Gabriel Kahane

I do actually think there is a serious imbalance on this app. A lot of politics and not enough culture. Some of that has to do with the fact that Black Twitter mostly went to Threads.

Like culture posts on this app simply don’t get the engagement and I think it’s because people feel it’s frivolous and actually it’s the thing we are fighting for, the freedom to make culture and cultural works

To be clear, this is a total shitpost on my part. I love Bach! Just having some lulz.

highbrow: gesualdo

middlebrow: couperin

lowbrow: j.s. bach

The James Talarico / Jasmine Crockett primary is an interesting litmus test w/r/t elite capture of identity politics. Good time for everyone to go back to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s book…

Nothing stimulates my gag reflex like the phrase "AI-crafted copy"

big feelings music, image, catharsis, & hyperpolitics

One thing that was not on my 2026 bingo card was crying while coaching a string quartet. So why did it happen? gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/big-feelings

Just realized that Dry January should be followed by Fry February, during which your diet will be strictly limited to mozzarella sticks, falafel, and the *occasional* calamari (only on leap years)

big feelings music, image, catharsis, & hyperpolitics

I wrote about crying during a string quartet coaching. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/big-feelings

YouTube video by Benjamin Rood Mahler - Rückert-Lieder : Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen | Claudio Abbado | Lucerne 2009

Timeline cleanse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzJy...

ICYMI, Roomful of Teeth & I have made an album called 'Elevator Songs.' It's set in an interdimensional hotel populated by travel influencer Jungian pop psychologist podcasters, indie rock stars dodging bombings in militarized California, hot tub enthusiasts, & more. gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com

Writing music for one’s friends is the absolute best. My face melted the first time I heard them do this. gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com

And we’re taking it on the road! gabrielkahane.com/where.html

YouTube video by Octoverse Media “Speaking In Tongues” | Elevator Songs (Gabriel Kahane and Roomful of Teeth)

The first single from 'Elevator Songs' is called "Speaking in Tongues." The album is set in an inter-dimensional hotel where the laws of space and time have been gleefully kicked to the curb. If it pleases you, have a listen to the first single, "Speaking in Tongues": www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MEw...

‘Tis a thing of beauty, designed by the one and only John Gall. gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com

album cover for 'elevator songs,' by roomful of teeth and gabriel kahane. schematic drawing of an elevator with a gradient light box overlaid.

Y'all. We made a record together. gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com/album/elevat...

Josef Albers image, with info about a March 14 Gabriel Kahane concert in Portland.

Sneaking in a wee PDX show in March! Super tiny venue, so get involved while you can. strumpdx.com/gabriel-kaha...

Less than one percent of the U.S. population speaks Italian. It makes absolutely no sense that people go to the Metropolitan Opera to hear La traviata. Am I missing something??

I know about 50 words of Spanish and could not be less the target audience of Bad Bunny's music and I still sobbed through much of the halftime show. What an incredible piece of spectacle/theater/lehrstücke. Bravo to the hundreds and hundreds of folks who brought it to life.

Nate, getting a bit frisky, eh?

This is very good rhetoric, but man, Ossoff needs a better front-of-house engineer. That 518 hz hum is torture.

Sincerely,

Your neighborhood audio scold

Usha Vance looks profoundly and rightfully distraught

Stoked to be doing my first solo show at Carnegie Hall next season. I’ll have a new sheaf of songs; mark your calendars!

contemplation in a world of action on national limbo, thomas merton, jacques derrida, and forgiveness

I wrote about what it means to return to my two solo musical plays, 'Magnificent Bird' and 'Book of Travelers,' in this moment of national limbo. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/contemplat...

This exchange is making me rethink my general antipathy for this platform. Big thanks to you both. #Jaydens

cishet autocorrects to cashew, and i'm thinking—as a cashew white man—about adopting it.

World is such a mess, sometimes you just have to order up a live-in purveyor of cheesy bread products to sustain your efforts to abolish ICE

Life hack.

cc: @tylerfromtheinternet.com

Hi folks. I’m very sorry to announce that this Sunday’s show in Cambridge has been postponed due to uncertainty about the weather. Please watch this space or subscribe to my newsletter for updates regarding an upcoming Boston-area appearance. gabrielkahane.substack.com

YouTube video by Radio Heartland October 1, 1939 / Port of Hamburg - Gabriel Kahane | Live from Here with Chris Thile

we are a nation of immigrants www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCQO...