why is it so expensive to live

Lol at "Your Idol" opening with the Dies Irae... surely @celexo.bsky.social had been informed (or has already seen KPop Demon Hunters?)

Johan Huizinga would like a word

>writes peer review >submits peer review >review portal glitches and nothing is saved I'm already in the best of moods with how this week has been going 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

Overjoyed to get to present for the 7th time at NYU’s Music and the Moving Image conference, as well as chairing panels feat. work by truly inspirational colleagues. Having attended MaMI annually since 2019, it never fails to wholly enliven me and remind me why I do what I do. @stefanxgc.bsky.social

Oh hey, the special issue I co-edited with @stefanxgc.bsky.social and TJ Laws-Nicola is finally out for the world to see! Many thanks to Stefan and TJ for being wonderful colleagues, as well as to the contributors for their insights on co-op gaming in the broadest sense!

Such such such a chaotic last and upcoming month. I am doing my best to stay on top of things. Apologies if I owe you an email.

Finally got around to watching Inu-Oh. I've said it before, but Yuasa really is such a musical animator/director.

Jin Dahaad organ. That's it.

Guest lecturing in an adaptation class based around the Nibelungenlied, and I'm talking about LOTR adaptations—Jackson's, Bakshi's, Zeppelin's references, Shore's Symphony, and the War of Rohirrim (we'll see how much I get to lol)

Feels very weird to post anything celebratory these days, but here goes: thrilled to announce my student and I were accepted to NACVGM to present on organizing a video game ensemble at a uni, and that I was accepted to Hanyang University's "Audible Futures" conference. Finally going to Korea!

video games are an invaluable tool in teaching children to find and kill god

Pewdiepie starting a philosophy book club was not on my 2024 bingo card

Everyone's favorite flautist is back

Advice for early career scholars: overcite. Mostly because it makes finding citations you'll be using later on a lot easier to find. Even if editors/advisors make you cut things, those citations will be in early drafts, at least~

Reading my students' reflections on the experimental music festival I had them attend! Wish I could've attended to see their reactions in real-time haha

Who are all of you people

are we doing #ams24? in case we are, re-sharing my food+drink map here! www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...

Finally looked up my password again, so I'm back on here for at least a day

I don't think I'm an especially funny person, so I take pride in the laughs I got last night when someone was talking about how the "whole world watching the Superbowl" and I responded "the whole world? This is football, not /football/."

ALL of Fanny Hensel's finished, surviving chamber/instrumental works are now available as free PDFs online

Thrilled to share that my chapter on musical worldbuilding and worldbridging in the Kingdom Hearts series is finally published: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

One of my favorite NACVGM presentations! Def give it a read

Nice to see my co-authored piece with the inimitable @stefanxgc.bsky.social getting a shout-out in the new AMS newsletter 🥳 For those interested, “We Are What They Grow Beyond: Visions (and Sounds) of a Transnational 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴” is freely available over at 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘕𝘰𝘸 👇

Have so many things going on rn and I'm so anxious ngl. Can I just skip the next two months?

Sitting in the office I wrote my dissertation in in comfy clothes watching a stream after a Zoom meeting. Is it 2021??

Waddaweek. Car tire exploded (I'm okay), mysterious email from an application came in, caught covid (I'm not okay), proofs for a new article co-written with @jdmcglynn.bsky.social came in, etc etc etc

For the umpteenth time forgot this app existed. There's a not small part of me that wants to delete most of my social media

the gradual replacement of “exchanging money for goods” with “exchanging money for a license to use goods as a service” has been one low key one of the worst changes of the 21st century

Ooooh I’m reading @purpleschala.bsky.social in the latest JSMG and want to remind everyone that she’s the best! Listen to her on YouTube here: youtube.com/@purpleschala

2½ years later, our guest-edited Special Issue of the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 (vol. 4, no. 4) – a collection of peer-reviewed articles and invited contributions on the musical legacy of 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘺 𝘝𝘐𝘐 – has finally been published! 🥳 (1/4)

Trimming down a 13k chapter to an 8k presentation to like a 4k paper 🫠🫠🫠

Please spread the word about the Ithaca College Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship! A one year fellowship where you teach one course per semester and are paid $42k plus $5k travel/professional development funds, plus various forms of mentoring.

Nearly missed an interview invitation because my voicemail is apparently broken 🙃🙃🙃

Nothing quite like reading a friend's cover letter to give you overwhelming imposter syndrome 🙃

Seasonal reminder that A Short Hike is the best autumn game ever made. It is playable start to finish in two hours and will change your expectations for the entire medium. Doubly recommended for kids, incidentally. Free on Xbox Game Pass atm.

Just under three hours until it’s time to wake up Green Day…

The La la la music video always guts me 🥲

hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave

I'm a sucker for a presentation of an OP or main theme mid-show only for it to be unceremoniously cut off when something unexpected happens. It's such low hanging fruit, but I really don't care.

Student LoR: submitted Reviews for two essays: done Intro intro: drafted Private lesson material: prepped Program committee: joined Student grades: still on schedule Thing that was due two weeks ago: 😬 First application of the new job cycle due in the next few days: 😬😬😬😬😬

in the 90’s, computers would scream every time you went online. that‘s called foreshadowing

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"Trauma makes you stronger" Well, I don't want to be strong, I want to drink an iced coffee & buy things online

RIP Nizo Yamamoto, background artist. 📷: Princess Mononoke

Rs with your most dramatic b&w selfie 🤳

While I haven't listened to them regularly in a while, I love how, for as much as a meme they were when they first started, Babymetal has been accepted by so much of the rock/metal world. Canonized by collabs.

I figured it out

If you're currently planning or retooling your courses in music theory (broadly construed) or electroacoustic composition, I've been posting my syllabi to my website for the last few years in the modest hope that they'd be of use to someone. https://willmasonmusic.com/Teaching