Chris Brody
@chrisbrody.bsky.social
Music theorist and pianist at University of Louisville, he/him, the most wonderful woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped
That's what makes it sound like an epic ballad and not (only) a folk-rock song! Such is the power of ... ✨musical form✨
The weird thing about the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is that it doesn’t have a chorus.
fifty years to the day since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down and was immortalized in song forever
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?" is an all time banger of a lyric
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?" is an all time banger of a lyric
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
That's what makes it sound like an epic ballad and not (only) a folk-rock song! Such is the power of ... ✨musical form✨
I'm not a big DFD guy by any means but sometimes you do have to hand it to him
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" Mahler
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November 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I'm not a big DFD guy by any means but sometimes you do have to hand it to him
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a lot of the problem with the Nates and Matts is that they didn't go to grad school. I don't think going ensures you aren't a blowhard knowitall, but it does make you understand that people have been working on shit for a long time and you can't just brush up in 3 hours because you are a special boy
As someone who spent ten years in grad school (and did defend + graduate) I’m always so weirded out by people who think being smart about one thing makes them smart about everything when what being highly educated did to me was saddle me with the crushing certainty that I’m not smart about anything
the pandemic really fucked him up. he had no expertise in public health, but felt like being a quant guy should make him an expert by default, and people not agreeing with him on that point just sent him into a bizarre radicalizing ego spiral.
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
a lot of the problem with the Nates and Matts is that they didn't go to grad school. I don't think going ensures you aren't a blowhard knowitall, but it does make you understand that people have been working on shit for a long time and you can't just brush up in 3 hours because you are a special boy
I wonder how Gordon Lightfoot felt about having written the eleventh-best Canadian shipwreck-themed song of the 1970s (spots 1–10 all occupied by Stan Rogers)
I have never heard The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and now it feels like a challenge like Whamageddon but for my whole life not resetting every year
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I wonder how Gordon Lightfoot felt about having written the eleventh-best Canadian shipwreck-themed song of the 1970s (spots 1–10 all occupied by Stan Rogers)
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happy Learned League day to those who celebrate
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
happy Learned League day to those who celebrate
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Chris Thile - Bach: Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: V. Ciaccona (Official Audio)
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November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Is this like what happens when you put a cucumber behind an unsuspecting cat
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Is this like what happens when you put a cucumber behind an unsuspecting cat
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Carolyn Abbate once said in a graduate seminar, “I love making diagrams but I would *never* publish one.”
Everyone’s a music theorist at heart 😂
Everyone’s a music theorist at heart 😂
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Carolyn Abbate once said in a graduate seminar, “I love making diagrams but I would *never* publish one.”
Everyone’s a music theorist at heart 😂
Everyone’s a music theorist at heart 😂
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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.
You know you’re up too early when you actually scroll back to the last post you read before going to sleep (slept 1:00 to 4:30 due to last night of AMS/SMT + early flight home)
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
You know you’re up too early when you actually scroll back to the last post you read before going to sleep (slept 1:00 to 4:30 due to last night of AMS/SMT + early flight home)
Also: diagrams are good actually
Everybody‘s all “abolish music theory” because we get too excited about making a diagram but we aren’t the ones with big doodoo pants!!
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Also: diagrams are good actually
Is this going to be yet another time that I'm going to be very grateful my professional society is SMT 😬
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Is this going to be yet another time that I'm going to be very grateful my professional society is SMT 😬
Featured this morning in David Orvek’s talk at #amssmt25: @carlrosman.bsky.social’s performance of Ferneyhough. Great stuff!
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Featured this morning in David Orvek’s talk at #amssmt25: @carlrosman.bsky.social’s performance of Ferneyhough. Great stuff!
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I know BlueSky has problems with humour so just to be clear: I, like everyone else, am aware that postdocs aren't real. I'm not spreading misinformation when I refer to them as if they exist, they're jokes and everyone knows that. Chill, ok?
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I know BlueSky has problems with humour so just to be clear: I, like everyone else, am aware that postdocs aren't real. I'm not spreading misinformation when I refer to them as if they exist, they're jokes and everyone knows that. Chill, ok?
We had a lot of fun with this! Some fantastic compositions, all of them completely new to me, and wonderful performances.
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We had a lot of fun with this! Some fantastic compositions, all of them completely new to me, and wonderful performances.
It really feels to me like a sad loss that there aren’t evening sessions at SMT any more. Also, I never wanted to attend any evening sessions, don’t know anyone who was ever glad to attend or be placed on one, and was always annoyed when my friends had to go to one instead of hanging out with me. 🤔
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
It really feels to me like a sad loss that there aren’t evening sessions at SMT any more. Also, I never wanted to attend any evening sessions, don’t know anyone who was ever glad to attend or be placed on one, and was always annoyed when my friends had to go to one instead of hanging out with me. 🤔
Only about 30 more hours for this passage to haunt my nightmares 😬
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Only about 30 more hours for this passage to haunt my nightmares 😬
All public schools in Louisville are cancelled today. This was a crushing blow to our kindergartner, who was extremely excited about the wedding (!) that was going to take place in his class today—he had asked to borrow my bow tie.
(Who's getting married? The letters Q and U.)
(Who's getting married? The letters Q and U.)
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
All public schools in Louisville are cancelled today. This was a crushing blow to our kindergartner, who was extremely excited about the wedding (!) that was going to take place in his class today—he had asked to borrow my bow tie.
(Who's getting married? The letters Q and U.)
(Who's getting married? The letters Q and U.)
This will be me from Thursday through Sunday assuming air travel from Louisville opens back up at some point
Impossible to overstate how exciting field conferences are for academics. We spend 11.95 months a year with people only understanding 5-15% of our jokes and references, but then for three glorious days 😍😍😍
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This will be me from Thursday through Sunday assuming air travel from Louisville opens back up at some point
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this image of the smoke showing up on radar is crazy, that’s half the city
November 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
this image of the smoke showing up on radar is crazy, that’s half the city
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What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?
This.
This is what you get.
This.
This is what you get.
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?
This.
This is what you get.
This.
This is what you get.
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[faces blowback] Hey now, some of my best friends are tenors
November 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
[faces blowback] Hey now, some of my best friends are tenors
Always the biggest treat to play a chamber music concert in this space!
November 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Always the biggest treat to play a chamber music concert in this space!
W/ my performance coming up Thursday, I tried to do a little spiel based on this thread for a soph theory class today—I'm not sure it really landed, but we practiced performing the bell pattern in both 3/4 and 6/8 metrical contexts, and I promised to play the piece for them on Wednesday in class.
Music theory story time on Bluesky! This is the beginning of “Ede Ede,” a piano piece by Shawn Okpebholo. One of the ideas running throughout the piece is this repeated, 2-measure rhythm, which is one version of the West African bell pattern. The first four measures go through the pattern twice. 🧵
November 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
W/ my performance coming up Thursday, I tried to do a little spiel based on this thread for a soph theory class today—I'm not sure it really landed, but we practiced performing the bell pattern in both 3/4 and 6/8 metrical contexts, and I promised to play the piece for them on Wednesday in class.