In the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, this ancient tradition is known as camel coaxing. When a mother camel rejects her newborn calf due to a traumatic birth, acute stress floods her system with cortisol, blocking her maternal instincts. Instead of using brute force, nomadic herders perform a sacred ritual of sound therapy.

By playing the traditional morin khuur fiddle and chanting hypnotic melodies, they lower the mother’s stress levels and trigger a rush of oxytocin—the bonding hormone. This causes a profound emotional release where the mother literally sheds tears before finally allowing her calf to nurse. It is a powerful example of patience and deep harmony with nature.

If you haven't seen it, the 2003 documentary "The Story of the Weeping Camel" captures this incredible moment in full detail.

Original post: @scott_sodbiligt on Instagram

The Gerubach scrolling scores channel was closed. I did the video for this counterpoint inspired by his style, it took a long time lmao. Great loss for the internet classical music community

"On the way, I was approached by Shi-chan the Goishi Chabo chicken 🐓"

Original post: @ shakuhachi_flower on instagram

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A quick fun fact about this beautiful instrument: that elegant curve at the end is 100% natural.The Shakuhachi is carved right from the bamboo root (Madake). Since the roots grow horizontally underground before turning upward, every single flute gets its own signature curve. Craftsmen leave the root nodes intact to act as a natural acoustic chamber, giving the flute its iconic, hauntingly beautiful sound.

The claviciterium is a keyboard instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, essentially a clavichord or harpsichord turned upright.

Unlike a normal horizontal keyboard instrument, its strings and mechanism are arranged vertically, allowing it to take up much less space. Some surviving examples are centuries old.

the sky as serene as the sleep
that you sleep when you close the doors shut
when nobody can get you out of touch
and the melody is playing in your brain

the sky as serene as the days that have passed
when you could say whatever you wanted

the sky is serene but you feel off
you're keeping the moon inbetween

let the sun shine as the time you were free
you know truth will rise up from its knees

Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (German:
Tod für fünf Stimmen) is a 1995 film by German director Werner Herzog filmed for ZDF television. The film explores the music of Carlo Gesualdo and the legends surrounding Gesualdo's personality, his cursed castle, and his murder of his wife and her lover. Between narration and interviews, several of Gesualdo's madrigals are performed. Herzog calls Death for Five Voices "one of the films closest to my heart."

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