#all that is musical in us is memory

[luthienne]

Reginald Dwayne Betts, from Felon; “Night”

[Text ID: Listen, who hasn't waited for something / to happen? I know folks died waiting. I know / hurt is a wandering song. / I was lost in my fear.]

#reginald dwayne betts #felon: poems #night #words #poetry #typography #to be human #… #desire is no light thing #all that is musical in us is memory

[atissi]

okay very preliminary thoughts on mitski's new album BUT i think there's something with how "laurel hell" felt like a goodbye to the music industry (can't find the source but i remember reading that it was intended to be her last album under her contract) like i'm sorry anthony fantano but if you interpret the back half of "laurel hell" as being generic breakup songs you're missing like 80% of the context. to me TO ME it feels so clearly about her negotiating her relationship with fame, how she can't love her fans the way they love her, and how she feels like she sold her soul to her job, so the only thing to do is step away. but THEN "the land is inhospitable and so are we" was created after mitski decided to renegotiate her contract, specifically because she loved making music enough to deal with the negative aspects of the work. and then all the songs are about the ghost of love she can leave behind, despite the present pain or emptiness, and like. do you see it. do you see it.

#THE NARRATIVE. #beepbeep.txt #mitski #like you can definitely interpret everything through the lens of personal romantic relationships BUT. i think its even better #envisioning that she is speaking to her actual audience. the love they have for her and the love she is trying to communicate to them #i mean especially “i don't like my mind” just feels like a response to “love me more” where she begs to keep her job #specifically so she doesn't have to be alone with all these thoughts. so she can be witnessed #but then i feel like “the deal” and “when memories snow” are responses to “working for the knife” and “everyone” where her job leaves her #feeling emptied out of all this pain and love simultaneously. hence the ghostliness of the whole album #and her coming to terms with this feeling of emptiness. or actually. the loneliness of having no witnesses at all. after the music. #being king of her own land. if one would like to use that turn of phrase #IS ANYONE ELSE GOING INSANE OR.

[odinsblog]

R.I.P. Astrud Gilberto, March 29, 1940 - June 5, 2023. Seen here, performing "The Girl from Ipanema" in 1964 with Stan Getz on tenor sax, Gary Burton on vibraphone, Gene Cherico on bass, and Joe Hunt on drums.

#astrud gilberto #r.i.p. #the girl from ipanema #music #bossa nova #stan getz #childhood memories #damn - hearing this song after so long literally unlocked #childhood memories from kindergarten? of music they played at nap time #not the school or the teachers but someone who lived nearby #close enough that we could hear it gently playing in the background #at ​12 noon sharp every day for an hour #and i can remember that whenever it wasnt playing #all of us kids had trouble falling asleep #whenever i do hear it now (which isnt at all often) #it immediately relaxes my brain and my entire body #lol - they pavlove’d a conditioned response into us #hopefully there isnt another song ive forgotten that automatically turns on a murderous rage #anyway - the point here is that im almost 39 #and (my fault) but this is the 1st time ive ever even seen what she looked like

[bmpmp3]

thank god for indie devs making like tiny little maximum 10 megabyte freeware games on itchio keeping the art of filesize optimization alive. ASSET REUSE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#im watching a video about wario land music -> 'the bizarre music and sound design of wario land 4' by geno7 #good video so far! i like this guys stuff. he talked a bit about how they did some of the sound effects for warios voice #a very like. chopped and remixed sample style of doing his vocal lines. which is very cool 1) because it saves a bit of #precious space on that gba cartridge BUT ALSO 2) it just sounds cool and interesting stylistically #and man sometimes trying to keep a file size down really does give way for some really interesting stuff #on my own personal interests in games i ADORE rpg makers rtp and how people can find creative uses for it #i love that a bunch of games can draw from the same asset pool as one install on ur computer #no bloating your hardrive with a bunch of copies of the same assets - its just already here! #and from a developers perspective i love when they reuse old assets from other games in new weird ways #some small visual novel companies will reuse backgrounds and other assets #altho i dont mind a bit of bloat with VNs since a big draw can be the big pretty images and big pretty sounds #but its still cool when people find ways to get creative with space saving. and from a players perspective its also nice #space is cheap nowadays. but its not Free. we can swallow terabytes whole with micro sds and everything #but a lot of players dont get the chance or ability to upgrade their internal memory that often. so i think being considerate of filesize i #very important. and thats not even getting into the download bandwidth limits - a lot of people all across north america can only get like #internet from 1 provider and that 1 provider often likes to upcharge and limit shit because they can #we might live in a future where a lot of powerful technology exists. but access to that tech is another story #so remember the filesize. remember the filesize. #dies in your arms

[bylertruther]

"will wouldn't like musicals" he literally has a little shop of horrors poster on his wall AND loves music AND loves movies. shut up.

#i need to stop reading the tags on posts i need to just. talk to myself even more than i already do online #music literally saved his life and is what kept him alive it was all he had and it's gotten him through terrible times both in the upside #down and when his parents were fighting like GOD can we like . can we stop stripping will down to nothing. can we use our eyeballs please #and work on building up our memory for when we say things with our whole chest like 😭😭😭😭

[katierosefun]

yes every single day is a reason to start anew and no, i will not be setting incredibly high expectations for 2024 because the unfortunate truth is that life is all about rolling with the punches, even if they really hit hard, but also. something fantastic about how people still choose new year's day to go "ALRIGHT. NEW YEAR. TIME TO SHAKE OFF THE COBWEBS"

#caroline talks #setting together my list of new year resolutions #and the first item on the list is 'LISTEN TO LESS DEPRESSING MUSIC. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD' #i think somewhere else on that list is gonna be 'watch all the barbie movies' #idk. life is good when watching all the barbie movies tbh #maybe memorize random portions of criminal law. for funsies. #i've been watching suits and god knows i have mixed feelings about mike ross but my brain is happy whenever he does the photographic memory #thingie. like damn harvey me too! #brush up on my korean. #learn how to do an actual pull-up or two. #wear more dangly earrings. #quote an entire episode of leverage. #when i was a kid. i used to be able to quote any line from star trek: 2009 and star trek into darkness #and i need to be able to do that again. it was a fun party trick #learn a new fun fact every day. etc

[masteroffakesmiles]

I don’t think I’m ready on how persona 3 reloaded will handle these two scenes (spoilers for the OG Persona 3)

The hot springs scene

The bad ending

#Persona 3 #persona 3 reloaded #i have false hopes that they won’t add the awkward hot springs in there. And if they do #I bet Altus will make it as horrible as possible. Maybe even worse than the OG. #And if they do the bad ending #it will be CINEMATIC #A nitpick but i hope they’ll add in a sad instrumental music in the end credits if you get the bad ending #Cause the OG still had the peppy end credits theme that was used in the true ending #Then again I guess it fits the tone of the OG since the characters had their memories wiped and they all go back to square 1 of the game #Without knowing the fall was coming

[confirmed-for-trash]

goddamn it. I'm back on my mecha anime bullshit again 🤷🏻‍♀️

#specifically Gundam #I'm listening to the zeta gundam ost for nostalgia reasons and damn. this shit is fuckin fire #and it fits the emotional tone of the show SO well #now i wanna watch zeta again. why do i do this to myself #it's a good show don't get me wrong #the craziest fucking shit happens in it. they call him Yoshiyuki 'Kill 'Em All' Tomino for a reason #so much of this music was in the old gundam versus series video game i used to play #ah memories of fighting for my life in that game while a big fuck off brass section plays in the background. good times

[commsroom]

the association in wolf 359′s sound design between memory and water, and the association between water and hera by extension; the artificial construct of a beach as imagined by someone who has never seen a beach but wants to. what’s expected of hera, the parts of her that were programmed to serve a certain function... “or end up in other places, doing things not because you’re good at them but just because of what you are" ... is so much in conflict with who she is, what she enjoys and feels drawn towards. the natural world, appreciation of music and literature, even spirituality... in one AMA, sarah shachat suggested druid as an rpg class for hera, and i’m fascinated by that. hera’s draw towards the natural world and, broadly, things the text associates with the Human Experience is such an interesting and deliberate choice. that alone feels like such a statement about isolation and loneliness as obstacles to personal growth and self-discovery: to have some innate longing for things she literally was not designed to experience.

#wolf 359 #w359 #hera wolf 359 #hera w359 #the association of water + memory is its own topic #esp. storms in the sound design. in memoria in change of mind in brave new world #even paradise valley is lyrically About Water #there is something to that. i don't know. if memory is more than the incidental. if memory is the You part. the way you interpret the world #then there is something intrinsically human tied to the concept. and by extension #the conflict between technology and structures and situations #that aren't designed for or are actively hostile to human life and the human spirit #paired with these motifs of. nature and music and all of the connected associations #is certainly. well i think at the very least you can interpret it in the context of capitalist disregard for What Makes Us Human. #all things considered #and i do think that's particularly interesting with hera #the divide between WHO she is and WHAT she is #the things she values and the way she thinks as a person #this draw towards a natural world she has never experienced and wasn't made TO experience #vs. the way she's expected to think by virtue of programming and automated functions and the job she has to perform #she can also be. surprisingly spiritual #i just think it's such an interesting choice. when i have the time and inclination i'd like to expand on this #re: potential options for hera post-canon and why i feel the way i do about them. i think there's some interesting potential thematically #also yes this ties into the way i think you can read her character arc as a trans narrative. of course it does. #oh i thought i'd mentioned this but reading this back. i didn't. so #i also think that even #hera's appreciation of space. the way she observes it and the way she describes it. is in ways both appreciation of art and nature

[luthienne]

learning about the coded folk songs created by palestinian women and remembering again why folk music has my whole heart

#all that is musical in us is memory #ph #folk music #free palestine

[godofsmallthings]

i'm really having a folklore moment rn (partially because of the show and partially because it's getting warmer)

#passed down like folk songs / the love lasts so long #lyric of her entire career tbh #it's like...you spend an entire lifetime infusing your loves into your music... #and then you write an album purposefully doing what has already been done to the rest of your work because of the nature #of art and music and interpretation #and god. i always yell about how much i love the way evermore deals in endings and hope #but folklore is just so stagnant. #'i can see us lost in the memory' #and it's just the most devastatingly truthful account of what we were all experiencing during that time #'some things you just can't speak about' but she wrote a record SAYING THEM ALL in the way she knew how #god idk #'don't want no other shade of blue but you / no other sadness in the world would do' #ugh and the duality of the double ending... #the dull haunting ache of reality vs. the hollow pull of utopic escapism #they're both the same ending it just depends how much you let yourself indulge in the fable #folklore #vi is typing...

[seagullcharmer]

good news! i can still read music

#libra.txt #pulled out my violin for the first time in months #i still have a good ear at least #i have such stiff and painful shoulders and i've lost a lot of musical stamina #but. i can still play. and i sound pretty good for only playing like once every three months #if that #ohhh how i miss music. i want to be part of a full orchestra so bad #literally my dream job forever and always is to be a violinist for like. video game osts #i love classical music don't get me wrong (romantic era is my actual fave tho) #but. i really miss being part of a group. #i'm sad that i was always too scared to audition for like. all-county and all-state #i did all-county once and it was such a phenomenal experience #but i missed all-state auditions bc of a friend's memorial service #BUT THEY GAVE US THE WRONG TIME #and so i even missed that!!!! #i miss her so much. i feel so guilty that i wasn't there. she was so dear to me

[starlit-pathways]

mr. sunshine is an absolutely spectacular and beautifully poetic show that burned so brightly to me—that i know for a fact i will never put myself through the pain of watching ever again.

#unless i do decide my like of pain and suffering overrides my emotional self-preservation #in which case—of course—i will eat all my words on this matter. #but like😭really #i feel like my heart has been clawed out and viciously mauled #in the most exquisite way #this won't be a drama that fades fast from memory #that's for sure. #and honestly #what a fascinating and heart-wrenching point in history #what an incredible cast of characters #the direction... the costume and set design #the sound and music #(the motifs of greensleeves & the use of red are two things that particularly stood out) #i'm just. #i'm in awe as much as i'm in mourning #mr. sunshine #mr sunshine #performative journaling #kdramas #korean dramas

[bmpmp3]

i do think its kinda funny when i see someone in the year of our lord 2024 talk about vocal synth music like its all gone downhill since like 2010 because like dont get me wrong i love a good niconicodouga-ass 2008 ass vocaloid joint BUT also like. the past couple years have had the most fascinatingly creative and expressive uses of vocal synthesizers ive ever heard in my life DJFSKHJDFS dont write it all off just yet!!

#usually i only see that from people who havent actually listened to any vsynth music from the past 15 years so i understand why they got to #that conclusion. and also usually theyre people who didnt listen to much vsynth music in the first place LOL they just dont know #but it is still a little funny. brother there are things beyond your wildest dreams if u just look #like some personal highlights: the stuff by rinri - particularly their use of the meika girlies #dont carry our memories away is LIFECHANGING the whispers. the spoken parts. the BELTS #plus the haunting and unrelenting instrumentation. fantastic song #and naisho no pierced's propose + birthday + gift sort of trilogy of songs. gift especially has been unreal #again the dynamics of soft intimate whispers to belts but also those fuller high notes with edges of growlyness. #plus the songs just generally rock. and those LYRICS. absolutely intense like physically painful and frightening like #yearning and codependency and possession. and the tuning and production just amps it up more #OH and slave.v.v.r has been doing crazy things for even longer but i only started getting into his stuff recently and holy shit #love eater is like. the scariest vocaloid song ive ever heard not because of the lyrics. but because of the tuning #im like. scared. i cant stop listening to it. the heavy synthesized breathy main vocals and whispered harmonies plus the VOCAL FRY #i didnt realized vocaloid5? i think? has a vocal fry option built in i heard? thats crazy #but specifically in love eater the fry and growl is amped up so deep and loud and clear compared to everything else it like #emphasizes the artificiality of the voice while also amping up the expressiveness #its awesome. and on the older slave.v.v.r songs i heard i will hit you 8759632145 times with this piano. also so fucking cool #addicted to that song. 1) its a great jazzy rocky piano tune with this piano flourish at the end of each phrase that sounds fantastic #but also 2) the lyrics are insane. using kanji to write english?????? #people are doing wild ass things with vocal synths rn you guys #this isnt even getting into some of the really unique synths themselves too. adachi rei is awesome i love that shes just like #the perfect inbetween of sample based and reconstruction based vocals. shes a sample based synth #but her samples were drawn by hand LOL shes like dectalks granddaughter to me..... #a really good use of adachi rei is iyowa's heat abnormal/heat anomaly/whatever its called ITS AWESOME thats what it is hjrkfdgfd #i think the fact that vocal synths can be so realistic and clean and noiseless out the gate now has made people really stop worrying #about like. realism all together and looking more into expressiveness. omg vocal synth modernist movement

[rosicheeks]

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#I’m getting hit with a massive wave of nostalgia now #I remember staying up ALL NIGHT working on changing my theme #I used to play in the html and add things #I looooved adding falling snow during the winter #I remember when having a music player at the top or somewhere on your blog was super popular #but ended up being incredibly annoying #cause half of the people put it on autoplay so when you entered someone’s blog you would get blown away by music #I remember having a whole different page for an about me #I wonder if I still have that up on mine #broooo I haven’t looked at my blog page on a laptop or anything in fucking AGES #I’m embarrassed to think what it might look like but whatever #most of us are using mobile anyway #or at least in my mind we are hahaha #so when I first started a blog I think I was in middle school??? like 12 or 13 hahahaha good times #my first url was SO CRINGE and I’m not going to say it cause I’m 😬😬😬😬😬 when I think about it #and then I slowly got more of a following and started doing smoke videos #I miss that community too :( #making smoke videos and tagging a bunch of stoner mutuals to ‘pass the bong/joint’ #and then they would make a video and tag me #awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhhhh #I haven’t logged into that tumblr in AGES omg #but then I decided to post content and I didn’t want to post it on my original blog in case it got flagged or anything #so I made this blog #and here we are 🥰 #but man I have SO many memories from my last blog #i made a friend in Belgium and we sent presents back and forth #I think only once but maybe twice #I still have the bracelet she sent me #can’t believe I’ve been on tumblr for most of my life lmao #but I’ve met SO many amazing people that I would have never have met

[the-busy-ghost]

Will never understand why Spotify keeps trying to advertise Top 40/UK Charts playlists to me, like who tunes into Spotify specifically to listen to a playlist of Top 40 music? You mean the same Top 40 music that is on every radio station 24/7? The same Top 40 music that is forced into your eardrums ad nauseum, to the point where even if you liked the music to begin with, it very soon becomes meaningless and also oddly rage-inducing? The same Top 40 music I trip over on my way out of the house every morning? The same Top 40 hits that break into my brain and beat my sub-consciousness into submission if I so much as LOOK at a device capable of playing music? That Top 40 music? Who on earth needs it to be advertised to them? The sort of people who need a signpost to tell them they're on planet earth?

#This being tumblr I'm sure there's someone somewhere who does think they need it #But like #If you're going to advertise anything I don't understand why you would advertise Top 40 hits #It's like advertising the concept of breathing #All I'm saying is they're not exactly hard to find I don't understand why someone would need to be TOLD that spotify has Top 40 playlists #Also like unless you're a music writer or reporter who has to keep up to date with this stuff #I don't entirely understand the interest in keeping up to date with chart toppers anyway #If you like the music you like it if you don't you don't #Why would you listen to it solely because it's number 39 on some entirely arbritrary chart #But that's beside the point even assuming that you WERE in need of a playlist of Top 40 hits #Surely you woudn't need to be told that spotify has that in abundance #If you even go to spotify for it at all #Surely you know where to find it #I.e. everywhere #This is the 2020s top 40 hits are in the fucking air we breathe #Also yet another thing to file under: reasons I am glad I no longer work in a shop #Loved the work hated the same 5 hits that are permanently engrained in my memory because management tortured us with pop radio