Vasco da Braccio

Composer/Technologist; Recordist and Sound Designer

[Fruit and Grooves Collective @fruitandgrooves]

Celebrating thirty years of influential American post-rock outfit Gastr del Sol (@blackfaurest @dragcityrecords)’s Mirror Repair EP, released on this day in 1994.✨

[Vasco da Braccio @atonalist]

Tonality is nostalgia.
So's 12EDO, consonance, and saxophones.

[AD. @AhmadDavisPR]

The obsession with nostalgia is cooking creativity right now

[Veena Dubal @veenadubal]

I remember in 2016 receiving emails from university presidents saying that campuses would remain safe, vibrant spaces where diversity was respected and undocumented students would be protected.

I have received no such email which suggests to me a real normalization of this.

[Vasco da Braccio @atonalist]

I just saw an absolutely beautiful Blue Jay in my front yard.
He doesn't know that the world has turned a terrible corner; Lord, help me be like this bird.
Not ignorant of my situation—he knows more about my lawn than I ever will—but focused on my world and what I can change.

[IRCAM @Ircam]

7 lectures given by Stockhausen in England in 1972 and 1973, filmed by Allied Artists, London. All lectures were given in English and you can watch them here!

https://t.co/oOu9EsMSIi

[Vasco da Braccio @atonalist]

@jeffwilen @peretsky_ This EXACT thing happened when I was in DC two weeks ago. That monumental architecture will really sneak up on a fella.

[Vasco da Braccio @atonalist]

@la_meme_young And vice-versa whilst we're at it!!

[Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman]

Mocktails are fun because it's like when else would you get the chance to pay thirteen dollars for Snapple?

[Vasco da Braccio @atonalist]

The recent addition of BUG 1–100 (that's like BWV numbers, but for Bugles, Bach fans) has made this request and y'all's prompt replies even more helpful!

[Vasco da Braccio @atonalist]

@BugleArchivist, @ianmunrobot, @hellobuglers
Hey folks; does anyone happen to remember what episode Andy's "football chants at funerals" bit? "Stand up if you're not a corpse," that one?
I'm planning my funeral and need a reference text.

[Vasco da Braccio @atonalist]

@A_single_bear I'm putting this in my email signature.
I am a (different kind of) bear.

[Vasco da Braccio @atonalist]

"The paper sheds new light on the unique qualities of Bach's music and demonstrates the potential for analyzing music through the lens of networks."
By 3 physicists!
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This is akin to a couple of music theorists positing as revolutionary the notion that sound is vibrating air!!

[Vasco da Braccio @atonalist]

Boy would Monteverdi's patrons be surprised!
"At its inception, opera was a work for the people — it reflected their everyday life, their challenges, their defiance of power and the social order."

[Vasco da Braccio @atonalist]

@PopeSuburbanII Perfect! Thanks!!

[Vasco da Braccio @atonalist]

@PopeSuburbanII
Genuine question, coming to you because you have a sparkling ability to distill concepts:
In a couple of sentences, what is a manifold?

[Vasco da Braccio @atonalist]

@aliterative I genuinely have no idea; I wanted to see what posting like a rightist moron was like.
Spoiler: it made me feel incredibly dumb.

[Vasco da Braccio @atonalist]

@louisdstrong @hellobuglers @BugleArchivist @ianmunrobot THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU LOUIS!!!!!!!

[Vasco da Braccio @atonalist]

@la_meme_young @RILMMusicLit
Dumb question—one that I ought to know the answer to, and could be Googled if I trusted the internet:
Is there a Grand Concordance or database where one can look up a song and get a list of samples used?

[Vasco da Braccio @atonalist]

@la_meme_young Since leaving Flatbush my modern Hebrew is a little rusty, but does that say, "don't pay attention to my son, he's a nudnik"?

[Vasco da Braccio @atonalist]

@la_meme_young What the actual FUCK?!?!?!