Brian Tibbs Music
@briantibbsmusic.bsky.social
Unabashedly eclectic & idiosyncratic, drawing from many sources, mainly post-punk/industrial & classical. Formal training in classical music theory & composition, plus an abiding love of rock music & its various descendants. A few film scoring credits.
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Very happy to announce my latest release, Bloom.
A full description is in the comments. I hope you enjoy!
Bandcamp: briantibbs.bandcamp.com/album/bloom-2
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/6Xzy6Z...
Apple Music: geo.music.apple.com/album/bloom-...
A full description is in the comments. I hope you enjoy!
Bandcamp: briantibbs.bandcamp.com/album/bloom-2
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/6Xzy6Z...
Apple Music: geo.music.apple.com/album/bloom-...
The Industrial Culture Handbook came out in the early 80s, from RE/Search publications. Had sort of forgotten about it, but am now remembering the impact it had on my young, voracious mind.
www.researchpubs.com/shop/p/resea...
www.researchpubs.com/shop/p/resea...
RE/SEARCH #6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook — RE/Search Publications
Hardback only. Only 1000 made, on superior glossy paper! Purple endpapers! Future rare collectible. The photos are infinitely sharper on the new glossy paper. The new hardback looks like a brand new b...
www.researchpubs.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The Industrial Culture Handbook came out in the early 80s, from RE/Search publications. Had sort of forgotten about it, but am now remembering the impact it had on my young, voracious mind.
www.researchpubs.com/shop/p/resea...
www.researchpubs.com/shop/p/resea...
Very happy to announce my latest release, Bloom.
A full description is in the comments. I hope you enjoy!
Bandcamp: briantibbs.bandcamp.com/album/bloom-2
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/6Xzy6Z...
Apple Music: geo.music.apple.com/album/bloom-...
A full description is in the comments. I hope you enjoy!
Bandcamp: briantibbs.bandcamp.com/album/bloom-2
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/6Xzy6Z...
Apple Music: geo.music.apple.com/album/bloom-...
October 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Very happy to announce my latest release, Bloom.
A full description is in the comments. I hope you enjoy!
Bandcamp: briantibbs.bandcamp.com/album/bloom-2
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/6Xzy6Z...
Apple Music: geo.music.apple.com/album/bloom-...
A full description is in the comments. I hope you enjoy!
Bandcamp: briantibbs.bandcamp.com/album/bloom-2
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/6Xzy6Z...
Apple Music: geo.music.apple.com/album/bloom-...
What could possibly go wrong for art and culture?
Universal Music Settles Udio Lawsuit, Partners With Stability AI to Develop ‘Next-Generation Music Creation Tools’
In a flurry of activity before its earnings report, Universal Music settled litigation against the AI platform Udio, and partnered with Stability AI.
variety.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
What could possibly go wrong for art and culture?
Rewatching the movie Fantastic Voyage, which I loved seeing on TV as a kid. Interesting thing: there is no music until they're injected into the guy's body, 30-some minutes into the film. It plays up the wonder they experience, but also lends a seriousness to that incredibly implausible set-up.
October 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Rewatching the movie Fantastic Voyage, which I loved seeing on TV as a kid. Interesting thing: there is no music until they're injected into the guy's body, 30-some minutes into the film. It plays up the wonder they experience, but also lends a seriousness to that incredibly implausible set-up.
Not much in the way of natural beauty where I live, but every once in a while…
October 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Not much in the way of natural beauty where I live, but every once in a while…
Rest in Power, Queen
October 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Rest in Power, Queen
I honestly love the first Tuesday of each month when they test the emergency warning sirens. It produces such an eerily beautiful music - different sirens playing different pitches and "modulated" by atmospheric conditions.
October 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I honestly love the first Tuesday of each month when they test the emergency warning sirens. It produces such an eerily beautiful music - different sirens playing different pitches and "modulated" by atmospheric conditions.
All I think about is music these days. Maybe avoiding reality?
Got two EPs and an album in the works. Plus, as part of my geeky deep dive into Star Wars scores, I've transcribed something like 75 themes and motifs from episodes I thru VI.
In other news, computer neck is killing me.
Got two EPs and an album in the works. Plus, as part of my geeky deep dive into Star Wars scores, I've transcribed something like 75 themes and motifs from episodes I thru VI.
In other news, computer neck is killing me.
October 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
All I think about is music these days. Maybe avoiding reality?
Got two EPs and an album in the works. Plus, as part of my geeky deep dive into Star Wars scores, I've transcribed something like 75 themes and motifs from episodes I thru VI.
In other news, computer neck is killing me.
Got two EPs and an album in the works. Plus, as part of my geeky deep dive into Star Wars scores, I've transcribed something like 75 themes and motifs from episodes I thru VI.
In other news, computer neck is killing me.
Every third headline contains "...Completely Rewrites What We Know About..."
I think I'm skeptical.
I think I'm skeptical.
September 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Every third headline contains "...Completely Rewrites What We Know About..."
I think I'm skeptical.
I think I'm skeptical.
I'm obsessed with this video; watch it multiple times a day. The movement of the dancers is somehow deeply satisfying (if that's the right word). www.youtube.com/watch?v=MojM...
【Bonus I】Dance Drama: Wing Chun｜Eight Trigram Palm
YouTube video by 中国节日
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September 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I'm obsessed with this video; watch it multiple times a day. The movement of the dancers is somehow deeply satisfying (if that's the right word). www.youtube.com/watch?v=MojM...
God, I suck at social media.
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
God, I suck at social media.
Huh. Just realized that the Editors' track Lights quotes the dies irae (1:20). I'm supposing that was intentional, as it makes sense with the lyrics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JniI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JniI...
Lights
YouTube video by Editors - Topic
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August 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Huh. Just realized that the Editors' track Lights quotes the dies irae (1:20). I'm supposing that was intentional, as it makes sense with the lyrics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JniI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JniI...
Yes!
"I never did the punk thing of just disowning a bunch of records. I continued to like early Genesis & continued to hate late Genesis. I continued to like early Yes & continued to hate late Yes. I liked King Crimson always." Colin Newman.
August 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Yes!
Watched Wild Bones last night, pretty good quasi-experimental quasi-horror movie about adult memory/experience of childhood trauma...at least I think that's what it was about.
July 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Watched Wild Bones last night, pretty good quasi-experimental quasi-horror movie about adult memory/experience of childhood trauma...at least I think that's what it was about.
For music and/or Star Wars nerds, something I've been working on: a relatively deep dive into how John Williams used variations of the Imperial March throughout the SW movies, looking mostly at some less obvious uses.
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briantibbsmusic.com/blogs/what-t...
Vader Variations: How the Imperial March is Varied Throughout Star Wars
This is the first in what I plan to be a series of posts focusing on aspects of John Williams’ scores for the Star Wars movies. Don’t roll your eyes…I k...
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July 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
For music and/or Star Wars nerds, something I've been working on: a relatively deep dive into how John Williams used variations of the Imperial March throughout the SW movies, looking mostly at some less obvious uses.
briantibbsmusic.com/blogs/what-t...
briantibbsmusic.com/blogs/what-t...
Totally loving this. If you're familiar with early music, you'll recognize this medieval carol, but this version is truly grotesque!
music.apple.com/us/album/ori...
#ClassicalMusic #EarlyMusic #MusicSky
music.apple.com/us/album/ori...
#ClassicalMusic #EarlyMusic #MusicSky
Orientis partibus (Conductus de la Fiesta del asno, s. XIII) by Capella De Ministrers & Carles Magraner on Apple Music
Song · 2022 · Duration 3:54
music.apple.com
June 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Totally loving this. If you're familiar with early music, you'll recognize this medieval carol, but this version is truly grotesque!
music.apple.com/us/album/ori...
#ClassicalMusic #EarlyMusic #MusicSky
music.apple.com/us/album/ori...
#ClassicalMusic #EarlyMusic #MusicSky
Listening for the first time to Jerry Goldsmith's score for Freud (1962) and, by god, some of that score was used in Alien (1979).
June 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Listening for the first time to Jerry Goldsmith's score for Freud (1962) and, by god, some of that score was used in Alien (1979).
Don't like this decor? You've got another thing coming.
May 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Don't like this decor? You've got another thing coming.
Current favorite credential, from the world of dentistry: the FAGD
May 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Current favorite credential, from the world of dentistry: the FAGD
Remember: your axe was made by someone's grandmother
May 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Remember: your axe was made by someone's grandmother
Is it just me, or does that 80s song "The Time of My Life" totally quote (or rip off) "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"?
May 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Is it just me, or does that 80s song "The Time of My Life" totally quote (or rip off) "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"?
Interview with musician Theresa Brooks, who is featured on my last music release. She is an awesome person to know, as revealed by these quotes from the interview:
"That looks weird…I like weird."
"Corporate greed!" (In answer to what she would change about the music industry).
tinyurl.com/yy993ctw
"That looks weird…I like weird."
"Corporate greed!" (In answer to what she would change about the music industry).
tinyurl.com/yy993ctw
Theresa Brooks: The Breath in the Machine
(Photo credit: Bill Hatzinger) Picture a stereotypical classical musician. Then take that a step further and picture a stereotypical bassoon player. Got...
tinyurl.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Interview with musician Theresa Brooks, who is featured on my last music release. She is an awesome person to know, as revealed by these quotes from the interview:
"That looks weird…I like weird."
"Corporate greed!" (In answer to what she would change about the music industry).
tinyurl.com/yy993ctw
"That looks weird…I like weird."
"Corporate greed!" (In answer to what she would change about the music industry).
tinyurl.com/yy993ctw
TIL that Survival Research Labs (SRL) is still around & doing their thing.
Founded in the late 70s, SRL are technicians using custom-built machinery that interacts & sometimes goes to pieces in noisy/violent live performances. Had a serious impact on my aesthetic.
One of their posters from 1981:
Founded in the late 70s, SRL are technicians using custom-built machinery that interacts & sometimes goes to pieces in noisy/violent live performances. Had a serious impact on my aesthetic.
One of their posters from 1981:
April 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
TIL that Survival Research Labs (SRL) is still around & doing their thing.
Founded in the late 70s, SRL are technicians using custom-built machinery that interacts & sometimes goes to pieces in noisy/violent live performances. Had a serious impact on my aesthetic.
One of their posters from 1981:
Founded in the late 70s, SRL are technicians using custom-built machinery that interacts & sometimes goes to pieces in noisy/violent live performances. Had a serious impact on my aesthetic.
One of their posters from 1981:
Gotta admit, I miss the days of actual zines and xerox.
NYC in the 80s was a special place that has been lost.
NYC in the 80s was a special place that has been lost.
April 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Gotta admit, I miss the days of actual zines and xerox.
NYC in the 80s was a special place that has been lost.
NYC in the 80s was a special place that has been lost.