let me tell you, oh my brothers and sisters, that I struggle greatly learning anything at the piano … to the point that it sometimes feels futile, psychologically unsafe, and all-consuming, compounded by a feeling of diminishing returns …

Classical

Igor Stravinsky • Serenade in A • Live in Mérida, MX

Igor Stravinsky • Serenade in A • Live in Mérida, MX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4F2EnItZaE

Zigzagging Syntax (2020) recorded live in Amsterdam • Artwork by McKay Felt

Zigzagging Syntax (2020) recorded live in Amsterdam • Artwork by McKay Felt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLuu9wItnEg

Essay: A hyper productive, dizzying panoply of music • Positionen Issue 138 https://gavart.ist/#Essay%3A%20A%20hyper%20productive%2C%20dizzying%20panoply%20of%20music

Alban Berg • Piano Sonata Opus 1 • Live in Mérida MX

Alban Berg • Piano Sonata Opus 1 • Live in Mérida MX https://youtu.be/KDGrB0fIYkY?si=fFTUXdaZrvlAJOCi

in Chicago with Strangeloop Studios crew 🖖🏼👽 unveiling Young Thug Summer Smash tour tonight at Lyrical Lemonade festival. We’ve been working on this show’s visual design the last few weeks with Human Person.  Multiple heatwaves incoming 🔥

Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

I interviewed @yancey about why the 21st is on track to become the creative century.

Yancey Strickler co-founded Metalabel and Kickstarter, and has spent his life finding new ways to create and support artistic people.

We talked about how the modern world became individualistic and creative, and how the internet is changing how we relate to both.

Then, Yancey makes a case for creating in conversation and conspiracy with others, rather than alone—all in service of being a part of something bigger than ourselves.

Highlights:

- defense department seeding the word "creativity" and it entering the dictionary in the 60s

- the emergence of the "self-employed commercial expressor," a job that basically didn't exist 15 years ago

- what it looks to be an independent creator *and* be a part of a collective

- what it could look like for more people to make a living on the internet, rather than just a few people making a killing

- Artist Corps, Yancey's newest effor

https://dialectic.fm/yancey-strickler

collective legitimization … a belief and commitment to each other. @yancey co/releasing with co/conspirators

Metalabel, Kickstarter, The Creative Independent, The Dark Forest Collective, Artist Corporations

RIP Alfred Brendel, one of the most intrepid and thoughtful interpreters of the late 20th century

RIP Alfred Brendel, one of the most intrepid and thoughtful interpreters of the late 20th century https://youtu.be/JZPltJ_l85E?si=EvHJubSraXhAAS7x

Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Resignation Statement

Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Resignation Statement
https://frmrffsb.substack.com/p/fulbright-foreign-scholarship-board?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c0a75d78644b3aac2b18

Ludwig van Beethoven • Grande sonate pathétique (Live in Mazatlán Mexico)

Ludwig van Beethoven • Grande sonate pathétique (Live in Mazatlán Mexico) https://youtu.be/NzAQ3vkzH4c?si=yw5Dam9YQm1UapK5

Electronic Music

D'LEAU https://dleaudleau.bandcamp.com/album/emotional-properties-original-dluxe

20 Years of TiddlyWiki https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44198116

Beethoven Ligeti Aberrations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQTt4mjvfDM

I survived a week in San Juan, Puerto Rico working on the new visual show for Young Miko w/ Strangeloop Studios and The Blank Wall Creative … this one goes hard 🫰

[A] person's ideas must be the building he lives in...

[A] person's ideas must be the building he lives in... https://www.ninaprotocol.com/releases/gavcloud-taor-ueuf-ut

this is such a great behind the scenes look at the complexities of bringing Webern’s orchestral music to life.

this is such a great behind the scenes look at the complexities of bringing Webern’s orchestral music to life. 

https://youtu.be/a5PR-sLcXFo?si=3H4JFffC_PExqJoh

blocked again on #Instagram for sharing a video of one my own concerts performing the #publicdomain keyboard works of #Bach due to #copyright infringement by autoalgorithmic rights holder embargo.

Baduizm(s) • Visual Album [[Works in Progress]]

heavy Builder-Decentralist (-9.0, -8.9) on the Onchain Alignment Chart

future-proof + local-first 🌱 digital gardens ◼️ music composition across eons▪️the teaching machine ◼️ https://gavart.ist

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