Daniel Shanahan

Does anyone have any boring music for music for experiments?
I need music that people are unlikely to find absorbing.

#musicscience @musicpsychshef.bsky.social @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social #aesthetics #musicpsych

Conversations about AI all last week and today on here have me thinking:

How would we see the possibilities of software work for people if we had goals of human expression rather than production?

After the 15th inning it is time to replace one player with a dog until someone wins or it's all dogs.

Maybe nothing in sports as close to hard drugs as watching a bullpen rollicking in and out of jams, wet hair and strange jewelry, spitting and cursing, having entire conversations with themselves. A ship of filthy pirates drunk on the high seas.

This is your periodic reminder that education (higher or otherwise) has benefits other than improving your capacity to perform in the labor market, and these benefits may in fact even be *more important* than employability.

And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland

On the left, reportedly a photo of Texas National Guard members arriving in Illinois. On the right . . . I have questions.

JOB: FSU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Music Theory (tenure track)! I am on the committee and happy to answer any questions.

societymusictheory.org/resources/jo...

The Sorcerer's Ascension RIP Hermeto Pascoal, who found music in everything

What is the sonic equivalent to “visionary” — aurallary? RIP to one of those, maybe the best of them

Simpsons - i sleep in a racing car meme. Text I TRAVEL IN A ROBOTAXI, HOW DO YOU GET ABOUT? I HAVE AN INTEGRATED PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM

The biggest trick the devil ever pulled is to call LLMs “artificial intelligence.”

And somehow the Cubs lost to the Pirates as part of our annual August implosion.

I’m here in Slovakia and am playing in mandolin in a Slovak John Denver cover band tonight. I will literally try to gig anywhere I can...

Head. Rain or shine, day or night.

Photo of a sketch of a Neanderthal. The headline reads: Scientists Growing Neanderthal 'Minibrains', Will Connect Them to Crab Robots

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

Today is August 1.

Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.

Still not as bad as Microsoft Teams

Motherfucker I can barely access Microsoft teams from my computer

In philosophy we have our share of... let's say "difficult"... personalities. Every few years a young graduate student will ask "why hasn't anyone told them to stop [being difficult]?"

I think I'll just send them this

May all your trains be crazy

Ozzy Osbourne, Take Me Out To The Ball Game

They’re in the pockets of Big Polyphony.

#BookSky

Art can't just be a luxury for the few. That requires a city where artists can actually afford to live and create, and where musicians don't just receive recognition but fair pay.

That's what @local802.bsky.social organizes for and I'm so proud to have their endorsement.

Sure, We Gained Our Independence, But We Lost The Ability To Make Anything As Good As ‘Taskmaster’ | Defector The Fourth of July is always there to remind us that we aren’t the country we fancy ourselves being, but this year’s national try-not-to-blow-your-hand-off munitions festival was even grimmer given…

'Taskmaster' is what comes of not being fixated on someone "winning" a thing, but rather the process that makes the winning worth the walk. defector.com/sure-we-gain...

In addition to many other important programs, IU Bloomington is eliminating its Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department, one of the most storied and successful in the country.