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adam scott neal

@adamscottneal.bsky.social

composer and teacher in Dallas, TX

35 Followers  |  32 Following  |  8 Posts  |  Joined: 22.01.2025  |  1.4145

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Junk Synth II is under construction! Over the years I’ve collected, hacked, and built various noise makers and instruments. This one will have bent Speak & Read and Speak & Math, Arduino sequencer, radio, metronome, 3 cassette players, and a Casio Rapman.

05.06.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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on my blog "sound pudding" I am sharing stories with musicians (mainly classical) pursuing different sorts of careers, from teaching to working in libraries and churches. I recently caught up with Pittsburgh-based composer and church music director Danny English: soundpudding.com/interview-wi...

20.03.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a million things bother me about Elon but the most mundane is that he can't even wear a hat right

04.03.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Career pivots and perseverance in new music: Interview with Mendel Lee Mendel Lee (he/him) (b. 1975) is a New Orleans-based composer whose music explores both the evolution of singular ideas over a long period of time and layered syncopated rhythmic patterns and hemio…

For those that don't know about me or my creative practice, a good way to do so is through the sound pudding interview I did with @adamscottneal.bsky.social

soundpudding.com/career-pivot...

Hi there, it's nice to meet you.

15.02.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

first priorities - file taxes and hopefully get a return before the IRS is gone. renew passports and get new ones for our kids before the State department is gone. make some go bags. plant some vegetables

20.02.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So much to say that I can't even start. So much to worry about that sometimes I struggle to keep going. Right now I'm watching and thinking about preparing for the worst. But I haven't started preparing yet.

20.02.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i had made a new year's non-resolution to post 1x/day on social media, honestly to just see what would happen. and i have abjectly failed. it's hard cuz i don't even WANT to but if you don't you don't exist you know?

27.01.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Helping people find what they need: Interview with music librarian Michelle Rivera Michelle Rivera (Photo by Barbara Johnston/University of Notre Dame) Michelle Rivera (she/her/ella) is the Music Library Specialist at the University of Notre Dame. She received her BM and MM from …

link: soundpudding.com/helping-peop...

23.01.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy to be here on BlueSky. First thing I wanted to share: I'm launching a new "season" of interviews on Sound Pudding today with my friend Michelle Rivera, Music Library Specialist at Notre Dame.

Do we hashtag here? #interview #musiclibrarian #academiclibraries #librarycareers #soundpudding

23.01.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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