This is a must-read on China’s long game. If you’re into that kind of stuff Hundred-Year Marathon

We don’t need more composers trained in the arcane, modernist techniques favored in academic graduate composition departments. We need more composers who aren’t afraid or discouraged to embrace the popular element and create music of cultural relevance.

At some point we should probably start caring about AI data centers consuming all of our energy and water

I am biased here, but I also really like the choices in orchestration

This is just beautiful

It’s eye opening. That ceiling lamp is giving off no infrared light at all.

I put an infrared filter over my phone and took this photo. You can see the natural infrared light coming through the windows. But look at that awful kitchen LED light. Absolutely no infrared. I’ve hated it since we moved in and this explains why. These lights are soul-sucking.

Before I was Catholic, I struggled with the absence of large-scale miracles in modern history. I thought to myself, "It's odd that the Jews and earliest Christians witnessed powerful public miracles, but we today only see healings." Once I reverted, I no longer had to question

And here is a shot of outside on an overcast day. You can see the effect of the rock bed in our yard and concrete in the street - no infrared reflection. But the trees and grass reflect plenty. This gives the phrase “concrete jungle” even more meaning.

For reference, this is a traditional incandescent bulb. You can see it gives off at least some infrared. Compare that to the soulless LED kitchen overhead. It drives me batty.

I put an infrared filter over my phone and took this photo. You can see the natural infrared light coming through the windows. But look at that awful kitchen LED light. Absolutely no infrared. I’ve hated it since we moved in and this explains why. These lights are soul-sucking.

I saw them perform this in 2009 in Chicago under Simon Rattle. I’ll never forget it. What an education. Real chamber music.

Beautiful moments here. Which is your favorite Mahler Adagietto?

Some say AI is being trained by what is already digital and easily available, like the cesspools of Reddit and Wikipedia. So much knowledge will be lost, just like that box of VHS tapes you threw in the dumpster a few months ago. This is what is at stake:

Another great article by Jenn at RedState. I witnessed this as a kid in Yosemite. They still had controlled burns, lived there for 4 years and we did not have one fire that was not quickly put out. When Sierra Club sued to leave the forest in a natural state. About 30 years later

It’s fun to glance around the audience right before this moment. Stravinsky’s Firebird has a moment like this too. Like fart jokes, it never gets old.

Libs are manufacturing negative Kennedy Center stories because they want Trump to fail so badly, it's all they care about. Meanwhile Trump's new CEO is raising money, reaching right wingers the previous regime hated, and giving musicians extra comp tickets! The horror!

Musicology has long mostly leaned left. But I remember when older scholars were nonetheless uncomfortable with AMS becoming too activist. Young scholars today are increasingly being trained by those reared on “New Musicology.” Look that term up.

AI is coming for almost all of our jobs. The only question is: how soon?

I don’t blame you. If I really needed to sleep, I would also put on some Bruckner. (unpopular opinion, not sorry)

There is going to be a reckoning with these kids on electric scooters going 20mph. They don't wear helmets and don’t follow traffic laws. Tragedy is waiting in the wings.