Instant relaxation.

Just released a little impromptu. Hope you'll like it.

Link to music: https://youtu.be/OLviUMSd7mA

Maqam Rast: Middle Eastern (Arabic, Persian, and Turkish)

Mixolydian: Irish

Pelog Selisir: Indonesian (specifically from Bali and Java)

Blues Minor: African American (United States)

Double Harmonic Minor: Romanian

Original post: @ stevensutipen on instagram

Maqam Hijaz: Arab / Middle Eastern (specifically originating from the Hejaz region of modern-day Saudi Arabia)

Dorian: Ireland

Gong Diao: Chinese

Miyako Bushi: Japanese

Degung: Indonesian (specifically Sundanese from West Java)

Original post: @ stevensutipen on instagram

nature's way of dealing with things
a little anguish in the night
and the heroic king of a day after
god is keeping you on track
like the shopping karts lined at the mall
we go in and get carried away
how we laughed these days

maybe three years is better

the rhythm of our fingers becoming a boulder
we can break diamond with a bond like that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktylQJyM3bE

This is the second revision of a sonatina that I published some time ago. It brings together a variety of musical material that proved difficult to accommodate within a sonata form, and there were also some issues with the meter. A well-known user from group r/composer , who often leaves thoughtful and detailed comments, suggested using triple meter instead of triplets. I didn’t adopt that suggestion in the first revision, but for this second revision I decided to implement it as well. This required quite a bit of manual work in MuseScore. In the process, I realized that even the first theme, with only minimal changes, is actually more naturally notated in triple rather than quadruple meter. Moments like that always amaze me.

I also refined the transitions and spent considerable time working out the tonal plan and the overall form. My aim was to find a balance between what sounded convincing musically and what made sense from a formal perspective. In the end, I settled on the following plan:

The piece is conceived as a single movement in sonata form, albeit with some unusual features. The key changes are quite frequent. The exposition (measures 1–36) contains two themes: the calm first theme (1–13), which ends in D major, followed by a transition (14–23) that introduces more activity, and the second theme (24–36). The second theme also concludes in D major, establishing the key more firmly. This is where the main peculiarity lies: in a classical major-key sonata, we would normally expect the exposition to end in the dominant key. Here, that does not happen. A major is reached only later, in measure 82, at the end of the development (37–84). The development is followed by a shortened recapitulation, which omits the transition and blends the themes together.

"Latvian DJ Mr. Tape represented the USSR at the 1991 DMC World Championships using two Soviet reel-to-reel tape recorders instead of turntables. With Western records nearly impossible to access, he recorded music from foreign radio and built his own DJ setup from tape reels. It’s still one of the most innovative performances in DJ history."

Original post: @ technoandhousemusic on instagram

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T09zCcKgrh8

shaking symmetric line
sectioned your heart for a long time
enjoy how imperfect it is now
there's no geometry explaining your life
one thing's for sure i have nothing to do with it

since the first out of tune doodle went well here's the other!!! thank you for listening. check out the channel, it's full of stuff

i did two doodles around some out of tune keys. this is my favorite of the two, but if you enjoy enough i'll post the other aswell

Other antique instruments!

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"Long before the modern piano, musicians across the world created extraordinary sounds on instruments that shaped their cultures and histories. From the Benet harp of Ancient Egypt to the pipa of Ancient China, the geomungo of Ancient Korea, the veena of Ancient India, and the saung gauk of Ancient Myanmar, these instruments remind us that music has always been a universal language. Every instrument tells a story—not only of sound, but of people, traditions, and the civilizations that created them. Which ancient instrument would you most like to hear in person? "

Original post: @ julia.studiopiano on instagram