Ted Reichman
@tedreichman.bsky.social
music and art maker, sporadic writer, teacher.
This is what is going on in my world this week…
As NEC celebrates what would have been Gunther Schuller's 100th birthday, three musicians who knew him discuss the work ethic, institutional courage, and polyglot vision that made teaching ragtime next to European harmony seem natural, not radical.
Three Voices on Gunther Schuller's Centennial:
Three Voices on Gunther Schuller's Centennial:
The Complete Musician: Gunther Schuller's Centennial at NEC
As New England Conservatory celebrates what would have been Gunther Schuller's 100th birthday, three musicians who knew him discuss the work ethic, institutional courage, and polyglot vision that made teaching ragtime next to European harmony seem natural rather than radical.
www.thetonearm.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is what is going on in my world this week…
4 types of guys online.
November 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
4 types of guys online.
Del Toro was a highlight of this film but this needle drop is The Worst and I say that as a fan of both PTA and The Dan. Loved it in American Hustle tho.
PTA shut down production and ballooned the budget on this movie so he could cast Benicio del Toro, and the very first shot of him instantly proves it was worth it
November 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Del Toro was a highlight of this film but this needle drop is The Worst and I say that as a fan of both PTA and The Dan. Loved it in American Hustle tho.
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Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It.
www.thenation.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
experimental music/audio tech people- check out this Epstein email (to self?) that _almost_ reads like a very rough draft of an Oliveros-ian text piece. I'll never look at a Fast Fourier Transform the same way again.
"skin as part of brain?"
This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
experimental music/audio tech people- check out this Epstein email (to self?) that _almost_ reads like a very rough draft of an Oliveros-ian text piece. I'll never look at a Fast Fourier Transform the same way again.
The brutal clarity of Zadie Smith... on target as usual. Confession: I am reading White Teeth for the first time right now and I deeply regret waiting this long.
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The brutal clarity of Zadie Smith... on target as usual. Confession: I am reading White Teeth for the first time right now and I deeply regret waiting this long.
yep
One day the US will have to face the shame and horror of what has happened here: that a cabal of wealthy people have elevated a monster into the most powerful person in the world www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
yep
Same. And we have serious work to do in our community to undo the sickening propaganda around this campaign (and everything else tbh). Hearing my own family members echo this stuff has been appalling.
I don't live in NYC so I couldn't vote for Mamdani, but I want to say this loud and clear: along with many, many other Jews, I'd proudly have voted for Mamdani, and these folks (along with Greenblatt etc al) do not speak for me.
Bari Weiss's website is being about as normal as I expected
www.thefp.com/p/mamdanis-r...
www.thefp.com/p/mamdanis-r...
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Same. And we have serious work to do in our community to undo the sickening propaganda around this campaign (and everything else tbh). Hearing my own family members echo this stuff has been appalling.
the scroll on here is particularly Parallax View indoctrination video-like today.
November 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
the scroll on here is particularly Parallax View indoctrination video-like today.
grift us, impose a theocratic ethnostate, build a climate-hardened fortress for the ultrarich... how to even tease them apart at this point?
The whole Third Term Project isn’t actually about Trump. The people behind it know he will likely be dead or enfeebled by 2029. It is about them, the vastly unpopular group around Trump, wanting to grift us forever without elections.
October 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
grift us, impose a theocratic ethnostate, build a climate-hardened fortress for the ultrarich... how to even tease them apart at this point?
More and more I think the way forward for conservatories is to become tech-free zones, especially generative AI. And I say that as someone who teaches music technology at a conservatory.
October 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
More and more I think the way forward for conservatories is to become tech-free zones, especially generative AI. And I say that as someone who teaches music technology at a conservatory.
yes that is exactly how I remember 1979
1979: when your parents' friends are no longer living in the commune & now work in a travel agency, but still talk earnestly about "holistic eating" when they come over
October 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
yes that is exactly how I remember 1979
Thanks to everyone who checked out my destroyed Shakespeare artworks yesterday. Not sure why they had a little "moment" on this platform, but I appreciate it. Here is a higher-resolution image of "Macbeth," from my series Ten Tragedies. You can see the complete set at www.tedreichman.com/art
October 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Thanks to everyone who checked out my destroyed Shakespeare artworks yesterday. Not sure why they had a little "moment" on this platform, but I appreciate it. Here is a higher-resolution image of "Macbeth," from my series Ten Tragedies. You can see the complete set at www.tedreichman.com/art
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Cover art for Decca’s 1976 Phase 4 LP release of “Bernard Herrmann Conducts Psycho And Other Film Scores.”
October 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Cover art for Decca’s 1976 Phase 4 LP release of “Bernard Herrmann Conducts Psycho And Other Film Scores.”
Not sure what could be less "conservative" than this.
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Not sure what could be less "conservative" than this.
You can hear 19 year old me on this. My first recording session.
good morning. listen to this today with close attention you only get so many years on this earth & it’ll take you someplace youtu.be/l45qoiWM95Q?...
Composition 164
YouTube video by Anthony Braxton - Topic
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
You can hear 19 year old me on this. My first recording session.
tried to explain this to my students yesterday and failed. yes I have my tickets.
October 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
tried to explain this to my students yesterday and failed. yes I have my tickets.
a god-king
america does have a king
called capitalism if we're being honest...
called capitalism if we're being honest...
October 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
a god-king
"Routinely"
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"Routinely"
whenever one of these industrial music/fascism crossover moments emerges - and it happens more often than you'd think - I am reminded why I've never been able to tolerate any of that stuff.
A lot of garbled stuff about industrial music. Very funny to hear Tucker ask ‘what is Nurse With Wound’
October 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
whenever one of these industrial music/fascism crossover moments emerges - and it happens more often than you'd think - I am reminded why I've never been able to tolerate any of that stuff.
Charmaine is awesome and you definitely should see her on this epic tour if you can.
Charmaine Lee show last night was utterly mind boggling. Felt like my body was stretched apart and put back together in ways that made no sense. Genuinely never heard/felt anything like it. She's got a month left and if she comes near your town, you should really be going to see that.
October 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Charmaine is awesome and you definitely should see her on this epic tour if you can.
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Every targeted institution (my own very much included) should cut and paste this letter onto their letterhead.
A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:
Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
October 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Every targeted institution (my own very much included) should cut and paste this letter onto their letterhead.
I teach at a music school so I hear a fair amount of these.
October 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I teach at a music school so I hear a fair amount of these.
Very well deserved
Craig Taborn • 2025 MacArthur Fellow
Craig Taborn | 2025 MacArthur Fellow
YouTube video by macfound
youtu.be
October 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Very well deserved
100+ years later, was the public right about "giving up on their own musicality?"
AI marketing is beginning to echo the makers of player pianos who, a hundred or so years ago, labored (with ads) to convince the public they wouldn't be giving up on their own musicality by letting machines do it for them
October 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
100+ years later, was the public right about "giving up on their own musicality?"