Erik Carlson
rkcrlsn.bsky.social
Erik Carlson
@rkcrlsn.bsky.social
violinist and composer
https://midnightsledding.net
Scott Robertson recorded and transcribed 50 of his yawns
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I bounced my last album to masonry
October 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
June 23, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Transcription by Élie Poirée of a 3rd-century(!) palindromic melody that consists of every permutation of 3 pitches. (original: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Suppl. grec 574)
May 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
John Taylor is the Richard Serra of change ringing.
April 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Spending the day finding Gregorian chant phrases that have the same pitch content
April 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Spent the day listening to frequencies with the same wavelength as various repetitive structural elements nearby.
midnightsledding.net/carlson/patt...
April 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Today's meditation, a prolation canon for solo violin.
midnightsledding.net/carlson/patt...
March 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
UCSD joining the nationwide protest tomorrow against the disgusting and enormous cuts to science and medical research.
March 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Second century Greek pitch permutations transcribed from the manuscript Venetus Marcianus IV 10
March 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I'm working on a set of very short self-descriptive songs.
February 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
My new favorite 1-star review
February 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
February 5, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Gioseffo Zarlino in rehearsal: Sorry bruh just gimme like 80 more minutes to get tuned up.
February 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Today's performance: four tones defining the points of a 1 Day X 1 Octave diamond
February 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
An 11th century systematic chord catalogue by Guido d'Arezzo
(from this document: epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10929/1/Cim....)
January 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Spent the afternoon biking around my neighborhood, taking pictures of buildings with multiple address numbers, so tonight I can listen to some just intervals and chords based on those frequency ratios.
November 18, 2024 at 11:38 PM
“Introduction to the Decline of Music and its Cause” Johann Mattheson (1713)
January 13, 2024 at 4:39 AM
I’m sad that the NYTimes Best Classical Performances of 2023 did not wait for my performance tomorrow in my living room of 1000+ variations of a melodic C major triad as catalogued by Christian Ziegler in 1739.
midnightsledding.net/images/Ziegl...
December 19, 2023 at 12:59 AM
Went to the grocery store and someone left their list on a post-it on the cart I got… and it sounded better than my own list… so I just got this stuff.
November 17, 2023 at 6:10 AM