#music preservation

[captain-habit]

Any time I'm in a position where I have no internet, but still want music, and I turn to my personal saved collection, I'm reminded of HOW IMPORTANT IT IS to save music and other media both physically and digitally..

Because you never know when a music project/group you love will suddenly break up and remove all of their work from the internet as you know it, or when a streaming service will just suddenly decide not to host something anymore. (Or the service disappears altogether.)

I have songs that might not EVER be available online again, and while it makes me very sad, I'm also glad that I'd bought the tracks that I have when I did.

I, too, have gotten out of the habit of collecting music (etc) like I used to, but with everything that's gone down, its high time I start again.

#this post is brought to you by #video violence #music preservation #media preservation #physical media

[pizzatowershow]

So, update

Let's start with the good news. Main Artist Pyng(@somecartoonisttalkshere) has escaped from her art block and is finally going to be working on the first official post to start off this blog.

Even more good news is that I'm officially on break, which means I can be able to write more freely without stress and such. Though, it's not without some challenges which leads onto the bad news. I haven't been in the best of moods lately due to my current existential crisis about time and the future of humanity itself. Not helping is the current news of the Internet Archive being sued, again, by music labels, a lawsuit which i'm terrified and hopeless about. These have been affecting my motivation to write and increased my procrastination. Although, I do have friends on discord who are always there to help me out of my bad moods and give me motivation to continue. As for the Internet Archive, I think we should do our part to help them and make sure that they don't shut down in case they have to pay the labels money. https://archive.org/donate?origin=iawww-TopNavDonateButton Updates will be slow as usual, but the project is not dead, so stay tuned! ~Writer Coolkatisa

#pizza tower #pizza tower ex!au #pizza tower game #pizza tower au #pizza tower fanart #pizza tower oc #pizza tower spoilers #update #internet archive #wayback machine #digital preservation #archive #archiving #media preservation #historic preservation #music preservation

[watashime-slug-fan]

Track: 1. リリック (Lyric) Album: リリック (Lyric) Artist: ワタシメスラッグ (Watashime Slug)

#ワタシメスラッグ #リリック #watashime slug #lyric #music archival #music archive #visual kei #jrock #vkei #music preservation

[cyber-clown]

Hi everyone, I have updated my Watashime Slug collection with:

A rip of LYRIC, including both songs (LYRIC and SE~LIGHT UNDEAD~) and the bonus materials.

Updated metadata (added album covers! Some are very JPEG'd right now. I will fix this when I can scan the insets and whatnot).

A readme that gives some info.

I believe this means I now have all of the officially published Watashime Slug CD releases, excluding collaborations / crossovers (specifically, two compilation albums that I know of, as well as Soshi's work / the origin of WISH on the Rhythm Tengoku soundtrack).

I have a big "what's next" in the readme, but primarily:

I would like to scan the CD insets and things like that, and include them. This would ideally include high quality album cover scans.

I would also like to scan and include some fun miscallaneous items, like magazine interviews, maybe even posters?

I would like to create some kind of fansite.

If you're interested, I've set up a blog at @watashime-slug-fan

#watashime slug #juuryoku #fill me with flowers #lyric #SE~LIGHT UNDEAD~ #ワタシメスラッグ #重力 #リリック #visual kei #jrock #vkei #music archival #music archive #music preservation #rhythm tengoku #rhythm heaven #WISH #WISH can't wait for you

[corporatebunny]

used to b so active on tumblr and i miss it. so i made a new acc. :3

#new account #lana del rey #taylor swift #phoebe bridgers #leonardcohen #goth girl #goth #coquette #books #these r interests and aesthetics I like idk #just typing #alt #new wave #music history #music preservation #vinyl

[reasonsforhope]

"Eighty-year-old Silvia Dan learnt her folk songs at her grandmother’s knee. Having spent her life caring for livestock on her smallholding in the Carpathian Mountains, she’s now starring on an album released in the UK.

Made by Romanian-born, Brighton-based artist Nico de Transilvania, the album – Interbeing – was recorded in the remote village of Nucsoara, where Dan is renowned for the pure beauty of her voice. A team of artists, videographers, photographers and musicians travelled to the village 180km north of Bucharest to record with Dan and local musicians on traditional Romanian flutes.

It is an area that is renowned for its old-growth forests which support lynx, wolves and bears, and is often described as the Amazon of Europe. Illegal logging has severely affected the region, so de Transilvania wanted to record the album as a way to use music to restore some of the damage. Every copy of the album sold will go towards planting native trees that are properly protected in law, in a project personally overseen by de Transilvania via her nonprofit Forests without Frontiers. So far the organisation has planted 150,000 trees over the last three years.

For Dan, whose grandmother wrote all her own folk songs, it feels right that they are now helping to restore the forests that inspired her.

“The album means a lot to me, it makes me proud that future generations will hear my ancestor’s songs – music and nature are embedded in our blood,” she said. “I am so happy that money raised will help to restore the landscape near my village – it has been devastating to see the destruction, and this project gives me hope.”"

-via Positive News, 2/20/23

#romania #slavic #eastern europe #traditional music #romanian culture #folk music #folk songs #cultural preservation #deforestation #conservation #music #good news #hope

[seaglassdinosaur]

What’s so interesting to me about Odysseus’s transition in Monster is that he hasn’t changed all that much. He was always capable of violence and we know that because of everything he’s done in the war and in his journey. The only change that occurs is he’s chosen to no longer feel guilty, and to stop hesitating when it comes to violence.

#look my outlook is everyone always is capable of horrible things. under the right circumstances we will do violent atrocious things #that capability is in all of us. Odysseus shows that he was always capable of killing (and killing an infant!) #the fact that he feels guilty doesn’t change his actions #sure he tries to be better and be kinder but at the end of the day his efforts matter less than his actions and outcomes #right? #yes he streamlines his violence but he’s committed violence before! #when one intends to kill the speed at which they draw their sword doesn’t change the outcome #feeling conflicted about the thing doesn’t matter if you still do the thing #so in monster what he decides is to stop trying to preserve his ideals of morality #but from that his actions won’t exactly change. he’s going to kill people in the future and really that’s no different from his past #in letting go of his moral preservation isn’t he returning to be just a man? a man with no illusions of himself? #my post #epic the musical #epic the underworld saga

[preservationofnormalcy]

I recently moved to a new town and it's a very nice place, but… people keep spontaneously bursting into musical numbers? Like, no rehearsal or planning from what I can tell, but the lyrics and choreography and such seem flawless? From what I can tell everyone here appears to be fully aware of this but consider it no stranger than walking a dog. The songs are admittedly very nice, I'm just worried there's something more troubling going on under the surface.

Ah, ██████. Hold on.

Last time this happened I spoke in rhyme for a week. Hold on, I'm getting O-Sec looped in. I see the location in the form, thank you for that, let me just--

Okay, so, self sustaining melocognitive hazards. My tips: Don't sing along. You will get the urge. It will seem natural - it's not. If you find yourself thinking in rhyme, open the dictionary and just read random word definitions, it'll throw off the cadence.

Do not, under any circumstances, try to find out where the music is coming from.

We'll be there ASAP. You'll get noise canceling headphones if see them and you aren't effected.

#office for the preservation of normalcy #ask #advice #extranormal music

[ask-the-hws-immigrants]

Alfred, what is your favorite thing each of your roommates has brought over to your country? And to Ireland, Romano, and Lithuania, what is your favorite thing about America? (the country not Alfred.)

As for the others...

Alfred can afford to be a little more idealistic, but that's just his way.

**Historical Note: Though immigrants from each of these groups contributed in a variety of ways, these are some of the ways in which they contributed most prominently.

Irish Americans were incredibly active in the entertainment industry, especially in music. Irish Americans were very prominent in vaudeville, and eventually Broadway. However, this was due to a pre-existing music tradition that stemmed from Irish immigrants bringing over their folk music. Many Irish airs became popular parlor songs in the UK, America, and Canada. The strong Irish presence in the Union Army during the Civil War also further popularized folk songs such as "McLeod's Reel." Though the Potato Famine caused the decline of traditional music in Ireland, many songs and playing styles were preserved by Irish Americans in the United States and later carried back to Ireland in the 1890s-1920s when recordings began to become accessible. These recordings were also among the first to be sold in the United States.

Italian American cuisine is one of the most influential marks left by the community, especially from Southern Italians. Many innovations in Italian cuisine occurred in the United States, and many Italian immigrants became successful restauranteurs. This explosion occurred due to previously inaccessible foods suddenly being affordable in the United States, such as meat and imported cheese. Today, Italian American food is still one of the most popular cuisine choices in the United States.

Though all of the groups mentioned had involvement in labor union activity, Lithuanian Americans were particularly prominent activists. One of the most famous of these activists was Emma Goldman, but there were several others who formed the United Mine Workers and the Amalgated Clothing Workers Union. Sydney Hillman, a Lithuanian immigrant, was the head of the Amalgated Clothing Workers Union from the 1910s to the 1940s. Even in fiction, in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Lithuanian workers and their union activity are the central focus. Lithuanian Americans' strongest import really seemed to be their activism!

For all of these groups though, one big part of what made American so attractive was the comparative plenty to what they had in their countries of origin. Though many immigrants worked long, difficult manual labor jobs, they were able to afford new goods in the United States that had previously been unimaginable. This is mostly due to the United States' ability to produce goods en masse, which made them cheaper. Furthermore, in Ireland and Southern Italy, land ownership had become virtually impossible (through landlords hiking rent prices in Ireland or land distribution after the Risorgimento in Italy). Even if their positions were not enviable in the United States, from a financial standpoint, their salaries and the resources available put them in a slightly better position.

#hetalia #historical hetalia #hws america #hws romano #hws lithuania #hws ireland #nyo!ireland #immigrant trio #immigrant squad #hetalia ask blog #ask #last seminar my paper was on how the irish diaspora changed and preserved traditional music #so if i pop off a lot about that in the historical notes that is why (it is a roman empire in my brain of sorts) #this was a fun ask though! sorry for taking so long to answer!!

[uncanny-tranny]

There's something so insane to me about being able to create and recreate vintage or even ancient music, clothes, fabrics, building architecture, anything, really.

I watched this video about a lady who knit a WWII-era vest, and it was really unique, because the cable work would eat up yarn, when there were shortages of fibers. This pattern would have likely been used by people to send overseas to soldiers, and now it's being created in a time where this war has been over for generations. What were the people making this pattern thinking of? What about the people making the vest? Could they fathom a world where world wars didn't happen back to back? Could they imagine what peace felt like, or did it fade like a distant memory, a faint friend? All we have now are the remnants of their efforts, a "simple" vest that would warm the bodies of countless people the knitter would never have imagined were here on earth with them.

We're reaching across time to learn about other people - we're reaching our hands out just to grasp anything tangible. And when we've take hold of something, all we can do is say I love you I love you I love you

#positivity #art #i also come across this absolutely stunning woman who collects vintage pieces from the '50s and it's just. it's mind boggling #or how we've found ancient sheet music and have recreated its contents #do you ever think about how we're time travelers #do you ever think about what might be recreated of us in the future #this isn't about nostalgia baiting but about how we learn and process the ways that people in the past lived #you don't have to feel nostalgic for WWII to be intrigued by this (it would be very concerning if one WAS nostalgic for WWII) #i just. i die a little inside because i know i will never know everything... #...i will never know every lottle thing about people in the past especially... #...and i am never completely satisfied because only a very selective amount of things are preserved and remembered... #...i wonder then what 'forgotten' people thought and felt and how they lived... #...especially as individuals or as a small clan of family and friends. i want to know them intomately - as if i myself have become emeshed.. #...does this make sense. i don't just want to know about nobles and kings and the wealthy... #...i want to know what the lacemaker for a king felt making lace for the royals... #...i want to know what the rice field worker thought about when the fields were flooded and they swatted a bug away from their skin... #...i want to know what a mother of a small child thought when churning butter - her baby cooing and making a mess... #...and it sucks sometimes to know that we're time travelers but in a very narrow sense. but i still love what we have got... #...don't get me wrong i love it. but i still grieve that we have lost a lot of history - a lot of people... #...or maybe we have only lost them in the sense that we just haven't located and found them *yet* #anyway i've watched that video multiple times now and i just go absolutely animalistic thinking about it #all of this is complex and i have Plenty of thoughts about that. but at least to me this is what i've seen a lot - a lot of love #and isn't studying this - recreating it and analyzing it - isn't that a form of love? #am i... a nosy person..........

[mortalityplays]

btw the guy who took those amazing shots for us is a genuinely phenomenal live arts/music photographer who has taken tons of fucking iconic shots of some of the most important musicians of the last 40 years. I highly recommend browsing his archive if you're a music oldhead.

he also lost a TON of his work on two separate occasions - once when sheriff's officers seized one of his exhibitions over a tax dispute and stored the photographs in a mouldy basement, destroying all of them, and again more recently when his home office flooded. he's trying to raise money now to digitise his life's work, to 1. safeguard it from that kind of shit ever happening again and 2. make the archive available to photography and arts students

anyway disclosure time he's also my dad, but the first two paragraphs stand. seriously check out his work and consider supporting this massive art preservation effort.

#photography #music #digital preservation

[rotisseries]

rick riordan dickriders on here will be like "why are you complaining about the pjo tv show, go watch the movies and see what a bad adaptation really looks like" ok well listen to the musical watch it on youtube and see what a good adaptation looks like bitch. it can be done. as a fucking stage musical. what did that 15 million per episode do for disney that chris mccarell couldn't

#this is such a mean post from someone who does genuinely like the show I'm sorry #like there are aspects I really love!! and aspects I really don't!! which makes it mid for me #but I do genuinely like it overall. at least enough to continue watching #it's just that I see sooooo many people who seem to have this attitude like you can't critique it at all?? #and their arguments are usually just. “movies were worse” (so we'll take anything now as long as it's not that?) #or “rick was involved in the writing” (<- NOTTT guaranteed to be a good thing lmao) #anyway it's pissing me off. I'm gonna bitch. “if you like the books so much read the books” I WAS PROMISED A BOOK ADAPTATION #AM I WRONG FOR COMPLAINING WHEN I DON'T GET WHAT I WAS PROMISED #“oh but changes are okay as long as it preserves the spirit of the books” since when was the *spirit* of the books a FUCKING BORE🤨 #also the cast doesn't deserve this. stick leah and aryan and walker in a better show #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo disney+ #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #the lightning thief musical #anyway all this to say some of the changes and choices are Actually Bad and it won't kill you to admit that I think #rereading this post in the drafts and editing before posting when I was handwringing about how mean it was bitch this is mild

[watashime-slug-fan]

Fill Me With Flowers (Music Video) Album: Fill Me With Flowers Artist: ワタシメスラッグ (Watashime Slug)

The official music video for Fill Me With Flowers. This video is included as an extra disc with the CD release of Fill Me With Flowers.

#ワタシメスラッグ #Fill Me With Flowers #Fill Me With Flowers (Music Video) #watashime slug #music archival #music archive #visual kei #jrock #vkei #music preservation #music video #cd bonus #bonus content #extra content #Youtube

[cyber-clown]

Also thank you to this cool YouTuber for video-archiving my rip of Juuryoku and mirroring the drive link. They have a download in the description, but it's missing Fill Me With Flowers so here's mine:

I've also ordered a CD of LYRIC, so when that comes here I'll rip and add metadata to that too :) it would be very nice if other people could do their best to archive and mirror these, because who knows what could happen that could lead to a lot of these songs becoming lost.

#watashime slug #juuryoku #fill me with flowers #ワタシメスラッグ #重力 #visual kei #jrock #vkei #music archive #music archival #music preservation #Youtube #rhythm tengoku #rhythm heaven #WISH #WISH can't wait for you

[appendixsaucy]

I DONT WANT TO BE THE OWNER OF YOUR FANTASY

I JUST WANT TO BE PART OF YOUR FAMILY

#this actually works both ways #Amber to Wilson about house #and house to Wilson about Amber #GODDD #I LISTEN TO THAT SOMG #COVER BY STEVE FISHER #AND BOW I CANT LISTEN TO MORE MUSIC #BECAUSE I NEED TO PRESERVE THE AURA #anything by Adrienne lender btw #house md #gregory house #james wilson #hilson #house #greg house #hate crimes md #amber volakis

[oldsoulfran]

Don´t break my fucking heart, man.

A screengrab from an interview he gave a few days after returning home from Eurovision in Liverpool.

That sat heavy in me for a while and now sits with me again while I rewatch the interview. I hope his soul gets to make it in one piece and he has all the fun and can spread all the fun he wants to. 

Do give the interview some love, it is fantastic and deserves way more people watching it. https://youtu.be/FhzYmBR83HI It comes with really good translation into English.

#käärijä #kaarija #käärijä interview #the more I get into his music the more I hope he can preserve himself through all this #and wish he could appreciate and experience more of the joy that we all feel for him #I hope there is some more music coming #it´s going to be fun