Robert Komaniecki
@komaniecki.bsky.social
Music theory and history professor. Will help you with your music theory homework. Dad.
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Robert Komaniecki
@komaniecki.bsky.social
· Jan 26
Putting it out there that I’d like to branch into writing more pop musicology/music theory content for general audiences. If your publication would like a music essay that is fun, informative, and well-sourced, send me a message.
Below, I’ll give examples of things I’ve written about previously:
Below, I’ll give examples of things I’ve written about previously:
I think that brief period of nonpartisan public admiration—being featured as himself on The Simpsons, Iron Man, etc— essentially broke his brain. He has been chasing that love ever since.
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I think that brief period of nonpartisan public admiration—being featured as himself on The Simpsons, Iron Man, etc— essentially broke his brain. He has been chasing that love ever since.
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
Ms. Rachel is taking a blowtorch to The NY Times over on Instagram
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ms. Rachel is taking a blowtorch to The NY Times over on Instagram
Finally saw Sinners on the plane today--quite a movie! Lots to say musically of course, but I also appreciated how upsetting the vampires were.
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Finally saw Sinners on the plane today--quite a movie! Lots to say musically of course, but I also appreciated how upsetting the vampires were.
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Everyone should read this book! I found myself saying “wow that’s so cool!” on almost every page. Congratulations Anabel!
Anabel Maler is this year’s winner of the Society for Music Theory’s Emerging Scholar Book Award, for her incredible book,
Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music
She is amazing!!!
Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music
She is amazing!!!
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Everyone should read this book! I found myself saying “wow that’s so cool!” on almost every page. Congratulations Anabel!
Interesting contrast between a boomer who threw a tantrum before the plane even got off the ground because his seatback tablet wasn’t working, and my 2 and 4 y/o daughters who are coloring peacefully
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Interesting contrast between a boomer who threw a tantrum before the plane even got off the ground because his seatback tablet wasn’t working, and my 2 and 4 y/o daughters who are coloring peacefully
Not the Gsus chord?
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Not the Gsus chord?
White guy just sidled up to a Black guy at the airport and said “you’re a tall-ass brotha, can you dunk?” And now they’ve been chatting animatedly and showing each other videos on their phones for 10 minutes
November 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
White guy just sidled up to a Black guy at the airport and said “you’re a tall-ass brotha, can you dunk?” And now they’ve been chatting animatedly and showing each other videos on their phones for 10 minutes
Everybody’s tired from AMS/SMT.
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Everybody’s tired from AMS/SMT.
The blame game doesn’t work when you present yourself as a dictatorship. Rings hollow to be like “we are unstoppable and unquestionably in charge, except Amy Klobuchar is being really mean”
Sean Duffy: "We have a number of people who want to get home for the holidays, they want to see their family. Listen, many of them are not going to be able to get on an airplane."
November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The blame game doesn’t work when you present yourself as a dictatorship. Rings hollow to be like “we are unstoppable and unquestionably in charge, except Amy Klobuchar is being really mean”
I wish he didn’t talk like he does
The president seems to have been briefed on how the tariffs oral argument at SCOTUS went:
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I wish he didn’t talk like he does
For all of you wondering what musicologists have been posting cryptically about—though I would recommend clicking into the memo itself so that you, like me, can be very puzzled about the AMS program getting remade without input from the program committee
for my colleagues & friends in the American Musicological Society, a small (but big) update about what has transpired at this year’s meeting www.facebook.com/share/p/17Gz...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
For all of you wondering what musicologists have been posting cryptically about—though I would recommend clicking into the memo itself so that you, like me, can be very puzzled about the AMS program getting remade without input from the program committee
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
Anabel Maler is this year’s winner of the Society for Music Theory’s Emerging Scholar Book Award, for her incredible book,
Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music
She is amazing!!!
Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music
She is amazing!!!
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Anabel Maler is this year’s winner of the Society for Music Theory’s Emerging Scholar Book Award, for her incredible book,
Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music
She is amazing!!!
Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music
She is amazing!!!
The music+AI panel at AMS/SMT was surprisingly reassuring, because all panelists reiterated the basic issue that our societal concepts of “Art” and our legal concept of “Property” are two things that really do not gel properly at all
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The music+AI panel at AMS/SMT was surprisingly reassuring, because all panelists reiterated the basic issue that our societal concepts of “Art” and our legal concept of “Property” are two things that really do not gel properly at all
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Musicologists are not messy enough for me, just post that shit on the tl omg
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Musicologists are not messy enough for me, just post that shit on the tl omg
I like the SMT a lot. It is a good academic society that is pretty consistently led by people who respect and care about their colleagues.
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I like the SMT a lot. It is a good academic society that is pretty consistently led by people who respect and care about their colleagues.
Yeah I fight with my wife:
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Yeah I fight with my wife:
Extremely good panel on AI, music, and intellectual property at AMS/SMT
November 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Extremely good panel on AI, music, and intellectual property at AMS/SMT
Considering she very clearly used ChatGPT to write her Instagram post, I’m not surprised.
Kim Kardashian reveals on her Instagram Stories that she didn’t pass the California bar exam.
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Considering she very clearly used ChatGPT to write her Instagram post, I’m not surprised.
Now he’s drifting between lanes telling me that AI music is the future
I told my Lyft driver I teach music and he nearly got in a head on collision because he was trying to find some fucking music on his phone to get my take on
November 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Now he’s drifting between lanes telling me that AI music is the future
I told my Lyft driver I teach music and he nearly got in a head on collision because he was trying to find some fucking music on his phone to get my take on
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I told my Lyft driver I teach music and he nearly got in a head on collision because he was trying to find some fucking music on his phone to get my take on
Pontius Pilate in the year 33 AD
God I cannot wait for Him to die.
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Pontius Pilate in the year 33 AD
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This just into the newsroom
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This just into the newsroom
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.