Michael

Someone positing an idea for an AI-based assistant in Dorico that analyses harmony

Imagine using AI to check your counterpoint and voice leading. Is the little baby too scared to analyse Bach chorales? Do you want milk and cookies with your boring-ass species counterpoint??

*decline. I was tired last night

Paedophilia, cannibalism and human sacrifices, but you drew a line at Elon Musk? That is the funniest thing to have ever happened in human history

The funniest thing about the chaotic declination of western society is that the satanic paedophile corporate elite found Elon Musk too annoying to cope with

If you said “technofeudalist necromancer” 10 years ago, you’d be considered mad

Dorico is so silly sometimes. “Oh you wanna do [simple thing]? Here’s a 25-step process to roughly approximate what you’re trying to do”

Sign me up

No musical instrument has as ludicrous a market as the electric guitar

I once sounded too much like Messiaen. Now I sound too much like Florentz

I resent and confirm this

Comparatively speaking, the cognates of ‘paean’ in other languages undergo the same transformation of this ‘ai’ - ‘e’ sound, so it’s likely that nineteenth century Engish speakers said it in the Ecclesiastical Latin rendering or in the same way we do now

Or ‘pe-an’/‘pie-an’ is perhaps a more accurate rendering…

Ecclesiastical Latin pronunciation would be ‘pe-yan’, Ancient Greek-Classical Latin would be ‘pie-yan’…perhaps that’s a guideline?

Extrinsic motivation and validation doesn’t really work on me, so I often wonder why I compose. I think it’s for no other reason than “I cannot imagine not doing it”

Is getting works performed the primary motivator for composers? I feel like that extrinsic motivation could be very disappointing

300+ pages and 50000+ words in my PhD thesis

Just end me now

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Live scenes from my desktop trying to finish my PhD thesis

The sound of Hell

I AM LOSING MY MIND

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Me wanting to use multiphonics like

The Telegraph’s political editor is saying, more subtly, what others are saying brutally.

You can have a whiskey on Monday. Just a little treat. Or necessity

“-13° is pretty cold”

>Fahrenheit

“WHAT”

I believe that’s the legal clause Hans Zimmer uses on his interns

Ah yes, we’re in the “approaching final draft” phase of the PhD where it gets obliterated several times over

What in the third-day corpse bloat am I looking at

Not sure, although smashing the phone to pieces is a suggestion

The amount of people who idolise Zimmer in my university’s film composition group is genuinely worrying

I am living off the Zimmer hate right now. Just hook it to my veins

The bar for men is THAT low?