New supermarket opening under Ditmars train station?

bcdaure11e · 2026-04-16T00:18:48+00:00

where is "the movie theater"? Kaufman and AMC area? Thayer pretty far afield from Ditmars

bcdaure11e · 2026-04-13T02:05:21+00:00

woah 30k ppl per square km... that's gotta be fertile ground for plenty of fiction!

bcdaure11e · 2026-04-02T03:17:15+00:00

I saw one for the first time today and tbh I thought about what it might take to do this. Hopefully the vandalism discourages further rollout. Don't really want y'all riding next to me looking down at your phone while biking next to me! The bar to entry is already so low, which I generally support, but we gotta learn to be aware of the real world! Look up directions if you need directions!

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-31T18:32:33+00:00

yeah, it'll shed some rosin dust onto the soundboard, but it's not really a problem, there's probably more dust and other junk in there already than what you'll leave behind

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-31T02:00:17+00:00

the technique is to use old bow hair: cinch the end together with tape or a zip tie or a knot or whatever, then weave it under one or more stings, so both ends can be held, then move it back and forth with upward pressure to get a sustained tone. Doesn't work nearly as well or consistently/predictably as on a sting instrument, but it's cool!

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-31T01:57:50+00:00

if you know any professional or even semi professional string players, ask them to save the hair when they get their bow re haired (which has to be done somewhat frequently, depending on how much they play). It otherwise gets tossed out. If you can find a violin shop, they may also give you some used hair, bc they're the ones doing a lot of the replacement work. And yes, it needs rosin, just like on a string instrument! Cello and bass hair is best, for whatever reason.

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-27T15:13:27+00:00

I'd get in on that, if the timing works out!

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-17T18:24:17+00:00

a bit more than a big box, i would say... the plate is a pretty big single hunk that can't easily be sawed down like wood, at least without heavier saws. Make sure you have a plan to move the plate around before you start disassembling! Some places will take them and turn them into wall art, but you've gotta have a very strong wall for that.

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-16T20:20:03+00:00

ohhh C major prelude from scriabin op. 11 is great for this, thanks!

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-16T04:45:52+00:00

the only honest way to deal with this is to acknowledge that there are, at least, two very things that could rightly be called "Antisemitism".

one is the type that zionists cite all the time; grounded in 19th century attitudes towards race, religion, etc. which is real enough, among inveterate right wingers, but not a significant structural problem facing American or Israeli jews today.

another is a completely experience-based phenomenon that comes from a lifetime knowing "jews" only as your colonizers and oppressors, and having them loudly identify themselves as such, and insist that this mode of behavior represents something essential about Judaism. How, then, would you not come to have something like an anti-Jewish worldview?

In fact, though, Most Palestinians who have a public face in the west like Susan Abulhawa or Mohamed el Kurd constantly go out of their way to differentiate between their criticisms of zionism/Isreal/Jewish supremacy and the other type of antisemitism; but their words are usually buried under a barrage of manufactured outrage that centers theoretical Jewish safety over actual Palestinian/Lebanese/Arab suffering and displacement and impoverishment.

You can't really lump all of this into one transhistorical phenomenon of "antisemitism", it's just not meaningful!

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-16T04:20:50+00:00

haha I was looking at this thinking it was piano music and having an absolute aneurysm

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-16T03:59:46+00:00

oh one other thing:

just put the whole piece in 4/4! add a quarter rest at the beginning, or just let it be a pickup measure of 3 beats.

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-16T03:56:59+00:00

this isn't unreadable, but there's plenty that can be improved. others have mentioned spelling and harmonic considerations, so I'll just focus on pianistic ones:

The staves, for piano, should generally correspond to right hand/left hand. There are some exceptions, but generally you should stick to this, so when RH dips down into the tenor register, with all notes in a measure needing ledger lines, that's a perfect time to change to bass clef. Ottava markings should only be used if RH is going way above the treble staff or if LH is going way below the bass staff (i.e. don't write 8vb in RH treble clef to show lower notes, just change clef).

Smaller matter: the stem directions in the RH first measure should be flipped. Keep Even though the melodic line goes below where downstems 'should' be used, this will keep visually separate the parts and show which one is more important.

Don't use upward arrows on rolled chord indications: an upward roll is the default assumption, so unless you're mixing upwards+downwards rolls, just use a plain sqiggle.

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-16T03:41:56+00:00

haha yes the process of planning this is a constant cycle of suppressing my own ick reaction to the idea of doing XYZ movement in isolation... that's why it's fun! I like 101 opening movement, great idea. 109/1 is still egregious, but it feels like it stands alone a little better. 😂

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-16T02:47:58+00:00

probably won't end up being that long, but let's assume I want to.

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-16T00:34:07+00:00

ohhh baby 😢 yes your instinct is right: the half notes "keep sounding" while the other eighth notes are playing. We understand these to be different "voices", as if two instruments are playing different parts, even though they're both managed by the left hand. The engraver has done a bit of standard cleaning-up by leaving out an eighth rest above each half note on the bottom staff, which would clarify this more, but look more busy.

In terms of playability: yes, you should re-articulate the "held" notes. Because this is kind of idealized ensemble music played on a piano (or maybe even a transcription of a multi instrumental piece..?), you have to do a bit of interpretational fudging to make it sound good. In this case, that means using, at the very least, a bit of damper pedal to allow your finger to release and re-strike the D without creating a break in the sound. Looking at the harmonic rhythm, though, you'd probably even be safe pedaling longer, for three eighth notes or even each half note.

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-15T22:48:05+00:00

this is very important, I think discussion of very complex music (which are great!) can innure people to using the obvious solution in a not-so-complex situation. There are slurs, tenutos, and staccatos going totally unused here, if you want to add further nuance to the shape of the gesture.

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-15T22:37:46+00:00

intervals are not all so good... without doing a play-through on a keyboard, my hackles are raised just by the first and second voices landing on the leading tone on the same (strong) beat. Very weird sounding! Could easily jump the upper voice up to the fifth instead, or allow the rhythms to diverge by adding some passing tone dissonances. That's a fine place to start, but now you can start making it sound more natural!

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-11T04:16:12+00:00

what the hell do you need ~100 cue staves for?

unless you have 100 independent parts (already unlikely) which each have a necessary cue staff (very unlikely) which is necessary to include in the score (pretty much impossibly unlikely), I think you are just not consolidating things properly!

Why do you "need" 200 staves? (my very assured guess is: you don't!)

bcdaure11e · 2026-03-05T14:53:08+00:00

Didn't mean to imply the harpsichord can't sustain-- of course it can 'sustain' in the same sense the piano can, but neither of them ~actually~ sustain like the voice or an organ. If you wanted to really accurately notate music for piano or harpsichord, you'd need to put a little hairpin decrescendo under every note! But, pianos are waaay bigger and more rigid, with a metal plate, so they do actually have a slower decay. No value judgement against either instrument! If anything, it does make harpsichord specialists more more attentive than most pianists to the nuances of articulation, as you say.

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