Teammate on most recent team gave me this parting feedback: “I learned a ton, we got lots done, our team dynamics were awesome, and I’ve never felt this kind of team feeling before.”

If your business makes software, I might be good for your business.

https://schmonz.com/snac/schmonz/p/1750949585.435936

Not enjoying being this correct this close to home.

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@liw weekends are unpossible for me, but otherwise absolutely yes.

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Today’s #daily #piano #miniature has a little more zoom. Mompou’s Impressions Íntimes #4:

https://youtu.be/1XbQB3ZpAME

#dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #mompou

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Today in the USA, we're reminded that we consistently do far worse to ourselves than England's tyranny ever did. Happy Independence Memorial Day. May it lead us somewhere better.

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For today’s #dailypiano #pianominiature, it’s Mompou’s Impressions Íntimes #3. Your job while listening: imagine that D flat making its sound.

#daily #piano #pianominiatures #classical #classicalpiano #mompou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65oUeAOonig

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It’s July! Been doing this since May. Neat.

Today’s #daily #piano #miniature is the next in Mompou’s Impressions Íntimes. #2:

https://youtu.be/Ci6c7pZbqcI

#dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #classicalpiano #mompou

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https://youtu.be/4iezUgyvB8M

We continue today with more #Mompou. This #pianominiature opens a set of nine that’s named, rather appositely if’n you ask me, “Impressions Íntimes”.

#dailypiano #piano #pianominiatures #classicalmusic

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@aza_leah !!!

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Today’s #dailypiano #pianominiature is from Mompou’s Cançons i danses (the cançó from #6). I’ve now put hands on all the piano ones except #14, for which I haven’t yet found the sheet music.

All of these are some of my favorites, and so is this one.

#piano #classicalmusic #pianominiatures #mompou

https://youtu.be/snUSkav1k6A

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Today’s #dailypiano miniature is the second of Mompou’s Cançons i danses. Just the cançó, as is evidently my wont.

This sounds way cooler than it sounds like it sounds — spectral, atmospheric — but my daily effort budget maxes out at “put iPad on bookshelf and press record”.

#piano #pianomusic #pianominiature #pianominiatures #mompou

https://youtu.be/esKCPbhgzLc

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@craigmaloney well crap, no way around it now, it’s been far too long since I watched Futurama

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@craigmaloney I’d personally benefit from a parenthetical quick definition of Melvar

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My parental leave can wind down now. Time to start thinking about work again, beginning with replying to a bunch of yinz who already sent ideas and leads (thanks, and keep ‘em coming!)

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Easily the funniest one yet.

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Given a fine piano and a well prepared pianist, this excerpt (again just the opening Cançó from one of Mompou’s Cançons i danses, this time #3) is diaphanous, as ethereal as any real thing can be.

You’ll have to extrapolate. 🤣

#daily #piano #miniature #mompou #dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures

https://youtu.be/GZeeESyMVdk

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Today’s #daily #piano #miniature is again from Mompou’s Cançons i danses, again a Cançó without its corresponding danse. This is from #4.

#dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #mompou

https://youtu.be/CP0MuoSJAqo

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No new music today, but music is required today. Here's my very best shit.

This piece was born of loss, sorrow, alienation. Not a miniature; on the contrary, it's long enough and dense enough to for you to come out a little different than you went in.

https://youtu.be/Dt7xzgkIQR4

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The assignment: with 2 kids asleep, record 1 take, waking 0.

The solution: again taking a Canço from Mompou‘s Cançons i danses (#9), possibly with a flatter affect than the music desires. But a working solution!

#piano #daily #miniature #mompou

https://youtu.be/iQBkcG0CNjU

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We’re lucky my old piano can’t make all the needed sounds. If it could, I would have melted before reaching the end. This music moves me so directly.

Mompou again, Cançons i danses again, the Canço from #7.

https://youtu.be/chjUx_8Jfeo

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More Mompou, because it’s amazing stuff. So much color with so few notes. Today’s #daily #piano #miniature is the Cançó from Cançons i danses #12.

https://youtu.be/UUfCn_SZhV4

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Been practicing 1-day iterations for nearly a month now, delivering very small increments of decent music every day.

YouTube playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclQJqoIVpk9W9-eIRswejo-R

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Today’s #daily #piano #miniature continues the cherry-picking from Mompou’s Cançons i danses: the Cançó from #10.

#dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #mompou

https://youtu.be/IMwU-rRqFa4

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@rhialto indeed! maybe I should write it there and feed it into my site generator

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What I'm Doing Now: https://schmonz.com/now

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Today’s #daily #piano #miniature is again from Mompou’s Cançons i danses, this time the Cançó from #8.

https://youtu.be/H0v3THDd3Vw

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The composer I’m most influenced by, of course, is Medtner. You might be surprised to learn, after weeks of Scriabin’s tiniest gems, that my second-most composer is someone else: Mompou.

Today’s #daily #piano #miniature is the Canço from Mompou’s Cançons i danses #5.

https://youtu.be/_1Z7Zep0WcM

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@sevan@mastodon.sdf.org grazie!

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Today’s daily piano miniature (Scriabin Prelude Op. 11 #14) is a banger — or rather, when I play it, I’m rather banging around. Listen to this one for the energy, not (as with any of these) for the musical accuracy or audio quality.

About that energy: I’m still vibrating.

https://youtu.be/sDCQZ1s8Ook

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Today’s #daily #Scriabin #piano #miniature (Op. 15 #4) is in E. It‘s hard to follow the melody with so many C sharps missing. Can you count how many?

(Donations gratefully accepted — just reply with a recording of you singing or playing C sharp on your instrument of choice.)

https://youtu.be/if6DgUtEO-o

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I’m particularly smitten with this Scriabin Prelude (Op. 11 #8), and intend to come back later and learn it properly. As usual, could really use a working C sharp.

https://youtu.be/eaktWRCY_CE

#daily #piano #miniature #scriabin

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Today’s piece (Scriabin Prelude Op. 13 #1) isn’t so tiny, but that’s okay, I miniaturized the climactic moments in my bumbling.

https://youtu.be/15bTGD7f-4g

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A minute here, a minute there, pretty soon you’ve got a half hour of music.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclQJqoIVpk9W9-eIRswejo-R

#daily #piano #miniature #scriabin

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@nikita I guess if there’s something I keep reminding myself, it’s that as long as I stay worried/bothered by what’s missing in my life, I can be sure it will change as soon as it can.

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@nikita I feel that. Been chronically especially short of time and patience for the last half year, and just chronically regularly short the several years before that. I miss being able to get lost in… anything. Lately my piano time has been on pieces that are mostly under two minutes long, because I can often eke out that much time.

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@nikita I don’t know your situation and I hope this attempt to be helpful isn’t shitty, but I went 7 years without pianoing and found my way back. https://schmonz.com/2007/11/14/medtner-music-and-me/ says a bit

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Updated reporting on the 1923 Baldwin with a non-striking D-flat/C-sharp: it is of course easier to hide the problem in G major, which today’s piece is sort of “in”. Scriabin Prelude Op. 13 #3: https://youtu.be/Ar47rjnC1Jo

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Can a Scriabin G-flat prelude (Op. 16 #3) be played with a non-striking D-flat? Our New York correspondent has the story. https://youtu.be/87WXkIRbJHo

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A little (and I mean little) Scriabin while the kids are in the bath.

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@susannah either none or several, depending

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@ryan_harg thank you!

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Lazing around the backyard with baby the first.

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Stuff grows.

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@CodingItWrong@mastodon.technology nice!

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@craigmaloney sounds amazing. Can’t wait for the day I can remove MySQL.

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Galila, here’s world. World, here’s Galila: https://schmonz.com/2022/04/27/galila-yara-schleier/

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What I'm Doing Now: https://schmonz.com/now

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@aza_leah a sheynem dank

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