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  1. "Honey, please pass the baritones."

    "Yes, but why?"

    "I'm making baritone bowls for supper."

    #baritone #cooking #bowls

  2. Today I picked out my copy of Brevities for baritone ukulele and played a few pieces.

    I dare to say that "Brevity for Morgana" is a nice one:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6M6Bggdj7w

    (Not that I dislike the others, but I find the large contrast in pitch between both voices here quite interesting.)

    #baritone #ukulele #video

  3. Today I picked out my copy of Brevities for baritone ukulele and played a few pieces.

    I dare to say that "Brevity for Morgana" is a nice one:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6M6Bggdj7w

    (Not that I dislike the others, but I find the large contrast in pitch between both voices here quite interesting.)

    #baritone #ukulele #video

  4. As part of my continuing project to get my music onto platforms where you can hear it, here are my Li Bai Songs, settings in Mandarin of Tang dynasty poetry.

    Patrick Mason, baritone; Curtis Macomber, violin; William Anderson, guitar.
    Premiere performance, November 9, 1999, Merkin Hall, NYC

    mirlo.space/david-mcmullin/rel

    Score, lyrics etc. here:
    david-mcmullin.com/music/li-ba

    #mymusic #baritone #violin #guitar #contemporarymusic #李白 #中文 #chinesepoetry @composers

  5. As part of my continuing project to get my music onto platforms where you can hear it, here are my Li Bai Songs, settings in Mandarin of Tang dynasty poetry.

    Patrick Mason, baritone; Curtis Macomber, violin; William Anderson, guitar.
    Premiere performance, November 9, 1999, Merkin Hall, NYC

    mirlo.space/david-mcmullin/rel

    Score, lyrics etc. here:
    david-mcmullin.com/music/li-ba

    #mymusic #baritone #violin #guitar #contemporarymusic #李白 #中文 #chinesepoetry @composers

  6. Charles Herbert Workman (5 May 1872 – 1 May 1923) was a singer and actor best known as a successor to #GeorgeGrossmith in the comic #baritone roles in #GilbertAndSullivan operas. He was variously credited as Charles H. Workman, C. Herbert Workman and C. H. Workman. Workman joined the #DOylyCarteOperaCompany in 1894 and played several roles with the company in London before becoming principal comedian, for nearly a decade, with D'Oyly Carte touring companies.

  7. This is another rendition, by Giovanni Albini.

    youtube.com/watch?v=NiBdoi9pjFE

    "[...] Bigger Steps shows [...] a struggle for beauty, open spirit and love that fosters the subjectivity of the performer. The same harmonic material is rearranged continuously throughout the three slow movements that constitute the score, creating the need to interpret and render it from different perspectives. The challenge is engaging and satisfying, [...]" —Giovanni Albini

    3/n

    #ukulele #baritone #minimalism

  8. This is another rendition, by Giovanni Albini.

    youtube.com/watch?v=NiBdoi9pjFE

    "[...] Bigger Steps shows [...] a struggle for beauty, open spirit and love that fosters the subjectivity of the performer. The same harmonic material is rearranged continuously throughout the three slow movements that constitute the score, creating the need to interpret and render it from different perspectives. The challenge is engaging and satisfying, [...]" —Giovanni Albini

    3/n

    #ukulele #baritone #minimalism

  9. This work is built from a set of constraints. Mainly, the initial set of pitches is extracted from an artificial scale where each step is wider than the previous one.

    Chords, inversions, and series and then build from them.

    Timing and structure of the performance is left intentionally open.

    2/n

    #ukulele #baritone #minimalism

  10. So, I was into minimalism. But also into serialism and other isms.

    Which led me to write "Bigger Steps", a three-movement piece for baritone ukulele.

    Here's a wonderful rendition by Donald Bousted.

    youtube.com/watch?v=rX8N5L0njs0

    1/4

    #ukulele #baritone #minimalism

  11. So, I was into minimalism. But also into serialism and other isms.

    Which led me to write "Bigger Steps", a three-movement piece for baritone ukulele.

    Here's a wonderful rendition by Donald Bousted.

    youtube.com/watch?v=rX8N5L0njs0

    1/4

    #ukulele #baritone #minimalism

  12. C64 SID

    The SID CMOS IC in the C64 delivers an interesting eight bit sound colour in the C64

    When I first heard the C64 SID as a kid it was nothing to throw your hat at. I've had experiences with concert piano's, tenor saxophones, percussion instruments in the electric range professional synths, bass guitars so I knew this bleep bloop ssshtt IC could never sound the way of the pro musical hardware, especially not the acoustic instruments.

    Last Ninja I

    It was when I heard the music of Last Ninja I knew that with it's severe limits, the Sound Interface Device has something special to offer. The composer of the music of this game did something marvelous.

    He used arpeggio techniques to make the SID play chords

    • SID does not play polyphonic sound
    • Arpeggio gives the illusion of chords due to the rapid succession of notes played
    • Iconic music was spawned with Last Ninja
    • Unique arpeggio chords created on the SID are still seeked by those who were kids in that period
    • Others copied the technique and a cult music genre was born
    • People still create SID chords on emulated C64's to this day, since the machine is long gone in the anals of history

    Background & history

    Personal POV

    • Being brought up with acoustic instruments of all kind, I know how good and a great instruments should sound
    • I have perfect pitch
    • I can hear up to the 1/100 of a Hz if a instrument is in tune
    • It's annoying when instruments are out of tune for me.
    • That distuned instrument, sounds like a kakaphony of cats squealing making the played music horrific in my head
    • I came with a high level of raw musical talent enabling me to easily pickup all different kinds of acoustical instruments
    • Behind a piano, without any formal training, I could easily play a song in minutes with the chords and the lead tune in a good manner
    • I loved to play on the electric bass, so the bass track which I first compose in my head, when I play the piano, is played in sequence
    • I would then pickup one of the brass instruments (I love the Tenor Sax) and play the lead well in munutes too
    • All that was left was playing the chords on any synth or keyboard available (usually one of the Korg or Yamaha synths)
    • I can hear and mix the levels of instruments in my head
    • It's easy to remix a sound in my head without having to touch a mixing console
    • All of these talents combined give me good insights in music as a whole and computer (SID music then) as a detail
    • I can work on electrical equiment on the pcb level, something I picked up as a young kid
    • From the age of three I disassembled tube radios with expert precision, making me fluent in the disassembly and assembly of tube radios
    • I assembled them back in working order from the age of four, after complete disassebly!
    • This gives me great insight in the hardware level of electronics

    Last Ninja+

    • I naturally dismantled my C64 again when I heard the game.
    • Why did the game sound that way from a hardware POV
    • What makes the IC tick
    • I've got the manuals of all the IC's
    • I had already replaced the PLA906114 Program Logic Array with a new one on a socked, with no qualms
    • The PLA9016114 got too hot in the tropics (max temp 70C) so it never lived long without a heat sink.
    • My PLA's were programmed by a friend of mine who was an expert in the programming field
    • The new PLA's came blank
    • I did all the extraction, socked soldering and other work myself

    The answer was in the C64 hardware manual

    • SID does just 8 bit audio
    • has zero polyphony
    • a limited frequency range both low and high
    • has scratchy output (which I later learned to appreciate)
    • has monophonic, single channel analog output
    • is in actuality a fair sounding IC but far from great

    The Yamaha 8 bit sound IC of that period was much better

    Yamaha had less succes than the SID for a simple reason

    Mass deployment

    • SID was everywhere!
    • C64 machines were sold like warm bread in the morning at the old baker
    • Mass deployment means much more software programmed for the IC
    • SID won on mass deplyment and lower price in comparison with the lead 8 bit Yamaha audio IC of that period
    • The ammount of games making use of the SID was staggering in comparision
    • Games drove the success of the SID to astronomical heights
    • I got used to the SID, later seeking it's sound when I transitioned to my Amiga A500 with

    Paula

    • Paula is polyphonic with 16 bit (14 bits actually) sound
    • Paula sounds much cleaner
    • has 4 channels 0 1 2 3
    • hard panning of channels in the stereo analog output
    • more stability
    • more joy

    Motivation for seeking SID after it was gone...

    • Simple
    • NOSTALGIA
    • We all have it
    • even kids do

    Ode to SID

    You've been great

    Seek last Ninja on the C64 Archive sites for listening pleasure

    #C64 #SID #Paula #Amiga #technology #mathematics #Physics #Chemistry #Linear #Algebra #directory #load #FDD #RetroComputing #music #Saxophone #Baritone #Piano #Korg #synth

  13. C64 SID

    The SID CMOS IC in the C64 delivers an interesting eight bit sound colour in the C64

    When I first heard the C64 SID as a kid it was nothing to throw your hat at. I've had experiences with concert piano's, tenor saxophones, percussion instruments in the electric range professional synths, bass guitars so I knew this bleep bloop ssshtt IC could never sound the way of the pro musical hardware, especially not the acoustic instruments.

    Last Ninja I

    It was when I heard the music of Last Ninja I knew that with it's severe limits, the Sound Interface Device has something special to offer. The composer of the music of this game did something marvelous.

    He used arpeggio techniques to make the SID play chords

    • SID does not play polyphonic sound
    • Arpeggio gives the illusion of chords due to the rapid succession of notes played
    • Iconic music was spawned with Last Ninja
    • Unique arpeggio chords created on the SID are still seeked by those who were kids in that period
    • Others copied the technique and a cult music genre was born
    • People still create SID chords on emulated C64's to this day, since the machine is long gone in the anals of history

    Background & history

    Personal POV

    • Being brought up with acoustic instruments of all kind, I know how good and a great instruments should sound
    • I have perfect pitch
    • I can hear up to the 1/100 of a Hz if a instrument is in tune
    • It's annoying when instruments are out of tune for me.
    • That distuned instrument, sounds like a kakaphony of cats squealing making the played music horrific in my head
    • I came with a high level of raw musical talent enabling me to easily pickup all different kinds of acoustical instruments
    • Behind a piano, without any formal training, I could easily play a song in minutes with the chords and the lead tune in a good manner
    • I loved to play on the electric bass, so the bass track which I first compose in my head, when I play the piano, is played in sequence
    • I would then pickup one of the brass instruments (I love the Tenor Sax) and play the lead well in munutes too
    • All that was left was playing the chords on any synth or keyboard available (usually one of the Korg or Yamaha synths)
    • I can hear and mix the levels of instruments in my head
    • It's easy to remix a sound in my head without having to touch a mixing console
    • All of these talents combined give me good insights in music as a whole and computer (SID music then) as a detail
    • I can work on electrical equiment on the pcb level, something I picked up as a young kid
    • From the age of three I disassembled tube radios with expert precision, making me fluent in the disassembly and assembly of tube radios
    • I assembled them back in working order from the age of four, after complete disassebly!
    • This gives me great insight in the hardware level of electronics

    Last Ninja+

    • I naturally dismantled my C64 again when I heard the game.
    • Why did the game sound that way from a hardware POV
    • What makes the IC tick
    • I've got the manuals of all the IC's
    • I had already replaced the PLA906114 Program Logic Array with a new one on a socked, with no qualms
    • The PLA9016114 got too hot in the tropics (max temp 70C) so it never lived long without a heat sink.
    • My PLA's were programmed by a friend of mine who was an expert in the programming field
    • The new PLA's came blank
    • I did all the extraction, socked soldering and other work myself

    The answer was in the C64 hardware manual

    • SID does just 8 bit audio
    • has zero polyphony
    • a limited frequency range both low and high
    • has scratchy output (which I later learned to appreciate)
    • has monophonic, single channel analog output
    • is in actuality a fair sounding IC but far from great

    The Yamaha 8 bit sound IC of that period was much better

    Yamaha had less succes than the SID for a simple reason

    Mass deployment

    • SID was everywhere!
    • C64 machines were sold like warm bread in the morning at the old baker
    • Mass deployment means much more software programmed for the IC
    • SID won on mass deplyment and lower price in comparison with the lead 8 bit Yamaha audio IC of that period
    • The ammount of games making use of the SID was staggering in comparision
    • Games drove the success of the SID to astronomical heights
    • I got used to the SID, later seeking it's sound when I transitioned to my Amiga A500 with

    Paula

    • Paula is polyphonic with 16 bit (14 bits actually) sound
    • Paula sounds much cleaner
    • has 4 channels 0 1 2 3
    • hard panning of channels in the stereo analog output
    • more stability
    • more joy

    Motivation for seeking SID after it was gone...

    • Simple
    • NOSTALGIA
    • We all have it
    • even kids do

    Ode to SID

    You've been great

    Seek last Ninja on the C64 Archive sites for listening pleasure

    #C64 #SID #Paula #Amiga #technology #mathematics #Physics #Chemistry #Linear #Algebra #directory #load #FDD #RetroComputing #music #Saxophone #Baritone #Piano #Korg #synth

  14. Just installed a set of bridge cables… erm, I mean baritone guitar strings… on my standard #Jazzmaster, and have a stable “B standard” tuning. I’ve made a baby #baritone guitar. This is very twangy.

  15. Just installed a set of bridge cables… erm, I mean baritone guitar strings… on my standard #Jazzmaster, and have a stable “B standard” tuning. I’ve made a baby #baritone guitar. This is very twangy.

  16. Made a new recording yesterday of #Rautavaara's O ihr Zärtlichen, for an audition. Trying out my recording gear, I used #Ardour as my DAW for recording and mixing, and #Shotcut for editing the video.

    Turned out quite well, I must say, though I do want to move a bit more, next time 🙈 You live and you learn...

    makertube.net/w/9MjKcPWUetYYMn

    #ClassicalSinging #Singing #Music #Baritone #ProfessionalSinging #Recording

  17. Made a new recording yesterday of #Rautavaara's O ihr Zärtlichen, for an audition. Trying out my recording gear, I used #Ardour as my DAW for recording and mixing, and #Shotcut for editing the video.

    Turned out quite well, I must say, though I do want to move a bit more, next time 🙈 You live and you learn...

    makertube.net/w/9MjKcPWUetYYMn

    #ClassicalSinging #Singing #Music #Baritone #ProfessionalSinging #Recording

  18. 50 years ago today, #PaulRobeson, American stage and screen bass-#baritone #singer ("Old Man River"), actor, and civil rights activist, died of stroke complications in Philadelphia at 77.
    #RIP 🕊️

  19. 50 years ago today, #PaulRobeson, American stage and screen bass-#baritone #singer ("Old Man River"), actor, and civil rights activist, died of stroke complications in Philadelphia at 77.
    #RIP 🕊️

  20. GRAMMY®-nominated #baritone Michael Chioldi sings Captain Ahab in Ronald Perera’s monodrama, The White Whale, with text adapted by the composer from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. This gripping character study reveals the complexity of Ahab’s personality and his relationship to the whale — and himself • odysseyopera.org/artist-page-m

    Mono e Mono e (Mono)
    Presented by @bmop in partnership with #OdysseyOpera
    Feb 21 • 8 PM
    From $30 • students $10
    Details & tix • odysseyopera.org/mono-e-mono-e

    #OOMono #meetopera

  21. GRAMMY®-nominated #baritone Michael Chioldi sings Captain Ahab in Ronald Perera’s monodrama, The White Whale, with text adapted by the composer from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. This gripping character study reveals the complexity of Ahab’s personality and his relationship to the whale — and himself • odysseyopera.org/artist-page-m

    Mono e Mono e (Mono)
    Presented by @bmop in partnership with #OdysseyOpera
    Feb 21 • 8 PM
    From $30 • students $10
    Details & tix • odysseyopera.org/mono-e-mono-e

    #OOMono #meetopera

  22. Tall woman crossing the street ahead of me had a large, strangely shaped instrument case on her back. If she hadn't such a long stride I might have caught up to her at the next light, to ask if it was a bari sax.
    #NYC #musician #rainy #walk #home #NewYorkCity #umbrellas #baritone #saxophone #maybe

  23. New Guitar Day! First #PRS and first #baritone for me.

    I spontaneously bought this when seeing it in Denmark Street today (2nd hand). It desperately needs new strings, but a few hours of earth-shaking low-B-riffing and droning in the studio confirmed that I made the right choice.

    I was planning to get a baritone for a while now, and this one has most features I was looking for: semi-acoustic, P90s, light weight (3.3 kg), the only thing missing is a vibrato.

    #gearsquad #guitar

  24. New Guitar Day! First #PRS and first #baritone for me.

    I spontaneously bought this when seeing it in Denmark Street today (2nd hand). It desperately needs new strings, but a few hours of earth-shaking low-B-riffing and droning in the studio confirmed that I made the right choice.

    I was planning to get a baritone for a while now, and this one has most features I was looking for: semi-acoustic, P90s, light weight (3.3 kg), the only thing missing is a vibrato.

    #gearsquad #guitar

  25. "A melancholic mazurka, in a minor key, with a twilight mood. A triumphal sun beam shines unexpectedly."

    That's Brevity for Jan, from Brevities for #baritone #ukulele: youtube.com/watch?v=_9p1Qyz5r8

  26. Supernova Circus is a multidisciplinary art collective, astral amusement park, and schizophrenic sideshow.
    Acts: writing, drawing, music, vocal art, photography....
    Flavors: absurdist, iconoclastic, poetic, psychedelic, lowbrow, amorous, grimy, sweet-and-sour, emo....
    ⚠️Some work may not be suitable for all audiences!⚠️ [sex/kink, graphic violence, traumacore...]

    Our character-driven pieces explore radical self-actualization, optimistic nihilism, and magical mundanity, while our worldbuilding skews toward ecopunk speculative futures. We want to shine a light on relationship anarchy-based dynamics, queerplatonic models of attraction, and transmasc+ gender variance. We love subverting clichés and tumbling tropes all over themselves to find fun new ways of fitting bits together. Although we do not shy away from grimdark motifs, our ultimate goal is to be hopepunk rather than doomerist; sometimes that hope takes the form of rejecting rehabilitation and reclaiming the damage.

    Current Projects: stick and poke flash/tattoos, audio romance/erotica, transmasc-centric portraits/pairings, experimental production/folky guitar covers...
    Other Interests: anthropology/ecology, semiotics/memetics, linguistics/polyglottism [speak English/Spanish, learning French]...

    Tunes: https://www.soundcloud.com/pltcrx/
    Mixes: https://www.mixcloud.com/julioenero/
    ""Highbrow"" Art [Writing, Photography]: @ohellofedefo
    Samples of work in random styles below~!

    1: Personal artwork
    2: The first and third tattoos I've ever poked
    3: https://hauntedgames.net/ banner, commissioned by @HauntedOwlbear
    4: A gift for a friend

    #Introduction #Artist #Cartoon #TattooFlash #PinUp #Writer #Poet #MusicProducer #EDM #Jazz #SingerSongwriter #Baritone #VoiceActor #Photographer #Macro #Romance #Erotica #QueerArt #TransmascArt #Hopepunk #Traumacore

  27. Announcing The low fourth #ukulele bundle. A set of digital books and scores for #lowG and #baritone including:

    - May the Low 4th, 12 new original pieceds for ukulele in linear tuning
    - Brevities for baritone ukulele
    - Anthology of Alternate Ukulele Tunings - Vol. 1
    - plus eleven additional pieces, all written by @choan Gǻlvez

    theukulelebookshop.com/p/the-l

    Pay just 29 EUR for an over 75 EUR value.

    Notice: bundle only available until the end of April.

  28. Announcing The low fourth #ukulele bundle. A set of digital books and scores for #lowG and #baritone including:

    - May the Low 4th, 12 new original pieceds for ukulele in linear tuning
    - Brevities for baritone ukulele
    - Anthology of Alternate Ukulele Tunings - Vol. 1
    - plus eleven additional pieces, all written by @choan Gǻlvez

    theukulelebookshop.com/p/the-l

    Pay just 29 EUR for an over 75 EUR value.

    Notice: bundle only available until the end of April.

  29. Listening to “seasons”

    #Boonwurrung Welcome Song [02'35]
    Melbourne/Naarm #symphonyorchestra
    Don Christopher (#baritone ),
    James Henry (vocals & #clapsticks), Leonard Weiss (#conductor)

    Gifford, Brenda,
    Biwaawa [07'12]

    #ABCClassic #Concert

    abc.net.au/listen/live/classic

  30. Listening to “seasons”

    #Boonwurrung Welcome Song [02'35]
    Melbourne/Naarm #symphonyorchestra
    Don Christopher (#baritone ),
    James Henry (vocals & #clapsticks), Leonard Weiss (#conductor)

    Gifford, Brenda,
    Biwaawa [07'12]

    #ABCClassic #Concert

    abc.net.au/listen/live/classic

  31. Bientôt la sortie du tout nouvel album de Smoking Mouse, avec mon compère Christophe Girard à l'accordéon !
    Soon the new album of Smoking Mouse !!
    Original pieces for euphonium and accordion by Thierry Escaich, Karl Naegelen (world premiere), Andy Emler (world premiere) and transcriptions of J.S.Bach and Olivier Messiaen !!
    #SmokingMouse #duet #duo #accordion #christophegirard #euphonium #baritone #yamaha #fisart #warning #album #worldpremiere #music #chambermusic

  32. I’ve been listening to The National today. Matt Berninger’s voice is just gorgeous. It made me laugh that the self-confessed “Sad Dads” were used to soundtrack Jimmy’s lowest point in Shrinking. That’s pretty route 1 soundtracking, albeit a gorgeous song. I’m not a dad, but my wife tells me that everything I listen to is sad. But Slayer and RATM aren’t sad, so shut up!
    Related: John Grant next, maybe Scott Walker?

    #music #earworm #bass #baritone

  33. Donald Bousted was a very talented and sensitive artist, whatever he did.

    In Barry Tone's Fantastic Adventures, he dives into the capabilities of the #baritone ukulele, with a playlist where Renaissance music and contemporary commissions coexist in perfect harmony.

    donaldbousted1.bandcamp.com/al

    Bousted performs in duet with recorder player Celia Ireland in a few pieces. The rest is baritone ukulele solo, both in regular and fifths tuning.

    My suite Santa Orosia is included!

    #BandcampFriday #music

  34. I've waited a long time, but I finally pulled the trigger on the #gojira plugin from #NeuralDSP. Damn it does sound nice and massive!

    Also I just found out yesterday that #PRS also offers a #baritone 🤤

    eu.prsguitars.com/electrics/mo

    #guitar #music #metal #HeavyMetal