Music

Music and dance: playing, listening, movement

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Trusted voices in Music

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  1. visakanv — trusted by 151 posters here
  2. RichDecibels — trusted by 131 posters here
  3. puheenix — trusted by 93 posters here
  4. bashu_thanks — trusted by 103 posters here
  5. QiaochuYuan — trusted by 100 posters here
  6. s0ulDirect0r — trusted by 80 posters here
  7. tasshinfogleman — trusted by 84 posters here
  8. danielbrottman — trusted by 86 posters here
  9. AskYatharth — trusted by 82 posters here
  10. univrsw3th4rt — trusted by 69 posters here
  11. TylerAlterman — trusted by 92 posters here
  12. eigenrobot — trusted by 64 posters here

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  1. why are rock and metal the only materials that have music genres named after them i want progressive glass. psychedelic wood. nu-paper. deep plastic (mechanical_monk) — 37 likes
  2. https://t.co/MocL6HCmYS (the_wilderless) — 35 likes
  3. There is no scientific backing for the concept of 'music'. So called musicians claim that the playing of special sounds, known as 'notes', can produce profound emotional states, feelings of awe or… (PrinceVogel) — 33 likes
  4. My secret to Twitter is that Every time I feel that somebody has successfully dunked upon me I get up and go to the piano and play Written on the Sky by Max Richter to my unnervingly large plant… (bashu_thanks) — 32 likes
  5. you’re tasshin, loving the whole universe [music video] https://t.co/SncXFNtSRU (tasshinfogleman) — 31 likes
  6. I watched this video over a decade ago and still think about it all the time: Bobby McFerrin teaches the audience to be his backing track and performs a song with them in real time… (visakanv) — 24 likes
  7. thread to keep track of my progress as I learn how to make minimalist ambient drone music number #1. not very good but also not very bad so that is a nice place to start. room for improvement but no… (RichDecibels) — 24 likes
  8. played guitar for my son and he loves it, lfggggg (visakanv) — 23 likes
  9. how come so much music education is not about the process of turning feelings into sounds (RichDecibels) — 23 likes
  10. it took me a long time to realise dancing was about ~actually connecting to the music and ~having fun rather than doing a thing to ~impress people and ~fit in https://t.co/0sQyJTVUoz (AskYatharth) — 22 likes
  11. being a piano player and hearing guitar players talk about how they play complex harmonies is like watching someone play doom on a fitbit (bashu_thanks) — 22 likes
  12. in the club trying to develop a robust accurate theoretical model of how to enjoy dancing (QiaochuYuan) — 22 likes
  13. >be me scrolling youtube while eating noodles >huh nice new 3b1b video >oh its a live playing of his song >huh that guy looks familiar... IT'S FUCKING @MasterTimBlais?????… (nobu_hibiki) — 21 likes
  14. I’m in a lil basement nyc jazz club with my wife while drinking a beer and watching these 4 guys jam like it’s the last night of their lives and it is such a peak experience. I am so glad to be… (visakanv) — 20 likes
  15. got to improv sing with Bobby McFerrin yesterday they had an extra mic on the stage & invited someone to come up I didn't hesitate at all twas surreal familiar and foreign https://t.co/u97OPwRvY6 (Malcolm_Ocean) — 20 likes
  16. "how to sing," "how to dance." i didn't know anything about any of this but the important thing was they saw someone they respected dignify these as things that were cool and important and that… (QiaochuYuan) — 20 likes
  17. I basically gave up pursuing my fantasy of being a professional musician the first time I shared the stage with musicians who really fucking love, live and breathe music I still enjoy playing music… (visakanv) — 20 likes
  18. one of my most luddite opinions is that i think recorded music is bad. it's like the porn of music. live music is incomparably richer. with live music the musician is actively in energetic dialogue… (QiaochuYuan) — 20 likes
  19. That was fun as hell thank you everybody for watching and sending us nice messages...I appreciate it. 1) @MasterTimBlais wrote a ton of all the music tonight, he is wonderful and I want to write… (bashu_thanks) — 20 likes
  20. starting to suspect that if you trace back the influences of basically any sufficiently interesting writer / artist you hit a mystic sooner or later (QiaochuYuan) — 19 likes
  21. there's a scene in Mad Men where Don listens to The Beatles' White Album for the first time and nobody has heard such weird music like that before and the other characters are smoking weed and… (RichDecibels) — 19 likes
  22. do you want to join my 30 day challenge for Music Making Month of March? for 30 days we make music every day. could be an epic song or could be 5 minutes of practicing scales. doesn't have to be big… (RichDecibels) — 19 likes
  23. I was terrible at social dance for years bc I thought it was about *making the right moves.* But it's really about making *any movement* as long as it's in response to the music & ur partnerMost… (TylerAlterman) — 19 likes
  24. I'm developing a set of instructions to effortlessly guide a group into delightful improvised collaborative music-making, especially aimed at people who think they are "not musical" / "bad at… (RichDecibels) — 19 likes
  25. just realised I'm reverse engineering my way into playing worship music (RichDecibels) — 19 likes
  26. @visakanv Herbie Hancock describing a similar realization he had early on playing with Miles Davis, and "right in the middle of Miles Davis' solo, I played the wrong chord. Sounded like a big… (Malcolm_Ocean) — 18 likes
  27. just remembered this lil jingle i made up a few years ago that has literally circumvented depressive episodes when hopelessness threatens to take over https://t.co/VtnTthQYE9 (univrsw3th4rt) — 18 likes
  28. small money or even no money that I value as big money: - first time I got free food when I played live music at a bar, and subsequently ~S$60/gig, ~$S100/gig - first time I sold a ticket to a gig I… (visakanv) — 18 likes
  29. sometime in the last few years beatboxing transformed into an entirely new artform... listen to this 🤯 Etherwood’s Begin By Letting Go - covered by @Jairo_YamoT (RichDecibels) — 18 likes
  30. waking thought: i love how i dance, but there’s no room for others in it. how do i, in my way, make room for and invite connection in it? (yes, i know how to partner dance. there’s something… (s0ulDirect0r) — 18 likes
  31. yesterday @danielbrottman, @innerpathing, @cynthiasongs, and i gathered in the Sun House to form the Magic Forest Quartet and improvised music on koto, shruti box, french horn, frame drum, guitar,… (yoltartar) — 18 likes
  32. how can you remember the tune & lyrics for thousands of songs? the body keeps the score 🎼🎶😎 (RichDecibels) — 18 likes
  33. this remains possibly the best singing/vocalizing advice I’ve ever encountered. “Aah like you’re going to the doctor”. Suddenly opens up access to a level that previously seemed unreachable (visakanv) — 18 likes
  34. how to read the rhythm from musical notation: repeat one of these phrases over and over while looking at the symbols https://t.co/REprauSqXx (RichDecibels) — 17 likes
  35. I was confused about harmony for the longest time and NOW I find out basically only the I, IV, V chords matterthe ii and iii and vichords are just the relative minors of the IV and V and I chords… (exgenesis) — 17 likes
  36. Ok prediction market and musical theatre enjoyers. Time to reveal that @MasterTimBlais and I are, unbelievably, writing the music for Another dating show with Aella and th Classics Department...… (bashu_thanks) — 17 likes
  37. Im releasing my first album this week (RichDecibels) — 17 likes
  38. I made a tutorial to share the basic techniques I’m using to make ambient music with my voice + laptop + free software + the most rudimentary music skills if you like tripping, I can’t recommend… (RichDecibels) — 17 likes
  39. just moshed for the first time! Fucking amazing, and several types of guys now make total sense to me (natural_hazard) — 16 likes
  40. Feel super similarly about this, music bends the mind wayyy too much to be treated as carelessly as it is https://t.co/yM6j8vgXAE (nosilverv) — 16 likes
  41. hi @MasterTimBlais i sang your tweets, which were very moving! https://t.co/Pm1CRa8Wwn https://t.co/uJ6t4alHcC (michelleakin) — 16 likes
  42. i will be taking a course at Fractal University (EDM Production 101) this Spring, which will help me move towards my goal of making mettāwave!i'm seeking housing in NYC to help me attend classes in… (tasshinfogleman) — 16 likes
  43. ok this is legit a rhythmic concept i had not come across before which does not happen every day, and also it sounds cool as fuck https://t.co/LC6LiEpp7G (danielbrottman) — 16 likes
  44. 🧵 something that’s come up in several voice lessons lately that i want to nail down as a principle: 🪄singing is empathic spellcasting✨ (puheenix) — 16 likes
  45. start saying yes to your deepest desires & watch the magic happen yesterday morning i journaled, “i haven’t performed live in over 8 months. i wanna give a house show in the common area, &… (puheenix) — 16 likes
  46. Being able to make great songs on demand with an AI composer is not as big of a win as you’d think, because there was already effectively infinity good music in any given genre if you wanted anyway.… (eshear) — 16 likes
  47. isn't it peculiar how sometimes we go through a really intense phase of something, then be mostly done with it afterwards? Radiohead was one of those things for me. When I discovered them as an… (visakanv) — 16 likes
  48. oh dang I got goosebumps from my own music!! (new release dropping soon) (RichDecibels) — 16 likes
  49. also, i totally fucking succeeded in my intentions for camp. the biggest one was to dance my ass off, and i DID. i hit some fucking FLOW states every single night. it’s like i’m even better at… (s0ulDirect0r) — 16 likes
  50. when I’m composing, there’s a way of listening to the empty spaces in a soundscape, that spontaneously reveals the missing melody I’m not ‘writing a tune’, I’m noticing it’s contours in the negative… (RichDecibels) — 16 likes

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