Ryan Marttala
@soundswefind.com
Family man • Information management librarian • Composer • Instrumentalist • Interested in finding music we can share • DFTBA • 🇨🇦 SW Ontario (🇫🇮)
My joyful moment: a cool breeze, a weathered piano, and playing Aram Khachaturian's 1932 Toccata. #SimplePleasures #PublicArt
August 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
My joyful moment: a cool breeze, a weathered piano, and playing Aram Khachaturian's 1932 Toccata. #SimplePleasures #PublicArt
Coconut and Calamity are "helping" me work. #FeatheredFriends
June 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Coconut and Calamity are "helping" me work. #FeatheredFriends
I just found out the 2025 Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest starts in half an hour! Well there goes my afternoon!! I look forward to the day Canada participates, but in the meantime we can watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/xPSn888...
Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Grand Final - Livestream | #Eurovision2025
YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest
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May 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I just found out the 2025 Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest starts in half an hour! Well there goes my afternoon!! I look forward to the day Canada participates, but in the meantime we can watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/xPSn888...
May 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Woke up the family for the #LunarEclipse. Ended up discussing video game lore. Am I now supposed to fire an arrow through these branches?? #SideQuest
March 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Woke up the family for the #LunarEclipse. Ended up discussing video game lore. Am I now supposed to fire an arrow through these branches?? #SideQuest
It's been a rough winter, but at least spring is almost here. #SeasonsChange #Sisu
March 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It's been a rough winter, but at least spring is almost here. #SeasonsChange #Sisu
It's just the first of 48 hours of P4A livestreaming and already a million dollars has been raised and @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social has already asked to tone down the amount of goose we're looking at. 😂🪿 #P4A2025
The Project for Awesome is a very fun and silly but also important event that raises millions of dollars for global health and other charities voted on by YOU. It has just begun. Please join us at ProjectforAwesome.com/live
February 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
It's just the first of 48 hours of P4A livestreaming and already a million dollars has been raised and @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social has already asked to tone down the amount of goose we're looking at. 😂🪿 #P4A2025
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I have a colleague (not on social media) who likes to say that works don't *fall* into the public domain, they *ascend* into the public domain. I really love that.
January 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I have a colleague (not on social media) who likes to say that works don't *fall* into the public domain, they *ascend* into the public domain. I really love that.
Coconut is unsure what 2024 was, but remains curious about what happens next. #NewYearsEve #Conures #BirdsofBluesky #DFTBA
January 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Coconut is unsure what 2024 was, but remains curious about what happens next. #NewYearsEve #Conures #BirdsofBluesky #DFTBA
Does anyone else have their singing voice drop an octave when they're sick? (…tries "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" again because it just sounds so weird)
December 25, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Does anyone else have their singing voice drop an octave when they're sick? (…tries "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" again because it just sounds so weird)
We're getting the lights up on the Christmas tree during the #QDF Virtual #Dulcimer Festival concerts these last few days. Mountain dulcimers, hammered dulcimers, and autoharps, oh my! And the #jam as the finale is about to start. Grab the instruments!!
QuaranTUNE Concerts — QuaranTune Virtual Dulcimer Fest
www.virtualdulcimerfest.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:45 AM
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This is for the phenomenologists out there. A group of raccoons is called a gaze.
December 16, 2024 at 10:58 AM
This is for the phenomenologists out there. A group of raccoons is called a gaze.
A joyous #Candlenights to all! 'Twenty Fungalore' was… well… it happened. Time to celebrate with a parody of The 12 Days of Christmas. At the very least, know that #Fungalore heard your wish. #MBMBaM
December 15, 2024 at 2:53 AM
A joyous #Candlenights to all! 'Twenty Fungalore' was… well… it happened. Time to celebrate with a parody of The 12 Days of Christmas. At the very least, know that #Fungalore heard your wish. #MBMBaM
Watched some #Vlogbrothers with the family, and after a follow-up discussion on what living in our own brains is like, the kids keep asking about my constant inner soundtrack. "What music are you hearing now?!" English Folk Song Suite. "Now?!" Whip It. "How about now?!" Chicken Dance.
TIL Some People Have an "Inner Monologue"
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
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December 13, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Watched some #Vlogbrothers with the family, and after a follow-up discussion on what living in our own brains is like, the kids keep asking about my constant inner soundtrack. "What music are you hearing now?!" English Folk Song Suite. "Now?!" Whip It. "How about now?!" Chicken Dance.
Singing in her school choir's soprano section, my daughter just performed her first Eric Whitacre piece ("Glow"). And then she got to play some cool French horn parts when it was the concert band's turn. I'm so glad they get to do things like this! #choralmusic #schoolband
December 13, 2024 at 4:27 AM
Singing in her school choir's soprano section, my daughter just performed her first Eric Whitacre piece ("Glow"). And then she got to play some cool French horn parts when it was the concert band's turn. I'm so glad they get to do things like this! #choralmusic #schoolband
How nice of the YouTube algorithm to pick some Finnish Independence Day vocal music for me, especially on Dec 6 specifically! 🇫🇮 Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää Suomi! #Finland #Rajaton
Rajaton: Finlandia-hymni
YouTube video by Rajaton
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December 7, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Tonight's bucket drum rhythms at my son's elementary school concert were a fun reminder that music can be made with anything! #MusicEducation ❤️
December 5, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Tonight's bucket drum rhythms at my son's elementary school concert were a fun reminder that music can be made with anything! #MusicEducation ❤️
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Lore Pemberton
🖼️ Lore Pemberton
December 1, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Goodnight.
🖼️ Lore Pemberton
🖼️ Lore Pemberton
Just walked in as my daughter finished the 1986 video game The Legend of Zelda. Hurray! 🎉 "Finally, peace returns to Hyrule. The End." 😅 I remain impressed by #NES composers, and their ability to make enduring music with 8-bit tech. #nesmusic #retrogaming #classics
December 1, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Just walked in as my daughter finished the 1986 video game The Legend of Zelda. Hurray! 🎉 "Finally, peace returns to Hyrule. The End." 😅 I remain impressed by #NES composers, and their ability to make enduring music with 8-bit tech. #nesmusic #retrogaming #classics
Send in the Music! It's Saturday afternoon, so we're playing along with the weekly free 2-hour Zoom jam where both amateur and professional mountain dulcimer players share their music. They've been at it for 5 years now, and it's still so good to see such a supportive community! #dulcimer
Saturday Jam | Send in the Music
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November 30, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Send in the Music! It's Saturday afternoon, so we're playing along with the weekly free 2-hour Zoom jam where both amateur and professional mountain dulcimer players share their music. They've been at it for 5 years now, and it's still so good to see such a supportive community! #dulcimer
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Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont...
It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.
It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.
November 26, 2024 at 4:25 AM
Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont...
It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.
It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.
Listening to one of my favourite YouTube playlists to fuel my workday. I share this one when people ask what a vibraphone is. I remain impressed by the sheer number of talented performers and composers out there! #vibraphone #vibes #NowPlaying
Finding Vibes - YouTube
Talented performers and composers showcase the versatility of the vibraphone (featuring solos upfront, but stick around for some extra flavour which includes...
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November 27, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Listening to one of my favourite YouTube playlists to fuel my workday. I share this one when people ask what a vibraphone is. I remain impressed by the sheer number of talented performers and composers out there! #vibraphone #vibes #NowPlaying