm still exploring the same compositional concepts, but with harmonic motion.

If you haven't heard the latest yet, you're welcome to check albums out: hollywood staircase and blue in blue in blue.

#microtonal #microtones
#xenharmonic #ambientmusic

EarlOfEdgecombe, 27 days ago

@microtones Just bought blue in blue in blue and enjoying hearing it right now on this fine morning. Cheers, David.

historyofpunkrock, 7 months ago to punkrock

44 years ago
Members of British ska groups The Selecter, Madness and The Specials on Brighton Beach at the first date of the 2 Tone Tour in October 1979.

Photo by Chalkie Davies

#punkrock #ska #thespecials #madness #theselecter #history #skahistory

EarlOfEdgecombe, 7 months ago

@xankarn @historyofpunkrock I just LOVE this photo. I lived a few miles from there when I was a kid, in Shoreham-by-Sea.

skinnylatte, 9 months ago to random

‘Breakfast bingritto’

Fry a green onion pancake or paratha on both sides. Set it aside. On the same hot pan or tava, add a beaten egg. Take off the stove after 30s, use a spatula to move / fold the egg around. Layer it on the pancake / paratha / bing. Add protein of choice (I have a homemade cured salmon here), though any ham / sausage / vegan alternative would do nicely too. Add furikake, and black / white / cayenne / any pepper. Finish with a touch of soy sauce

EarlOfEdgecombe, 9 months ago

@skinnylatte Have you shared your recipe for homemade cured salmon? I'd love to know more about that!

EarlOfEdgecombe, 9 months ago

@skinnylatte Thanks, I will have to try this!

john, 10 months ago to android

Trying out some #Android #Mastodon clients. I dont think they are as good as the iOS ones, in general. Of course, this could just be my Apple-way bias, but switching between timelines and lists is way clunkier, for example.

Megalodon is the one I like best so far. If you're on Android, what's your favourite app?

EarlOfEdgecombe, 10 months ago

@john I tried a bunch of the Android apps at the end of last year and settled on Tusky. I detest the icon, which necessarily has a prominent place on my homescreen. When I began with Tusky the icon was an abstract set of tusks, but then they "updated" it to a cutesy-pie smiling elephant. I use it daily nonetheless.

EarlOfEdgecombe, 10 months ago

@john no I don't use lists

BlackAzizAnansi, 10 months ago to random

Sadly, I'm not even shocked at this point since we seem to have the most boring people running the world.

EarlOfEdgecombe, 10 months ago

@BlackAzizAnansi There were 60 episodes of The Wire over five seasons, and in all that time it was nominated for only two Emmys (for writing), of which it won zero.

All of these awards are all about consolidating power and upholding the status quo. They are not about recognizing and uplifting excellence.

StillIRise1963, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

I'm 59. When I was born, segregation existed, interracial marriage was illegal and women were not allowed to have credit cards in their own names until I was 11 years old. CIVIL RIGHTS ARE A NEW THING.

EarlOfEdgecombe, 10 months ago

@ArmyGirl @Marenzers @Jennifer_Pinkley @StillIRise1963 New York City public schools are more segregated now than they were in the 1960s. I live in NYC and have raised two daughters in the public school system here. There are many factors involved, but a major one is simply that privileged white parents are very often racist and see non-white children as a sign of a poor school.

Here's one of many articles about it, in case people from elsewhere find it hard to believe:

https://gothamist.com/news/new-yorks-schools-are-still-the-most-segregated-in-the-nation-report

EarlOfEdgecombe, 11 months ago to music

Ryo just came home and snapped this pic of me working at the dining room table on new tracks for the N to The Power sessions we are doing on Monday and Tuesday.

#Musodon #Music #MusicProduction #HomeStudio #NtoThePower

EarlOfEdgecombe, 11 months ago

@LarsFosdal it’s a Tasty Chips GR-1 granular synthesizer. Very interesting instrument which I am exploring.

gwagner, 11 months ago to climate

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EarlOfEdgecombe, 11 months ago

@gwagner Here’s my pictures - it’s crazy out there!

https://mstdn.social/@EarlOfEdgecombe/110500249157357726

futurebird, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

The skies over NYC are dull yellow, the air is yellow and it smells like a campfire.

It's cold, an unnatural chill in the air. I think this is due to a wildfire in Canada... but it feels so...

...so climate change
It's creepy.

Were this to persist, the garden on our roof would die.

EarlOfEdgecombe, 11 months ago

@futurebird Here’s my post from this evening with pictures of a normal day and today on my walk: https://mstdn.social/@EarlOfEdgecombe/110500249157357726

kissane, 11 months ago to random

If the mastodon ~community wants to be more welcoming to more people, someone is going to have to do bystander training for dealing with people like this dude. (And the other guys who told her to just block.) He responded to a Black woman’s post about it feeling super white here and went on for like seven posts telling her how to speak and how he was helping her be better.

By not making this guy’s replies visible to most people bc of federation weirdness, the software plays a role, too.

EarlOfEdgecombe, 11 months ago

@adamgreenfield @kissane @paulkruczynski @trochee Seems to me like the moderation systems here are designed to combat overt hostility, but completely inadequate for tackling ingrained prejudice from oblivious well-meaning racist/misogynist/homophobic fools. And the latter far, far outweigh the former. But to have a functioning system, both problems need to be tackled.

EarlOfEdgecombe, 11 months ago

@mcmullin @composers @contemporarymusic It’s so useful to have a description of your work ready to go when asked. In my band N to The Power we argued about this for a year, and I finally settled on

“We’re a ten-piece experimental band from Harlem that sound like a cross between Fela Kuti and Steve Reich. I play mostly electric cello and Tony plays bass clarinet, but we are all multi-instrumentalists.”

It’s so reductive, but effective!

https://www.ntothepower.com/

EarlOfEdgecombe, 11 months ago

@mcmullin @composers @contemporarymusic I think there is nothing lost if you get the description “wrong” but always some human engagement to be gained by having literally any description at all

EarlOfEdgecombe, 11 months ago to animals

Laika and I on this fine Caturday morning

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Cats

EarlOfEdgecombe, 11 months ago

@TywyllSeren @randynose i think it’s more like I have shouldered the feline burden