David Tudor. Rainforest IV, Paris 1976. Photograph by Ralph Jones.

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Here’s a thread of all my articles about HILDEGARD by Sarah Kirkland Snider, at @parterrebox.bsky.social and elsewhere:

Bandcamp banning AI music is a great start. They should take on ambient noise next

Today in corporate spam: "hey Sam, I checked music brands in your space on Grok and didn't see anything for Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music" oh, really, Wayne, you didn't? That's so weird, ohhhhh wait maybe it's because we don't suck shit.

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Second of 4 dentist visits in a week has me feeling like Hermeto. youtu.be/Q2YDd9ipAYM?...

i was theorizing at length as you do and i said ‘people hate neil diamond because we know he could easily and readily seduce all our moms’ and sean looked queasy as he replied ‘unfortunately i knew where you were going with this as soon as you said easily and readily’

Re: film scoring, as with most things AI, it’s hard to tell because its ascension has been prepared by years of diluted quality and diminished resources in the field it’s replacing. I’m skeptical of the claims that this was an intentional long game but the end result is the same.

On this day in 1983 we released the single 'The Cutter' 🐰

I absolutely think AI is doing scoring now, with human oversight, but largely doing the work

The first single and video off the new Souled American album "Sanctions" - I know I'm biased but I'll say it anyway - is heart stoppingly stunning www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJJ4...

Okay you are just making shit up. Hans Zimmer has not scored any Harry Potter films. The original composer, John Williams, has already been replaced many times over. And “AI”?? You think AI has advanced to the point where it can score a film??

Wow… hard to believe that Hans Zimmer would sell out his principles for a little quick cash *turns to stare directly at camera 2, unblinking, for a full 15 seconds*

Looking for something to read after watching (the 2025 television adaptation of) Amadeus? Here's a short thread! These aren't necessarily the most reliable sources--I might do a more scholarly thread next week--but they are the things I thought of at specific moments while watching the show.

@sksnider.bsky.social has released 'Eye of Mnemosyne: III. Mori: "Memory of the Dead,"' a new track from her upcoming album, 'Forward Into Light,' performed by @metroensemble.bsky.social, as well as this video for it by Deborah Johnson. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCe...

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When I was a little kid I thought that West Side Story was a story about Americans vs immigrants—but if you pay attention, the Jets are themselves the children of “undesirable” Eastern European immigrants (Tony is short for Anton) and the Sharks are all natural-born US citizens! (cont)

grew up hearing this argument in my family for years. mom loved america; dad felt the american dream was a farce. wonder if this is a common experience among non-white immigrants

Hello. The world is a mess. I am heartbroken, as I suspect are many of you. And yet! I’m going out on tour next month. I would love to see you. Details here: gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/january-ne...

Popularized in neo-Nazi spaces, the track features lines about reclaiming “our home” by “blood or sweat,” language often used in white nationalist calls for race war. interc.pt/45dH4W2

I am obsessed with the Eminem AI posts now. It’s crazy

I just happened to notice earlier that Soundohm still has a few copies of the colored vinyl of this left. Sold out everywhere else!

I found this humorous today

Here’s a thread of all my articles about HILDEGARD by Sarah Kirkland Snider, at @parterrebox.bsky.social and elsewhere:

wait, were Marchetti and Hidalgo a couple? or just BEST FRIENDS? I must know! I can tell you that Hidalgo's retrospective art book is chock full of dicks!

Huge congratulations to sister friend collaborator coconspirator inti figgis-vizueta on her United States Artists Fellowship www.unitedstatesartists.org/artists/inti...

I reviewed Sarah Kirkland Snider’s HILDEGARD, just for fun: danielstephenjohnson.blogspot.com/2026/01/nun-...

Somehow didn't hit me quite so hard previously how full on dysphoric the CrescenDolls are the instant they're forced into their human disguises

Feel like shit, have to get work done, time to put on Interstella 5555 and power through

Glad I saved this

It was over; it began. The noise they heard backstage sounded like only one thing: Revolution in the streets.

Please read and comment or else how will I know I exist

Orchestra update: the GM was lying when he said they’d secured funding for the orchestra for the next two years 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 meanwhile no one has told the soloist for next week that there might not be an orchestra (we do not know who the soloist is)

this is the greatest thing I have ever seen

Part 2 of my feature on Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Hildegard is now live at @parterrebox.bsky.social: parterre.com/2026/01/12/m...

happy 100th to Morton Feldman, inventor of pp

For the Record: Feldman edition. A mesmerizing box set from Another Timbre ushers in the Morton Feldman centenary, plus new arrivals and coming attractions. Photograph: Morton Feldman by Rob Bogaerts/Anefo/Nationaal Archief

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

Washington National Opera bows out of Kennedy Center

they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.

Opening tonight!

I can only assume that this is gonna be all over the right wing media because as a white-victim story: ”Oh, so you will not hire me because simply I am white??” When in fact this dude had TWO DIFFERENT restraining orders out against him from former coworkers

1. U. Roy, 2. I. Roy, 3. Dillinger, 4. Prince Jazzbo, 5. Doctor Alimantado, 6. Ranking Trevor, 7. Lone Ranger, 8. Brigadier Jerry, 9. Prince Far I, 10. Tapper Zukie... I'll be honest, I'm going to struggle to get to 240.

My preview of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s HILDEGARD is live at @parterrebox.bsky.social! parterre.com/2026/01/02/s...

from roughly 20 years before the rock bootleg LP boom. down beat, 1951.

I've got a birthday coming up y'all

My preview of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s HILDEGARD is live at @parterrebox.bsky.social! parterre.com/2026/01/02/s...

the original was much too immersive