#program note

The last big tumblr is falling! scare prompted me to start shifting my stuff over to AO3. I mostly reblog from others, so finding my own work has meant paging through post-by-post from the beginning. And while I’m there in the back pages I’ve been reblogging again whatever looked interesting (tagged with #from the vault)

Today I got to January 2017.

Barack Obama is so outraged at the lack of "American music" on our Febrile Ohms show that he sent Black Crowes frontperson, Chris Robinson, to yell at us about it.

Does the Trump administration still have some empty Cabinet posts to fill or something?

Anyway, judge for yourselves, weekdays at 6 a.m. on Clear Channel radio all across the country, and on Sirius XM near the front of your radio dial.

Attentive followers may recall that I was working on a collection of Australian wildlife motifs, because Australian animals are arguably the opposite of "American people," but look where I am now!

I am in the US again again doing family respite, this time in that nation's capital, of all places, where my brother and his family live.

These guys are ready to go as soon as my remaining brain cells recover enough to proofread them. I'm going to take a slightly different tack and make these subscriber-only until the next collection (TBD!) is out, because at this time I don't really have a better way of thanking those 3-5 sweet people for their support and patience. Details here. It's US$12/month for all my patterns, but you can download all the PDFs you want and cancel, and gift subscriptions do not automatically re-bill.

Tonight we remember the American composer Alvin Lucier (1931-2021), who elegantly transformed acoustical phenomena into aesthetic experiences.

Music On A Long Thin Wire exemplifies the economy of Lucier’s work: apply current and magnetism to a length of tensioned wire, and let the resulting system speak for itself. The complexity of sound induced by the electromagnetic effect (and enhanced by fluctuations in ambient temperature and air currents, the material properties of the wire, etc.) transcends the simplicity of the system, and makes for an absorbing experience.

Piper and Two Circles explore the phenomenon of “beat frequencies,” where slight discrepancies in tuning between two pitches result in a variety of rhythmic and spatial effects - pitch transmuted into other aspects of sound. Piper gives expansive license to the performer, who determines how best to interact with the acoustic of the concert space in order to produce beating effects. Two Circles takes the opposite approach, using precisely notated pitches to unfold the geometric design of its title. Letters takes Two Circles’ idea of tracing shapes in the contours of pitch and turns it in a more playful direction, marking out the horizontal lines of alphabetical letterforms with sustained pitches, and diagonals and curves via glissandi. (Cryptographers take note: the composition thus encodes a message to its dedicatee, composer Björn Nilsson).

Nothing is Real, Opera with Objects, and I Remember all concern the resonant properties of small objects, and the ways in which enclosed spaces and vessels alter sounds produced on or within them. The Beatles quotation at the core of Nothing is Real also demonstrates Lucier’s puckish sense of humor, while I Remember’s reference to the poetry of Joe Brainard illuminates Lucier’s engagement with contemporary art forms beyond music.

this should be legitimately okay cos it got me through- I’ve got rid of names n shiz but tada throwback to hell

GCSE Dance Programme Note 

Group Choreography 

Name: Lily Taylor                                                                Candidate Number: xxxx 

Centre Name: nope                                       Centre Number: xxxxx 

Question Number: d) The Force of Gravity 

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Title of Dance: Gravity 

Title of Accompaniment: Torn 

Composer: Drehz 

Running Time: 3 minutes and 5 seconds 

Names of Dancers: Lily Taylor, a person and a nother person

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