Matt Schoendorff
@mschoendorff.bsky.social
Consonant. Dissonant.
I was always going to ramble on about how neat and cool harmony is. Fortunately, a couple institutions decided to pay me to do so.
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I was always going to ramble on about how neat and cool harmony is. Fortunately, a couple institutions decided to pay me to do so.
Gonna write ‘Music for 19 Musicians’ which is one more, and therefore, one better than Steve Reich.
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Gonna write ‘Music for 19 Musicians’ which is one more, and therefore, one better than Steve Reich.
ROSALÍA - Mio Cristo Piange Diamanti (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by RosaliaVEVO
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November 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I mean, we all should’ve seen this one coming.
Voting for Democrats is like going to a Harlem Globetrotters game and rooting for the Washington Generals.
youtube.com/watch?v=eFI6...
Voting for Democrats is like going to a Harlem Globetrotters game and rooting for the Washington Generals.
youtube.com/watch?v=eFI6...
Jon Stewart "Can't F**king Believe" Democrats Caved on the Shutdown | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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November 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I mean, we all should’ve seen this one coming.
Voting for Democrats is like going to a Harlem Globetrotters game and rooting for the Washington Generals.
youtube.com/watch?v=eFI6...
Voting for Democrats is like going to a Harlem Globetrotters game and rooting for the Washington Generals.
youtube.com/watch?v=eFI6...
This short video on the sound design in Raiders of the Lost Ark is amazing for many reasons.
But the final statement about the best sounds happening by accident, and it’s a matter of keeping one’s ears open is perhaps THE BEST ADVICE FOR MUSIC COMPOSITION available.
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But the final statement about the best sounds happening by accident, and it’s a matter of keeping one’s ears open is perhaps THE BEST ADVICE FOR MUSIC COMPOSITION available.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This short video on the sound design in Raiders of the Lost Ark is amazing for many reasons.
But the final statement about the best sounds happening by accident, and it’s a matter of keeping one’s ears open is perhaps THE BEST ADVICE FOR MUSIC COMPOSITION available.
www.facebook.com/share/v/16aM...
But the final statement about the best sounds happening by accident, and it’s a matter of keeping one’s ears open is perhaps THE BEST ADVICE FOR MUSIC COMPOSITION available.
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This world will break your heart.
Have the courage to love it anyway.
Have the courage to love it anyway.
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This world will break your heart.
Have the courage to love it anyway.
Have the courage to love it anyway.
You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I’m telling you why
Santa Claus is a police state
You better not cry
You better not pout
I’m telling you why
Santa Claus is a police state
October 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I’m telling you why
Santa Claus is a police state
You better not cry
You better not pout
I’m telling you why
Santa Claus is a police state
Are we…are we at war with Venezuela?
WHY TF ARE WE ATTACKING VENEZUELA?!! 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Venezuela Mobilizes Troops and Militias as U.S. Military Looms Offshore - The Wall Street Journal
WHY TF ARE WE ATTACKING VENEZUELA?!! 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Venezuela Mobilizes Troops and Militias as U.S. Military Looms Offshore - The Wall Street Journal
October 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Are we…are we at war with Venezuela?
WHY TF ARE WE ATTACKING VENEZUELA?!! 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Venezuela Mobilizes Troops and Militias as U.S. Military Looms Offshore - The Wall Street Journal
WHY TF ARE WE ATTACKING VENEZUELA?!! 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Venezuela Mobilizes Troops and Militias as U.S. Military Looms Offshore - The Wall Street Journal
It’s ok, I didn’t win a Nobel Peace Prize either
October 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It’s ok, I didn’t win a Nobel Peace Prize either
(1/2) Here’s the thing: Life never gave you or anyone else lemons. Lemons are a man-made crossbred hybrid between the sour orange and the citron. People gave us lemons. And lemonade.
October 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
(1/2) Here’s the thing: Life never gave you or anyone else lemons. Lemons are a man-made crossbred hybrid between the sour orange and the citron. People gave us lemons. And lemonade.
(1/2) Bad Bunny is performing the Super Bowl halftime show, all in Spanish? GOOD.
Hope it’s subtitled in five other languages, NONE of them English. Hope the announcers speak Spanish throughout the game.
Hope it’s subtitled in five other languages, NONE of them English. Hope the announcers speak Spanish throughout the game.
October 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
(1/2) Bad Bunny is performing the Super Bowl halftime show, all in Spanish? GOOD.
Hope it’s subtitled in five other languages, NONE of them English. Hope the announcers speak Spanish throughout the game.
Hope it’s subtitled in five other languages, NONE of them English. Hope the announcers speak Spanish throughout the game.
This explains so much
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? - The Guardian
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? - The Guardian
October 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This explains so much
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? - The Guardian
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? - The Guardian
Live. Laugh. Blave.
October 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Live. Laugh. Blave.
I’d like a vacuum please
you can have anything you want as long as it sucks
September 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’d like a vacuum please
TIL dill pickle and avocado *can* work together in a sandwich, but probably shouldn’t
September 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
TIL dill pickle and avocado *can* work together in a sandwich, but probably shouldn’t
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter starring in Waiting for Godot is somehow perfect for an aging Bill and Ted.
Bill: Well, should we learn to play guitar?
Ted: Yes, let’s learn to play guitar.
They do not learn to play guitar.
www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41928-w...
Bill: Well, should we learn to play guitar?
Ted: Yes, let’s learn to play guitar.
They do not learn to play guitar.
www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41928-w...
Waiting for Godot Broadway Tickets | The Official NY Theatre Guide
Book theatre tickets for Waiting for Godot in New York. Sunset Boulevard director Jamie Lloyd stages a new production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter.
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September 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter starring in Waiting for Godot is somehow perfect for an aging Bill and Ted.
Bill: Well, should we learn to play guitar?
Ted: Yes, let’s learn to play guitar.
They do not learn to play guitar.
www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41928-w...
Bill: Well, should we learn to play guitar?
Ted: Yes, let’s learn to play guitar.
They do not learn to play guitar.
www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41928-w...
(1/3) Had a dream last night that I drifted up through the cosmos and the dimensions until I reached the highest, most fundamental dimension of reality and talked to “god”—who ended up being a series of entropy shepherds.
August 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
(1/3) Had a dream last night that I drifted up through the cosmos and the dimensions until I reached the highest, most fundamental dimension of reality and talked to “god”—who ended up being a series of entropy shepherds.
Y’know when people say the secret ingredient in their cooking is love?
It’s actually extra garlic.
Love = garlic, and the more garlic added, the more the dish is prepared with love.
It’s actually extra garlic.
Love = garlic, and the more garlic added, the more the dish is prepared with love.
August 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Y’know when people say the secret ingredient in their cooking is love?
It’s actually extra garlic.
Love = garlic, and the more garlic added, the more the dish is prepared with love.
It’s actually extra garlic.
Love = garlic, and the more garlic added, the more the dish is prepared with love.
Reposted by Matt Schoendorff
TUESDAY: Join us for a youth-centered Know Your Rights training.
You’ll get guidance for street encounters, strategies to protect and uplift Black youth, and tools to push back against harmful “crime wave” narratives.
Register: bit.ly/free-dc-youth-rights
You’ll get guidance for street encounters, strategies to protect and uplift Black youth, and tools to push back against harmful “crime wave” narratives.
Register: bit.ly/free-dc-youth-rights
August 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
TUESDAY: Join us for a youth-centered Know Your Rights training.
You’ll get guidance for street encounters, strategies to protect and uplift Black youth, and tools to push back against harmful “crime wave” narratives.
Register: bit.ly/free-dc-youth-rights
You’ll get guidance for street encounters, strategies to protect and uplift Black youth, and tools to push back against harmful “crime wave” narratives.
Register: bit.ly/free-dc-youth-rights
Reposted by Matt Schoendorff
Anyway, I have an album coming out.
September 5, 2025.
Pre-order on @bandcamp.com now: meerenai.bandcamp.com/album/the-au...
Compositions by Steve Reich, @ebakermusic.bsky.social, @megwilhoite.bsky.social, Brent Miller, and Janice Misurell-Mitchell.
September 5, 2025.
Pre-order on @bandcamp.com now: meerenai.bandcamp.com/album/the-au...
Compositions by Steve Reich, @ebakermusic.bsky.social, @megwilhoite.bsky.social, Brent Miller, and Janice Misurell-Mitchell.
The Audacity, by Meerenai Shim
7 track album
meerenai.bandcamp.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Anyway, I have an album coming out.
September 5, 2025.
Pre-order on @bandcamp.com now: meerenai.bandcamp.com/album/the-au...
Compositions by Steve Reich, @ebakermusic.bsky.social, @megwilhoite.bsky.social, Brent Miller, and Janice Misurell-Mitchell.
September 5, 2025.
Pre-order on @bandcamp.com now: meerenai.bandcamp.com/album/the-au...
Compositions by Steve Reich, @ebakermusic.bsky.social, @megwilhoite.bsky.social, Brent Miller, and Janice Misurell-Mitchell.
Your brain shrinks after 40. Learning a musical instrument can reverse it. - National Geographic
August 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Your brain shrinks after 40. Learning a musical instrument can reverse it. - National Geographic
Sure would be nice if literally anyone in the federal judiciary or legislature would fulfill their constitutional oath to check and balance the executive branch at some point.
Just sayin’…
Just sayin’…
August 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Sure would be nice if literally anyone in the federal judiciary or legislature would fulfill their constitutional oath to check and balance the executive branch at some point.
Just sayin’…
Just sayin’…
AI is here, in our music, whether we like it or not. Here’s the guy behind ‘There I Ruined It’ giving a TED talk about it, with probably the healthiest take on the issue I have yet seen.
www.ted.com/talks/dustin...
www.ted.com/talks/dustin...
Is AI ruining music?
What makes music “real” — is it the instruments, the voice, the creator’s intention or something else entirely? Dustin Ballard, the creative force behind the viral channel “There I Ruined It,” explore...
www.ted.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
AI is here, in our music, whether we like it or not. Here’s the guy behind ‘There I Ruined It’ giving a TED talk about it, with probably the healthiest take on the issue I have yet seen.
www.ted.com/talks/dustin...
www.ted.com/talks/dustin...
Reposted by Matt Schoendorff
Composers and new-music folks!
I host a nationally-distributed contemporary classical radio show, and for this December I’m looking for music about:
- snow, ice, cold
- stillness, stars, night
- holiday-adjacent
- renewal
Bonus points if it’s a commercial release, but not a requirement!
I host a nationally-distributed contemporary classical radio show, and for this December I’m looking for music about:
- snow, ice, cold
- stillness, stars, night
- holiday-adjacent
- renewal
Bonus points if it’s a commercial release, but not a requirement!
August 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Composers and new-music folks!
I host a nationally-distributed contemporary classical radio show, and for this December I’m looking for music about:
- snow, ice, cold
- stillness, stars, night
- holiday-adjacent
- renewal
Bonus points if it’s a commercial release, but not a requirement!
I host a nationally-distributed contemporary classical radio show, and for this December I’m looking for music about:
- snow, ice, cold
- stillness, stars, night
- holiday-adjacent
- renewal
Bonus points if it’s a commercial release, but not a requirement!
I’ve been worried about this eventuality for awhile now. Teaching is so much more than just the presentation and repetition of material, and I fear that’s all AI will be trained to do.
I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.
August 6, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I’ve been worried about this eventuality for awhile now. Teaching is so much more than just the presentation and repetition of material, and I fear that’s all AI will be trained to do.