@WKCosmo Every time a friend of mine applies for a PhD or DMA I tell them to ask the faculty about their recent graduates and how many of them have tenure-track jobs. I chose my program solely based on faculty answers to that question.
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Ligeti4Life - Piano Memes
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Ligeti4Life - Piano Memes
@Ligeti4Life
https://t.co/h2lcE2jdrP https://t.co/pIV7fvcMnn We make Piano Memes for Ligeti-Loving Teens
Katılım Ağustos 2020
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THIS IS BECAUSE UNIVERSITIES QUIT HIRING TENURE-TRACK FACULTY
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins@daniel_dsj2110
Wow: "Welcome to gerontocracy in the academy. Graying profs are an extreme instance of a national syndrome...Between 2000 and 2010, the # of faculty over the age of 65 doubled...The arts-and-sciences faculty at Harvard had more tenured faculty over 60 than under 50.": chronicle.com/article/profes…
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@cowboy_postbop Jacob Collier's problem is that he isn't pretentious enough (and I'm not joking)
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I don't hate Jacob Collier nearly as much as a lot of Music Twitter does but I kind of have a pre-stroke-John-Fetterman response to his clothing, like, take off the beanie with the drawstrings when you're with an orchestra, man, show some respect
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@ClassicalCritic Also!! Schoenberg's Suite Op. 25 is full of sarcastic and snarky comments. Like the repeated notes in the Prelude or the Gigue in the "wrong" meter.
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@ClassicalCritic The slow movement of Beethoven's Op. 31 No. 1 is a parody of opera singers.
Verdi then used the main theme from that movement in Rigoletto 30 years later without a hint of irony.
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What's your favorite funny moment in classical music?
Like the Tristan-chord when they slip rum into Albert Herring's lemonade.
Or the "re-tuning" episode in Haydn's "Il distratto" symphony... that sort of thing.
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@SamuelAndreyev Would you be open to writing a piece with a similar conceit in the future? I have a project of works for miniature keyboard I'm looking to expand.
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My composition Vérifications (2012) attempts to answer the question: what if the Casio SK-1 were treated as seriously as any instrument, assumed to have the same potential for expressivity as a violin or grand piano, and what if the part were performed by a classical pianist?
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Computer ♥ Records@ComputerLove_
Casio SK-1 Commercial (1986)
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@eptwts Many professional chess players are from countries where a chess player's income is high relative to the average salary (like many post-Soviet states).
For a long time in the US professional chess player = poverty, but that has improved significantly since 2020.
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if being good at chess is a sign of high intelligence, why isn't the average grandmaster rich?
Skely@123skely
Chess is just intellectual masturbation. Like sure it’s fun, but at the end of the day you didn’t get anything done.
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@jackcrawford__ Inshallah one day there will be a difficult video game.
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@Ligeti4Life brain-off consuming open world slop does not constitute experience with games
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one of the most overrated games. brutally mogged since birth by Go which existed over a thousand years beforehand. now brutally mogged in different ways by countless video games
rob🏴@rob_mcrobberson
chess is hilarious because its like a bunch of gamers got together and convinced the world that *their* game is “intellectual” and totally different than other games and its not the same as like spending hours a day playing candy crush or something
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@jackcrawford__ That's why chess is less popular than ever!
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@Ligeti4Life indeed—experience with other games makes it hard to want to play Chess
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200-300 pages per week is entirely reasonable for humanities undergrads. While researching for my dissertation I read about a book per day.
Was I the only person who actually opened a book during college?
family_abolition_guy@nourician
200-300 pages a week is fucking delusional. people have jobs and responsibilities – their time is less free than ever!!! a lot of the shit they assign as readings in the humanities is also total garbage lmfao, maybe 30-40% is worth reading
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@EdbieLigerSmith Note: the Soviets were colluding against non-Soviet players in the world championship cycle for decades.
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Chess is kinda like the space race. The Soviets completely dominated for years, then the US got one victory & used it to tout their superiority forever.
Hilariously, Bobby Fischer would later come to hate the US & Israeli regimes, openly supporting Iran, the DPRK, and Milosevic’s Serbia.
World of Statistics@stats_feed
♟️ World Chess Champions: 1948: ☭ Mikhail Botvinnik 1951: ☭ Mikhail Botvinnik 1957: ☭ Vasily Smyslov 1958: ☭ Mikhail Botvinnik 1960: ☭ Mikhail Botvinnik 1961: ☭ Mikhail Botvinnik 1963: ☭ Tigran Petrosian 1966: ☭ Tigran Petrosian 1969: ☭ Boris Spassky 1972: 🇺🇸 Bobby Fischer 1975: ☭ Anatoly Karpov 1978: ☭ Anatoly Karpov 1981: ☭ Anatoly Karpov 1984: ☭ Anatoly Karpov 1985: ☭ Garry Kasparov 1986: ☭ Garry Kasparov 1987: ☭ Garry Kasparov 1990: ☭ Garry Kasparov 1993: 🇷🇺 Anatoly Karpov 1996: 🇷🇺 Anatoly Karpov 1998: 🇷🇺 Anatoly Karpov 1999: 🇷🇺 Alexander Khalifman 2000: 🇮🇳 Viswanathan Anand 2002: 🇺🇦 Ruslan Ponomariov 2004: 🇺🇿 Rustam Kasimdzhanov 2005: 🇧🇬 Vaselin Topalov 2006: 🇷🇺 Vladimir Kramnik 2007: 🇮🇳 Viswanathan Anand 2008: 🇮🇳 Viswanathan Anand 2010: 🇮🇳 Viswanathan Anand 2012: 🇮🇳 Viswanathan Anand 2013: 🇳🇴 Magnus Carlsen 2014: 🇳🇴 Magnus Carlsen 2016: 🇳🇴 Magnus Carlsen 2018: 🇳🇴 Magnus Carlsen 2021: 🇳🇴 Magnus Carlsen 2023: 🇨🇳 Ding Liren 2024: 🇮🇳 Gukesh Dommaraju Note: FIDE World Championships
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@cowboy_postbop This is already the case. Photoshop added AI features in 2020, for example.
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to be absolutely clear, I mean this in an “is” way not an “ought” way, I’m not saying it’s good but: there’s a pretty distinct possibility that in the future, with the struggles of keeping costs balanced with demand, it might not be possible to avoid a film that uses AI
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@robertlasagna1 This isn't a dig or insult. Musicians are very bad at judging the prior knowledge or experience of their audience. Most of the time their estimation of audience's preferences reflect their own preferences rather than any objective measure.
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@robertlasagna1 If I go to a jazz club and poll the audience to see if they know what a 2-5-1 is my guess is under 1% would say yes.
Most audience members at "serious" concerts know as much about music as I do about cricket as a sport. Jazz is no exception.
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The jazz question is simple: it's very fun to play, it's not very fun to listen to. To enjoy listening to it you must have a combination of technical skill and vivid imagination and be able to imagine yourself playing. It differs in this way from other high skill genres, which can be passively enjoyed at any technical level. You can train passive musical appreciation and get more out of classical music, or other complex styles, but not so for jazz, because jazz is an inside joke
BoiltOwl@nealjclark1
Every once in a while I think hey maybe I might like jazz now. But I never do.
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@dasBechstein @jeremydenk I'm not an organist so I can't comment on that, but his piano writing certainly is.
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@Ligeti4Life @jeremydenk Messiaen’s organ compositions are not an extension of Liszt.
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Counterpoint: the romantic era began with some important innovations and then with some exceptions mostly congealed into rehash and bombast
Gramophone@GramophoneMag
The Romantic period was one of the most innovative in music history, characterised by lyrical melodies, rich harmonies, and emotive expression #Echobox=1774154021" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gramophone.co.uk/features/artic…
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@mauriceravel08 @jeremydenk Liszt's transcriptions point directly towards Catalogue d'Oiseaux, and his religious works point towards Vingt Regards. Les Jeux d'Eau is influential as well.
More abstractly, his extended cadenzas and flair in his earlier works use the piano as a resonating body!
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@Ligeti4Life @jeremydenk hows messiaen “an extension of liszt”? he has one of the most individualistic styles one can ever listen
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@jeremydenk Diabelli Variations's rambling and unnecessary diatribes are part of the texture imo. It's too long but in an interesting way.
Kind of like hearing your grandparents tell stories that never get to the point but enjoying yourself nonetheless.
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There are diabelli variation people and non diabelli variation people
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@its_adamneely DAWs, Photoshop, and most other software artists use included AI for years before commercial LLMs were released.
Pre-ChatGPT it was largely called "machine learning" or "neural networks" but it's all under the umbrella of what we'd call AI in 2026.
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CEO of pets .com before the dot com bubble burst:
"everybody is buying stuff from pets .com, but nobody is talking about it. it's truly the Ozempic of the pet supplies industry."
Rolling Stone@RollingStone
AI use is “the Ozempic of the music industry — everybody is on it, and nobody wants to talk about it,” Mikey Shulman, CEO of Suno AI music generator, recently said. #RollingStoneFutureOfMusic More: rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…
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@ajedrezinmortal This can easily backfire, as calculation becomes more valuable in endgames.
Many older players have tried to simplify the game against me only to run into a losing king and pawn endgame that I calculated out to the end.
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Magnus Carlsen ha dicho, en diversas transmisiones en su canal, que contra jóvenes y niños conviene llevar la partida a un final. Su argumento radica en que aunque ellos destacan en táctica y cálculo, suelen ser más débiles en técnica en el final. ¿Estás de acuerdo con él?
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The galaxy brain way to play Bach is to use una corda and middle pedal but no sostenuto pedal.
stéphane margot@stephmargot
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