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doublemegative · 1 year

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kettledrum player with a huge crush call that a simpanist

#timpani #kettledrums #concert percussion #orchestral musician #orchestral music #orchestral percussionist #orchestra #timpanist #percussion meme #percussion joke #drum joke #drum meme

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diagnosed-anxiety-disorder · 10 months

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Concert over im so fucking tired good fucking bye holy shit the next time i see a french horn player i will rock their shit why are they so fucking loud and why were there five of them and why were all of them right next to me. I am becoming Beethoven, my ears hurt so bad.

The only motivation I have to sit in a higher chair in orchestra is to get the fuck away from the brass players. The timpani I can handle but holy shit what is wrong with the brass section. Also on my way off of the stage a trumpet player hit me in the hand with the bell of his trumpet so my hand is red now.

Beethoven why did u write the brass like that I took irreversible psychological damage from the french horns holy shit. My ears are ringinf as I type this. And OOOOO DONT GET ME STARTED ON THE FUCKING ORGAN PLYAYER LITERALLY JUMPSCARED ME i didnt even know we had an organist until they started playing arpeggios as we were walking off stage like WHERE DID U COME FROM

Anyways, concert went well. All the mistakes I made were covered up by the loudass brass section. May or may not post recordings later, imma pass out on my baguette body pillow

#musik musik musik i call this music #wdch #ok but the brass section sounded amazing before i went deaf #i love band players but only when im safely far from them #i might just have sensitive ears or somethinf #rant #long post #classical musician #orchestral musician

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arithmeticanimaniac · 4 months

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i once played the nutcracker at city hall but the acoustics were such that none of us could hear each other so my stand partner and i still had like 8 measures to go when the conductor signaled the end.

anyways i wouldn’t make it as a percussionist.

(video without the orchestral overlay if you want to give it a try)

#he followed my lead bc i was outside and i led us over a cliff #where would i be as an orchestral musician without cue notes #sleigh ride #video

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grandboute · 5 months

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Music rules the life

#music #musician #b&w photography #b&w #n&b #musicien #musique #photograhie n&b #noir et blanc #black and white #instruments de musique #homme orchestre

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edge-oftheworld · 5 months

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5sos fanblog with a twist!

hi!! welcome to the chaos :) you can call me ariel or silver and I’m a punk violist from sydney, australia, and tbh I’m still figuring out what that is.

here I post my projects: ideas, in progress, and when they’re done I’ll put them up somewhere you can hear! project requests on at all times, can’t guarantee I’ll def do it but I will always think about it and get back to you with ideas even if I can’t make it myself. I mostly make orchestral arrangements as I’m classically trained and can read too many clefs. but keen to experiment with anything! if you want me to arrange something for you to play please include your instrument and I will assign you which 5sos member or sierra or brandy I see your instrument as too for a bit of fun.

find me over at @faithfromanewperspective for less specifically music things! but you’ll find me blogging all my thoughts here too so hope u like!

PROJECTS IN PROGRESS:

FINAL EDITS: - orchestral arrangement of CALM minus no shame and easier and kmt plus ghost of you (teeth/lie to me/nitsw//lom/goy/lonely heart//old me/best years/wildflower/high/red desert) here - (nessa barrett) plane to paris orchestral

IDEAS: - vapor/lie to me/wwylm/bad omens for @ghost-of-you - efyts rock version for @ghost-of-you’s anon - something with tgwcw or os/co or airplanes idk - easier/more plus youngblood, no shame, kmt for me - red line (hornsby version) idea i got listening to ash's voice memo - (Taylor swift) dwoht/labyrinth for @speaknowtaylorsversions

COMPLETED: -only ever completed my child of the universe (delta goodrem) violin/viola duet which is what got me into this to start with!

on this account I fully immerse myself into the mood of the songs so you’ll see some heavy stuff, I use trigger warnings and tags, and reference neurodivergence and urban design and my own experiences. it’s all for the art and connection and I hope it might be encouraging for you too

p.s. check out the exclusive photo of the sunrise in sydney that’s burning for days

#pinned post #musician #violist #orchestral arrangements #5 seconds of summer #5sos #sierra deaton #almondmilkhunni #luke hemmings #calum hood #michael clifford #ashton irwin #silver creates #<-wish me luck with tag consistency lol #silver arranges 5sos #<-oops i found my old tag

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7thresonance · 3 months

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Valorant sova bow be like

#orchestralmusic #orchestra #music #orchestral #composer #classicalmusic #musician #filmmusic #soundtrack #orchestralife #valorant #sova #bow #drone

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justanotherpiccplayer · 9 months

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Not me listening to 30+ recordings of Holst Suite in F because the anvils sound shit

#musician #musicblr #music #violinist #Flute #Flutist #Flautist #Classical music #music related #Music recordings #Orchestra #Orchestral #Band #Band kids #Percussion #Meme

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bibixpgames · 2 months

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A pretty and lovely song is approaching... :D

If things go well on Valentine's day you'll all be able to see the full song, PLUS the artwork and video that'll go along with it! And don't you want to see the full thing? :3

Now I just need to actually finish the video, wish me luck, I might need it!

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ladycharles · 1 year

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My "no one owes you anything" twinky baroque pop number 😁🌍

Manic Pixie Dream World is out March 10th

This song isn't out till then but here's a little something else:

#glam rock #indie rock #spotify #lady charles #baroque pop #orchestral pop #Spitfire BBC Symphony Orchestra #Original music #Musician #Canadian music #Nonbinary #Genderfluid

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deceptionstudiosofficial · 2 months

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The 'Blinded By Fear' visualizer is live. You can check it out on YouTube!

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doublemegative · 1 year

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something we as orchestral musicians simply do not talk about enough is how the true purpose of concert black attire is not professionalism but the way it makes you feel like a spy or a sorcerer

#music #musician #orchestra #orchestral percussion #percussionist #concert percussion #concert percussionist #orchestral percussionist #orchestral musician #musical ensembles

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diagnosed-anxiety-disorder · 10 months

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Do you ever watch an orchestral video with a conductor with a wack conducting style and just think “wow I am so glad they’re not my conductor bc i would have no idea what the hell is going on”

Because what the hell is this https://youtu.be/j3T8-aeOrbg my dad sent this to me and… 😭😭😭

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#i would show this to my orch director but i dont want to give him any ideas #orchestra #william tell overture #orchestral musician #classical music #gioachino rossini #tokyo philharmonic orchestra #Youtube

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mywifeleftme · 27 days

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345: Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld // Never Were the Way She Was

Never Were the Way She Was Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld 2015, Constellation (Bandcamp)

My prevailing memory of seeing Sarah Neufeld and Colin Stetson’s duo performance in a small room at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa was the way they spent much of the performance with their eyes locked on one another. When violinist Neufeld became lost in her own playing and arched backward, in the same motion Stetson would lean forward over his hulking, steampunk bass saxophone, his legs braced wide. It was as though the two of them were bound at the neck by a long, invisible leather strap. In the most intense passages, they would square off barely a foot apart, like two rams, the veins in Stetson’s sweaty neck and forehead standing out, Neufeld’s angled forearm a blur of precision cuts. Despite also seeing Stetson’s SORROW, an arrangement of Gorecki’s 3rd Symphony for a 12-piece band, during the same festival, it was the intimate physicality of the duo show with Neufeld that had the bigger impact on me.

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While Stetson has frequently performed in larger combos (as has Neufeld with Arcade Fire, for that matter), in solo and duo performances his uniqueness as a player is more legible. On Never Were the Way She Was, he uses his uncanny circular breathing technique to create ogrish drones (“With the Dark Hug of Time”), loop-like melodic phrases (“The Sun Roars Into View”), and even to emulate broken techno beats (“The Rest of Us”). Stetson is a pretty physically jacked guy, and when you see him do this stuff in person it’s a bit like watching a blacksmith going at his forge—on record it can be easy for an inattentive listener to miss the exertions required to produce these sounds. But when you start tuning in to the fact all of this groaning cacophony is produced by one man’s laboured lungs, its rawness and minor imprecisions become captivating.

Neufeld takes centre stage on the more somber, post-rocky tunes like the title track, her violin weeping rust as she overlooks a grey bay, Stetson contributing various fog horns and stomach upset. Now and again she wordlessly sings, but it’s always recorded distantly, like a memory of some ever-present sorrow you refuse to allow to surface. On “In the Vespers,” she sketches out a tricky rhythm that Stetson eventually echoes on a tenor sax, the pair running through an odd-time workout that would sound like prog were in not for the chilly clarity of her phrasing, the way the energy decays once again into remorse.

The pair’s previous collaboration was a 2013 film score (Blue Caprice), and the record is of a piece with the influential work Stetson has subsequently done as a soundtrack composer (notably Ari Aster’s Hereditary). As with fellow Aster collaborator the Haxan Cloak, Stetson’s work has helped to define the sound of contemporary unease. If you’ve watched a recent horror movie or psychological thriller, the palette of Never Were the Way She Was will already be familiar—but here the pieces aren’t tied to any preconceived scenario, and the interplay between the two musicians gives it a dynamism and complete-in-itself mood all its own.