Chris Cresswell
@grizwaldmusic.bsky.social
Maker of Sounds, Teaching Artist, Lecturer at @occmusic, Host of A Curious Ear on @wcnypbs, Contributing Writer to @syracuse.com, Co-Owner of a Cute Cat
For #BandcampFriday I have a couple of recent albums to share.
"Early Electroacoustic Works (2010-2016) is a compilation record I recently released, full of drone, noise, field recordings and plunderphonics:
grizwaldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/early-...
"Early Electroacoustic Works (2010-2016) is a compilation record I recently released, full of drone, noise, field recordings and plunderphonics:
grizwaldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/early-...
Early Electroacoustic Works (2010-2016), by Chris Cresswell
10 track album
grizwaldmusic.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
For #BandcampFriday I have a couple of recent albums to share.
"Early Electroacoustic Works (2010-2016) is a compilation record I recently released, full of drone, noise, field recordings and plunderphonics:
grizwaldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/early-...
"Early Electroacoustic Works (2010-2016) is a compilation record I recently released, full of drone, noise, field recordings and plunderphonics:
grizwaldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/early-...
Hillary and Donald were the same. What were to do?
BREAKING
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the GOP gerrymandered Texas congressional map to stand in a 6-3 decision, with Kagan, Sotomayor, and Brown-Jackson dissenting.
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the GOP gerrymandered Texas congressional map to stand in a 6-3 decision, with Kagan, Sotomayor, and Brown-Jackson dissenting.
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Hillary and Donald were the same. What were to do?
@maddow.bsky.social has a great book about this... "Drift".
Congress, in my opinion has ceded too much of its authority to the Executive Branch in the last nearly quarter of a century. What the administration has been doing is simply part the Post 9/11 legacy. It’s got to stop. I say this as a GWOT era veteran.
Credit to Rand Paul. He hated extrajudicial drone strike killings under Obama and he HATES them under Trump where Congress has given no authorization.
December 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
@maddow.bsky.social has a great book about this... "Drift".
As someone who is studying nostalgia as part of my PhD... ultimately its this.
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
As someone who is studying nostalgia as part of my PhD... ultimately its this.
Reposted by Chris Cresswell
How plummeting international enrollment hurts Syracuse University and its bottom line
How plummeting international enrollment hurts Syracuse University and its bottom line
Chancellor Kent Syverud said students from China, especially, have had trouble getting visas to study in the U.S.
www.syracuse.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
How plummeting international enrollment hurts Syracuse University and its bottom line
Reposted by Chris Cresswell
This normalizes corruption, feeding the sentiment that both sides suck and so politics is pointless. A Dem party focused on rehabilitating its broken brand would be criticizing Trump and booting out Cuellar. Let the corrupt guys become corporate lobbyists - they’re dragging our party down.
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This normalizes corruption, feeding the sentiment that both sides suck and so politics is pointless. A Dem party focused on rehabilitating its broken brand would be criticizing Trump and booting out Cuellar. Let the corrupt guys become corporate lobbyists - they’re dragging our party down.
December 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It's like that Seinfeld episode where George pretends he wasn't fired by just showing up the next day except it's real life and these jobs matter.
Breaking News: A federal court said that Alina Habba, a Trump-appointed lawyer, had been serving unlawfully as the U.S. attorney in New Jersey. She was neither confirmed by the Senate nor appointed by district trial court judges — the two traditional pathways.
Appeals Court Says Alina Habba, Former Trump Lawyer, Is Serving Unlawfully as U.S. Attorney
The judges wrote that the Trump Administration appeared to have become frustrated by legal and political barriers that have prevented its preferred U.S. attorneys from leading federal prosecutors’ offices.
nyti.ms
December 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It's like that Seinfeld episode where George pretends he wasn't fired by just showing up the next day except it's real life and these jobs matter.
this is also the underlying belief system behind AI.
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
this is also the underlying belief system behind AI.
"No value, no villain, no vision." - sounds like the bizarro world version of Friday Night Lights.
November 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"No value, no villain, no vision." - sounds like the bizarro world version of Friday Night Lights.
Not sure what Max is referring to, but as a Syracuse Orange and St Louis Cardinals fan... this is an evergreen thought.
I can't believe this fucking team man
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Not sure what Max is referring to, but as a Syracuse Orange and St Louis Cardinals fan... this is an evergreen thought.
My students refer to any music they find boring, cliche, etc as "AI music". Artists are definitely winning the cultural battle.
Which I think is a good sign they are really losing the cultural battle.
Also that last part is absolutely not true. Every artist hates a bunch of people sometimes including close friends of theirs.
Also that last part is absolutely not true. Every artist hates a bunch of people sometimes including close friends of theirs.
November 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
My students refer to any music they find boring, cliche, etc as "AI music". Artists are definitely winning the cultural battle.
Reposted by Chris Cresswell
You can choose to be exploratory about art. Letting algorithms dictate what you read, watch and listen to isn't inevitable, it's just *easy*.
November 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
You can choose to be exploratory about art. Letting algorithms dictate what you read, watch and listen to isn't inevitable, it's just *easy*.
I'm begging the Democratic party to have the same liberal idealism and ethical standards as *checks notes* Jamie Dimon.
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I'm begging the Democratic party to have the same liberal idealism and ethical standards as *checks notes* Jamie Dimon.
I think "An Unmistakable Pattern of Hostility" might become the title of the piece I've been working on.
(not joking)
(not joking)
“.. Press freedom groups have condemned his verbal escalations, calling his rhetoric an "unmistakable pattern of hostility."
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/11/29/t...
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/11/29/t...
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I think "An Unmistakable Pattern of Hostility" might become the title of the piece I've been working on.
(not joking)
(not joking)
Part of my PhD process is documenting my research/creative practice. It's something that I am definitely working on getting better at. I've been video-ing some of my composition sessions for future vlogs and videos.
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Part of my PhD process is documenting my research/creative practice. It's something that I am definitely working on getting better at. I've been video-ing some of my composition sessions for future vlogs and videos.
I'm almost positive this is a Simpsons episode.
Typing “I have a soul” in Word and printing it out and getting scared
can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I'm almost positive this is a Simpsons episode.
The internet reminded me that 9 years ago I was rehearsing my viola concerto. It came out pretty alright.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Kr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Kr...
IRCEdu - Thallein Ensemble - The inner workings of a throat exposed (C. Cresswell)
YouTube video by International Music Council
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The internet reminded me that 9 years ago I was rehearsing my viola concerto. It came out pretty alright.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Kr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Kr...
I get really excited every time I start an NTS radio program and it turns out that's just their audio tag and the program is even better.
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I get really excited every time I start an NTS radio program and it turns out that's just their audio tag and the program is even better.
I wish there was a Steve Carrell movie that could help me understand our current economic situation.
NY FED: The rejection rate for all types of credit (auto loan, credit card, credit card limit increase, mortgage, mortgage refinance) over past 12 months rose to a series high of 24.8% in October.
(via Liz Ann Sonders)
(via Liz Ann Sonders)
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I wish there was a Steve Carrell movie that could help me understand our current economic situation.
Reposted by Chris Cresswell
probably a metaphor for our larger economy. but let's ignore it and keep going...
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
probably a metaphor for our larger economy. but let's ignore it and keep going...
4 comfort movies
(it's actually just rewatching Twister, over and over)
(it's actually just rewatching Twister, over and over)
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
4 comfort movies
(it's actually just rewatching Twister, over and over)
(it's actually just rewatching Twister, over and over)
Reposted by Chris Cresswell
The Bobby Hamilton Quintet Unlimited - Pearl (Among The Swine) [Syracuse, NY, USA ; Soul-Jazz] (1972)
https://redd.it/1p1dft8
https://youtu.be/xsT3QCnZPig
https://redd.it/1p1dft8
https://youtu.be/xsT3QCnZPig
The Bobby Hamilton Quintet Unlimited - Pearl (Among The Swine) [Syracuse, NY, USA ; Soul-Jazz] (1972)
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The Bobby Hamilton Quintet Unlimited - Pearl (Among The Swine) [Syracuse, NY, USA ; Soul-Jazz] (1972)
https://redd.it/1p1dft8
https://youtu.be/xsT3QCnZPig
https://redd.it/1p1dft8
https://youtu.be/xsT3QCnZPig