Aksel Tollåli
@akseltoll.bsky.social
At the crossroads of 20th century musicology and rampant homosexuality. Dispensary of musical opinion. Classical music critic and editor. Occasional knitting. akseltollaali (at) gmail . com
Tenk så mange timer av sitt liv man kan bruke på å stå og vente på grønn mann i Berlin
Nothing to contribute except pictures of recently finished knitting
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
"Jeg har fått hjelp av KI til å få oversikt" = eg kunne ingenting om dette før, og eg kan ingenting om det no "Jeg har brukt KI som sparringpartner" = det ligg ikkje eit fnugg originalt tankearbeid bak dette "Meningsinnholdet er 100% mitt eget" = eg har knapt skrive to ord av teksten sjølv
ER DERE FORNØYD NÅ?! har jeg lyst til å skrike rett i trynet på de alle. I dag fikk jeg melding fra @krisekarro om det her og reversering av juridisk kjønn. Det er også delt i en annen form på insta her:
Glad we're excited about opera today because MusicDrama.net has updated again! It's the the most lesbian opera ever written by two straight men about a himbo twink and a middle-aged princess… a show about a breakup that sounds like the end of the world… Strauss & Hofmannsthal's DER ROSENKAVALIER!
Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
The Basics Der Rosenkavalier [The Rose-Knight]Music by Richard Strauss Words by Hugo von Hofmannsthal Language: German Premiere date: January 26, 1911 [Image: Cover design by Frank Parisi for the 1…
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this will do more for opera than anything that any artistic director or general manager has ever done or thought to do. it’s literally just this simple. (@mayor.nyc.gov, call me, Brooklyn-born opera scholar, will travel!)
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w agoNever been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
I've forgotten to post about it, but I'm on the latest episode of @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social's ever-insightful and fun podcast Decanonized, talking about Così fan tutte in all its catastrophically horny glory: www.decanonized.com/episodes/moz...
Episode 012: Così fan tutte with Aksel Tollåli — Decanonized
Do you want Albanians? Because that’s how you get Albanians.
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Har du lagt merke til at ting døyr litt for tidleg? Det har vi òg 👀 Det er tema for vår nyeste rapport. / Ever noticed how things tend to die a little too soon? So have we 👀 That’s the topic of our latest report. Les rapporten/read our report👉forbrukerradet.no/shortlife
It is, if I say so myself, another good one
Olivia Giovetti@oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · last mo.So glad to be back up and running with Decanonized and to have the first episode post-herniatus be with @akseltoll.bsky.social discussing Così. Additional topics include Bessel van der Kolk, John Cage, and Nathan Fielder orchestrating Enlightenment-era experiments.
if you ever wondered what browsing bluesky in first person would feel like well uhhhhhhh throng.cee.wtf
THRONG — a crowd made of bluesky
Walk around in first person while the Bluesky firehose spawns people who follow you, read their post out loud, and wander off.
throng.cee.wtf
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
Og for øvrig er det her hele «woke»-«debatten» oppsummert, jo, alle andre kan bare sette seg ned
Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt@ugarles.bsky.social · 2mo agohachi machi
Jeg har akkurat betalt 200 kroner for to pils, I ENGLAND. Er det rart verden går som den går?
Kendra was my friend, mentor, & support from the very beginning of my career. when i brought her to Duke, she brought stickers that read “Make Musicology Better” & her care verged on zealousness. i will miss her terribly. ruht wohl, @kleonardphd.bsky.social
In which @katewagner.wehwalt.net does it again
VAN Magazine@vanmusicmag.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn Bayreuth's AI "Rheingold," @katewagner.wehwalt.net writes, the production makes the very mistake Wagner warns against: Substituting technology for human intellectual effort out of laziness. van-magazine.com/mag/bayreuth...
En ting som provoserer meg noe inn i hampen... Når medier gjør korte intervjuer med Tonje Gjevjon som LHB-Norge.. De har åpenbart INGEN peiling på hva LHB Norge egentlig er. De evner ikke å stille noe som helst kritisk spørsmål ved det LHB Norge faktisk driver med. Og det er et problem!
Happy Halberstadt Note Change Day to all who celebrate!
As Slow as Possible - Wikipedia
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An eight-year-old just told me "I never understand what you mean" and I will, in fact, never recover from a burn that sick.
I have a lot of opinions about this, all of which are variations on the theme of "what the fucking Hell?" For now, I will note that this is a crucial part of what @anavaldi.bsky.social calls the materiality of AI, namely that the digital utopia peddled by AI companies requires physical matter.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · 3mo agoNo longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
And then class, humanity poured all its resources, its water, its books, the very air they breathed, into making the magic money machine and as we all know this started the second dark age as the machine did in fact, not do anything useful
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · 3mo agoNo longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.