On June 1 I'll play a tone with a duration equal in seconds to the number of postcards I receive with the message "Add one second to your performance"

Once again we must ask, where in the world is Congress? They should be pursuing every action possible to rein in Trump's raging lunacy. How is there no sense of urgency? (2/3)

Is andantino slower or faster than andante?

I don't often post a work-in-progress, but I'm working on making a web-based catalogue of Christoph Graupner's 5626 four-part canons on the same theme. midnightsledding.net/Graupner/cre... Any feedback to help guide the project would be lovely.

I'm working on a piece that is sort of a game... (works best with good speakers) midnightsledding.net/games/sine_w...

I couldn't be more excited to announce something I've been working on for a long time - Please welcome Belltower House Artist Residency, a multidisciplinary gift of time in my erstwhile home in southern New Mexico, now accepting applications for 2026. belltowerhouse.org

500 cardboard portraits is a series of faces which are cut or torn into corrugated board but these are pencil drawings. By Russell Herron. www.russellherron.com/pencil Sometimes cute, sometimes frightening but they all capture an emotion & technically they're amazing.

Existing gaps closed with supermarket products. More genius here instagram.com/helmutsmits

The distribution of letters in English words.

Possessive "its" should have an apostrophe and 100 - 200 CE should be called the "first century"

A melody in which the ratios of the number of vibrations in each pitch are the same as the ratios of the number of letters in each word of this sentence. midnightsledding.net/scores/sente...

This game is completely amazing rose.systems/animalist/

I'm making a catalogue of historical re-tunings of the violin: midnightsledding.net/documents/sc... Send me a note if you know of others?

The oldest single-note piece I've found so far (1834). From "L'art du violon" by Pierre Baillot.

I'm loving "ending.beginning.interludes" by Aaron Lockhart. Here's the second track: aaronlockhart.bandcamp.com/track/00-12-...

Battle it out with over 60 selectable fighters from across the Dostoevskyverse

Today's violin meditation: a 1008-second tone that bends up one whole step and then back down, in such a way that it forms the top of a 100-pitch 1-hour circle on a pitch/time grid.

A tone (147 1421/3600 Hz, when A=442 Hz), tunable by ear on the viola, which, when sustained, has a unique phase during each second of an hour

I'm working on a catalogue of written-out parts for change ringing on handbells, designed for people who want to enjoy the musical richness of change ringing without the obstacle of having to memorize each pattern. I'll keep adding more here: midnightsledding.net/ringing/

I love diagrams that portray musical intervals as semicircular arcs. I'm starting a little catalogue of them here: midnightsledding.net/arcs/arcs.html Let me know if you have any tips on other examples?

A surprising number of pages from the handwritten manuscript of "Tristan and Isolde" use every staff on the page. Gonna write a paper about how the orchestration was determined in large part by Wagner's choice of music paper.

Crossword clue text score

When I took my current job, I had to sign a paper saying that I would defend the Constitution of the United States, and I feel like maybe there should have been some online training assigned to me on this topic.

To celebrate the new year, I'll do two performances one hour apart. One at 11pm on December 31 and one at midnight on January 1. Both will consist of a tone sustained for 1/8760 of the remaining duration of the year. midnightsledding.net/carlson/patt...

Ed Herring. Some dimensions of my Lunch, 1970

I'm resuming the podcast that I started in 2016: once and a while my computer randomly records one second of audio from a microphone in my living room and then posts it as this podcast. midnightsledding.com/carlson/podc...

If you say so?

Finally.

I've been exploring what I'm calling "Complete-Harmony Canons", which are canons that result in all possible harmonies (once and only once, ignoring pitch doublings) depending on the number of voices and the number of pitches that are used. (examples in the link) midnightsledding.net/chc/chc.html

this is just 17776 with baseball instead of football en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776

Do the sample values in digital audio have a unit name? And if not, can we call it a Carlson? Like, "the bass is lacking something, let's bump it up 100 Carlsons"?

I'm at the combination

I know this is a long shot, but I'm looking for station/stop schedules (trains, buses, school buses, ferries, planes...), current or historic, where there are only two arrivals and/or departures each day. midnightsledding.net/carlson/time... I'll be researching, but contact me if you know of any? ❤️

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For my recitals of conceptual and often-pattern-based pieces of music, I'm up to 100 works by people other than me. It brings me great joy to learn of new works like these, old or new. Please let me know if you think of something that might fit in? midnightsledding.net/carlson/cbse...

As part of my series of recitals consisting of one note within an hour, I sustained a single tone during the 400000th hour since my birth. midnightsledding.net/carlson/1hou...

What line are people waiting for him to cross?

I've been trying to find the smallest hour-long MIDI file that contains a single note. I'm down to 44 bytes. Any experts out there who can help me shave it down? This is what I have now: midnightsledding.net/documents/1h...

we’re eating good tonight lads

Scott Robertson recorded and transcribed 50 of his yawns

According to the article "Inharmonicity of the copy of Antonius Stradivarius violin" it would take 80'20" of sustaining an open D string for the sounding 2nd partial to vary by 1 vibration from the exact doubling of the fundamental frequency. So now I have something to look forward to doing tomorrow

“The St St St” is a perfectly good abbreviation of “The State Street Saint” and I will die on this hill

All the ways to close a cardboard box. www.instagram.com/closkygram?i...

No kings La Jolla 2. Great to see everyone out there! #nokings

On Saturday afternoon I'll sustain a single tone during an hour, with a start and end time determined by the relative proportions of button-pushes on this website: midnightsledding.net/tally/tone_t... that accumulate between now and then.

My new album, "607 Tunings of a Major Ninth Chord", is in the new batch from Flea Edition. Check it: newmusicindustrialcomplex.com/newreleases/

In her posthumous Netflix episode Famous Last Words, Jane Goodall reflects on life, hope, and humanity’s duty to heal the planet. With wit & sorrow, she imagines sending Trump, Putin, Xi, and Netanyahu “off on Musk’s spaceship.” It’s a final, profound rebuke of ego & evil, over empathy & kindness 🤍🕊️

Elena Asins. Lama 32 pieces, 1989 - 1991

I'm looking for a recommendation of someone with a stellar ear who could help me (for a fee) with a difficult transcription?