#meet the composer

[hellocanticle]

The Agony and the Ecstasy of "Bang on a Can", a Socioeconomic History of Major New Music Innovators

The Agony and the Ecstasy of “Bang on a Can”, a Socioeconomic History of Major New Music Innovators

William Robin is a musicologist whose credentials (nicely enumerated on his web site) are more than adequate to the task at hand. This is a socioeconomic and political perspective on the seminal Bang on a Can organization. At its core, Bang on a Can is the foundational work of three people now recognized as major American composers: Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon, all of whom met as…

[veryaren]

toxic YAOI lives. a sketch

[skinnypaleangryperson]

I love that part whenever I am reaching a point of inner life that was inspired by a piece of media where I no longer feel the need to talk about it in conventional forms, which never really happens for me anyway since I seem to be one of the few that is naturally nuanced, and instead begin to go inside of an incredibly deeply spiritual maladaptive inner life, which can expand for years if not the rest of my life like a personal fantasy that only I can see that is probably more human than 90% of people's experiences.

[merakiui]

Mera MERA you're the only one who get me. Riddle's beach outfit??? RIDDLE BEACH OUTFIT????? HOT GIRL SUMMER????PLS when I saw the exposed stomach I was immediately like "ahahah...what if...what if I were to grind on it...AHAHAH Jk jk...........unless👀"

YES OMG OTL hot girl summer Riddle is something I never thought I’d see in canon, yet we are here and it’s wonderful!!! Grinding on his tummy or even running your hands over it, teasing his navel, complimenting him for how good he looks in that outfit even if he’s against showing so much skin. <3 he may think it’s against the rules and very unbecoming, but you think he’s the most attractive one on this beach, and when Riddle hears you say that it’s hard for him to think otherwise. Maybe it’s fine to show a little skin for the sake of this vacation—so he doesn’t get hot in non-summer clothes, he insists! After all, there aren’t many rules one must follow when on vacation. :)

[nyle-style]

8th Doctor audio idea. He watches the first performance of The Rite of Spring. He faces aliens who are behind and/or profiting off the riot at the performance. Do you see my vision

[middleschool-kanade]

huh

-@middle-school-kanade-yoisaki

//recently cracked Egg be upon ye

…………….. what. the hell.

[qkmlh]

G O D ! ! ! The OPLA music/score is incredible!! Makes me feel so much, a little bit of everything, and even emotions I cannot begin to comprehend nor verbalize!!

[ghostlypawn]

lmm getting all the heat that pasek and paul deserve

[jessicanjpa]

New Tale of Years one-shot posted!

1989: Fairy Wings and Playboy Cars (Remix)

Summary: Alice has a human admirer and shenanigans ensue. This one-shot is an expansion of the locker headcanon in this post. Thank you @poultryproductions for requesting this!

Word count: 4.5K

POV: Edward

Warnings: mild stalking and creepy thoughts (male student), discussions of body image and self-esteem

Read it on FFN here

Read it on A03 here

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This is the 50th one-shot in this collection, and there will be many more! A good time to say thank you to all you lovely readers... your encouragement means so much to me ❤️

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[ciorane]

is there a way to watch your animation short?

not really, bc it's still at a wip stage 😭

there's maybe a chance i'll work on it again, but it's been in limbo for a year and a half now

have a peek though at what is basically finished (sorry low quality that's all tumblr will allow me!!!) (edit: vid is under the cut)

[midautumngame]

Gisula (she/her) 🌒 Lead Composer 🌘

Gisula is a Taiwanese-American composer, instrumentalist, and music producer based in NY. Originally an award-winning classically-trained pianist and hip hop producer, her music has expanded through genres to add life and emotion to various media.

She created the music of Midautumn to be a fusion of eastern instruments and modern beats. The soundtrack uses instruments from all over west, south, southeast, and east Asia to give it a distinct Asian diaspora sound. You can listen to more of her work over on her website & follow her @gisula

[jmkho]

BLOW IT UPPPP TO GIVE HIIIIM ALL OF OUR LOOOOOVE ALL OF OUR LOOOVE! BLOW IT UPPP TO GIIIIIVE HIIIIM ALL OF OUR LOOOVE ALL OF OUR LOOOVE! BLOOOW IT UUP TO GIIVE HIIIIM ALL OF OUR LOOVE ALL OF OUR LOOOOVEEEE!

[winkle-pickers]

MORE "SPIDEYKAIBA", "more kaibabros garabage" and "puffship"

HEHEHE. OK I'm gonna put the spideykaiba stuff in a separate post, but HUZZAH I'm so stoked for some

puffship

The story behind this one is actually my favourite classical composer story of all time: Rachmaninoff desperately wanted to become friends with his fellow composer Stravinsky, but wasn't quite sure how to break the ice. He heard Stravinsky liked a certain type of expensive honey, and just randomly showed up at Stravinsky's house in the middle of the night with a big ol' jar of honey. It worked. They became friends.

BUT ALSO THIS IS LIKE, PEAK BAKURA BEHAVIOUR, ISN'T IT?! (as I am rapidly adding more red yarn and thumbtacks to my 'tenuous connections between YGO and classical music' corkboard, a large hook comes to drag me off stage)

Hence this excerpt but with a more Jounouchi-esque food substituted:

When the buzzer in Jounouchi’s flat goes off at midnight, he’s not sure what to expect. The only people who ever drop by unannounced are Honda and Anzu. Anzu has a key and has never once in her life bothered with the buzzer, and Honda only comes at ungodly hours of the morning to clean his apartment and lecture him the entire time while Jounouchi watches TV in a half-awake stupor. “Hello?” Jounouchi says into the receiver. “Hello,” a soft voice returns. A pause. “Bakura? The hell are you doing here at midnight?” Bakura is silent for a moment, and then: “Do you like shrimp?”

I'll put the next one under a cut 'cause this is getting long, but it's a YGODM rewrite where Seto's mind crush goes. Very differently lol

Anyone who knows me probably remembers this one 'cause I've been poking away at this for actual years 💀 but very roughly (??!) it's a YGODM rewrite where Mokuba is Seto's half-brother and they don't grow up together. So when Seto gets mind-crushed he doesn't have any reason to 'put the pieces back together.' He's in his mind crush coma for two full years, and then Isono manages to find Mokuba in foster care. Yuugi & Atem's relationship is really different in this one too! It's a much slower burn to Friendship™️and there's more 'oh god an arson obsessed ghost is in my body' fear and paranoia. Basically just me enjoying dark freaky Season 0 vibes for way longer and easing into the whole plot later on when the kids are college-aged.

more kaibros garbage

Anzu had completely forgotten herself, and was examining Kaiba with open fascination - and revulsion. She moved closer to him hesitantly. “Can he...can he hear us?” she asked, her voice small. The maid Okazaki was already nodding enthusiastically, but Isono slowly shook his head. “There’s really no way to know, Mazaki-san.” Yuugi knew that the answer was more complicated than the question had been. Kaiba could hear and respond to noise, certainly; the whole reason he wasn’t hooked up to a mess of tubes in a hospital bed was because he could eat with assistance, and raise and lower his arms obediently when asked to in order to facilitate clothes-changes and cleaning. The question was whether he understood any of those noises in a meaningful way, and whether he ever would again. It had already been two years. The outlook didn’t seem so good, these days. Anzu gingerly sat down in the chair closest to Kaiba. She took another long, hard look at his vacant face. Her expression slowly began to shift. Pity. An emotion that Yuugi couldn’t allow himself to feel towards Kaiba. To pity the frail, twisted boy before him was to condescend to him, to disrespect their relationship. Yuugi had done this to him, and so he owed it to Kaiba to remember him as he had been - tall and powerful with a loud, strident voice - vicious, calculating, eyes shining like the cruelly sharp edge of a diamond - alive. Anzu reached out and gently, gently laid her hand on top of Kaiba’s. “Hi, Kaiba-kun,” she said softly. “We brought your diploma.”

[wildegeist]

One of my favorite things I'm seeing on YouTube lately is professionally trained musicians with professional experience reacting to or analyzing music (typically video game soundtracks) that are made by people who are probably either self-taught or have little to no professional background (therefore often not following a lot of conventions more trained musicians are used to) and seeing a mixture of both confusion and pleasantly surprised wonder on their faces because yeah, the music is weird as hell and different to a professional, but it's also generally really fucking good and unique sounding because it's music that so obviously doesn't restrict itself by trying to follow any "rules". And then sometimes they do notice something the music did and are able to offer a more in-depth perspective on it and why it works. And they're always SO excited to give their perspective and visibly perk up when the music does something really weird. It's just kinda neat

Anyway this is also a testament to my belief that anyone can make music and be good at it no matter what their background is

[composermadnessofficialpage]

Composer Madness!!

Meet the Composers!!

Firstly we have Gioachino Antonio Rossini, a jovial, amiable, man who loved to cook, and play tricks on his friends... In life he often hosted dinner parties- that is... Aww... His personality, cooking skills, and love for food will be in my series.

Next we have Georg Friedrich Handel, his gentle, kind, compassionate, charitable... BUUUUT he did have a temper when pushed to that point (Sounds like something to keep for my series 😉😉😉.) Yeah, his personality remains the same in the series... I'm not adding anything because I think I need to...

Henry Purcell- A truly distinguished and expressive gentleman indeed and he too has a grandfather vibe with the other composers because he's also one of the oldest. In my series, he's going to often be seen conversing with Vivaldi about things .. GRANDDAD CLUB!!!!!

Now for Franz Schubert... He was innocent... Endearing... Modest, frank... Simple and confiding... I have to give him a little brother vibe with Chopin and Mendelssohn, it only makes sense for the series!!!

Lastly for this section we have Giuseppe Verdi (praying I spelled that right...) A private kept to himself man... So he'll be quiet and in the background throughout the series... Differing than Paganini on the aspect that he doesn't have a secret that involves a severed head... Nothing more complicated than that I guess.

[uraniumglassgirl]

I love that valve is immune to sequelitis. They just make their games better