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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)

@reillypascal.bsky.social

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Composer and programmer who likes noise, obsolete media, electronics, and nostalgia Website: https://reillyspitzfaden.com Blog: https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blog Mastodon (bridged to Bluesky): https://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · Dec 27

@scorefollower.bsky.social shared one of my pieces!

It's for trumpet, trombone, percussion, and MIDI keyboard w/ Max/MSP, and it's got microtonal brass, glitchy noise, and cheesy DX7 sounds

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_gx...

#ContemporaryClassical #Synths #MaxMSP #ExperimentalMusic

Reilly Spitzfaden — Everything lost along the way [w/ score]

YouTube video by Score Follower

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 1d

I also like that one! I have a few of that project's albums

Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 1d

My musical taste in 8 artists:

- Fire-Toolz
- Autechre
- Kate Soper
- Clara Iannotta
- Kelley Sheehan
- SOPHIE
- Oneohtrix Point Never
- Edgard Varèse

Mom Friend "Free Link" 64 @pengarr.postes.club · 1d

Define your musical taste in 8 artists?

1. Sloan
2. KT Tunstall
3. Antônio Carlos Jobim
4. Hirokazu Tanaka
5. Wu-Tang Clan
6. Neko Case
7. Franz Schubert
8. Lena Raine

and to quote #1,

"ask again, tomorrow, i might tell another story (I'll make sure I do)"

Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 1d

Define your musical taste in 8 artists:
1) Ani DiFranco
2) Morcheeba
3) Jimmy Buffet
4) Buck65
5) Beth Orton
6) Samuel Coleridge Taylor
7) Dropkick Murphys
8) Daft Punk

(my musical taste is very wiggly)

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 2d

This person says it's because it sounds like the German one, but it's spelled kind of like the French one, so that's Swiss: elliotthauser.com/openmusicthe...

I think that's pretty funny

Chromatically altered subdominant chords – Open Music Theory

The most common chromatically altered subdominant chords (aside from the applied dominant of V) are the *Neapolitan c...

elliotthauser.com

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 3d

Zohran Mamdani uses his appearance on Fox News to "speak directly to the president," since "he might be watching right now."

Mamdani looks straight into the Fox camera as he says this >>>

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 3d

I read that one and loved it! I think I actually learned about it because you mentioned it at some point

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 3d

Neat! I just saw some videos on this in my YouTube inbox and thought it looked useful.

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Cycling '74 @cycling74.bsky.social · 3d

📣 Introducing our new featured package, Data Knot by Rodrigo Costanzo — machine learning tools for low latency real-time performance, built on FluCoMa 🥁

⚡️ Download it today via the Max Package Manager 📦

#machinelearning #maxmsp #audiotech #computermusic #performance #sounddesign #audioengineering

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 3d

Someone suggested “S.” to me since I liked “House of Leaves,” and so far it's been a great suggestion. If anyone has other suggestions (ergodic, experimental, intertextual, etc.) I'd love to hear them!

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 3d

The purple and yellow also appear to be from different read-throughs than the blue and black, so the notes are non-linear. There are also photocopies, postcards, and other supplementary things tucked into the pages.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 3d

I'm reading ”S.” by Doug Dorst and so far it's very interesting.

It's framed as an old library book called “Ship of Theseus” by enigmatic (fictional) author V.M. Straka, and two students have written notes in the margin discussing the book and their lives.

#Reading #Fiction #Books

An open book with multicolored handwriting-style notes in the margins and photocopies tucked into the pages.

A book with an old-fashioned binding titled “Ship of Theseus” by V.M. Straka. It has a library catalog sticker on the binding.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 3d

“[Israel] signed this agreement that’s going to get their hostages back, but that will allow them to resume their strategic objectives of rendering Gaza uninhabitable and eventually leading to mass exodus … in a way that is palatable by the international community.”

theintercept.com/2025/10/15/i...

Israel’s Mounting Ceasefire Violations in Gaza

“The matter is not a ceasefire — we are talking about a managed genocide, a managed forcible displacement.”

theintercept.com

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Alessandro Ratoci (RaToX) @ratoci.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to ScoreFollower group for the wonderful work!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHZv...

Alessandro Ratoci — UPRISING [w/ score]

YouTube video by Score Follower

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 6d

What does this mean? One thing is that, in addition to stopping their ludicrous validation of fascist lies, Democrats and mainstream news must also attempt to make clear how this process works, and how it will transform daily life for essentially everyone in our society.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 6d

But when you realize that most violence is not by strangers (hence police violence being large %), you see why it's vital for cops to obscure it: no one believes more $$ for punishment bureaucracy is a solution to the reasons people **in some kind of relationship with each other** hurt each other.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 6d

First the basics: The vast bulk of physical and sexual violence in our society is *not* perpetrated by strangers, but by people who know each other. Obscuring this fact is a critical feature of copaganda in the news. People are shocked to hear it. Why?

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 6d

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 9d

“Celeste said the People over Papers team… foresaw this happening and began working on a new website months ago. Though they planned for a later launch, Padlet’s removal sped up the release.

The new website, iceout.org, launched on Sunday.”

laist.com/news/politic...

#ICE #Immigration

Padlet removes ‘People over Papers,’ a mapping tool tracking ICE raids

The crowdsourced site was taken down without warning, days after political figures called for its removal. Its creators quickly launched a replacement.

laist.com

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 11d

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 11d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 11d

*h₂ŕ̥tḱos time

Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 11d

“They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other”

www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/u...

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah, this tells you how to get the beta, and it does look like they're still working on it: mastodon.social/@Feditext/11...

And here's the TestFlight link: testflight.apple.com/join/3Ik3KBjj

Join the Feditext beta

Available on iOS

testflight.apple.com

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 12d

It's great, but also basically abandoned. The fork of it — Feditext — also kind of slowed down in development, but for a while you could get the beta in TestFlight. You might still be able to, and that is the other one I used.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 12d

Also using phanpy.social in the browser is nice, and I actually just go to hachyderm.io in the browser. Idk what Mastodon version jorts.horse is on, but recent versions put the toolbar in the bottom, and are pretty nice to use.

Phanpy

Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

phanpy.social

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 12d

I really like Moshidon for Android and Toot! (apps.apple.com/us/app/toot-...) for iOS. Toot! does cost $4, but it's one-time, and I found it worth it.

‎Toot! for Mastodon

‎Toot! is a client for the Mastodon social network. It is beautiful, and full of character and whimsy. What makes Toot! special? - It is delightful. It is full of beautiful design, animation, amusing...

apps.apple.com

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