#big-ears — Public Fediverse posts
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#BigEars was tagged 17 times in the last few days, last I checked. So at least you will reach those people, especially if you are going to give your favorite shows a post each over a period of days.
Two or three people I follow have unexpectedly mentioned attending.
I was planning to go, was unable to attend.
It’s not for the people running the festival, it’s for the attendees.
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#BigEars was tagged 17 times in the last few days, last I checked. So at least you will reach those people, especially if you are going to give your favorite shows a post each over a period of days.
Two or three people I follow have unexpectedly mentioned attending.
I was planning to go, was unable to attend.
It’s not for the people running the festival, it’s for the attendees.
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Hey maybe hashtag the posts #BigEars for discovery so we can find them easily later
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Hey maybe hashtag the posts #BigEars for discovery so we can find them easily later
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My #BigEars 2026 recap: I walked 24 miles over four days, and saw sets (or pieces thereof) by:
- Masada (Quartet)
- Ches Smith’s Clone Row
- Mary Lattimore and Julianna Barwick
- SML
- Pan American + Kramer
- Uhlmann / Johnson / Wilkes
- Dave Harrington & Mary Lattimore
- Janel & Anthony
- Eliana Glass
- Jeff Parker Expansion Trio
- SUSS
- Ken Pomeroy
- Hayden Pedigo
- Gwenifer Raymond
- Laraaji
- Walt McClements
- Annie & the Caldwells
- The Saami Brothers
- Cecile McLorin Salvant
- Winged Wheel
- Blunt Mansion
- Chicago Underground Duo
- So Percussion (Steve Reich’s “Drumming”)
- Simon Hanes’s Gargantua
- Shane Parish (playing Autechre songs)
- Laurie Anderson + Sexmob
Plus a great movie about the Newport Folk Festival.
I can say without reservation that my favorite sets — Masada, Cecile McLorin Salvant, The Saami Brothers, Eliana Glass, Hayden Pedigo & Gwenifer Raymond duetting, So Percussion, Shane Parish — were the ones with the least amount of electronic sound manipulation.
To be clear: I spent a lot of my downtime in my hotel room coming up with patches for a new standalone monosynth I have been working on. I am no stranger to electronics.
But the things that connected with me this year were the most directly & essentially human things I heard.
And honestly, running anything through a loop pedal just sounds like running something through a loop pedal at this point, to me. I dunno if it’s just that the user interfaces of the most popular loopers are such that they sort of suggest or lead their users to use them in certain ways, or if I have just gotten overly attuned to the specific combination of sample rates and ADC/DACs they all use.
I love repetition — I sat on the floor and was fully completely engaged by a 78-minute rendition of “Drumming” even as my ass went fully numb — but I definitely feel at this point like I just wanna hear people PLAY rather than flat repeating copies of them playing.
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My #BigEars 2026 recap: I walked 24 miles over four days, and saw sets (or pieces thereof) by:
- Masada (Quartet)
- Ches Smith’s Clone Row
- Mary Lattimore and Julianna Barwick
- SML
- Pan American + Kramer
- Uhlmann / Johnson / Wilkes
- Dave Harrington & Mary Lattimore
- Janel & Anthony
- Eliana Glass
- Jeff Parker Expansion Trio
- SUSS
- Ken Pomeroy
- Hayden Pedigo
- Gwenifer Raymond
- Laraaji
- Walt McClements
- Annie & the Caldwells
- The Saami Brothers
- Cecile McLorin Salvant
- Winged Wheel
- Blunt Mansion
- Chicago Underground Duo
- So Percussion (Steve Reich’s “Drumming”)
- Simon Hanes’s Gargantua
- Shane Parish (playing Autechre songs)
- Laurie Anderson + Sexmob
Plus a great movie about the Newport Folk Festival.
I can say without reservation that my favorite sets — Masada, Cecile McLorin Salvant, The Saami Brothers, Eliana Glass, Hayden Pedigo & Gwenifer Raymond duetting, So Percussion, Shane Parish — were the ones with the least amount of electronic sound manipulation.
To be clear: I spent a lot of my downtime in my hotel room coming up with patches for a new standalone monosynth I have been working on. I am no stranger to electronics.
But the things that connected with me this year were the most directly & essentially human things I heard.
And honestly, running anything through a loop pedal just sounds like running something through a loop pedal at this point, to me. I dunno if it’s just that the user interfaces of the most popular loopers are such that they sort of suggest or lead their users to use them in certain ways, or if I have just gotten overly attuned to the specific combination of sample rates and ADC/DACs they all use.
I love repetition — I sat on the floor and was fully completely engaged by a 78-minute rendition of “Drumming” even as my ass went fully numb — but I definitely feel at this point like I just wanna hear people PLAY rather than flat repeating copies of them playing.
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#bigEars on Sunday has been great. Amazing performances and easy access to venues. Like traveling during shoulder season
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Chicago Underground Duo. Great set, although between the dim green lighting and Rob Mazurek’s trademark shades, it is perhaps not surprising that he seemed to be at war with his sampler intermittently throughout the set. #BigEars
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Chicago Underground Duo. Great set, although between the dim green lighting and Rob Mazurek’s trademark shades, it is perhaps not surprising that he seemed to be at war with his sampler intermittently throughout the set. #BigEars
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The rule that is consistently proved Every Single Time: If Cecile McLorin Salvant is playing near you, you go. #BigEars
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The rule that is consistently proved Every Single Time: If Cecile McLorin Salvant is playing near you, you go. #BigEars
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#BigEars is, generally speaking, the most well-run festival I have ever attended.
Which is why the unventilated former Greyhound station, apparently with side rooms that are off limits due to major sketch and mold, is such an odd anomaly. -
#BigEars is, generally speaking, the most well-run festival I have ever attended.
Which is why the unventilated former Greyhound station, apparently with side rooms that are off limits due to major sketch and mold, is such an odd anomaly. -
Second half of day two of #BigEars: Couldn’t get a full look at Jeremiah Chu’s #eurorack cases, but there were definitely a #MakeNoise Mimeophon and Morphagene in there. Anyone into improvised music and synth shit should check out this SML album, to get a sense of what can happen when one member of the band is sampling, morphing and looping the other three members of the band.
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/how-you-been
Anyway. I checked out most of the set by DC cello/guitar duo Janel and Anthony, and slid further into full curmudgeon mode because from where I was sitting, their playing was gorgeous and their instruments’ tone was hampered, not improved, by all their fuckin pedals.
I did love that their onstage roadies appeared to be their kids. That was rad.
From there, it was a quick trip next door to see Eliana Glass playing a solo voice + piano set. I sat there and meditated on how brilliant Cat Power’s “Moon Pix” is, and how I hope that it gets a better 30th anniversary treatment than its non-existent 25th. Also, Eliana’s set was amazing, intense, quiet & very personal. And she had t-shirts for sale, which were clearly hand-screened and bootleggy-looking and weirdly gen-Z. I may have to go see her full band set just to pick one up.
And then it was time for as much of SUSS’s Across the Horizon as my butt could handle (Church pews, my god. I grew up Unitarian so we had rows of moveable chairs.)
Highlight among highlights was a completely mesmerizing duet between guitar wunderkinds Hayden Pedigo and Gwenifer Raymond, who had just met for the first time earlier that evening.
Also it was hilarious to see Bob’s nearly successfully suppressed irritation that Pan American showed up without a guitar, rather with a laptop and an Elektron.
Despite my meditations about Moon Pix earlier in the evening, I didn’t make it to Dirty Three. Everyone said it was amazing. Coming soon to a city near you, I think. -
Second half of day two of #BigEars: Couldn’t get a full look at Jeremiah Chu’s #eurorack cases, but there were definitely a #MakeNoise Mimeophon and Morphagene in there. Anyone into improvised music and synth shit should check out this SML album, to get a sense of what can happen when one member of the band is sampling, morphing and looping the other three members of the band.
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/how-you-been
Anyway. I checked out most of the set by DC cello/guitar duo Janel and Anthony, and slid further into full curmudgeon mode because from where I was sitting, their playing was gorgeous and their instruments’ tone was hampered, not improved, by all their fuckin pedals.
I did love that their onstage roadies appeared to be their kids. That was rad.
From there, it was a quick trip next door to see Eliana Glass playing a solo voice + piano set. I sat there and meditated on how brilliant Cat Power’s “Moon Pix” is, and how I hope that it gets a better 30th anniversary treatment than its non-existent 25th. Also, Eliana’s set was amazing, intense, quiet & very personal. And she had t-shirts for sale, which were clearly hand-screened and bootleggy-looking and weirdly gen-Z. I may have to go see her full band set just to pick one up.
And then it was time for as much of SUSS’s Across the Horizon as my butt could handle (Church pews, my god. I grew up Unitarian so we had rows of moveable chairs.)
Highlight among highlights was a completely mesmerizing duet between guitar wunderkinds Hayden Pedigo and Gwenifer Raymond, who had just met for the first time earlier that evening.
Also it was hilarious to see Bob’s nearly successfully suppressed irritation that Pan American showed up without a guitar, rather with a laptop and an Elektron.
Despite my meditations about Moon Pix earlier in the evening, I didn’t make it to Dirty Three. Everyone said it was amazing. Coming soon to a city near you, I think. -
🪐 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘂𝗽𝗶𝗻 & 𝗣𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗼 𝗚𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲'𝘀 #𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗥𝗮 #𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦
Sat March 28th, 9.30am, #Knoxville, TN #BigEars
Thu Apr. 2nd. #Birmingham, AL
Wed Apr. #Philadelphia #Lightbox
Fri Apr. 10th #Harlem #NYC #MayslesDocCenter
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🪐 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘂𝗽𝗶𝗻 & 𝗣𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗼 𝗚𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲'𝘀 #𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗥𝗮 #𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦
Sat March 28th, 9.30am, #Knoxville, TN #BigEars
Thu Apr. 2nd. #Birmingham, AL
Wed Apr. #Philadelphia #Lightbox
Fri Apr. 10th #Harlem #NYC #MayslesDocCenter
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Day two of #BigEars so far: Masada (in this incarnation, John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Joey Baron, Greg Cohen). Exactly what one would expect / desire.
Uhlmann / Johnson / Wilkes: very mellow and diverting and good lord they are just handing out loop pedals at the Knoxville airport, huh.
Mary Lattimore & Dave Harrington: I love Mary and I need to catch up with her about James Turrell. But also: see above re: loop pedals.
Jeff Parker Expansion Trio: loops *and* Jeremiah Chu (who is everywhere this year) sampling & looping his bandmates on the fly.
Later today when I see SML again I’m gonna have to stand behind him so I can geek out on what he has in his case. -
Day two of #BigEars so far: Masada (in this incarnation, John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Joey Baron, Greg Cohen). Exactly what one would expect / desire.
Uhlmann / Johnson / Wilkes: very mellow and diverting and good lord they are just handing out loop pedals at the Knoxville airport, huh.
Mary Lattimore & Dave Harrington: I love Mary and I need to catch up with her about James Turrell. But also: see above re: loop pedals.
Jeff Parker Expansion Trio: loops *and* Jeremiah Chu (who is everywhere this year) sampling & looping his bandmates on the fly.
Later today when I see SML again I’m gonna have to stand behind him so I can geek out on what he has in his case. -
My #BigEars struggle has always been between things I believe I should hear, from an intellectual growth perspective, and things that I think I will simply find beautiful.
And the joke is nearly always on me, because I can’t reliably predict which is which, nor can I reliably predict what I’m actually going to enjoy from moment to moment.
Although honestly the most reliable predictor of how much I’ll enjoy a given show is how comfortable the seats are at the venue. -
My #BigEars struggle has always been between things I believe I should hear, from an intellectual growth perspective, and things that I think I will simply find beautiful.
And the joke is nearly always on me, because I can’t reliably predict which is which, nor can I reliably predict what I’m actually going to enjoy from moment to moment.
Although honestly the most reliable predictor of how much I’ll enjoy a given show is how comfortable the seats are at the venue. -
#BigEars so far: Ches Smith’s Clone Row was good but did not need the drum machine. Mary Lattimore and Julianna Barwick in a church started out tentative and locked in amazingly around 20 minutes in. SML are playing 6 sets over 3 days, and the tail end of the 1st set was even better than I had hoped it would be, so I guess I’m shooting to see the next five.
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#BigEars so far: Ches Smith’s Clone Row was good but did not need the drum machine. Mary Lattimore and Julianna Barwick in a church started out tentative and locked in amazingly around 20 minutes in. SML are playing 6 sets over 3 days, and the tail end of the 1st set was even better than I had hoped it would be, so I guess I’m shooting to see the next five.
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First #BigEars event of 2026 for me was a stop at Matt Robb’s Biscuits to say hi to Matt and have the best biscuit in the Southeast.
Second event was a screening of the new documentary film, Newport and the Great Folk Dream. I wrote it up here:
https://boxd.it/dGUh8l
(Third event was my first of what I hope will be at least five meals at Potchke. IYKYK) -
First #BigEars event of 2026 for me was a stop at Matt Robb’s Biscuits to say hi to Matt and have the best biscuit in the Southeast.
Second event was a screening of the new documentary film, Newport and the Great Folk Dream. I wrote it up here:
https://boxd.it/dGUh8l
(Third event was my first of what I hope will be at least five meals at Potchke. IYKYK) -
Is this year the year that we use the #BigEars hashtag and get some traction?
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Is this year the year that we use the #BigEars hashtag and get some traction?
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Yagody are playing #BigEars and I think I might ought to check them out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKvxBb3iWKI
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Yagody are playing #BigEars and I think I might ought to check them out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKvxBb3iWKI
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Holy shit #BigEars is in like 2.5 weeks and I haven't started making my schedule yet.
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Holy shit #BigEars is in like 2.5 weeks and I haven't started making my schedule yet.
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Propic change time from 5 days ago, because yes.
#stegon #stegonthedragon #oc #male #malecharacter #character #originalcharacter #blue #scarf #redscarf #cartoon #toon #stylized #style #drawing #propic #adulthood #eyebrowraise #eyebrowraised #bigears #cheektufts #scaledcheektufts #anthro #anthropomorphic #biped #scaly #scalie #animal #creature #lord #dragon #derg
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I can’t believe the #BigEars schedule is already out. I was literally just thinking “I don’t feel like working today” and it’s like Ashley Capps read my mind.
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I can’t believe the #BigEars schedule is already out. I was literally just thinking “I don’t feel like working today” and it’s like Ashley Capps read my mind.
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After spending four days in Knoxville TN at #BigEars, I’m tempted to ask our local weekly paper to give me back my old column**, specifically so I could wage a bitter vendetta against Duke Arts, the org that, at one time, had a performing arts series (Duke Performances) that was the envy of the entire southeast, only to piss it away in favor of the most anodyne pablum imaginable.
** a column I gave up literally 30 years ago -
After spending four days in Knoxville TN at #BigEars, I’m tempted to ask our local weekly paper to give me back my old column**, specifically so I could wage a bitter vendetta against Duke Arts, the org that, at one time, had a performing arts series (Duke Performances) that was the envy of the entire southeast, only to piss it away in favor of the most anodyne pablum imaginable.
** a column I gave up literally 30 years ago -
My #BigEars 2025 recap: walked 27 miles over four days. Saw complete sets by:
- Yo La Tengo
- Jeff Parker ETA 4tet
- Eiko Ishibashi
- Steve Roach
- Suss
- Mary Lattimore & William Tyler
- Marisa Anderson
- Rufus Wainwright
And partial sets by:
- Shelley Hirsch
- Alan Sparhawk
- Ryan Clackner’s Existential Dread
- Adam Rudolph
- Brighde Chaimbeul
- Cowboy Sadness
- Anohni and the Johnsons
- Flore Laurentienne
- Still House Plants
- Squanderers (Grubbs/Kramer/Eisenberg)
- Phantom Orchard (Zeena Parkins/Ikue Mori)
- Magic Tuber Stringband
- Lonnie Holley
- Edsel Axle
- Joan As Police Woman
I wish that ratio of full:partial was reversed, but these kinds of “eleven competing sets simultaneously, spread across a 1.5-mile distance” festivals make it hard.
I did realize that my attention and focus kicked in to high gear on Saturday evening, about four days into my vacation. Maybe next year I’ll just take the whole week off so that the vacation focus dividend happens on the first night rather than the third . . .
Oh! Also: ate five meals at Knoxville’s best restaurant, Potchke, plus three biscuit sessions with the nicest man in Knoxville, Matt Robb.
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My #BigEars 2025 recap: walked 27 miles over four days. Saw complete sets by:
- Yo La Tengo
- Jeff Parker ETA 4tet
- Eiko Ishibashi
- Steve Roach
- Suss
- Mary Lattimore & William Tyler
- Marisa Anderson
- Rufus Wainwright
And partial sets by:
- Shelley Hirsch
- Alan Sparhawk
- Ryan Clackner’s Existential Dread
- Adam Rudolph
- Brighde Chaimbeul
- Cowboy Sadness
- Anohni and the Johnsons
- Flore Laurentienne
- Still House Plants
- Squanderers (Grubbs/Kramer/Eisenberg)
- Phantom Orchard (Zeena Parkins/Ikue Mori)
- Magic Tuber Stringband
- Lonnie Holley
- Edsel Axle
- Joan As Police Woman
I wish that ratio of full:partial was reversed, but these kinds of “eleven competing sets simultaneously, spread across a 1.5-mile distance” festivals make it hard.
I did realize that my attention and focus kicked in to high gear on Saturday evening, about four days into my vacation. Maybe next year I’ll just take the whole week off so that the vacation focus dividend happens on the first night rather than the third . . .
Oh! Also: ate five meals at Knoxville’s best restaurant, Potchke, plus three biscuit sessions with the nicest man in Knoxville, Matt Robb.
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The whole world is terrible but I am still looking forward to #BigEars in #Knoxville later this month. I do fear that many/most of the international artists slated to appear will either [justifiably] cancel or, worse, get turned away at the border, or thrown in border jail :(
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The whole world is terrible but I am still looking forward to #BigEars in #Knoxville later this month. I do fear that many/most of the international artists slated to appear will either [justifiably] cancel or, worse, get turned away at the border, or thrown in border jail :(
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We are being all ears on #FursuitFriday 👀
together with UnityTheLynx at #EF28
📸 Aimtec18
#Furry #SwissFurry #DanishFurry #Eurofurence #Eurofurence28 #BigEars #Feline #Cat #Hyena #Yeen PartialFursuit #Fullsuit #OrientalShorthair -
Ahhhhh I just literally yelled “YES!!” right here in public in this food court when I opened the email from Big Ears and saw that Arushi Jain has been added to next year’s lineup. #BigEars #ModularSynth
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Ahhhhh I just literally yelled “YES!!” right here in public in this food court when I opened the email from Big Ears and saw that Arushi Jain has been added to next year’s lineup. #BigEars #ModularSynth
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More John Paul Jones at Big Ears, because (1) this song is great, and (2) just LOOK at his custom mandolin/guitar/bass hybrid instrument, and watch him loop all three so he can play all the parts himself! (he's also so funny and humble) #BigEars
John Paul Jones : Live at Big Ears 3/22/2024 : Down To The River To Pray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKM3S5_Fxp8
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John
Paul
FUCKIN'
JONES,
y'all.i swear, i literally just heard about this festival this very evening, and then this comes across my eyes and ears. mind blown. talk about a legend, and here he is killing it on an instrument i didn't even know he played. #LedZeppelin #BigEars #HolyShit
John Paul Jones Lap Steel - When the Levee Breaks - Live Big Ears 2024 - Led Zeppelin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hESa4Bl0U_Q
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There is exactly one way to do #BigEars — or any similar festival — correctly. It is as follows:
- be kind, especially to volunteers and service workers
- tip well
- be patient
- don’t talk in the middle of the music
That’s it. That’s the playbook.
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And the last of #bigears night 3, The Messthetics with James Brandon Coleman
