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calvingmusic · 5 months

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Just some melody stuck in my head… 🎶 🎹

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goblinchivalry · 1 year

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My favourite ever Game Changer clip has been released on YouTube! Even if you've never heard of the show, PLEASE treat yourself and listen to this completely improvised song!

#game changer #dropout #rashawn scott #ross bryant #zach reino #collegehumor #off book podcast #improvised music #Youtube

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m-jay-gee · 10 months

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i actually think its kind of wild that brian david gilbert hasnt been on play it by ear. that's like. his whole thing

#improvised music #brian david gilbert #bdg #play it by ear #improv #dropout #dropout tv

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suugakusei · 2 months

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Today I practiced a song and reviewed some calculus.

It's rainy again!

I'm thinking about recording a cover of a song from the Persona 3 soundtrack. It's been a long time since I produced any music (here's some of my old stuff) but giving it a try again sounds fun. Producing is always a big effort and a lot of work, but getting something I like out of it is really satisfying, as it is with any art form I guess.

I also reviewed some calculus today. I'm feeling uneasy about going back to uni because I feel I've forgotten a lot of what I had learned (shouldn't have slacked on my reviews so much!), but then I realised I didn't actually see my grades from last semester, and the fact they're all actually pretty good made me remember I can do this.

Anyway, I reviewed the chain rule for two variables and finding the tangent line to a two variable function at a given point.

Stuff is way to long to fit in an equation, so we abbreviate everything! Not confusing at all! Promise!

Last night I thought I'd finally watch Jujutsu Kaisen after months of my friends telling me I should watch it. But then the thoughts came:

"hey, why don't you study japanese while you're at it? it'll be efficient."

Then I spend 2 hours figuring out where to get japanese subtitles and how to display japanese and english subtitles at the same time, and then 3 more hours watching 15 minutes of anime. So that's fun!

It's fine tho. I did actually learn a lot and felt good about my japanese skills, because I somewhat understood most things. Some time ago I would've understood... nothing at all. Progress!!

And that's all for today. Have a nice one :)

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zef-zef · 9 months

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First 3 tracks of he upcoming album by Matana Roberts

Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Five: In The Garden... (Constellation, 2023)

releases September 29, 2023

Matana Roberts (composer / horns / harmonicas / aux percussion / vocal / wordspeak) Mike Pride (drums / aux percussion / vocal) Matt Lavelle (alto clarinet / pocket trumpet / tin whistle / vocal) Stuart Bogie (bass clarinet / clarinet / tin whistle / vocal) Cory Smythe (piano / vocal / tin whistle) Mazz Swift (violin / vocal/ tin whistle) Darius Jones (alto sax / tin whistle / vocal) Ryan Sawyer (drums / aux percussion / vocal) Gitanjali Jain (text collage) Kyp Malone (synths) Jaimie Branch (Courage 1983-2022)

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#2020s #Matana Roberts #Jazz #Free Jazz #Free Imprivisation #improvised music #avant jazz #avant garde #avantgarde jazz #experimental #Folk #spoken word #storytelling #Coin Coin Chapter Five #Constellation #2023 #week 30-2023 #Bandcamp #Women in jazz

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musicollage · 9 months

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Tyshawn Sorey ‎– Verisimilitude. 2017 : Pi.

! acquire the album ★ attach a coffee !

#jazz #free jazz #improvised music #jazz drums #jazz trio #tyshawn sorey #2017 #pi recordings #2010s #2010s jazz

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brainhackmusicbox · 5 months

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tokyoice · 1 year

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Uboa / 22nd November 2022 Make It Up Club (Bar Open) / Fitzroy, VIC Photos by @tokyoice uboa.bandcamp.com

#noise music #melbourne #women in noise #dark ambient #drone #power electronics #death industrial #harsh noise #live music #concert photography #uboa #make it up club #miuc #experimental music #improvisation #improvised music

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burlveneer-music · 5 months

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Peter Brötzmann - Majid Bekkas - Hamid Drake - Catching Ghosts - Brötzmann on ACT?! A 2022 live set released shortly before his death

The 2022 Jazzfest Berlin performance by revered, iconoclastic reedist Peter Brötzmann, Moroccan Gnaoua adept Majid Bekkas playing the two-stringed, camelskin-backed guembre, and Chicago-bred drummer Hamid Drake, documented as Catching Ghosts, is historic.

#Bandcamp #Peter Brötzmann #Majid Bekkas #Hamid Drake #improvised music #Gnaoua #Gnawa #2023 #act music

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sleep-deprived-brass · 1 month

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I honestly find it very funny that composers also make vent art. Like any time I'm not doing too well, I sit down at my piano and just improvise something scary sounding or very angrily put some notes down on a page. Now this doesn't sound funny in and of itself, but there are only two outcomes for vent songs, something hauntingly beautiful and perfectly encapsulating of my feelings, or "I am going to punch a piano for 30 minutes, and I don't care if music comes out or not," and I find that dichotomy fucking hilarious.

#-Alistør #music #composing #jazz composing #improvised music #vent art

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rfl-updates · 8 months

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55355 from Zhao Cong

#beijing #noise music #experimental #improvised music #china #Bandcamp

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thesobsister · 3 months

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On Miles Davis' electric period, its roots and motivations.

"Across the first twenty years of his career, Davis had figured out his specific positions and coordinates—tone, phrasing, sense of harmony and space—and at some point during the mid 1960s he worked in a different way: he faded back, or perhaps advanced, as if to become an environment. As an artist, he dissolved into his work: not quite absenting himself, or not only that, but diffusing himself throughout. He moved in the direction of creating, let’s say, systems that would self-generate music, or that he could switch on and switch off, with which he could engage and disengage. Once the system was in place, his job was to assemble its players and feed it bits of input."

#miles davis #electric miles #improvised music #musique concrète #désinvolture

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dustedmagazine · 1 year

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Equipment Pointed Ankh — From Inside the House (Bruit Direct Disques)

From Inside the House by Equipment Pointed Ankh

“Belmont Hand Wash” tilts and wobbles, a junkyard percussion cadence marking time and space, as close, dissonant sax notes blurt in from the sides. Charming like a wind-up toy, but with some dangerous edges, the tune explores chaos in a framework of tight discipline, wild blots of brass bursting through the tick-tocky measures.

Equipment Pointed Ankh is a gang of Louisville, KY improvisers who prove, once again, that the people who commit to oddity in the heartland really commit. These tracks bounce and jitter like they want to dance, but then tip sideways into lush string synth lyricism, inscrutable spoken word, and, in one cases, the sound of soda sucked through a straw.

And yet, they’re all rather beautiful, in a jump-cut, robot-dreaming way. “Late Night AI” frolics in a space-age toy town. It’s precise and playful but with bits of Sun Ra cosmic jazz floating in from the ether. “Rubber Slacks” pursues a hard, vibrating beat, like a jaw harp but clearly synthetic. The edges are so sharp you pull your hand back, stung, from sudden contact. And yet, wild, wiggy interjections pierce the surface, the wild vibrato of horror movie organ, the squeaking of doors, squalls of intemperate noises, someone shouting “check, check, check.” There’s a lot going on. It flies in all directions, without, somehow, ever falling apart.

The title piece is the album’s natural center, allowing wavery tone-washes and cascades of electronic sound to frame spoken word. “The stone gives the river its shape,” observes the speaker in a flat midwestern drawl, at one point before slipping back under a curtain of sensation. And later, “I’m making plans for the flowers that don’t include me.” It’s elliptical, possibly nonsense, but also indeniably transporting.

This has all been going on, apparently, since the mid-teens, and in Kentucky (the cool part of Kentucky, but still). It’s enough to give you pause the next time you’re about to say something dismissive about the red states or the south or whatever else has earned your scorn. Instead, let’s pour one out for the beautiful weirdos in unlikely places, doing what they do.

Jennifer Kelly

#equipment pointed ankh #from inside the house #bruit direct disques #jennifer kelly #albumreview #dusted magazine #lexington #kentucky #improvised music

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manic-exposure · 3 months

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