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:
Elon Musk is repulsive for several reasons, but chief among them is that he DESPERATELY wants you to love him when he very clearly hates himself. Avoiding him is the most human thing in the world.
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Elon Musk is repulsive for several reasons, but chief among them is that he DESPERATELY wants you to love him when he very clearly hates himself. Avoiding him is the most human thing in the world.
The thing that I am puzzling about w/r/t senate democrats is whether they are “just” ineffective, or if they sincerely share many of the same goals as the Trump admin. Because it’s getting easier to believe the latter.
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
The thing that I am puzzling about w/r/t senate democrats is whether they are “just” ineffective, or if they sincerely share many of the same goals as the Trump admin. Because it’s getting easier to believe the latter.
Some real perverts over here on Bluesky
Been getting really into my husband lately which is lowkey embarrassing in the year of 2025
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Some real perverts over here on Bluesky
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
Since getting involved in music academia, not a single year has passed without me finding out that a male superior or colleague has been involved in some sort sexual impropriety or harassment. I started in 2008. EVERY FUCKING YEAR. THE FIELD IS NOT SAFE FOR WOMEN AND GAY MEN.
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Since getting involved in music academia, not a single year has passed without me finding out that a male superior or colleague has been involved in some sort sexual impropriety or harassment. I started in 2008. EVERY FUCKING YEAR. THE FIELD IS NOT SAFE FOR WOMEN AND GAY MEN.
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