@ansalejoshua.bsky.social
Actual living Filipino composer! One-fifth of MusiKolektibo. Classical Music Expert working for FUGA and Naxos. www.musikolektibo.com
Yes, and this just in: apparently those CBP agents all said "whoops!" after they "accidentally discharged" on Pretti ten times.
27.01.2026 05:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A whiteboard with the following text: A piece of art in “dis-unity” is the unfortunate lovechild of undernourished attention and an unhealthy mind. Keep your mind alert and active!
Spotted on my way back. Hmm…?
15.01.2026 18:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sneak preview of all five tracks in my latest album "The Mock Orchestra."
Check out the album's Bandcamp page for more details! musikolektibo.bandcamp.com/album/the-mo...
#music #newalbum #mockorch
Promo for "The Mock Orchestra" album by Joshua Ansale. Available on all major streaming platforms and Bandcamp on Feb. 7, 2026.
DSP deliveries confirmed and pre-orders are live... it's happening! A two-year labor of love will finally come out next month, Feb. 7, 2026! I really hope that anyone who's even a bit curious will gander a listen.
#newalbum #musikolektibo #mockorch
Ah, Jollibee. The taste of their cornstarch chicken almost masks the sick I feel from their numerous labor code violations. Well… *almost.*
21.12.2025 13:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have a new album coming next year, Feb. 7 "The Mock Orchestra."
Two years in the making, realized through a hybrid of computer mockups and real performances. Because hiring a full orchestra is too damn expensive.
Bandcamp link for pre-orders! musikolektibo.bandcamp.com/album/the-mo...
#newalbum
A plate of braised chicken feet.
mmm chicken feet
29.10.2025 11:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Please don't offload the compositional process to AI, please.
Not a lot of people know this, but the greatest thing a composer could feel while writing is to have things click in place after days, weeks or even months of stuff that doesn't stick.
AI takes away that friction and that joy.
Ezra Klein is the Tommy Wiseau of Journalism.
11.09.2025 15:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How Americans fight fires, according to DHS:
Firefighter: Are you an arsonist, ma’am?
Lady: No, I’m just lighting a cig-
*Bombards the woman with a fire extinguisher.*
A dialogue box for Aptitude, rating Turf as A, Mile as S and Pace as S, in that order. Read vertically, the letters spell out “ASS.”
I am so, so mature…
28.08.2025 13:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I read that in Scott Steiner’s voice, well done.
28.08.2025 12:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Really helpful in trying to define the impetus of OPM to follow. Keyword is “Manila sound”
12.07.2025 19:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Also, try “Musika at Bagong Lipunan” by Raul Navarro. Text is in Tagalog though… it’s about music in the context of the Marcos Dictatorship, 1972 to 1986.
12.07.2025 19:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sorry, it’s “Tugtugan Pamorningan”
12.07.2025 18:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Tunogan Pamorningan” by Susan Claire Agbayani, UP Press — collection of writings and reviews of OPM from the 70s to 90s
12.07.2025 18:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
The “Bliss” hill in Sonoma Valley
Passed by the Windows XP hill in Sonoma Valley.
22.06.2025 00:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
big crab
BIG CRAB!!!
21.06.2025 21:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Me at the Qualcomm Institute Auditorium.
Happening tonight!
06.06.2025 23:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A piece of mine will be performed by Ensemble Dal Niente. Friday, June 6, 2025 @ Qualcomm Institute! qi.ucsd.edu/events/ideas...
05.06.2025 21:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Seth Cluett and his snare drum
27.05.2025 00:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Also, it's frustrating that she uses a version of the interlocking rhythmic mode in the beginning (which is correct for Cordillera music,) but it doesn't connect throughout the composition. It wish it was more prevalent... then I'd hear more of the Northern Philippine sinew she's positing.
11.05.2025 19:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is not good ethnomusicology-wise. The artist claims that this piece is inspired by the "fragile high-altitude ecosystems of Northern Luzon, i.e. the Cordillera Region..." but why does she use the wrong gong instruments? (Bossed gongs such as the kulintang and the agung are akin to Mindanao.)
11.05.2025 18:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Kicking back and relaxing after a long week of work listening to 70s Russian Jazz in a cozy living room full of knick-knacks.
Spot the loons…
19.04.2025 00:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A building with a big sign reading “UC San Diego” on its side
The façade of the famous Geisel Library.
A grassy patch of land overlooking the plaza outside of Price Center.
The front of the Conrad Prebys Music Center with multiple red ride-share scooters parked in front.
First few days in San Diego.
11.04.2025 16:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A sea of clouds seen from a plane window. Taken at around 5 am local time above the Pacific Ocean.
Hello blue sky!
10.04.2025 17:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Cebu Pacific plane seen taxiing from the right wing of another airplane.
31.03.2025 22:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"OK, Devious, don't move!"
16.03.2025 02:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you’re starting to think that the wannabe strongmen of the world has everyone by the balls, just remember that the once-untouchable Duterte is now in jail for crimes against humanity. If a back-assward nation like the Philippines can do it, then so can you!
www.rappler.com/philippines/...
Look what I found at the bookstore…
04.03.2025 07:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
