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Andrew Hannum

@kwertyops.bsky.social

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professor of cs ⋅ musician ~ kwertyops.github.io

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Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Dec 17

Hello #bsky! I'm Andrew. I'm not a Twitter refugee so I don't come with any follows or followers. I just believe in the ideas behind this platform (though I also believed in FB and Google Plus in their beginnings, whatever that means).

I'm a Professor, and also PhD student and a musician. #newsky

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Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 31

gonna be honest, I'm having trouble not buying another one, as a backup in case the first ever goes bust. it is simultaneously somehow both the best and cheapest MIDI guitar controller I've ever used... and they don't manufacture it anymore.

Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 30

this is the Fender Mustang Pro (a game controller for Rock Band 3) using its MIDI output and a custom firmware I've made for extra features

it's my favorite new music toy in recent years.

playing Improvisation No. 2 by Django Reinhardt

#django #jazz #synthsky #guitar

youtu.be/I7Z3aogxemg

Improvisation n°2 (Django Reinhardt) - Fender Mustang Pro MIDI (Rock Band controller)

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Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 29

see it's the opposite that I'm confused about. how do you follow so many people?! I have trouble keeping up with the twenty something I follow... what does your feed even look like?

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Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 24

sometime in the next couple weeks I'll try to make a demo video. it's absolutely my favorite music toy purchase in years.

Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 24

do you remember the Guitar Hero / Rock Band games? this is the "Rock Band Fender Mustang Pro" controller. it's a controller for the game but the team who designed it decided to also make it fully functional MIDI controller. you can even plug in expression and sustain pedals. $80 on amazon right now

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Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 23

I see your red Fender toy, and raise you another red Fender toy but this one also works as a MIDI controller somehow

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Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 21

#jazzguitar #algorithmiccomposition #musiciansky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3h_yQOM_Jg

Days of Wine and Roses - a computer-generated chord-melody etude w/ tabs

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Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 21

"We’re social creatures, we sense what we should become to get ahead, and then we become it, all without involving fickle rationality. Can that be right?"

https://dynomight.net/taste-games/

Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 19

count me in

Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 13

cosmos ☄️
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see you space cowboy
#trumpet #cowboybebop #theseatbelts #musiciansky

Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 13

"An explanation without including the explainer is as a tree without the trunk. One is inseparable from the other. No system of knowledge can avoid this limitation."

fifth:science (Exurb1a) #booksky

Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 8

"Strange to think that each true life was only a few years long—that one passed through several in each bodily span. He said, “God is great. We will never meet again.”"

The Years of Rice and Salt (Kim Stanley Robinson) #booksky

Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 6

"One of (if not the) most valuable skills in life is being able to choose that you're going to consider an arbitrary thing fun."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39326389

Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 6

pirates 🏴‍☠️ <|°_°|>
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#caravanpalace #electroswing #gypsyjazz #musiciansky #guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p72dhHbt7A

Pirates (Caravan Palace) - Solo Transcription (w/ tabs)

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Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 2

oh wait I see it now it's a razor 😆

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Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 2

seconded -- what is that copper thing??

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Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 2

"“Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it.”

“How?” said Jim. “Love yourself,” said Helmholtz, “and make your instrument sing about it.”"

Welcome to the Monkey House (Kurt Vonnegut, Gregory D. Sumner) #booksky

Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Jan 1

cooley's reel ☘️
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#irish #irishmusic #tinwhistle #musiciansky

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Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Dec 31

"People who cannot comfortably notice what is going on inside become vulnerable to respond to any sensory shift either by shutting down or by going into a panic—they develop a fear of fear itself."

The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk MD) #booksky

Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Dec 30

star scat 🌟 <|°_°|>
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#caravanpalace #gypsyjazz #musiciansky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVjOY7FcGww

Star Scat (Caravan Palace) - Solo Transcription w/ tabs

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Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Dec 30

"Sober world is abstraction, LSD world is abstraction, DMT world is abstraction. The only thing that differentiates those states is how related they are to sensory inputs from the environment."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/18ixijv/psychedelics_do_not_cause_hallucinations_but/

Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Dec 28

aha indeed! good ear :)

Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Dec 27

"The universe assigned the tasks of speaking and kissing to the lips because there is never a need to do both at the same time."

Spaceman of Bohemia (Kalfar, Jaroslav) #booksky

Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Dec 23

"If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial."

https://paulgraham.com/words.html

Andrew Hannum @kwertyops.bsky.social · Dec 23

finger twister
#ukulele #musiciansky

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