I'm gonna have to agree with you, Bologna Sunset
Bologna Sunset@chrisannethemum.bsky.social · 3w agoTool is what you get when music theory takes LSD and throws a perfect baseball game.
Miriam Piilonen
@miriam-piilonen.bsky.social
musician, scholar, assistant professor of music theory
Bologna Sunset@chrisannethemum.bsky.social · 3w agoToday I had the very nerdy realization that after carrying a baby in my arms for 13+ months, books feel lighter.
Them: Are you on LinkedIn? Me: Hell yea, I'm like LinkedIn Park
Thinking about the time I asked my brother what his favorite feeling was and he said "deductive reasoning." So cool.
I’m a professor with a ten-month-old, so I either speak in baby talk or highfalutin jargon, there is no in-between.
yes this. and could also include a little bit of music notation that tells you how to sing the story
DJ BEN COURT@dancing.bsky.social · 6mo agoone thing I've learned from baby books is that all literature should include a mirror and end by telling you to go to sleep
my writing confidence is through the roof now that people are using ChatGPT to write, like, grocery lists and thank you notes. it’s like hell yeah, I thought some thoughts and wrote them down. might have an idea later.
Saw a bobcat slink past our window last week. It was amazing! Now I can't stop thinking about bobcats. I have bobcat fever.
is a violinist just the most violin? (this joke works better spoken than read)
Thinking about Babysitter Skipper, the toy that made me feel peak happiness in the 90s. Something about the fantasy of Being Responsible thrilled my 6-year old self. Plus the commercial had a great song.
if you never come to office hours, you will never complete the office hours side quest, that's just standard game design
I wanna go to a party where the DJ spins nothing but nu metal ballads
ran out of laundry sauce and my spouse and I both bought some, so now we have too much and it's weighing down the shelf, isn't that romantic
I would like to go to a renaissance fair but the time and place we recreate would be the 2019 conference of the Society for Music Theory in Columbus, OH, that was lit
Me: chatGPT is awful, I prefer Real Human writing with MISTAKES in it to this boring steely grey robot text Also Me: cannot leave a post up with a typo, must text a *correction for any misspelling, still sad about a grammatical error in something I published 2 years ago
I’m looking forward to delivering the keynote at the 29th Annual Graduate Students in Music (GSIM) Conference at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) on March 6-7, 2026. What an honor to be invited to speak at this esteemed venue with the next generation of music scholars.
next year's halloween costume / every day of the year 👻
jazzrat2000 AKA Bonsai anonymous@jazzrat2000.bsky.social · 11mo ago: I used to answer the door as a scary person: a college music theory teacher
as a music theorist, I am always down for some "ta-ta-ti-ti-ta"
Ricky Fontaine@officialblee.blacksky.app · 11mo agoThe kids ain’t playing plastic recorders no more. They ain’t learning scales. They ain’t learning “ta-ta-ti-ti-ta.” Sad times we’re in.
seeing a lot of ads for CapitalOne, not enough for Capital Vol. 1
the ballroom thing is so obnoxious and somehow it's one of the least obnoxious things at the moment
What could be greater than playing a game of golf with a gator? ~Tennis with a tiger ~Hockey with a hippo ~Soccer with a salamander ~Football with a flamingo ~Croquet with a cricket
Reading existentialist texts with a sleeping baby in my arms just hits different.