brett g porter
@bgporter.net
Music Software Developer/Trombonist/Composer
Lead Software Engineer @ https://artandlogic.com.
Exec board @ MIDI Manufacturers Association http://midi.org.
he/him.
Brewerytown, Philadelphia, USA
Also @bgporter@hachyderm.io & https://bgporter.net
Lead Software Engineer @ https://artandlogic.com.
Exec board @ MIDI Manufacturers Association http://midi.org.
he/him.
Brewerytown, Philadelphia, USA
Also @bgporter@hachyderm.io & https://bgporter.net
Shot for shot remake of the complete 9.5 hour version of von Stroheim's "Greed".
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Shot for shot remake of the complete 9.5 hour version of von Stroheim's "Greed".
A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now, Charlie Brown.
The grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage, Charlie Brown
At least the four of them are safe at last.
AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet ... AM has won, simply ... he has taken his revenge ...
I have no mouth. And I must scream, Charlie Brown.
AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet ... AM has won, simply ... he has taken his revenge ...
I have no mouth. And I must scream, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now, Charlie Brown.
Yes, and also everyone else.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Yes, and also everyone else.
A new piece of mine, "Brewerytown Cycles," for sax quartet and drums will be premiered here in #philly next Monday evening at the library on the Parkway, performed by the PRISM quartet and Tyshawn Sorey. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0CB...
2025 Unlocking your inner Composer Trailer feat. Tyshawn Sorey, Ursula Rucker, Diane Monroe
YouTube video by PRISM Quartet
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A new piece of mine, "Brewerytown Cycles," for sax quartet and drums will be premiered here in #philly next Monday evening at the library on the Parkway, performed by the PRISM quartet and Tyshawn Sorey. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0CB...
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"a slight Italian mustache" SLIGHT?
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"a slight Italian mustache" SLIGHT?
As the parent of a relatively recent Montclair State grad, one of the things I liked about the school was that it seemed to be a solid meat and potatoes-style State University. The kind of academic doublespeak they're using here fascinates and amuses me, but I would have steered my kid elsewhere..
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
As the parent of a relatively recent Montclair State grad, one of the things I liked about the school was that it seemed to be a solid meat and potatoes-style State University. The kind of academic doublespeak they're using here fascinates and amuses me, but I would have steered my kid elsewhere..
This is madness, and reflects poorly on bsky as a platform.
If Sarah Kendzior is indeed blocked on @bsky.app, this is a completely unjustified and highly questionable move. Sarah Kendzior is among the best voices of knowledge-based critical journalism in the US. See to it that this is corrected immediately and with an apology, @pfrazee.com!
Bluesky
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bsky.app
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is madness, and reflects poorly on bsky as a platform.
THIS IS MY HOAGIE. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS ONE IS MINE.
November 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
THIS IS MY HOAGIE. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS ONE IS MINE.
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It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.
October 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
In Center City Philadelphia for the No Kings demonstration (in lieu of alt text: 4 photos of a lot of people in the city, many with signs ranging from funny to livid in their messages.) NO KINGS NO NAZIS GO BIRDS
October 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
In Center City Philadelphia for the No Kings demonstration (in lieu of alt text: 4 photos of a lot of people in the city, many with signs ranging from funny to livid in their messages.) NO KINGS NO NAZIS GO BIRDS
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SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kings
YouTube video by tennesseejed93
www.youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Hey @governor.pa.gov let's get Pennsylvania on here as well...
15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
October 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Hey @governor.pa.gov let's get Pennsylvania on here as well...
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Having worked through the dotcom bubble, I can say one of the worst outcomes of the AI bubble will be that a bunch of idiots & con artists will make a lot of money and surround themselves with sycophants that will tell them they are the smartest person in the room for the rest of their lives.
October 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Having worked through the dotcom bubble, I can say one of the worst outcomes of the AI bubble will be that a bunch of idiots & con artists will make a lot of money and surround themselves with sycophants that will tell them they are the smartest person in the room for the rest of their lives.
This is all next-level information. I'm wondering about my friends who went on as Big Time Jazz Professors and now have students who grew up with such a different feel for being 'in the pocket'. (and to do it live! It's different when Dilla did those time offsets on an MPC...)
October 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is all next-level information. I'm wondering about my friends who went on as Big Time Jazz Professors and now have students who grew up with such a different feel for being 'in the pocket'. (and to do it live! It's different when Dilla did those time offsets on an MPC...)
When we were getting ready to buy this new house earlier in the year, we promixed each other to not repeat one big mistake we had made in our previous house: we waited far longer than we should have to make some important updates to the place.
https://bgporter.net/posts/philly/renovations-part-1/
https://bgporter.net/posts/philly/renovations-part-1/
Renovations (part 1)
This week: first phase of some renovations to tweak our new house into something that fits us better
bgporter.net
October 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
When we were getting ready to buy this new house earlier in the year, we promixed each other to not repeat one big mistake we had made in our previous house: we waited far longer than we should have to make some important updates to the place.
https://bgporter.net/posts/philly/renovations-part-1/
https://bgporter.net/posts/philly/renovations-part-1/
Excited that I've been accepted to a composers workshop here in #Philly that's being led by PRISM Quartet, Ursula Rucker, Diane Monroe, and Tyshawn Sorey, to be concluded with a performance of a new piece that I'm yet to start.
*cracks knuckles*
*cracks knuckles*
October 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Excited that I've been accepted to a composers workshop here in #Philly that's being led by PRISM Quartet, Ursula Rucker, Diane Monroe, and Tyshawn Sorey, to be concluded with a performance of a new piece that I'm yet to start.
*cracks knuckles*
*cracks knuckles*
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Our ruling class is not visionary. It is not innovative. It is not competent. It is a cartel of hucksters living off our willingness to be dazzled.
Our public life has become unserious with rot.
We’re ruled by grifters who don’t care if their half-baked ideas work.
They only care if the pitch lands.
www.theindex.media/p/we-are-rul...
We’re ruled by grifters who don’t care if their half-baked ideas work.
They only care if the pitch lands.
www.theindex.media/p/we-are-rul...
We Are Ruled by Used Car Salesmen and Grifters
Our Public Life Has Become Unserious With Rot.
www.theindex.media
October 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Our ruling class is not visionary. It is not innovative. It is not competent. It is a cartel of hucksters living off our willingness to be dazzled.
You don't say.
Meghan McCain slammed Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's daughter, Violet Affleck, over her UN speech: 'This is why people hate nepo babies,' the daughter of Sen. John McCain said.
Meghan McCain slams nepo babies over Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner's daughter's UN speech
Meghan McCain slammed Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's daughter, Violet Affleck, over her UN speech: 'This is why people hate nepo babies,' the daughter of Sen. John McCain said.
bit.ly
September 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
You don't say.
An odd flashback yesterday found me looking for an old Charles Amirkhanian text-sound recording and subsequent googlage led me to this excellent piece on him by @abstracttruth.bsky.social: www.musicandliterature.org/features/201...
Restless Minimalism: Lexical Music and the Text-Sound Compositions of Charles Amirkhanian — Music & Literature
Feature by David Menestres I went all over San Francisco with a recording engineer from CBS Radio who had a Nagra, which is a really fine reel-to-reel machine. We would go into underground subway s...
www.musicandliterature.org
September 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
An odd flashback yesterday found me looking for an old Charles Amirkhanian text-sound recording and subsequent googlage led me to this excellent piece on him by @abstracttruth.bsky.social: www.musicandliterature.org/features/201...
I've always thought of this as "Bean Dadding"
"I guess I need to go Bean Dad what a Milkshake Duck is..."
"I guess I need to go Bean Dad what a Milkshake Duck is..."
There should be a word for that cognitive situation where you need to search backward to figure out what news story is leading everyone online to talk about (for example) the rapture
September 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I've always thought of this as "Bean Dadding"
"I guess I need to go Bean Dad what a Milkshake Duck is..."
"I guess I need to go Bean Dad what a Milkshake Duck is..."
The new dilemma:
Do I take the day as a mental health day, or save that for a day that's certainly coming down the pike that's going to be much, much worse? Should I have read that Beckett novel that's been on my shelf for 35 years by now?
You go on.
Do I take the day as a mental health day, or save that for a day that's certainly coming down the pike that's going to be much, much worse? Should I have read that Beckett novel that's been on my shelf for 35 years by now?
You go on.
September 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The new dilemma:
Do I take the day as a mental health day, or save that for a day that's certainly coming down the pike that's going to be much, much worse? Should I have read that Beckett novel that's been on my shelf for 35 years by now?
You go on.
Do I take the day as a mental health day, or save that for a day that's certainly coming down the pike that's going to be much, much worse? Should I have read that Beckett novel that's been on my shelf for 35 years by now?
You go on.
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NZ: Dymista, Chemist Warehouse
AU: Azep, Chemist Warehouse
US: Astepro, CVS + Walgreens (also Walgreens generic)
www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #Covid
AU: Azep, Chemist Warehouse
US: Astepro, CVS + Walgreens (also Walgreens generic)
www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #Covid
Clinical study shows that nasal spray containing azelastine reduces risk of coronavirus infection by two-thirds
A research team at Saarland University has demonstrated in a clinical study that a widely used anti-allergy nasal spray containing the active ingredient azelastine can significantly reduce the risk of...
www.eurekalert.org
September 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
NZ: Dymista, Chemist Warehouse
AU: Azep, Chemist Warehouse
US: Astepro, CVS + Walgreens (also Walgreens generic)
www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #Covid
AU: Azep, Chemist Warehouse
US: Astepro, CVS + Walgreens (also Walgreens generic)
www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #Covid
Sometimes it makes me angry that I attended one of the best jazz schools in the world on a trombone performance scholarship and had to discover Mangelsdorff on my own, on the streets. The rest of the time it makes me livid.
now playing [CD - Soul Note 120172-2]
Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone); Eric Watson (piano); John Lindberg (double bass); Ed Thigpen (drums). recorded February 9-10, 1995 at Mu Rec Studio, Milan, Italy. Recording Engineer: Paolo Falascone. Mastering: Aldo Borrelli
Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone); Eric Watson (piano); John Lindberg (double bass); Ed Thigpen (drums). recorded February 9-10, 1995 at Mu Rec Studio, Milan, Italy. Recording Engineer: Paolo Falascone. Mastering: Aldo Borrelli
August 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Sometimes it makes me angry that I attended one of the best jazz schools in the world on a trombone performance scholarship and had to discover Mangelsdorff on my own, on the streets. The rest of the time it makes me livid.