Chris Cresswell
@grizwaldmusic.bsky.social
Maker of Sounds, Teaching Artist, Lecturer at @occmusic, Host of A Curious Ear on @wcnypbs, Contributing Writer to @syracuse.com, Co-Owner of a Cute Cat
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ICE came, Syracuse underground railroad helped Jeremy escape (Top stories)
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November 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
ICE came, Syracuse underground railroad helped Jeremy escape (Top stories)
Drones. Distortion. Sampled short wave radio.
I'm really proud of this set. If you like noisy improvised sounds, check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaQQ...
I'm really proud of this set. If you like noisy improvised sounds, check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaQQ...
Electric Guitar, No Input Mixer, Samples (Live - November 7, 2025)
YouTube video by CEC Music Publishing Archive
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November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Drones. Distortion. Sampled short wave radio.
I'm really proud of this set. If you like noisy improvised sounds, check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaQQ...
I'm really proud of this set. If you like noisy improvised sounds, check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaQQ...
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i have no idea what's going on anymore
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
i have no idea what's going on anymore
Society for New Music in Syracuse, NY performed two movements from my chamber piece, "Sonic Abstractions". If you're interested in dark, glitchy electronics and moody vibes, give it a listen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw_f...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw_f...
Cresswell: Sonic Abstractions, Mvt III
YouTube video by CEC Music Publishing Archive
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November 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Society for New Music in Syracuse, NY performed two movements from my chamber piece, "Sonic Abstractions". If you're interested in dark, glitchy electronics and moody vibes, give it a listen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw_f...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw_f...
This is what I emphasize most in lessons with my students. Write bad music. A lot of it. Keep the 30 seconds that doesn't suck. Then do it again.
𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗽 don’t be afraid to suck •
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𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝖾𝗀𝗈 𝗂𝗌 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝖺𝗆𝗂𝗀𝗈 •
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is what I emphasize most in lessons with my students. Write bad music. A lot of it. Keep the 30 seconds that doesn't suck. Then do it again.
I wish we had a political party in America capable of making this argument.
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I wish we had a political party in America capable of making this argument.
Me, prepping a lecture in 5 years: "I know many of you haven't heard of Dadaism, but are you familiar with 6-7? This is Dadaism of the 21st century."
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Me, prepping a lecture in 5 years: "I know many of you haven't heard of Dadaism, but are you familiar with 6-7? This is Dadaism of the 21st century."
This is how I find out the truth about the tooth fairy.
The Republican health care plan is about as real as the tooth fairy, so I won't hold my breath.
FOX NEWS: So what would Trumpcare look like?
DR OZ: Well, these are all ideas that we're still working on
DR OZ: Well, these are all ideas that we're still working on
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is how I find out the truth about the tooth fairy.
If you like drones, noise, shortwave radio samples, no input mixers, and/or looped electric guitar distortion (with a side helping of field recordings)... have I got just the thing for you.
(It's free! But also you can buy it if you want!)
grizwaldmusic.bandcamp.com/track/electr...
(It's free! But also you can buy it if you want!)
grizwaldmusic.bandcamp.com/track/electr...
Electric Guitar, No Input Mixer, Samples (Live - November 7, 2025), by Chris Cresswell
track by Chris Cresswell
grizwaldmusic.bandcamp.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If you like drones, noise, shortwave radio samples, no input mixers, and/or looped electric guitar distortion (with a side helping of field recordings)... have I got just the thing for you.
(It's free! But also you can buy it if you want!)
grizwaldmusic.bandcamp.com/track/electr...
(It's free! But also you can buy it if you want!)
grizwaldmusic.bandcamp.com/track/electr...
I understand what this post is saying, but I like to think that Democratic voters are really upset at Senate office supplies.
I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I understand what this post is saying, but I like to think that Democratic voters are really upset at Senate office supplies.
Bread lines have been renamed "Freedom Waits". Patriotism requires sacrifice. Love of country over love of carbs!
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Bread lines have been renamed "Freedom Waits". Patriotism requires sacrifice. Love of country over love of carbs!
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i see a lot of concert postings and can't help but notice we're moving back away from diverse programming. it'd be great to not pat ourselves on the back too quickly and avoid going back to business as usual.
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
i see a lot of concert postings and can't help but notice we're moving back away from diverse programming. it'd be great to not pat ourselves on the back too quickly and avoid going back to business as usual.
I'm making weird noises for 20 minutes tomorrow in Syracuse. My first DIY improvised noise set outside of academia. I'm equal parts excited and nervous.
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I'm making weird noises for 20 minutes tomorrow in Syracuse. My first DIY improvised noise set outside of academia. I'm equal parts excited and nervous.
My marriage summed up nicely:
Baseball brings people together because it's designed for every attention span. You can watch on TV and look up every time you miss the action and watch a 15 sec replay. The whole game is 7 min. You can also be absorbed by a game and when it abruptly ends with a double play you're 20 years older.
November 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
My marriage summed up nicely:
this but with musical structure
heard on a game podcast just now, that a 15 hour, single player game is maybe not long enough.
We have to get past this idea as developers and audiences.
A game will be, and should be, just as long as it needs to be for *what it is*.
We have to get past this idea as developers and audiences.
A game will be, and should be, just as long as it needs to be for *what it is*.
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
this but with musical structure
I know times are hard for farmers, but it all feels worth it knowing that Donald Trump has a new marble bathroom and will have a ballroom where he can entertain tech billionaires.
Due to rising costs, low crop prices and the effects of the trade war, economists project that growers could see roughly $44 billion in net cash income losses from their 2025–26 crops. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-f...
US farmers face $44 billion in losses as costs rise and markets shrink
Soybeans sit in storage, farm bankruptcies are rising, and total farm debt continues to climb. By nearly every measure, American farmers are struggling.Experts say financial pressures are expected to ...
www.newsfromthestates.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I know times are hard for farmers, but it all feels worth it knowing that Donald Trump has a new marble bathroom and will have a ballroom where he can entertain tech billionaires.
My take is... if you believe in something you have to convince others you're right, not relinquish your values and be a slightly less worse option.
Here with yellow checkmarks we have five examples of real things that Gavin Newsom and leading California Democrats espouse. Not a straw man.
My take is Democrats should drop these ideas, ideas that do not sound at all like economic populism to me.
My take is Democrats should drop these ideas, ideas that do not sound at all like economic populism to me.
October 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My take is... if you believe in something you have to convince others you're right, not relinquish your values and be a slightly less worse option.
My Dad's first cousin, so technically my second cousin(?) is my "aunt" because it's way easier than trying to understand the first part of this sentence or if the first part of this sentence is genetically accurate.
The Zohran "aunt" thing is the funniest hatchetjob of all time. There was a prominent person in my childhood named Uncle Bonehead who was just a friend of my uncle. To this day I have no idea what his actual name was. This nomenclature is not unusual in my culture (recovered alcoholic Masshole).
October 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
My Dad's first cousin, so technically my second cousin(?) is my "aunt" because it's way easier than trying to understand the first part of this sentence or if the first part of this sentence is genetically accurate.
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Me: Teenagers need a third place, somewhere they can hang out besides school or their homes
Me after going to the community gym: Teenagers need a fourth place,
Me after going to the community gym: Teenagers need a fourth place,
October 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Me: Teenagers need a third place, somewhere they can hang out besides school or their homes
Me after going to the community gym: Teenagers need a fourth place,
Me after going to the community gym: Teenagers need a fourth place,
Who are you selling products to if your product has taken away the jobs from the people you need to sell records to?
News of an OpenAI browser “is the latest sign of the company heading down the ad-supported road” — but it raises “a troubling question: does the world need trillions worth of computing infrastructure if all AI winds up being is a new version Google/Instagram?)”
- Vital Knowledge $GOOGL
- Vital Knowledge $GOOGL
October 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Who are you selling products to if your product has taken away the jobs from the people you need to sell records to?
Everything is terrible but I'm having fun at school:
October 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Everything is terrible but I'm having fun at school:
Two different signs with two different audiences in mind.
October 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Two different signs with two different audiences in mind.
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If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Me, explaining my 30s to people:
October 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Me, explaining my 30s to people:
This morning I randomly remembered that Laurie Anderson exists. From the Air is a vibe.
"Good evening.
This is your Captain.
We are about to attempt a crash landing."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL2a...
"Good evening.
This is your Captain.
We are about to attempt a crash landing."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL2a...
From the Air
YouTube video by Laurie Anderson - Topic
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This morning I randomly remembered that Laurie Anderson exists. From the Air is a vibe.
"Good evening.
This is your Captain.
We are about to attempt a crash landing."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL2a...
"Good evening.
This is your Captain.
We are about to attempt a crash landing."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL2a...