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Enjoy your swim! you too, fam, and do let us know if something comes into existence! Update: writing a concise, understandable explanation of a large topic you don't completely understand is actually quite difficult, it turns out. i know innit? i have two derelict .txt files with sketches of "...

I'm glad it helped: I only had those memes because I've been toying around with the idea of making a music tradition for a conpeople for a few years now, ever since I started playing instruments and composing as a hobby: I think your concept of a music culture is basically what I had in mind, too, a...

Heyy... I'm not super into progrock but this is banging! I wish my computer ran the new flight sim, or hell even KSP! it gives me that kind of vibe.

look forwards to it
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oooh, i like that one.

I mean... 'microtonal' is inherently a western-centric notion, it's for the most part about intervals smaller than a semitone, and thus very small(tm) being relevant. but there's a reality underlying what the ethnocentric concept points to: just like in a phonetic inventory we say that three vowels ...

agreed that harmony and polyphony are not exclusive to the west. I think the concept of the chord, and the chord progression, might be? Assuming you're only talking about pre-1920 western music. But also, to be clear: having 12 pitches is indeed unusual, because it's so many. The great majority of m...

my own two cents on coming up with a musical tradition. (which I've been wanting to do tbh) Good news! instrument construction is, within a given technological level, pretty much free: just take any entry in the hornbostel-sachs and just built it, or juts decide your conpeople build and play it. Peo...

Ooooo, fancy. three laws is great!

I'm watching this medical drama thing new amsterdam: it's like scrubs, except not awful. I'm enjoying it.

Ooooh, right, I see. so that's why heavier strings yield more sustain: the coupling is not improved a by lot, but the amount of energy in the string is more and, so, it takes more time to dissipate into the wood and air. that was a very good explanation, tbh, thanks.

omg there was a lot more thread! the thing about coupling kind of went right over my head, but I have a few intuitive thoughts about the english / portuguese guitar. the portuguese strings sound to me like they're nylon, which imitates gut, which is elastic and soft and loses a lot of the energy of ...

damn, the shawm is one honky boi I'd suggest wind instruments, actually - there's a lot of things you can do there that haven't been done, or at least haven't been done in a modern, western aesthetic. Hmm... I'm intrigued, tell me more. Reeds seem finnicky to get right, but things like ocarinas and ...

this is true, there are other design constraints which are sometimes more relevant. responsiveness, tone, hell, sometimes just aesthetics: look at electric guitars. that being said, audibility and volume are not the same thing: oboes are not that loud, but they sure cut through an orchestral texture...

I only play since.... oh, a year or two. very much a begginer, but if one is got to learn, why not do it with bach. I hadn't heard that particular version of Yo-yo's. the separate bows for everything deal sort of emphasizes the mathematicalness of bach. It's a bit like "yeah, I know this was da...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑16 Feb 2021 04:41

Torco wrote: ↑16 Feb 2021 03:40 hell, there's even a big ass hole in the ground on the north pole from where the ancient machines belched forth greenhouse gases and the like.

Wow, the north pole of Kankonia has a big jerk on the ground too.

lmfao i hadn't considered the pun

So in my north pole of a moon the planet's been terraformed by a probe. thing is, the people know this: they see the remains of ancient technology... hell, there's even a big ass hole in the ground on the north pole from where the ancient machines belched forth greenhouse gases and the like. there's...

https://youtu.be/jpFj-h1sKvs for me mrs segev's rendition of the prelude of bach's first cello suite is the best. It's good, although her phrasing does't quite match how I'd interpret the piece (if I could play, that is). (...) tbh a good part of the fun of the bach cello suites is that the origina...

https://youtu.be/jpFj-h1sKvs

for me mrs segev's rendition of the prelude of bach's first cello suite is the best.

Ratsawn wrote: ↑04 Feb 2021 03:54 Stress Runoff: B

Reduplication: A

me votes this too

on second thought, 20 years does look a little quick. the Pianar Pianar was originally a social system originating from near the the west of Adar, between two lakes. it was extremely successful during the late neolithic and early bronze age of Adar: their culture diffused alongside farming as agricu...