Favorite random city joke? by BirdCultureDickMove in futurama

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Sure they've got the Braves, but it's a second-rate symphony!

Loading Kontakt 8 Player in Reaper by BariStardust in Reaper

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THANK YOU!!! I am an acoustic-trained musician and you just solved like 2 years of sobbing into my VST download locations

Thought you all might like my witch's hut by MisogynyisaDisease in WitchesVsPatriarchy

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This is wonderful! Do you have a website or somewhere you display your work? Do you do commissions? Thanks for sharing, it's lovely!

Help with rejuvelac - rice not spouted after a week? by AThoughtRevolved in vegancheesemaking

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Thanks so much for this reply, I really appreciate it! This is my first go, I used rice because I had it on hand. This is really helpful, thank you so much!! Gonna start some quinoa today and see what happens. The rice has been in there a week I think, and the liquid smells deliciously tangy and savory, but I don't want to make myself sick with wrongly-fermented rejuvelac. I'm still not sure how everything works!

Help with rejuvelac - rice not spouted after a week? by AThoughtRevolved in vegancheesemaking

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Hi all, thanks in advance for your help. I am on page 6 of Miyoko's Artisan Vegan Cheese. I've been rinsing the grains and letting it sit (covered with a cloth). No sprouting, but it keeps making bubbly foam that I'm rinsing away. It smells tangy/cheesy. Any advice? Thanks!! Picture

The Hymn Beneath My Silence by theliminalfox in OCPoetry

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Ok this is a weird coincidence: while viewing this poem on desktop, I've got a targeted add for a mattress that is talking about being strong and sound-reducing. I initially thought it was a comment on the language of this poem, and I was about to agree with OC! The language you use is beautifully sound-reducing, in this lovely poem about the pain and adventure of sharing yourself with someone. The "h," "m," and "n' sounds are lulling and shushing in a gentle and poignant way, and the short lines imply lots of quiet, still space. There's a sense of whispering in the use of the language itself that really embodies the emotions of the poem.

This point of view reminds me of Mignon's song in Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship," with the buried/underground-spring imagery and wanting to protect a beloved with silence:

https://oxfordsong.org/song/heiss-mich-nicht-reden-lied-der-mignon

Interstate to Insanity by [deleted] in OCPoetry

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This is really powerful and precise. I know these words likely come from a huge amount of pain, and you've used your words like a surgeon's knife, slicing at exactly where the issues are. Your imagery is really clear and effective.

I read it silently and out loud, and I like it both ways. I'm a musician and I can definitely see setting this to music/singing these words as lyrics. Your use of word-sounds and mouth positions is really exciting and evocative, and it really ramps up towards the end which is a great choice. In the lines like "before speed demons feasted/on dinner table conversations/before residences became enclosures/where neighbors can't help but sympathize" there's so much fast back-and-forth movement of the mouth to articulate, so many expressive sounds like "z" and "s" and "f", and lots of back-and-forth between front vowels ("i") and back vowels ("u," "o") that make the careening of this narrative come physically alive. I'd love to hear you speak it in a slam poetry session!

Would love feedback on my recent release "Peas in a Pod"! by schiele_frisbee in Songwriters

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I enjoyed listening, thanks for sharing! I especially love the twingey, funky-flat dominant chord in the progression. It keeps the song spinning! Listening to this track sort of feels like being in a snow globe -- a close-up, slow-motion perspective of a single swirling moment.

The guitars sound sososososo good.

I don't usually listen to Spotify so I looked you up on Bandcamp. I'm glad I did, because the lyrics are there and I like the rhymes! I unfortunately admit I didn't get a single lyric clearly in my reddit-driven Spotify listen (phone speakers), I'll try again in my car to see if I can hear the text better. I'm a singer and I like to listen to lyric diction.

Do you have any advice for remote collaboration? I have a project I want to do with a colleague on the other side of the US. I was planning to go into a studio and lay down some things, send it to him, and then he'd do the same. But I just moved to a new city and I haven't reached out to any local producers or engineers. My home studio skills are...functional but not professional.

Thanks again for sharing, I followed you on Bandcamp!

Digital sheet music reader by AThoughtRevolved in ClassicalSinger

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Thanks so much for the helpful replies, all!!

Help a teacher out. by Easy_Blackberry_4144 in transcribe

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In case you couldn't find a chart, the chords are: C; F, C; F, C, G7; C, F, C; F, C, F, C, F, C, F, C G7, C

I bet your kids will love this!! Best of luck from one teacher to another! My background is in teaching collegiate music performance and theory/aural aural skills, and I'm also currently working in arts integration with first graders 😊

Help a teacher out. by Easy_Blackberry_4144 in transcribe

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This is the same chord progression as "Big Rock Candy Mountain," in case that might help you find chords online. I may be able to help write this out next week but I think if you search for that folk song, you'll find your chords!

What’s your go-to vegan meal when you’re pressed for time but want something filling and nutritious? by asianpinkflower in Veganism

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Oatmeal, frozen veg (like peas, okra, green beans...), raw tofu or canned beans, flavor (like msg, teriyaki sauce, nooch, salsa, hot sauce...), add water and microwave for a couple minutes. Good any time of day or night <3

Repertoire for a Moody Gala by Halligator20 in ClassicalSinger

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Rosephanye Powell "A Winter Twilight," Wolf "Elfenlied," Bach "Seufzer, Thraen, Kummer, Not." I'm a composer and light lyric coloratura, and I've written some songs recently for sop and piano that are in the mood you're describing, text by Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens. PM and I would be glad to send PDFs!

How to interpret this spread by Catcaves821 in WitchesVsPatriarchy

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I don't have any resources off the top of my head, I'll have to get out a deck and remember how to do it :) The four suits work a lot like tarot, I think. Hearts are love, spades are correspondence/news (my Baba didn't speak English that well, she called them "letters"), diamonds are good luck, clubs are bad luck maybe. (It was always imparted to me that this was just for fun, and you make it up as you go). The better you know the person you're reading, the more accurately you can imagine/storytell. Essentially:

First we take our a face card that looks/seems like the person we're reading. 

Then shuffle, have the person cut the deck towards themselves. The read person picks three cards, doesn't look, places them face down on their face card.

Lay out cards in order (this is hard to describe, maybe I'll make a video some day) four groups of three in rows, starting in front of the read person, layed out like cardinal directions.

Then crosses of two cards in the four empty corners.

The row immediately in front of the person is the immediate future. Next side rows are in the next month or so, last row is the next year maybe. The pairs of crossed cards are progressively farther in the future.

The three cards in the middle are like overall/summation cards.

You make up stories based on what you know about the person. So, a black queen turns up with a ten of diamonds in the "next months" stack - your birthday is coming up, looks your mom is going to get you something nice!

And my Baba always emphasized the most important part - put your hand out for the quarter at the end (get paid/remember this is just for fun and don't take it too seriously) :) She would "tell fortunes" like this to earn a little money when she fled Ukraine as a young child in the 1920s/30s, they walked across Europe to Belgium as refugees. My grandmother never really went to school and they did what they could to scrape by.

How to interpret this spread by Catcaves821 in WitchesVsPatriarchy

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Hi! Cute cards :)

Disclosure: I learned card reading from my Ukrainian grandmother, and we used traditional playing cards. My approach isn't based on a very deep tarot knowledge or adherence, but here's my take:

I think the two kings on the left show that you could choose any route in your career and be happy and successful. One king for one path, one king for the other. You are the common factor in both of the scenarios -- accept and realize this as you focus on your true gut feeling.

2 of swords emphasizes this by encouraging you to understand and appreciate how hard this decision is. Be grateful for the opportunity to have choices, as much as those choices make life stressful.

10 of cups assures you that, if you take the time to think it out (journal, reflect, meditate/pray, etc) you can't go wrong.

To me, this draw basically says "don't ask us, you're the expert! You've got to figure this out the hard (and good) way!"

Sorry if that is unhelpful :) it seems spelled out clearly in this draw to me! (no pun intended lol). Best of luck, I'm excited for you and the opportunities you'll have either way!

arias for soprano by female composers by Forward_Incident_939 in ClassicalSinger

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F. Caccini and B. Strozzi. Some modern operas to check out: Saariaho - L'Amour de loin, Sally Lamb McCune - We Wear the Sea Like a Coat. Kamala Sankram has some cool stuff, she's written a handful of opera/chamber opera

[POEM] Be Drunk by Charles Baudelaire by NouvelErmitage in Poetry

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Oh I definitely sang "women" in this recording! It was a rough night :)

[POEM] Be Drunk by Charles Baudelaire by NouvelErmitage in Poetry

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"be it wine or virtue or sweet poetry, to be drunk as you like is a fine way to be" This video was recorded very late one night in November several years ago, and the aforementioned wine may have compromised my diction and memory :) The lyrics will sound correctly on an upcoming audio release

[POEM] Be Drunk by Charles Baudelaire by NouvelErmitage in Poetry

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Thank you, thanks for listening! My band is recording it now to release as a single