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Improvised Violin: Four Personal Views In the 1980s, avant garde jazz violinist Leroy Jenkins approached me about making a film together. He asked me to design it and be one of the four violinists on…

Here's a great discussion about jazz violin with Leroy Jenkins, Billy Bang and John Blake Jr. hosted by Julie Lyonn:

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The enormous advantage of asking LLMs questions, rather than apparent humans on social media? That the answers, which may or may not have a better chance of being right, never begin with "Look, you f#$%^&*ing moron...".

Hmm! I've never listened to her, but reading this, I think I will.

I found one last almost-empty pocket music manuscript book! Mel Bay isn't making them anymore, so I'm psyched.

A big reason I check questions with ChatGPT, etc., first: Right or wrong, at least the answers won't be snarky.

The most important standard in development today Update on 29 January 2025: P7012 draft is now nicknamed MyTerms (much as 802.11 is nicknamed Wi-Fi) moving toward completing the IEEE process and should be a working standard . In the meantime, the…

Doc Searls on an exciting standard-in-progress: MyTerms, where you get to determine what info about you companies can get at and use, rather than them imposing it on you.
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The First Law of Disposability: It's only junk until you suddenly need it.

Susan Alcorn - pedal steel guitar Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone, clarinet April 28, 2017 Gold Lion Arts Sacramento, CA video by Charles Smith Susan Alcorn & Phillip Greenlief (3-3) 4-28-17 Gold Lion Arts

This morning's listening. RIP Susan Alcorn.
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That's disappointing about Facebook, but I'm not surprised that they have another screwball rule getting in the way of people communicating. I just reconnected to Threads. I'm not seeing the post that I just made via Fedica there yet, but it may take a few minutes.

The Scratch Orchestra – Non-Musicians Orchestra • המרכז לאמנות דיגיטלית הרעיון בתזמורת החריקות הוא שכל אישה ואיש שמעוניינים לנגן אכן יכולים לעשות זאת, ולהיות שותפים ביצירת יצירה מוזיקלית בעלת משמעות עבורם.

An excellent meeting in Holon last night. In addition to group improvisations by the ten of us, each conducted by a different member, I did a duet playing harmonica with another member manipulating two squawking rubber chickens, backed by a bed of voices.
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OK, this confused me when I tried to set things up. I wanted to connect my Facebook profile, but it appeared that Fedica would only let me connect pages. My profile is where I want to post. Is that possible? And without connecting Facebook pages, am I prevented from connecting Threads and Instagram?

Conduction #25: The Akbank Conduction / Conduction #26, E: Akbank II | Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris | New World Records Conduction #25: The Akbank Conduction / Conduction #26, E: Akbank II by Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, released 01 January 1995 1. Conduction #25: The Akbank Conduction 2. Conduction #26, E: Akbank II * This album was originally part of a (now out of print) 10-CD box set * The Akbank Conduction, Akbank II Istanbul, Turkey; October 16 & 17, 1992 Conducting is no longer a mere method for an interpretation, but an actual part of the process of composition. Conduction is a means by which a conductor may compose, (re)orchestrate, (re)arrange and sculpt both notated and non-notated music. Using a vocabulary of signs and gestures, many within the general glossary of traditional conducting, the conductor may alter or initiate rhythm, melody, and harmony; develop form and structure; and instantaneously change articulation, phrasing, and meter. Conduction is a viable musical tool for the improvising ensemble. —Butch Morris “Testament challenges not only conductors’ orthodoxy but the very vitals of music and music-making-no tradition is left untouched.... When the musical history of the 20th-century comes to be written, Testament will provide one of its most essential chapters.” —The Wire “The breadth of colors and compositional styles which Morris obtains from these various ensembles is breathtaking－Xenakis-like string textures, the haunting melisma of a single Turkish flute, a roaring tangle of Sun Ra horns, pointillistic atonal rainfall, a tapestry of cloudy orchestral chords.... The individual personality of each ensemble shines through－no two sound the same.” —Pulse!

Tonight's listening: newworldrecords.band...

Actually, looking again after a few hours, it showed up on Bluesky with a link as to other websites with the title and image, but that's good enough.

The link showed up like a usual Bandcamp embed link (with the image of the album, play button, etc), everywhere but the Meta sites. A response for Fedica tells me that the Meta sites should have worked, so we're digging into this. Fedica seems to be a good solution for the crossposting, so far.

Nope, no errors from what I can tell. The crossposts simply appear to have never gotten there

Apple Music Live: Björk (Cornucopia) — Björk | Last.fm Listen free to Björk – Apple Music Live: Björk (Cornucopia) (The Gate / Utopia, Arisen My Senses and more). 17 tracks (71:41). Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm.

Last night's listening: www.last.fm/music/Bj...

OK, it looks like @fedica posted nicely to Mastodon, Bluesky, and X, but not the Meta apps (Facebook, Threads, Instagram). But they're the most important, I think. (I wonder what the sites will do with that at-tag.)

Jerusaklyn (Archives Vol III: 1986-1989 Instrumentals) | Joseph Zitt Jerusaklyn (Archives Vol III: 1986-1989 Instrumentals) by Joseph Zitt, released 01 January 1999 1. Impossible Things Before Breakfast 2. Floating Point 3. The Stainless Steel Rat 4. Svengali 5. Song for Charlie 6. The New Tax Laws and You 7. Theme by Rabbi Nachman 8. Circus Max 9. Spider Dance 10. Data Set Ready 11. Winter Watch 12. Recoil 13. Portable Face 14. Shadowcaster 15. Nightscape for Irene 16. And Your Little Dog Too 17. Osaka This may be my favorite of my archival albums. I released it in 1999 on MP3.com's DAM label as the third in my Cassette Archives series. It is as much unlike my other albums as they are unlike each other. Much of it is loud, raucous, and fun. (I'm also told that I could have tuned my guitar somewhat more precisely.) This would now be called "lo-fi," I guess. It was recorded on a 4-track cassette deck, mixed down to a consumer stereo cassette deck, then digitized to the fairly low-grade MP3s that were common two decades. Most of the music on Jerusaklyn was recorded for a cassette album that was never released. The CD contains all the material from that album, plus some additional tracks recorded for other purposes. I composed and performed all the music myself and recorded it in Brooklyn, NY, between 1986 and 1989, except "Theme" which is based on a traditional melody and includes found sounds I recorded at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, 1986. Thanks to those who inspired and encouraged this music including (but not limited to) Fayge Kleinbart, Manny Maris (from Lunch for Yor Ears), Shosh Forbes, and John, Gale, and Irene Cowan. Front cover art by Joseph Zitt from a 1988 photograph by Bob Izenberg and a text design by Bobby Corbell. If this were a vinyl release, it would be on four sides. The first two sides were intended for the cassette release. The third side was added for the CD release, and the fourth for its initial release online. SIDE ONE: Yes, That's My Real Name - Impossible Things Before Breakfast - Floating Point - The Stainless Steel Rat - Svengali - Song for Charlie - The New Tax Laws and You SIDE TWO: Variations on a Theme by Rabbi Nachman - Theme by Rabbi Nachman - Circus Max - Spider Dance - Data Set Ready - Winter Watch - Recoil SIDE THREE: More Tracks - Portable Face - Shadowcaster - Nightscape for Irene - And Your Little Dog Too SIDE FOUR: Osaka - Osaka The equipment for most of this consisted of: - PC-XT running the Texture sequencing software. - Casio CZ-101 synthesizer - Casio CZ-1000 synthesizer - Fender Stratocaster Guitar - Bass guitar (inexpensive, brand and model unknown) - Roland TR-505 drum machine - Tascam 4-track cassette recorder - Alesis Multiverb reverb unit - Various forgotten stompboxes for distortion, echo, etc. - Voice with forgotten microphone (track 15) - Sony recording walkman with stereo mic (track 7) - Acoustic guitar (brand and model unknown) (track 5) Some of the music that I recall having influenced these tracks: - Frank Zappa: Shut Up and Play Your Guitar - Ornette Coleman: Of Human Feelings - Charlie Haden: Closeness - Miles Davis: Decoy - Miles Davis: Pangaea - Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain - James Blood Ulmer: Are You Glad To Be In America? - Brian Eno: Before and After Science - The Lounge Lizards: Lounge Lizards - Public Image Limited: Second Edition - King Crimson: Three of a Perfect Pair - Material: Memory Serves

Testing cross-posting with Fedica. If this works, it should go to Facebook, X, Bluesky, and Threads. Here's an embedded Bandcamp link, to see what happens: (I'll be surprised and pleased if it works.)
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Well, it looks like my experiment with another site that claimed to cross-post easily to here & other similar sites is a dud. It hasn't, & even posts to the site itself fail to appear as they claim that they will. And they charge for access while promoting themselves as an open-seeming answer. Nope.

Hmm, nothing other than the link itself. Let’s try a news article.
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That didn’t work. Maybe I forgot to paste the link in at all. Trying again.
www.josephzitt.com/home/

Let’s see what happens if I post a link (and then I’ll stop with the annoying test posts for now.)

I’m back on Micro,blog, testing out cross-posting to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads. Hmm. I see that there’s a limit of 300 characters. I guess anything longer should go to my newsletter, with a link.

A trio of teenage girls at the bus stop are singing “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.” In three-part harmony. In Hebrew.

Completely random earworm mashup stuck in my head: "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my / To Grandmother's house we go..."

Ooh! Nabbed immediately. I've never seen her perform (even on video) and had lost track of what she's been up to.

Charlotte Moorman and David Tudor play a number of pieces by LaMonte Young, Morton Feldman, Ornette Coleman, Earle Brown, Philip Corner and John Cage.
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At least when the tigers broke free they got a song out of it.

Still from Godfrey Reggio's "Visitors"

Darmok and Jalad Explain It All for You