Yoshiaki Onishi
@yoshionishi.com
composer/conductor/clarinetist, doubly employed as Assistant Prof at Univ. of Delaware School of Music & at home by his boss Dorian the Cat (he/him) More: https://linktr.ee/yoshiakionishi
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Yoshiaki Onishi
@yoshionishi.com
· Jun 18
I'm happy to share the performance of the Onishi–Beis Duo at the University of Delaware.
Special thanks to @yoshionishi.com and UD School of music.
Santiago Beis, piano, keyboard, electronics, accordion
Yoshiaki Onishi, bass clarinet, electronics.
October 27, 2024
Gore Recital Hall
Special thanks to @yoshionishi.com and UD School of music.
Santiago Beis, piano, keyboard, electronics, accordion
Yoshiaki Onishi, bass clarinet, electronics.
October 27, 2024
Gore Recital Hall
New Music Delaware: Onishi-Beis Duo
YouTube video by Onishi-Beis Duo
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@santibeis.bsky.social and I are happy to share with you the footage of the improvisation we did at the University of Delaware in October last year. Close listening via good headphones is recommended.
As a commentary, I can add that Santi and I were talking quite extensively about “coda.”
Enjoy!
As a commentary, I can add that Santi and I were talking quite extensively about “coda.”
Enjoy!
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Happy New Year!
My new album 'Rosehart' with orchestral works was recently released - happy listening!
Listening link on Spotify
open.spotify.com/album/6YHZal...
Listening links on YouTube and more info on the new album
rozalie.com/rosehart-cd-...
My new album 'Rosehart' with orchestral works was recently released - happy listening!
Listening link on Spotify
open.spotify.com/album/6YHZal...
Listening links on YouTube and more info on the new album
rozalie.com/rosehart-cd-...
January 3, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Happy New Year!
My new album 'Rosehart' with orchestral works was recently released - happy listening!
Listening link on Spotify
open.spotify.com/album/6YHZal...
Listening links on YouTube and more info on the new album
rozalie.com/rosehart-cd-...
My new album 'Rosehart' with orchestral works was recently released - happy listening!
Listening link on Spotify
open.spotify.com/album/6YHZal...
Listening links on YouTube and more info on the new album
rozalie.com/rosehart-cd-...
Dorian and I sat down and listened to/watched @ramonlazkano.bsky.social’s “La main gauche” and I was very moved. Very highly recommended!
philharmoniedeparis.fr/en/live/conc...
philharmoniedeparis.fr/en/live/conc...
Ramon Lazkano / La main gauche
Is it their shared Basque heritage that draws Ramon Lazkano to Maurice Ravel? For some time, Lazkano has been crafting an opera inspired by Jean Echenoz’s Ravel. Here at last, a tragedy steeped in the...
philharmoniedeparis.fr
January 3, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Dorian and I sat down and listened to/watched @ramonlazkano.bsky.social’s “La main gauche” and I was very moved. Very highly recommended!
philharmoniedeparis.fr/en/live/conc...
philharmoniedeparis.fr/en/live/conc...
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We all need more Jo Kondo
January 1, 2026 at 10:45 AM
We all need more Jo Kondo
May there be plentiful potassium for the new year 2026!!! 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌
My daughter wanted to be the first person in 2026 to say “banana”
January 1, 2026 at 5:08 AM
May there be plentiful potassium for the new year 2026!!! 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌
🙏🙏🙏
December 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
🙏🙏🙏
Today is the day! Finally I can place my second order from @bastillemusique.bsky.social to align with the @bandcamp.com #Friday, to keep myself warm with some good music this winter ☃️
Today is this year’s last @bandcamp.com #Friday and pre-order day! As always, you can discover our releases using the free Bandcamp app or website, but today you can support us and all the artists involved even more. So get the beautiful CDs and LPs today: bastillemusique.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Today is the day! Finally I can place my second order from @bastillemusique.bsky.social to align with the @bandcamp.com #Friday, to keep myself warm with some good music this winter ☃️
Slightly late to the game, but in the spirit of giving thanks, this year I am grateful to friends, family, students, and colleagues whose support and trust have kept me going as a musician. I don’t have a large following of people but those who listen to what I do mean so much to me. So thank you.
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Slightly late to the game, but in the spirit of giving thanks, this year I am grateful to friends, family, students, and colleagues whose support and trust have kept me going as a musician. I don’t have a large following of people but those who listen to what I do mean so much to me. So thank you.
In case nobody noticed, I dressed up as a JMU student/alumnus. I did my part.
November 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
In case nobody noticed, I dressed up as a JMU student/alumnus. I did my part.
🙏 Incidentally this was the first piece @buddytwo.bsky.social put the term “modernism” and my compositional approach together, and I had an “all makes sense now” moment when that happened 👉🏻👈🏻💥🤯
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🙏 Incidentally this was the first piece @buddytwo.bsky.social put the term “modernism” and my compositional approach together, and I had an “all makes sense now” moment when that happened 👉🏻👈🏻💥🤯
Rather recently I recommended a student to look into Oxford English Dictionary (as a uni student they'd have access to it). Obviously OED doesn't have an entry to Labubu (but it had ones for labba and labby), but it had one for "brain rot," which actually is a somewhat old word from 1854. Who knew?
October 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Rather recently I recommended a student to look into Oxford English Dictionary (as a uni student they'd have access to it). Obviously OED doesn't have an entry to Labubu (but it had ones for labba and labby), but it had one for "brain rot," which actually is a somewhat old word from 1854. Who knew?
Just a fleeting thought that, just like ex-Finale users were at the mercy of the CEO who simply decided to close its product development, the US higher education—insofar as the fiasco of Canvas all day today is concerned—is at the mercy of a certain Mr. Jeff B… 👀
October 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just a fleeting thought that, just like ex-Finale users were at the mercy of the CEO who simply decided to close its product development, the US higher education—insofar as the fiasco of Canvas all day today is concerned—is at the mercy of a certain Mr. Jeff B… 👀
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Ars subtilior ftw 🙌
October 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Ars subtilior ftw 🙌
Meeting up with friends, some of whom I hadn’t seen in years, and then afterwards congratulating and hugging the composer himself was perhaps the best way to spend the afternoon in NY
October 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Meeting up with friends, some of whom I hadn’t seen in years, and then afterwards congratulating and hugging the composer himself was perhaps the best way to spend the afternoon in NY
Nota bene
If my students only learn that album titles go in italics and song titles go in quotes, it all will have been worth it.
September 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Nota bene
With a guest seminar presentation coming up, I am trying to select which piece(s) to present. I listened to a recording of a piece of mine, which still upsets me greatly b/c of how approximated and uncommitted the performance was. In fact I had to stop after 30 seconds. I struggled recognizing (1/3)
September 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
With a guest seminar presentation coming up, I am trying to select which piece(s) to present. I listened to a recording of a piece of mine, which still upsets me greatly b/c of how approximated and uncommitted the performance was. In fact I had to stop after 30 seconds. I struggled recognizing (1/3)
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Non-music. Music about music, with music held in abeyance. Sound. Sound on the cusp of music. Musical sounds. Musical events and processes, yet not yet music. These relationships are real in improvisational settings. Music, as a music.
theopenspace.bandcamp.com/album/open-s...
theopenspace.bandcamp.com/album/open-s...
OPEN SPACE 54 | DUO 5 | KEYBOARD CONVERSATIONS, by J K Randall & Benjamin Boretz
15 track album
theopenspace.bandcamp.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Non-music. Music about music, with music held in abeyance. Sound. Sound on the cusp of music. Musical sounds. Musical events and processes, yet not yet music. These relationships are real in improvisational settings. Music, as a music.
theopenspace.bandcamp.com/album/open-s...
theopenspace.bandcamp.com/album/open-s...
Many students came in to their lessons saying how tired they were. As for me, after a long day I went back to the school garage to my car, only to find that it was someone else’s car, after wondering why the door wasn’t opening and if the key fob’s battery was low. I, too, am tired.
September 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Many students came in to their lessons saying how tired they were. As for me, after a long day I went back to the school garage to my car, only to find that it was someone else’s car, after wondering why the door wasn’t opening and if the key fob’s battery was low. I, too, am tired.
One of these days, I hope to finally buy frames for my diplomas.
September 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
One of these days, I hope to finally buy frames for my diplomas.
Helped my publisher with the piece “Play” by Makoto Shinohara. That piece means a lot to me, and it was a joy helping them, but I should be careful with my sleep schedule (ended up writing an introduction and analysis/performance advice for it in a day staying up till 3 am…).
September 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Helped my publisher with the piece “Play” by Makoto Shinohara. That piece means a lot to me, and it was a joy helping them, but I should be careful with my sleep schedule (ended up writing an introduction and analysis/performance advice for it in a day staying up till 3 am…).
That the name of the singer of “Call Me Maybe” eluded me was a stark reminder of how old I have become; that song came out 14 years ago. Bemoaning the youth’s indecisiveness feels like yesterday. Also I am now unsure if the current college students would immediately get the reference.
September 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
That the name of the singer of “Call Me Maybe” eluded me was a stark reminder of how old I have become; that song came out 14 years ago. Bemoaning the youth’s indecisiveness feels like yesterday. Also I am now unsure if the current college students would immediately get the reference.
I never went to UC; actually, as a high school student in California not so long after moving from Japan, I was told by the HS counselor that the courses I took (incl. ESL classes, which back in the day were called “Sheltered English”) didn’t fulfill the admission requirement and he dissuaded (1/2)
If you work on any @UofCalifornia give this one your time. Uni leadership is belatedly asking us to "Stand Up For UC" while repeatedly revising faculty disciplinary policy to make standing up impossible. This essay asks, how did we get here? What now?
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
Why Should We “Stand Up for the UC?” (Guest Post)
Paris on September 1, 2016 By Sean L. Malloy, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES), University of California...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I never went to UC; actually, as a high school student in California not so long after moving from Japan, I was told by the HS counselor that the courses I took (incl. ESL classes, which back in the day were called “Sheltered English”) didn’t fulfill the admission requirement and he dissuaded (1/2)
**Winnie-the-Pooh enters the chat** 🐝🍯🐻
September 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
**Winnie-the-Pooh enters the chat** 🐝🍯🐻
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Great music from my friend Mahir Cetiz with thanks to @yoshionishi.com.
soundcloud.com/mahir-cetiz/...
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La Plus ètranges des crèatures
Setting of the poem of Nazim Hikmet (in French), written for Accroche Note and for the 2014 festival Manca.
The Strangest Creature on Earth
(English Translation)
You're like a scorpion, my brother,
soundcloud.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Great music from my friend Mahir Cetiz with thanks to @yoshionishi.com.
soundcloud.com/mahir-cetiz/...
soundcloud.com/mahir-cetiz/...
A lot of wonderful insights on music scholarship in the digital world here!
@normhirschy.bsky.social and I wrote a white paper on music research.
academic.oup.com/pages/music-...
academic.oup.com/pages/music-...
August 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A lot of wonderful insights on music scholarship in the digital world here!