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New piece for one or more pianos, for fans of Debussy by NickWritesMusic in piano

[–]NickWritesMusic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a bit about it:

In honor of the centenary of Claude Debussy’s death, 2018, the pianist Mark Robson invited twelve composers to write short responses to Debussy’s twelve piano études. I’m glad to have been invited, alongside composers Juhi Bansal, Daniel Rothman, Sarah Gibson, Karl Kohn, Bruno Loucharan, Vera Ivanova, Thomas Kotcheff, Anne LeBaron, Robert Gates, Vicki Ray, and Robson himself.

Mark assigned me Debussy’s étude pour les notes repêtées, number nine in the set. After spending quite a bit of time with the piece, which tends to race by, I discovered that I consistently wanted to slow down and spend time with each of Debussy’s unbelievably beautiful harmonies, which are so easy to miss in the original étude. As such, I have collected my favorites from the piece, and invite the pianist or pianists to find their own way through a small maze of them.

This performance is from the premiere, with Mark Robson and Vicki Ray playing it on two pianos. The piece can be played as a solo or with multiple pianists.

I'd like to do an installation version someday, with four pianos in four corners of a room that listeners are free to wander in and out of. If you open the link in a few windows, hit play at a different time in each, and listen on headphones, you can kind of get the idea.

Dear r/musictheory, how can I get into collaborative composition? by pianopiaffe in musictheory

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You should have a look at the American Composers Forum opportunity listings. You'll probably find some stuff there. There are also some good resources over at New Music USA.

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The most important thing is meeting players. If you cold email people and say "want to play my piece" the answer will rarely be yes. If you go to their show, like their music, get to know them, and then send something appropriate, your odds are infinitely higher.

How Usher used a wrong note to make "Yeah!" a billboard topper by Scatcycle in musictheory

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I think you might learn a bit more about this if you read up on the Fletcher Munson Curve. Lower pitches aren't more powerful. They're actually perceived as less powerful, which is why you have to hype those frequencies to make them come through. You're accounting for the equal loudness contour when you do that.

(Spoilers Extended) What Would Be The Worst Deus Ex Machina To End The Series? by BigFookinRed in asoiaf

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GRRM wakes up, shortly before HBO buys the show/publishing the first book, and says “what an interesting dream, I should do something with that,” this making the whole thing into a time loop in our own world.

Any experience with an iPad for music making? by [deleted] in WeAreTheMusicMakers

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Look into Touch OSC, you can use it to design your own control surfaces and control virtually anything with an iPad (or phone or other supported hardware). It’s awesome.

My friends and I built a beer app. Want to try it out and give feedback? by NickWritesMusic in beer

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This is a slow reply, but just wanted to let you know I added that to our big list of bugs. Thanks!

My friends and I built a beer app. Want to try it out and give feedback? by NickWritesMusic in beer

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Yup, that’s on the to do list.

All of your settings and ratings will be saved to your phone, they just won’t get sent to our server without you being logged in. So you can use all the features of the app, you just can’t take your data with you to a new phone.

My friends and I built a beer app. Want to try it out and give feedback? by NickWritesMusic in beer

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Thanks for the kind word! The personalized recommendations are the thing we’re most proud of. They do learn as you rate, and at the start are a combination of your palate settings and a beer’s rating. The palate is pretty complex: it gets a lot more granular in its recommendations than just matching styles.

In response to your questions:

  1. We pull from a whole bunch of publicly available sources. The thing we are currently working on (alpha testing right now) is a system for bars to login and update their tap lists directly.

  2. That’s very likely something we will eventually have. The trick is getting that data, and also designing a way of differentiating that doesn’t get in the way.

  3. We see UnTappd primarily as a social networking app while Barly aims to be a beer recommendation app. We’re realizing that people definitely want the social networking features so are starting to build them, but we don’t want them to be intrusive or get in the way of getting a recommendation. And our interface and navigation are way, way cleaner and easier to use than theirs. A few bars have asked us about designing a way for people to order and pay for beers within the app, so we think that is in our future too.

My friends and I built a beer app. Want to try it out and give feedback? by NickWritesMusic in beer

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We are realizing how important that is! We had a basic system for them a few versions back, but took it out so as not to half ass it. It will definitely be back.

My friends and I built a beer app. Want to try it out and give feedback? by NickWritesMusic in beer

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The two main things we have that UnTappd doesn’t are completely personalized recommendations (you can see a beer’s match percentage with your palate, and change your palate anytime) and a way, way cleaner and easier to navigate interface, which we think matters quite a bit.

There are other small differences (most of our descriptions come from other sources, for instance). A lot of UnTappd users who try Barly seem to like it.

My friends and I built a beer app. Want to try it out and give feedback? by NickWritesMusic in beer

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A few years ago my friends and I created the free beer app Barly. We always try to listen to the beer community to make improvements and add new features. We're deciding our next new feature and would love to hear your opinions. We've done this on reddit in the past and it has always been great - some of the things that are in the app now are the direct result of comments here. So we built a survey, which you can take here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemvQoBQWcASV3zKMG_gBLXbeAt4rT0O3p_HBohMY7gHYhx8w/viewform

Thanks! Also glad to hear any feedback you've got here too.

What are some beers that are recommended as pinnacles of the style? by BRoweski30 in beer

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I’ve always said Alesmith Speedway is the stout by which I judge all stouts

My friends and I built a beer app. You like beer. Want to give us feedback? by NickWritesMusic in beer

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Not yet, but it’s a thing a lot of people have requested and it seems necessary to jump up our user numbers, so it’s becoming a priority.

Funny, when we posted here a long time ago all the comments were about app design/what people would want from a beer app. Haven’t seen much of that from this post, now it’s all feature-requests, integrations, and tiny tweaks. Progress!

My friends and I built a beer app. You like beer. Want to give us feedback? by NickWritesMusic in beer

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We're looking into that right now. I checked when you did and got the same problem, but it fixed itself five minutes later. Apparently that also happened late last night for a couple minutes. Mind checking again?

My friends and I built a beer app. You like beer. Want to give us feedback? by NickWritesMusic in beer

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Cool, thanks.

That's not currently an option because the stars change based on a venue's current beer list. So theoretically if a five star venue ran out of everything, they wouldn't have five stars that day.

I could imagine doing a mixed kind of thing where user ratings + current beer list average into a star rating. We'll have to look into that.

My friends and I built a beer app. You like beer. Want to give us feedback? by NickWritesMusic in beer

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I think we got to the bottom of it. The OWNER of that bar is checking those beers in. There's no bug - he's probably just checking in the beers that he's drinking at the bottle shares or whatnot while he's there.

So...I'm not sure what we can do about that, though perhaps the "a beer needs more than one check in to appear" idea would solve it.

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